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I think in general Total War and its genre is relatively niche. While almost everybody is up for a bit of cartoony racing.
I tbink it's easy to underestimate this - everyone seems surprised when I tell them Mario Kart 8 is the 5th best selling game of all time.
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Print single-sided. Otherwise there's a risk that nominally invisible bleed through from the other side can be enhanced. It's better to just convert a PDF to images directly and redact that.
That is the EXACT process I automated the non-redacting parts of using cron jobs and task folders at a past job. Flatten everything to a set of just images. Have normal human staff draw black boxes over anything to be redacted. Compose a new 'PDF' that's a set of 'scanned' images.
Video game consumers have always baffled me and this data just adds to it. Who are the 7 million people going out to buy the 20th Persona game? What are you actually hoping to get from it that isn't just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before? I have friends genuinely excited to go buy Mario Cart for the 17th time this year... Once you've made two objects move along an enclosed route…
You can apply that logic to anything: why bother returning to the same great restaurant? Why bother with sports matches? Why buy a new car? New mobile? New computer? New TV? Why install a new version of an OS or software? It's because they change: They tell new stories. They look better. They play better. They introduce completely new mechanics. Persona: we're up to 5 in 25 years (almost 30 now!), during which time w…
> It's because they change
That's not true at all. I don't return to the same great restaurant because it's new and different. If I wanted that, I'd look for a different restaurant.
I go back to the same great restaurant because I'm hungry again.
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The game is only about 30 hours and has no micro transactions. It is addictive until you beat it. Easily game of the year.
I know what it is, i read the reviews and decided to skip based on QTEs [1] :) I still don't understand how "addictive" is a positive term. [1] To preempt some complaining, I haven't touched an Ubisoft or EA title in at least 10 years. So it's not like I'm an AAA "consumer" that skips the darling indies.
So it's not addictive in the ongoing, problematic way that cocaine would be.
Surprised Like A Dragon sales are lower than others. Been gaming since a kid in the 90s, and it easily ranked in my top 10. It's an instant classic.
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However this 'End of Service' means they are stopping serving ads to the game, removing online services, and allowing them to be played offline forever. This is a much better outcome than most games or software that is discontinued.
Indeed, but they will also stop selling or distributing them, meaning they will only be available via pirates/archivists (which are endlessly harassed by these companies).
Video game consumers have always baffled me and this data just adds to it. Who are the 7 million people going out to buy the 20th Persona game? What are you actually hoping to get from it that isn't just a slight variance on something you've already had multiple times before? I have friends genuinely excited to go buy Mario Cart for the 17th time this year... Once you've made two objects move along an enclosed route…
Why do people read books? They all arrange the same letters in a different order. Once you know the letters, you've seen all the books.
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We do have a Persona 5 dungeon crawler, a Persona 5 rhythm game, a Persona 5 hack-and-slash game, a Persona 5 tactics game and a Persona 5 mobile game, as well as a Persona 5 TV anime and Persona 5 manga.
But still no persona 6 ;(
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> I’ve used bad redaction to my advantage at work to make money You've certainly piqued my curiosity. Can you say any more?
I sell construction work. Sometimes my customers will have me price up something that someone else priced to them and they will send me a competitor’s redacted scope letter with the pricing blanked out so I can bid ‘apples to apples’ aka the same scope of work. I’ve unredacted proposals using the ‘unflatten’ command in Bluebeam Revu (which is by far the best PDF editor) which allowed me to underbid my competitor and…
I'd not do this if I were you.