Arguably, yes. When you pay with one of the phone wallet options, you transmit a unique set of info, like a verification token or 2FA token for example, which your banking service confirms is valid for your card and the transaction goes through. But the vendor never receives your real card info.

Not for nothing, tapping to pay with phone is not the same as using the physical card to tap to pay. In the former case, your actual card info is not transmitted.

Well that’s not a combination I ever thought I’d see.

That’s wildly unfair. Even the games within those franchises are often wildly different from each other and many are widely considered hallmarks in game design. Plus, Nintendo doesn’t make Pokémon.

Per their support page, videos over 8 minutes long can have mid roll ads. They can be manual, automatic, or a combination.

If ads were placed that closely together on a video longer than 8 minutes, the creator either did that manually or did not care enough about their audience to check what automatic ads got placed.

I am pretty sure the video uploader controls when ads play. So that seems less of a platform issue and more of a “that specific channel” problem.

Nah, my Linux journey has been far from flawless. I troubleshoot stuff on Linux as much or more than I did on Windows.

I reckon the latter part might be the problem for a lot of people.

Honestly millionaires are closer to the working class than they are to billionaires.

Hate speech is strong, but I do generally treat it as a “I probably don’t get along with you” indicator based on personal experiences.

Pretty sure it’s a lot simpler than that.

This initiative does not seek to be retroactive.

The average American does not include taxes in prices. This is also true in Canada.

Never even heard of it.

Dispatch is pretty cool, and I don’t doubt that an adventure game set in Exandria would be fun; I only said that I don’t think it will be the game most fans were wanting.

Given the talent at that studio and their only upcoming game, I would reckon this won’t be the genre of game a lot of Critical Role fans were hoping for but I’m still sure it will sell like hot cakes.

Is this adoration of a character negatively impacting your life in some way? Does it prevent you from being productive or taking take of yourself? Does it detract from social activities? Is it causing you financial strain?

My body will be on the hill of the latter.

Sometimes a sentence ending with a proposition just sounds better.

This is not the appropriate community for this post. I encourage you to keep writing and sharing that work, but please do so in the appropriate places.