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There's actually research to show that Demos actually harm game sales, unfortuantely. Apparently they tend to scratch the itch for curious gamers and there's always the risk that the demo might not fully capture the best parts of the gameplay loop. This is admittedly pretty old now, so things might have changed. https://kotaku.com/demos-are-great-for-gamers-not-so-great-for-game-sales-608603895

This sub is so redpilled it's not even funny. The comedian and the guy are both complete dicks. Imagine if you went out with a friend and they publicly ditched you and left you alone to go hook up with someone they didn't even know, shit friend.

See my above reply to a similar comment. This is all good on paper, but in practice, if a company has no physical presence in Australia, there's very little our watchdogs can do to actually force them to comply with our laws.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-services/buying-online#toc-overseas-online-businesses-and-purchases

Yes, that's all very good on paper, but in practice the ACCC can't actually exhert any influence over a company that doesn't have an Australian branch. They could threaten to take them to court, but if noone shows up, then what? How do they enforce any findings when there's no physical person in Australia to hold accountable? I

The ACCC even talk about this on their website https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-services/buying-online#toc-overseas-online-businesses-and-purchases

In the same way that someone who commits a crime under Australian law can't be compelled to return and face justice (unless they reside in a country that has an extradition agreement with Australia), companies that have no physical presence in Australia are not subject to Australian consumer law in practice, even if they are on paper.

If they refuse to take statements from victims of crime, they're useless police officers, anyway.

People in these threads love the theorise that Trump is doing this to benefit Russia, China, his rich mates, etc. I'm not saying that isn't possible, but I think it gives him too much credit intellectually and a huge benefit of the doubt about how much he cares about his "friends".

I think that Trump loves being seen as a "deal maker" and that's why these tarrifs have been implemented with really vague terms and conditions. It's so he can meet with these world leaders, have them agree to some minor adjustment or "in principle" agreement to stop fentanyl coming into the US, and then he can claim that he made a spectacular deal that benefited America.

I'd remove the photo of you with the elephant. I'm kinda surprised noone else has mentioned it, but the overwhelming majority of places that let people get close to elephants for photos, do so by breaking the elephant's spirit.

Maybe you did you research and found a place that doesn't do that, but I don't know that and when I was single, any photo of someone with an elephant/tiger/other wild animal was an instant "swipe left".

Renters currently represent 1/3 of all voters. The other 2/3 are made up of home owners and people with mortgages, who have a vested interest in property prices continuing to go up. When that proportion flips (and unless something drastic is done, it WILL flip) the revolution will Halls and it'll be a political one.

The major parties are already bleeding more and more votes to minor parties every election, Greens are already going all in on renters, more parties will pop up that will have even more extreme anti-landlord/invester policies and when renters are told these policies are dangerous, they won't care because they'll be tired of being screwed over. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a party comes up in the next few elections with an official policy of "fuck landlords and fuck property investors".

The link you posted is the one I quoted in my previous comment.

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/sick-and-carers-leave/long-periods-of-sick-leave

In that link, it says:

Other protections from dismissal Even after an employee has been absent for more than 3 months and used all of their paid sick leave, they may still be protected from dismissal for other reasons. For example, additional protections may apply under state and territory workers compensation and rehabilitation laws.

Employers must still follow the appropriate rules for carrying out a dismissal and employees may challenge the termination of their employment by making:

an unfair dismissal application if the reason for the dismissal is harsh, unjust or unreasonable a general protections claim if the reason for the dismissal is another protected reason an unlawful termination claim a claim under a state or federal anti-discrimination law.

It couldn't be any clearer that employers are required to follow appropriate rules for carrying out a dismissal and that an unfair dismissal claim is one such option for employees to take. Employers still need to ensure that the termination is not harsh, unjust, or unfair.

Coincidentally, the FWC just dealt with such a case in June and ruled that the dismissal was unfair and compensation awarded.

https://www.hcamag.com/au/specialisation/employment-law/employer-loses-against-worker-over-chance-to-respond-in-unfair-dismissal-claim/450563

Employers cannot just go "welp, 3 months with no leave; see you later" they have to show that they followed a procedurally fair process and considered other options or reasonable accommodations. If they fail to do this, they can and have been found to have unfairly dismissed their employees.

I'm going to get down voted for this, but the problem I have with piracy isn't that you're destroying the industry, it's that people who pirate continue to consume the media that they think is overpriced.

If people think Nintendo releases overpriced games, then don't buy them. If people don't like what streaming is becoming (and I certainly understand that point of view) then don't subscribe to them. But when your ideology of "this thing is overpriced" just so happens to mean you get to consume the media without paying for it, I just think it pollutes the whole message.

There's heaps of stuff I want to watch on Apple TV, but I'm not interested in another streaming service, so I know at some point I'll cancel one of my other memberships and subscribe to Apple TV to binge watch what's on there, until I want to sub it for something else.

Everyone concedes that Howard deserves unfettered respect for the guts to implement those reforms. I don't like the guy and I have a real problem with a lot of his views and policies, but you cannot deny the positive impact those laws have had on the country.

Getting up in front of a crowd of gun owners and telling them in no uncertain terms that you'll be taking their guns away, I don't know of many people that would be willing to do that. I also don't know anyone who thinks they went to far, if anything, the only people who have something negative to say about them say they didn't go far enough.

I haven't kept up with it, but I thought the original theory also had soemthing to do with specific graphics cards? I remember the talk about it being banned from the actual speedrun tally boards because it was hardware specific, but maybe that's no longer the case?

SCOTUS only has power because Congress agrees that they have power. Not to mention, someone would have to challenge the laws for it to head to the Supreme Court.

In the hypothetical scenario that Congress actually came together to enact a code of conduct and SCOTUS declared it unconstitutional, Congress could have them all impeached. If they tried to make some wacky mental gymnastics to declare that unconstitutional, Congress would probably just move forward with removing them and there's not really anything they could do to stop it.

Of course, the chance of a united Congress in the current reality is pretty unlikely.

The latter part about trusting the player is a philosophy I love about FromSoft's approach to games in general.

100%! I really hope the industry takes the right notes from this. I played Horizon: Forbidden West after finishing ER and even though I loved the first one, this one felt so long and tedious, people just standing around talking to each other and answering every little question through cutscenes. Ruined the game for me.

Even God of War became a meme with how quickly your sidekicks would point out how to complete puzzles or what was going on.

From has shown developers that minimal tutorials work perfectly fine. Stories told through short cutscenes and fleshed out backstories engage players. And especially with ER, a detailed map does not need a million markers all over it, if you make the map look interesting, players will naturally want to check out the interesting areas on it.

Even Sekiro, which has a much more concrete story, doesn't have a million lines of dialogue and it's usually done after you've killed a boss and are coming down from an adrenaline high.