Alt. Profile @Th4tGuyII
Yeah, the real answer is that they’d just ignore it- because even though what they’re doing is flagrant copyright abuse, unless you’ve got an army of lawyers like Disney, you’ll go bankrupt going after them.
What you can do is play dirty. If you have your own website, make an AI Tar Pit. Make your website not just useless to AI, but actively malicious towards it.
I’ve been using protonmail basically since its inception for money-related stuff (due to it being secure), and the one time I’ve had a fraud flag appear while using it was due to being on a VPN at the same time.
… But I’ve had that also happen when I used to daily drive Gmail, so I can’t imagine the Proton part made the difference.
Obviously anecdotes aren’t very good evidence, and maybe in your experience it was your email - but if that is the case, I’d be weary of any provider that automatically flags non-“big tech” addresses as fraudulent. That likely means they’re rather lazy about their cybersecurity.
It ia very much an English speaking world thing, but I wouldn’t say US-centric as we have basically the same greeting in the UK.
Yeah, that wouldn’t fly as much here either - if somebody asked how my day was, I’d be inclined to think they want a summary at least.
As others have pointed out, the problem is “How are you?” on its own is generally a greeting not a question.
As such the answer is largely irrelevant - so while it doesn’t have to be outright lie, the answer shouldn’t be longer than a single statement and shouldn’t make the other person feel like they need to be concerned.
If you want a slightly less beaming answer you could go with “Alright”, “same old, same old”, “same as always”, or “Eh, could be worse”, or any of the other suggestions already made.
I’d be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.
There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.
By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.
My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife’s cheating, I’d hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn’t diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.
To be fair to the developers, they do elaborate a little further in the comments:
Hey everyone, We appreciate the sudden enthusiasm for our game. When we launched it in 2015 into early access and 2016 into full, we were at the vanguard of asymmetrical games. It was exciting, but it was also our first step down the Dunning Kruger curve. QL has bugs that we cannot fix, shaky net code and overall sloppy design. We left the game up for this long so that players who had friends that wanted to play, could still get a copy. However it has been 9 years with minimal to no activity. So we felt it was right to remove it now.
I don’t know enough about this game or it’s community to comment much, but the devs don’t seem to be bad guys - seems like a story of naive developers making a mistake, but doing their best for their community with what they had. For a niche online game with no DLCs, 9 years is hardly a bad run.
Excluding first setup, if it takes me longer to prep the big screen than the time I’d spend watching on it, then the phone wins. Otherwise, I’ll find a bigger screen.