For smaller (indie) studios it can make sense. If the game costs more money to developed than the developer has, preordering is indistinguishable from crowdsourcing like kickstarter. It removes the need for the developer to take a loan and investors, possibly giving up creative freedom.
Anything backed by a (big-ish) publisher should never be preordered!
Lots of Germans defending German cuisine, so as another German: you are absolutely right!
Germany has some great food and some Germans love making good food but German culture is absolutely not about food. The food culture we have is a development of the last ~40 years. Traditional German food is supposed to make you sated so you can go back to the fields and work! And the go to the army and fight! And then go to the ruins and rebuild!
Tasty and awesome food? Yes! A culture that tells you it loves food? No!
Only if you use disc encryption for the personal partition. Otherwise the surveillance software under windows will still scan your linux partition while windows is runing
People were so poor in 2025. Most households didnt even have multiple VR headsets. And those most had only remote controled lighting in one room. So poor.
The multi-gen household fact is simply not true for many places, same as the size of the houses. The number of cars and phones and TVs are all a result of the same thing. They never needed a second one. You don't need two cars if only one person is working and is home early enough to finish erands after work. Photographs, travel distance, Videos, that's all technological change. They couldn't afford it because it don't exist in a consumer form.
That doesn't change the fact that the high standard of living of that time was affordable while the high standard of living of today isn't affordable.
Yes. "PhD" level intelligence. Not PhD level intelligence. The quotes are part of the word. They are not optional.
I seem to remember a similar story of a zoo where the beavers built a damm in a dry concrete room. They later found out the area was above a waterpipe and the beavers were just way more sensitive to the sound/vibrations.
Couldn't find it with 1min of DDG so might be wrong
Sir Francis Drake was legitimate enough to get knighted. And when he captured and ransomed Cartagena de Indias he gave 100,000 pesos to the crown of england. You know what the people in Colombia call that event? A pirate raid.
I agree there is a differentiation and privateer is a more precise definition. But the people getting attacked could not give less of a shit if the guy robbing them is state sponsored or not. To the victims its just pirates. Just as the US is sending pirate ships to do piracy in Venezuela.
Kommt auf deine persönliche Geschmacksrichtung de Veganismus an.
Frei von Dingen die mal ein Tier waren? Garantiert nicht. Wurde irgend einem der Tiere gezielt leid angetan mit dem Ziel Rohöl zu erzeugen? Garantiert nicht. Ist veganismus nicht untrennbar mit Menschen verbunden? Kein Tier interessiert sich für veganismus und einem wilden Tier seinen Instinkt nach fleischessen zu verbieten ist genauso unmoralisch wir als Mensch Fleisch zu essen. Ich würde deshalb argumentieren, dass ein Tier, das gestorben war bevor es die ersten Menschen gab, zwangsläufig Vegan ist.
Aber das basiert auch auf meiner Auslegung, die das Menschen verursachte Tierleiden in den Vordergrund stellt und nicht die tierische Materie.
Except for all the times it happened. All the colonial countries hired ships to attack merchants of the other nations in the Caribbean and Atlantic. The age when that happened? The golden age of piracy! There were more pirates on the payroll of states than those stealing for themselves.
Nah that's the same fantasy: dig hole, dig to deeply and to greedily, defend against what you awakened, heroic last stand, noble sacrifice, bleed out on snow knowing you saved everyone else.
But all citrus fruits are called citrus fruit. And they also have a different name each. And they get classified at different levels depending on need. Imaginary somebody tells me "they don't like fruit because they ate an apricot and it tasted bad" and I say "but have you tried a Jaffa orange from north Palestine from the farm of , because that is different from an apricot". No I'll say "apricots are stone fruit and maybe you should try a citrus fruit before you judge all fruit." But I wouldn't say "maybe try ice cream that's better than apricot".
Do you think the term movie is bad? Or the term Music? Or the term Food? If you buy videogames solely on the fact that it says video game on the box then that is your problem and not that of the word.
Few Years ago I read an article like " study finds you can get self driving cars to crash by throwing a human shaped pupped in front of them". I was like, yeah no shit that also works for humans.