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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon calls in for financial advice⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah when he’s talking about debt he means small scale stuff like credit card debt. Basically you buy your groceries on your credit card rather than your debit card even though you could buy them on your debit card.

  The reasoning being is that that way you get an extra month of interest before you have to pay out, and you get a good credit score since you always pay off your loans. Which weirdly is actually better than having no credit score at all because you’ve never had any debt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Turkish⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s think about the country and see if we can come up with any possible problems somebody might have with it.

  Yes it’s in NATO but I’m pretty certain that NATO simply has them because they would prefer to have them inside pissing out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon calls in for financial advice⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Does a British financial analyst who basically says the same thing.

  If you can actually manage debt make sure to get some. And then pay it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon calls in for financial advice⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re unmarried and have no descendants sure. Although you’re kind of screwing them over, these days, you dying is the only way your kids are ever going to be able to buy a house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah with all that DLC oh wait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not the worst offender⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean , a spon . ,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not the worst offender⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I automatically disregard anyone’s opinion if they put a space before a punctuation mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want trains to work in this new game. They never make trains work properly they’re always just indestructible juggernauts and are therefore boring. GTA V had submarines but not drivable trains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if I was a millionaire I wouldn’t want my games to have micro transactions in them. It’s not about the cost, it’s about the fact that as soon as micro transactions are included in the game, the game instantly becomes all about pushing those microtransactions, to the detriment of the gameplay.

  Also you are mad if you prepare to pay $100 for GTA VI especially because we all know that it’ll be discounted at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a specific type of prepper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly surprised the database hasn’t been hacked yet. It’s blackmail heaven for China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If PEGI time this kind of thing I’m pretty sure the general public would linch them. Fortunately with Steam there can be completely ignored these days anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents have brought a new car and the internet connection thing is super unreliable. It’ll say it’s in a dead zone when it’s just parked in the driveway and I have full signal bars on my phone.

  Devin sometimes claims not to have a signal when it’s in the local supermarket car park and the supermarket car park literally has a cell tower in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also they appear to be $1 bills so that’s the cheapest bribe anyone has ever taken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you just put 😉 at the end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’m the whole concept of an excess. So I have to pay to have my car insured but if the damage to my car is less than a certain amount I have to pay for it? What’s the point of the insurance then.

  My car is probably worth less than the excess anyway so if it was a total write-off I’d get a maybe five hundred for it, and that’s it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think it’s bizarre that Magnetite is considered a rare mineral. It’s literally cheaper than lead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Win win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually just a convenient software update.

  Download the update, start the engine, and run away

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The dumb bit of the law is the fact that websites are allowed to put up an annoying banner that says either accept cookies or individually deselect 240 checkboxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s absolutely zero reason to pre-order the bonuses you get are never worth it and it’s not like they’re going to run out. Hell I didn’t pre-order GTA V and I got it day one on both PS3 and Xbox 360 but just walking into a store on lunch time. And that was a physical media now everything’s gone digital is even less reason to pre-order.

  So I’ll not be pre-ordering regardless, but I wouldn’t be pre-ordering anyway because I think it’s stupid. I’m not saying that the game will be bad I’m just saying I don’t trust Rockstar fully anymore. I also don’t trust CDPR anymore because of cyberpunk. Yeah they fixed it but so what, I don’t want to be encouraging that kind of release strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You hope you’ll get those things. It’s Rockstar though so who really knows. I mean we do know we’re going to get a single player that’s been confirmed by Rockstar but everything else is just a guess. The map leak people seem to suggest that the map will include NASA and Disneyland which will be cool I guess, but we don’t know that that’s just a prediction and I don’t quite understand how they can predict that.

  I just don’t trust Rockstar not to screw it up with GTA online 2, now with more irritating flying bikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not quite sure why they’re so concerned. I suspect they’re actually not and this is just things “analysts” say.

  I suspect that the release of GTA VI is going to be lukewarm compared to the release of GTA V, because everyone remembered what Rockstar did to GTA V. People are going to wait around and see how they handle GTA online because they need to do better than last time because last time was ridiculous.

  I’m certainly not all that interested in getting it day one and I know a lot of other people aren’t either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh and the really really dumb cookie law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Type C⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The A standes doesn’t allow that much charge. So if it exists, it’s breaking the spec

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lego Confirms Pokémon Collaboration Set For 2026⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A little shuttlecraft wouldn’t be big. I’m just saying that they should give themselves the options to expand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lego Confirms Pokémon Collaboration Set For 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind them having themed sets based on popular IP it’s just I wish they would do some larger sets.

  Personally I dropped some serious cash on the Lego USS Enterprise, hell they could even do Lego Expense, why are they doing boring small scale stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets ghosted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No need to go that far I have it on good authority there are hot babes in my area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain of container ship involved in North Sea collision arrested in the UK, identified as Russian citizen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  British police subsequently arrested the 59-year-old captain of the Solong, whose name has not yet been disclosed.

  Yeah because otherwise it’d be totally impossible to find out this information. Not that anyone will care to, it’s not like they’re going to look him up and go oh that’s that famous Russian celebrity, well his reputation is down the drain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the "money can't buy you happiness" people ever lived in a car.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The one I heard is money can’t buy you happiness but it can buy you a helicopter, which is almost as good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the games and cards are fuelled by nostalgia and gambling addictions.

  MTG IS THE GOAT.

  You flip-flopped real fast on your principles there I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Have they discovered terrain yet, or is the landscape still a flat plane?