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Eh... from what I understand most purchases happen in a pretty short time frame. Lot of emphasis gets put on the first few weeks. Starting sales up a month or two after release or somethin', particularly smaller discounts, is probably less a bad sign and more that marketing et al is getting more canny and optimizing where to put their price point and when for maximum (short-ish term) monetary extraction.

Which. I guess could be a bad sign for the consumer. Not so much the business, heh.

Thank God for blocking unknown numbers.

i wish to fuck that actually worked anymore

Unless you're just talking numbers you don't known rather than the unknown caller horseshit scam fuckers have somehow figured out how to get past call blocking.

Off the road a bit on the way home, some dude on what looked like a bicycle that was absolutely pouring smoke everywhere, seemingly right out the seat. No screaming and they looked more confused than troubled, but... still. Goodness gracious.

There'd probably be some in a burg, sure.

So far as we're aware, this legislation will pretty certainly work even with minimal enforcement, especially if it's the retailers targeted for punishment rather than users or purchasers (and as near as I can tell, the actual change seems explicitly aimed at retailers, so whatever fucked up shit schools do in response is them being fucked up rather than the law change demanding anything) The age bump has already been attempted on a state level in a few places (and by that i mean apparently like 19 states or somethin') and it demonstrably works for reducing the rate of addiction among youth (from what I understand mostly by making it harder for high schoolers to get a hold of).

So far as I'm aware, though, both alcohol and tobacco are largely divorced from most of the varying atrocities cops inflict on our youth. Presumably the penalties aren't as fucked up so there's not the same incentive to use those particular substances as a lever for abuse, I'unno.

Eh, maybe, but they're basically murderous luck dragons and that takes some of the edge off if you're old enough

Basically everything in terraria would be kinda' terrifying without the distance the side view et al provides. You sorta' need the separation to take an edge off things.

Take it another step and make the graphics basically realistic and you'd be a fair way towards pants-shitting. I think just about the only thing that's not approaching gruesome is, like, maybe the slimes, and most of the sky and hallow enemies (well, until a life-sized horse runs your ass down, anyway). Most of the rest if it's basically (hell, sometimes literally) straight out of horror genre critters. Bring that stuff to scale and de-cartoon it a bit and you'd be in like chainsaw horror territory. If you stop to think a bit about what exactly you're exploding into chunks it's a pretty messy game...

Last night I was listening to Terraria music and I started thinking about how cool a 3D virtual reality Terraria would be

Alternatively kinda' terrifying. First person eye of cthulhu coming at you, especially second phase, could probably be pretty nightmare inducing. Gigantic screaming bloody tooth filled maw coming straight at your face like a friggin' freight train... and that's just the first boss. VR terraria would probably qualify as a horror game.