Here in Denmark people believe in shared parenting, so both parents get leave. “Parental leave” as opposed to “maternal” or “paternal” leave.

I would say about two or three months, based on what I know from my mom. But she also has an inherent issue with her hips, which could extend that period beyond the norm.

Wat…

Must be America again, because I’ve hardly seen this in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, France, or Spain (all countries I’ve either visited for extended periods of time, or lived in for portions of my life).

In my own family, however, I am the biggest brother, so they basically made me take care of a lot of the dirty tasks involving my siblings.

That’s not a new union tactic, that’s an old school union tactic. Organisation and unions started with riots and breaking shit.

We don’t need to know what you do with your partner behind closed doors.

And Valve keeps on winning the storefront war, without doing much besides quality of life features.

Pretty sure the SNES/Super Famicom had a bunch of games come out with saving onto the cartridge, which predates the N64 and PSX.

Yeah, so, not sure how accurate this list is, but it looks like all the big named RPGs had saves, and all the first party Nintendo titles also had saves.

Ahead of their time.

I dunno, man. That kid is looking pretty tiny. I don’t know about you, but most people get a kid before they turn 50.

Also, the dad in the comic is clearly holding a PSX controller.

“Since the dinosaurs” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I wasn’t exclusively talking about the period after the dinosaurs as that’s a rather arbitrary to limit the argument to.

Earth has experienced at least two major extinctions where most life just ceased to exist. Both times due to massive climate events.

The previous glacial period does not compare to what global warming will cause. And we’ve had plenty of huntable food sources back then.

Biodiversity is the one key factor that determines if Humanity will survive at all. We like to think that we don’t need biodiversity to survive like every other lifeform on Earth, but it is essential to our survival.

If biodiversity goes, Earth cannot sustain any population of humans.

Not really. Planet isn’t being killed. Planet will be fine long after we’re gone. Just another extinction chapter in a long history of extinction. We probably wouldn’t even be the biggest extinction event.

No, what we’re killing is ourselves. Sooner or later we’d have changed so much if our environment that it’s no longer capable to sustain us. Then a large enough portion of humanity will end up dying to the point we can no longer sustain ourselves.

That is some… very comfy looking clothes. XD

I guess if I were to specifically keep it consoles, sure. But PC gaming had Internet and games with patches. But usually games just needed… Like… One patch to balance something or fix a problem.

The N64 was pretty experimental with some limited online features. And some time later, if I remember correctly, the PS2 had an ethernet socket.

I don’t think so. The kid is playing a Nintendo Switch and called the other guy “dad”.

So “dad” must be around my age. So he was a kid during the 90s, and so would stand to reason he’d game on N64, PSX, Windows 98, and onward.

Except there WAS online play. Since like the 90s. RTS games especially had online tournaments. Also, LAN parties used to be epic.

Games DID receive updates when needed. Internet speeds were slow, so it was expected that when you bought a game you got the game after installation, and not a day one patch that barely fixes anything.

As for the other kinds of updates; games got expansion packs. As the name would suggest, they expanded the game. Sometimes quite drastically.

Saves still corrupt to this day in brand new AAA releases.

I don’t need to believe. I just need to look at what you yourself have commented on this thread.

If you want a better world, maybe start with yourself and end your discrimination.

I’ve already seen “it’s AI generated”.

Who’s the comic’s artist?

Unfortunately NASA is always tied up with politics. I would not be surprised if the whole ego stroking speech was a mandate by the current American administration.

Or, if not a mandate, pandering. Because if the politicians in charge of giving NASA its funding don’t like what’s being said, they will likely cut their funding, even in the middle of a long-term successful project.