Did it sell out to actual individuals or did scalpers buy up a bunch?

I don’t think it was a bad game on release (or at least no worse than others), the problem was the dev team way overpromised what they were going to deliver. That’s what earned the hate.

And they’re tbe same people that were snidely putting the Biden versions on the pumps a few years ago.

Anything they didn’t actually do themselves, riding on someone’s coattails.

For example,

Memorial day just passed here, so people trying to attach some sort of personal worth to their grandfather’s service in WW2 or whatever war as if they’re owed something for it - or the “y’all would be speaking German if if weren’t for (the US, my grandpa)!” Stolen valor of a different kind.

Disgusting? Lol. You completely disregarded the fact that these were knowing and willing tax dodgers deliberately and fraudulently attending schools they were not allowed to. They‘re not poor, they can afford to maintain separate residences in two states. Get your reading comprehension in gear.

Completely missed the point to white knight some unneeded righteousness. I have Zero problem with people unable to pay for education getting an education, but that‘s not what’s happening here, and I‘m well aware of how school funding works.

Google is garbage. It’s a complaint I’ve had for quite a while now. It used to be good at searching and obeying modifiers (-, “quotes” and the like). It would give you tens of pages of results and the result you wanted would almost always be on the first page. Now all it does is give you, in order: AI results that are incomplete or wrong, the best monetized youtube results, sponsored results, and then shitty SEO site results, and you’ll be lucky if any of that contains what you’re looking for. So you try “-“ to eliminate some garbage, but google takes that as incentive to offer you even more of what you don’t want. Then you try “search term” in quotes to be specific, and google offers zero results. Like in the billions of web pages that exist, nobody has ever written or discussed the thing you’re looking for? You get zero because it isn’t monetized or something.

Google is no longer a search engine, it’s an ad-server returning profitably monetized web pages.

Good grift.

You’re partly right. Did you read the article? One of the chief complaints is that in fact the devices aren’t locked down and kids are using them for things like games and youtube.

You’re in a Lemmy echo-chamber for the rest of it. The average user isn’t us.

As for the rest, schools teach to the lowest common denominator. The article itself plainly shows that the people “in charge” haven’t a clue how to effectively monitor, limit, and control usage of these basic devices. So throwing more at them isn’t the solution when they can’t even manage what they’ve got.

Reading the article it isn’t a problem with tech.

Yet again it’s adult’s inability, ignorance, or unwillingness to limit access to sites and place time limits on devices. Parents don’t parent, parents don’t want to deal with taking devices away, people can’t seem to manage parental controls or learn how they work on the device or the home LAN.

It’s not the tech’s fault. It’s the adult’s fault for not adulting.

(As a side note, people on lemmy need to remember that this is the “average” user, so when you suggest some stance on tech, this is the world outside of the fediverse where people can barely manage an iphone)

Even in states where schools are funded from education slush funds which are supposed to distribute funding equally it doesn’t work well. Well-off areas get better funding, poor areas get less. Some states even do it by county, so if people live in a rural county with no industry or population to tax the schools get very little money.

Yeah, making it so things are more equitably distributed would be great, including higher teacher pay, lower administrative costs (like each district having its own admin and pay structure is ridiculous), etc.

Fuck Flock cams, but also fuck school freeloaders, too. I lived in an area with really good schools bordering a state with cheaper taxes and worse schools where people would have family or a hand-me-down residence listed for schools in (good) state while actually living in (cheap) state with the cheap state listed as residence for tax purposes. Every once in a great while they’d sit a cop outside a school and check out-of-state license plates, but it was so rare. These freeloaders were sending their kids to school on my dime.

I don’t remember. I can’t let things like that live rent free in my head, and people are always upping their game.

Because sysadmin is too damn lazy to just tell you they want you to change your password.

Babylon 5.

Life expectancy is already declining. This isn’t just a “new generation” thing. From Gen X onward we’re all doing worse.

Damn. Put a faraday cage around the router and plug in your own router to a LAN port.

Dobby has given you a hairball.

Wrong /c/ for logic, friend.

Damn. Lol.

While not everyone should have kids and I fully support people choosing not to have any…

You can have this and have kids. Just not every day. Unless you’re stupid wealthy and have a nanny or something.

But maybe I’m weird and am one of the few that actually like my kids and having them around. Sure, they can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but not so much that I want to escape them or anything.