I’ve ranted about this before, but Pokémon Picross had the best monetization model of any game I have ever seen in my life.
For those unfamiliar, it was a puzzle game. You get about 5 or so puzzles per ‘stage’, have a limited amount of energy to spend on each puzzle per day, and have to pay a freemium currency to advance to the next stage.
The cash shop offers the freemium currency you can buy to advance to further stages (obtainable for free by doing free daily puzzles), as well as energy refills for doing the puzzles (recharges for free over time). Also some pricier options like a 'Mega Stylus’ that gives you access to a few more, higher tier puzzles to solve.
Playing the game for free takes something like half a year to complete. It’s a nice little side distraction you can spend about half an hour on each day.
If you spent money, you could finish the full thing in an afternoon or two.
How much money would that cost you?
… $20. Because the game keeps a lifetime total of how much you have spent on it, and the second that total hits $20, it locks you out of being able to spend money anymore, and everything in the shop becomes free forever.
This is literally the BEST most user friendly monetization option I have seen for any game. I desperately wish other games did this!
Fun fact: Samus’ zero suit is a bodysuit in more recent games instead of the tank-top she wore in older games because at this point, she’s been spliced with so many species’ DNA you really don’t want to see what the rest of her skin looks like.
ALT
“but you don’t understand, its scarred and scaley and has pin feathers and burns and veins and is a patchwork of different colors and why are you drooling”
Prominent asshole, Proud Boys boot-swabber, and mobile milkshake platform Andy Ngô told a shitton of lies about trans journalist Alejandra Caraballo. She covers things he’d rather not see talked about, like the tweet he quoted, and these:
So Andy decided to complain to Elon, who of course has never met an alt-right bully he didn’t want to suckle the toes of, and so he immediately went about trying to make the site deliberately more dangerous for marginalized people reporting on the shitty things that bullies do:
I mean, he CAN, but his app will become unable to be downloaded from both app stores and will probably just straight-up stop working on iPhones if he does.
To clarify, this is a war crime, the Geneva convention bans the targeting of medical transport. There’s no caveats. It doesn’t actually matter who’s driving it.
The last month has taught me that apparently all the Geneva convention is really good for is getting indie games to change a red medical cross to some other medical cross and that it can do fuck all about actual war crimes.
1979: After American space station Skylab crashes to earth over the town of Esperance, Western Australia the National Parks Service issues a $400 fine to NASA for littering.
Did NASA ever pay up?
Taken from MentalFloss:
NASA never paid off the $400 fine, but in 2009, 30 years after Skylab’s reentry, California radio DJ Scott Barley asked listeners to donate money so they could finally clear NASA’s books.
Though the Mayor of Esperance told Barley the ticket had been “written off years ago,” he and his listeners cobbled together the $400 and sent it to the town. For his efforts, Barley was invited to Esperance and received a key to the city.
NASA, to its credit, hasn’t littered in the Shire of Esperance since the Skylab incident.
The first Australian-hosted Miss Universe was held in the same year (1979) in Perth, the West Australian state capital. Pieces of SkyLab wreckage were displayed on-stage during the event.
The stage later collapsed following the announcement of the winner, reportedly sending 25 people on a 2 metre (~6'5") drop and resulting in a few temporary hospitalisations.
Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.
The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.
EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.
And even machines need to rest all the time. Even unfeeling blobs of steel need maintenance, upkeep, and care. They need to be turned of every now and then to cool down.
You say you’re “sex positive” until that tboy grows a mustache. Weak bitch. Gimme his number, I’ll annihilate some 45 year old fat dad pussy.
Hey this post isn’t about whatever stupid discourse you losers are on about. This is a post about how unstoppably horny I am for my boyfriend who is built like a jolly gnome with a pornstache.
Prominent asshole, Proud Boys boot-swabber, and mobile milkshake platform Andy Ngô told a shitton of lies about trans journalist Alejandra Caraballo. She covers things he’d rather not see talked about, like the tweet he quoted, and these:
So Andy decided to complain to Elon, who of course has never met an alt-right bully he didn’t want to suckle the toes of, and so he immediately went about trying to make the site deliberately more dangerous for marginalized people reporting on the shitty things that bullies do:
I mean, he CAN, but his app will become unable to be downloaded from both app stores and will probably just straight-up stop working on iPhones if he does.
my favourite thing about large discord servers is when they make an announcement post and all the reactions on it are like. POG FACE. TRANS HEART. E. CONFETTI EMOJI. FLAG OF PERU. SNAKE. Q. EYES. FIRE. MISCHEVIOUS DEVIL SMILING EMOJI. ANOTHER POG FAGE. PREGNANT MAN. HOT DOG. THUMBS UP. VRISKA.
physically disabled ppl have the right to have needs and wants. we don’t have to exercise constantly or only eat “healthy”. we are allowed to drink alcohol and smoke. we are fucking allowed to do the shit we like.
1979: After American space station Skylab crashes to earth over the town of Esperance, Western Australia the National Parks Service issues a $400 fine to NASA for littering.
Did NASA ever pay up?
Taken from MentalFloss:
NASA never paid off the $400 fine, but in 2009, 30 years after Skylab’s reentry, California radio DJ Scott Barley asked listeners to donate money so they could finally clear NASA’s books.
Though the Mayor of Esperance told Barley the ticket had been “written off years ago,” he and his listeners cobbled together the $400 and sent it to the town. For his efforts, Barley was invited to Esperance and received a key to the city.
NASA, to its credit, hasn’t littered in the Shire of Esperance since the Skylab incident.
The first Australian-hosted Miss Universe was held in the same year (1979) in Perth, the West Australian state capital. Pieces of SkyLab wreckage were displayed on-stage during the event.
The stage later collapsed following the announcement of the winner, reportedly sending 25 people on a 2 metre (~6'5") drop and resulting in a few temporary hospitalisations.
