Valve is obviously complicit in enabling gambling habits with lootboxes and whatnot, but I’d say that’s more of a general gambling issue that affects a wide slew of people, not just the younger audience

Roblox is far more heinous in terms of exploiting their younger audience, check out some of the videos from People Make Games

They have the username already, they don’t need to see their profile info to search for a username

Just a one time purchase. Op probably meant they have bought 0 pokemon games but bought this

Licenses are a way to prevent people from overfishing populations. Certain populations have been overfished to the point of being endangered, and if a species gets erased out of an ecosystem, the overlying ecosystem gets thrown out of place depending on how key of a species the fish was.

There are some species the gov does not care about eg the invasive lionfish and asian carp

On the other hand Hong Kong has a lot of English mixed in due to tourism (and its history) so you won’t fare too bad even if you didnt know how to speak

Yup, these updates help make sure your gpu still works with each os update, as well as maybe fixing a bit of uncaught issues/bugs

You could learn soldering, mouse switches are super beginner friendly and they cost about a dollar each (not including the tools)

That way you can buy a nicer pair and not have to worry about it breaking

Its a portable handheld, it’s not meant to be a replacement for a pc. You could use it for playing games on a commute or during your lunch break. Nothing wrong with using it on the couch either, sometimes you want to be outside of your room.

Probably because player count jumped to nearly triple, from 2mil on april to 6mil on november and an all time peak of 11m in the past month

One monopoly on streaming means they’d probably jack the prices up a lot since they would be the only legal way to watch things (and theyd probably crack down on piracy even more)

Multiple streaming services at least helps keep prices at a reasonable level

Hard agree though that exclusives are the worst thing streaming services adopted

Yes and please make sure you get it checked out! It may seem like a non-issue (just minor pain, etc) but if it ever gets worse the damage is likely going to become permanent and your quality of life with no teeth/extreme toothache is a lot lower than you might think.

Source: my dad and uncle neglected their teeth and its becoming a bad issue now