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Gaming is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet. Globally it generates more money than music and movies combined. Germany alone had an estimated 49 million players in 2022 (wikipedia), with France 45 million and Italy 36 million. Even if they were wrong by one decimal that would still make more than 12 million in those 3 countries alone.
The vast majority of European gamers are just too lazy to do anything in their own self-interest. It’s embarrassing.
I understand why he’s frustrated. EU citizens are just so damn lazy and won’t help themselves. I’ve told all my friends and family, brought it up at parties and other gatherings to anybody who plays games. But there are EU gamers (streamers and consumers alike) who are chronically online, on every proprietary platform out there and who don’t give 2 shits about the campaign.
Edit: Fuck Thor.
Literally Cambridge University in 2004 and recently again
You will often hear less used with plural countable nouns in informal spoken situations, but traditionally it is not considered to be correct:
We’ve got less pizzas than we need. There’s ten people and only eight pizzas. (traditionally correct usage: fewer pizzas)
And a good blog post on the topic that actually fits to this situation
He goes on to point out what less/fewer purists often ignore: that even countables may, in a given context, be considered as quantities rather than numbers. “For instance: 'Not many of these buildings are fewer than thirty years old.’ The thought here is not of individual years but of a period of time; therefore, less.”
Which is precisely what’s happening here.
Correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, defined the word franchise as “something that creates value across multiple businesses and across multiple territories over a long period of time.”[1]
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
Person in Group waits on other people in Group to move.
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Also Person “why is nobody moving?”.
I have an inkling that the next mass effect is going to be worse than all the ones that came before it. They’ll pump large amounts of money into it, make it beautiful, but the story will be dull, the missions repetitive, the worlds uninteresting, and probably they’ll add some kind of micro-transactions, a perma-online mode, and a “game pass”. Making it a prequel wouldn’t surprise me either.
Now that Stop Killing Games is actually being taken seriously
It is? They’re still at 39%. Let’s not call victory before reaching the start of the race. Getting to 100% will just be the beginning.
Also, kernel level anti-cheat seems like an easy thing to fix: don’t buy the game. Be a little bit more principled and selective in your purchasing choices.
Even sadder is that there are no popular EU streamers throwing their weight behind the initiative. What are they waiting for? Does PewDiePie still stream games?