> But that doesn’t explain games where as soon as you start it up for the first time, there’s a minimum of 20 minutes of (often unskippable) cutscenes before you can even control a character
I honestly wonder if this is done to reduce returns. Steam, for example has a <2hrs policy.
Put 30+ minutes of cut scene in, 60 minutes of intro/tutorial, and you’re past 2 hours of game launched time before discovering the game itself just isn’t fun for you (too predictable? Grindy? Too easy? Too hard?)
Any chance of updating the RSS feed item "summary" to something more useful than "significant news" and title to something more than the date? Or maybe an RSS feed of the newsletter format?
(I do see some of the older items have titles that include some info on what's included)
Basically, I think the ideal RSS feeds would be _two_:
1. RSS feed of every item that hits the 6/10 threshold (title and link to original, summary not too important, either same as title or paragraph summary of what the article is about)
2. RSS feed of the newsletter (title: "May 4 2023 - significant news", link: newsletter page, summary: list of article titles)
I suppose versions of #1 with diff thresholds could be nice, but I'd probably only use the default threshold.
Background: I run a bot that sends RSS feeds into discord channels (easily followable to any discord server) and this particular feed seems potentially quite handy for good news info. Probably overlaps with https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ but that automation probably means it can catch breaking news faster than a manually-curated site like that.
In the 150 years that eucalyptus have been in California, only quite recently have their native pests made it over from Australia. It's possible somebody is intentionally bringing eucalyptus harming pests over and there's some decent evidence pointing towards that.
Further, there's some debate whether eucalyptus in California is beneficial or an invasive weed and whether attempts to introduce the pests' predators are a good idea or not.
I honestly wonder if this is done to reduce returns. Steam, for example has a <2hrs policy.
Put 30+ minutes of cut scene in, 60 minutes of intro/tutorial, and you’re past 2 hours of game launched time before discovering the game itself just isn’t fun for you (too predictable? Grindy? Too easy? Too hard?)