Should we also have a ban on all sports memorabilia then? It’s a gamble for me to go to my local team and have the players sign things and then at some point in the future it could be worth a ton of money?

Would this conversation be any different if they sold the cards for what they think the expected value is? Then you’d have people complaining about how they’re charging hundreds for a card and that’s not fair because little Timmy can’t afford it.

Edit: those tumblers that people drink out of have “rarer” colors and designs, better ban those two because of gambling.

So the issue isn’t the loot boxes and gambling to get items, it’s the resale? That’s a different issue.

Also it’s not “cash”, you can only spend that money back into steam.

So those cards have been around forever, and no one complained about them.

People care about these loot boxes because it’s easy for a young kid to get their parents credit card and rack up a ton of charges because they see a cool skin and don’t realize that ultra rare or 1/1000 chance to drop means that they won’t get t without spending a ton of money.

By definition gambling can be defined as playing games of chance for money. Well they aren’t going to win money, their reward is a collectable item.

Or to take risky action in hope of desired result. I don’t really see how this fits that definition either. There’s no risky action.

I would prefer if there were no loot boxes because I’d rather know what I’m getting, but people are focusing on the wrong thing here.

No one buys baseball cards for the informational side of it. They buy them as a collectors item. The same as these skins. The only difference is that one is digital and one is physical.

Sports cards have been around for ages and no one gave a shit. People care about the loot boxes in games because it’s easy for a kid to get their parents credit card and rack up a ton of charges.

How are these cases any different from any trading card that you can go to the store and buy packs of? Are those also unregulated gambling?

This is my biggest issue with AI. ChatGPT is a nice party trick, but how do you ensure the results are correct?

I used to hate having to show my work when I was younger. But as I have gotten older, I realized the result isn’t as important as how you got there.

I definitely see a shift where I live in the US (Northeast). We used to get snow that stuck in November and it carried us through to March or April. Now we will get some flurries but nothing really sticks until January. The overall length remains the same, but it seems shifted by a month or two

Ah ok, I get this. But I took the tone of the post as “fuck this guy for taking up four spots”.

Maybe I’m a little annoyed at other posts and choosing a weird hill to die on with this one.

I mean I’m giving the guy the benefit of the doubt here. He’s practically on the line to the right and slightly over on the back. Oh no! Burn the witch! I’ve seen people in small cars park worse.

Sounds like you just hate trucks, and that’s ok.

While I generally agree with giving people shit for taking up multiple spots, this one isn’t that bad. He’s just over the line. You see some people who park in the middle of those four spots.

I think people used social media (Reddit, Twitter even Instagram) as a replacement. As those started going to shit, people probably migrated back to rss

I hear everyone singing the AeroPress praises, and while I like mine I actually much prefer my Chemex. I like the taste a little more, those Chemex filters are great.

But anyways, can’t go wrong with either. Then you get them hooked on an expensive hobby 😂

Transactions are the safe way of doing it.

You can also return * to see the changes, or add specific fields.

Like for example:

Begin; Update users Set first_name=‘John’ Where first_name=‘john’ Returning *;

Then your Rollback; Or Commit;

So you’d see all rows you just updated. You can get fancy and do a self join and see the original and updated data if you want. I like to run an identifying query first, so I know hey I should see 87 rows updated or whatever.

Haven’t had any issues with table locks with this, but we use Postgres. YMMV.

Your presidential elections are like the last step in the process. If you want to make real change, you need to start from the bottom up. You can’t just say (not saying you do this) “oh shit there’s a presidential election this year? And I dislike the Democrats candidate? Time to vote for a third party candidate to show them!”

It’s kind of like baking a cake I guess. If you just jump in at the end and taste the cake, well you’re stuck with what it is. "Oh I wish this was a chocolate cake instead of vanilla. I’m not going to eat this cake. I’m going to eat this other cake ", well you should have gotten involved earlier and who knows what’s in that other cake, it could have those disgusting flavored jelly beans in it.

I do agree that not voting leads to problems.

So in your mind what Trump did was better?

If you want to teach the Democrats a lesson, do it earlier. The presidential election isn’t the time nor place to play games - as we saw with Trump setting the country back years.

Call of Duty 3 was pretty fun.

How so? The lawyers at Meta are actually good at their job, they are doing what lawyers should do when they have more money than the opposition. Just like the managers are doing what they should do when they want something and can burn cash to get it.

Wouldn’t those outdoor ones be super expensive?

Yeah, I’d actually argue it’s the opposite. Meta knows exactly what it’s doing, it just sucks for the little guy.

Meta will just drag this out in the courts until the little guy can’t afford to keep going and then they settle.

Postgres may be an option over MySQL.