Nice music. Sounds a bit like The Arcade Fire.

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Well now. That's a nice big round number. You could put that on an ad.

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The devs sound nice.

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@Tevur Hey, I'll have you know some of the stuff I pull out of my ass is absolutely amazing!
. . . Hang on, that didn't end up sounding quite the way I'd hoped . . .

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@neolith, I regret not having added some emoticons, but the spirit in which I said that was a bit subtle for the kind of flavouring they can give. I was intending a certain sarcastic levity, a mild hyperbole meant to convey my withering contempt. If I actually banned such a thing, it would not be for stupidity. Rather, it would be because I don't buy into the paradox of tolerance. The one group one need not tolerate is the intolerant, because they would break the whole tolerance system. There's a certain irony in your objecting to banning a mod that's not to my taste, which mod in turn is conveying the desire to ban things that are not to someone's taste. And let's not forget that if I were someone running a mod manager I would not be the government--I would have no responsibility to host a mod I don't like. If people want an obnoxious mod they can host it at obnoxiousmods.com, it's not my problem.

(Incidentally, what makes it stupid rather than merely intolerant is that apparently, the game by default sets the pronoun based on the body type you choose. So you don't even have to pay attention to its ability to set pronouns--you just ignore it if you're already doing the default. So the idea is that you go to the trouble of acquiring and activating this mod, just so you can be secure in the knowledge that you can no longer possibly do what you would never normally even notice you could do. The insecurity level this implies to me is staggering)

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Starfield's pronoun-removal mod

I looked it up. Has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, and these days the competition is fierce. I'd be fine with banning that for the moronicness level alone.

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I've been reading through the comments, leaning one way, leaning another. I dunno.
On one hand, this is certainly intended to be a threat to the Steam Deck and a counterattack to block any rise of Linux at Windows' expense. And, Microsoft has certainly had quite a bit of success in that department in the past. And, it has the money and the power that should make its actions important and dangerous. There are so many reasons to see this as big news.

But somehow, I feel like Microsoft does not have the organizational and programming mojo any more to pull this off. The killer grifter instinct is diluted through departments and meetings and focus groups and hack marketers. I'm less disturbed than I perhaps should be. I feel like this is Darth Vader planning the pre-meeting meeting to determine the agenda for the future meeting to decide whether and potentially on what timeline to use the Deathstar to destroy Alderaan. The meeting won't decide anything, but Vader will force-choke the guy who forgot to bring doughnuts.

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Well, it seems like teasing the date is getting them lots of publicity. Why would they want to undermine that?

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So the key question--will people give an f?

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. . . What do vegan zombies do? Break into your house and eat all your hummus and pita?

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