Drusenija

The comment about convenience trumping almost everything else reminded me of this old post (wasn't originally on The Urban Dictionary but they have it now under the definition of Linux).

If Operating Systems Ran The Airlines

When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"

Probably seems random but I was really hoping to see an expansion of the glamour dresser functionality they added where sets could be grouped together to include the Alliance Raid gear. Dungeon gear can be grinded out solo for most older stuff and with duty support if it can't, but Alliance Raids need at an absolute minimum 3 people - more depending on the raid (LotA needs 12 minimum because of the Atomos, Orbonne I don't think can be cleared with 3 because of Agrias even if the previous two raids can be, and I've not seen a 3 man NieR raid yet, and definitely not Myths of the Realm or Jeuno).

So you would tend to hold onto AR gear over dungeon gear purely because it's harder to replace. Being able to group sets of 5 pieces into one glamour slot would be perfect. Especially with a whole bunch of new glam dropping this patch!

It's mainly to do with the neighbourhood concept they use. They keep all the housing loaded up because they're legitimate zones you can enter, log in or out from, teleport into, etc. Because a lot of those things exist regardless of the housing owner playing or not it's not really feasible to archive it because other players also see it and access it.

There's some variance there (for example on Materia they haven't opened wards 25-30 yet), not all plots are sold, and FC housing isn't quite as stringent since as long as at least one person in the FC enters the house they keep it, but still crazy numbers regardless. You can see why they're disincentivised to fix it.

The ironic part of this is if they spent the money to upgrade the infrastructure so anyone who wanted a house (of any size) could have one, and therefore didn't need the auto demolition any more, more people would pause their subscriptions when they're not actively doing anything, which drops SE's revenue.

So I get why fixing housing isn't a big priority, it would impact their bottom line twice.

On the other hand, still sucks. Especially with many countries struggling with cost of living and some dealing with active war zones (to be fair, some of these pauses on auto demolition are for that reason), it just feels like it's rubbing salt into the wound, especially when you might not be able to replace it in the future depending on your server.

Love your optimism 😊

Now I wish we could have two earrings at once so I can have a donut on one ear and a cup of coffee on the other for my culinarian glam 😂

Now we just need Ferrari to do a partnership with Nintendo and we can literally have Mario vs Sonic on the F1 track.

It's not mandatory but when you've got points on the line they probably didn't want to be seen to be making decisions that could cost midfield teams a chance at points, even if that meant an extra lap or two behind the safety car.

Agree on the GDPA role, but they did explicitly ask him about it during the interview so figured it was at least worth mentioning.

Best theory I have is all the teams are expecting some sort of sanction over the incident and they all want to be able to be arms length and say "that was the FIA's decision" and not have sound bites where they were suggesting that something should happen.

All the drivers clearly have been advised by their teams to not comment on the Max situation. Oscar basically said "didn't have context on what happened, only saw they collided, can't comment", Lando ignored the question entirely and just started talking about his own race, George was pretty non committal despite being involved in the incident and also flat out refused to comment in his role as a GPDA director (says he was "too close to comment").

Clearly they don't want any sound bites out there about it.

Oh absolutely, I'm not suggesting it's a product worth using in this day and age when you probably have good quality music available locally. It was a potentially useful tool back when we all used to download music of questionable quality off the internet, but less relevant these days.