In other words, they are either in bed with the CCP like the US Congress believes they are, or they are just wholly incompetent and are now being held hostage by the Cheeto-in-Chief.

Both should cause Americans (and really, most people) to leave the app and never return.

Honorable mentions to every person who has or is about to say the words "enduring Democracy" or similar as if US democracy isn't already dead and buried.

It's worse. IANAL but as far as I can tell, nothing about the law even required them to make the app go "dark" in this fashion -- the app stores halting distribution of it should be sufficient (which they did)

If so, this entire "outage" was political theatre performed for Trump's benefit.

IANAL but my reading of the act is that penalties are only for distribution, maintenance, and updating of the app.

This rather narrow wording leads me to assume that Oracle and Akamai are in the clear and that Apple and Google pulling the app from stores means they're clear too.

The data access thing is a red herring, at best. It was really about TikTok's influence of American youth and, in specific, influence over their political views.

If California were a postcard, the parts that could maybe in some circumstances be seen as "woke land" would be a postage stamp or smaller.

It's, like, maybe true in TINY parts of the state. Maybe. MAYBE.

There are models you can get 3D printed that should do the job, or at least that's what a cursory Google search is telling me.

If you don't have a 3D printer yourself, Etsy sellers will happily print one for you.

One of the difficult things about this is that demo builds are way less of a thing than they used to be. When you can't try before you buy, purchasing decisions can become much more difficult.

Alternatively it would be great if college did not feel like a requirement to make a living wage. Then, if college doesn't work for you, you can just... not.

You say that but in the Bay Area I can get unsweetened iced tea and here in the Northern Lands I can't get anything that is both tea and zero sugar in the least.

I wish this still worked for me.

It does feel like Balatro getting a nomination is just a tiny crack in the otherwise perfectly shiny AAA wall that is TGA GotY award.

People might learn to have... taste? 😏

Sorry, I mean when it gets to its 10th anniversary.

Wonder if they'll do something special for it like they did for Arland's 10th anniversary (that's partly how we got Atelier Lulua)

This is also Inafune's answer, for sure. 😏

Nelke mentioned = Good taste

I wish I hadn't been stubborn and just hacked in a system save to be allowed to choose higher difficulties for my first playthroughs of Atelier Ryza 1 and 2.