Not really. It depends on what it is. There are entire games and items that aren’t available in the US, but make a killing in Asia.

Like, here’s Genshin Impact numbers from 2023.

On that game, the US comes in at 7th, is less than half of the top country (Japan) and is notably behind Switzerland.

For Tik Tok specifically, we can look at their annual reports.

Let’s look at average annual users per region. 682M in Asia Pacific, which does not include China. 192M in North America.

China’s numbers are 750M daily.

I don’t think most of their money comes from the US.

Someone that is wildly happy with their life is not thinking how life is so terrible and evil.

This isn’t a zero sum game.

You can be happy and recognize that life is also terrible and evil.

Nick Drake.

Years ahead of his time and while he gets a lot of recognition posthumously in certain music circles, he didn’t have any hits during his life, or even any hits after, so the average Joe hasn’t heard of him.

All three of his albums are fantastic, though Five Leaves Left is my favorite.

The US has limited hard braking? What city do they live in?

I don’t know anyone who’s used IRC in the last fifteen years at least.

At least back when I used IRC, it wasn’t indexed either. It was just an alternative to AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo Chat.

Can you link the solicitation or grant where people can apply for this?

You mean my house?

Depends what you’re into. CD sales are more than alive and well in the kpop/jpop circles and there isn’t a lot of vinyl to find there.

Indie games is really where it’s at right now.

On skimming, I’d thought it had something to do with the kpop group, BTS. They have a song called Louder than Bombs.

I’ve been listening to the 1001 albums you have to listen to before you die list. (There’s a website that randomizes it and gives you an album a day).

I’m about 100 albums in. The grand majority are trash, that includes stuff by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Janis Joplin, etc. Just absolute garbage. One of two songs worth listening to and the rest is straight trash.

Albums as an art form died because it was never really a good art form to begin with.

Flint water wasn’t that long ago.

While not impossible, it’s fairly hard to over season stuff.

I disagree here. Unless you’re used to overseasoned food already, it’s pretty easy to be heavy handed on the salt.

If you’re looking to reduce heartburn, add baking soda, not sugar.

Seems like a red grape juice would be closer.

Pumpkin pie. Add cardamom.

My issue is that if you don’t know what the article is about and it’s not a word/concept you know, there’s absolutely no chance of ‘winning’.

We got a Switch to play BotW.

I guess you had to grow up playing Zelda games after Link to the Past in order to enjoy the gameplay. Coming from other systems, it was very unintuitive, uncomfortable, and basically unplayable since we couldn’t remap the controls. Also, the world was just kind of dead?

I dunno, it was a big disappointment.

What do you need to know about the main game to play the DLCs that isn’t in the DLCs?

Folks or Everyone tend to be my go to.