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^ You're so full of shit. Someone has to say it.
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I felt the same about Montreal. The island wasn't the right size or something. But maybe it's been updated.
Did enjoy the game, though.
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Not that any one cares, but I uninstalled Mario Kart Tour. The bits which were most engaging (the tier ranks and challenges) obviously required specific characters/karts/gliders which I didn't have and never seemed to win in the tube-pull-thing. So what was left was just not at all engaging enough, and quite often frustrating enough, to not just say fuck it. Which is a shame. The mechanics weren't terrible.
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As I said, I was "scraping this from the back of my memory" so I wouldn't invest any time trying to disprove an anecdotal report of something which was much more scholarly. The causes for the claim are certainly many and complex and if you found the original article (which I suspect was a piece of ethnography) you'd probably be better off than just going by my post.
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There was an interesting piece somewhere a while back how in many small American towns, the McDonald's functions like a kind of community centre, partly because it's often the only thing left in the town centre, and partly because franchisees and workers often have strong links in the community. I would still argue that it's poisonous to independent businesses, though.
Not just American. I either read, or listened to a Thinking Allowed episode, about chain cafes and restaurants and the meaning they had for different people in communities in London. Especially in regard to gentrification. I'm scraping this from the back of my memory, but I think the details were: Chains were generally seen as more welcoming, open, and inclusive to long-time locals and people with lower incomes. New independent places were seen as less welcoming as places "not for people like us."
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Yeah, not really surprised. I wasn't really making an argument one way or the other, just offering a different methodology.
And the dataset is indeed complete garbage for real research (as demonstrated with the "fuck" example). May be good enough in this case, though. Don't know.
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And for meme purposes:
Filthy eighteenth-century writers.
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Yeah, you don't want those to go on to your own account.
No one cases what you do or who you "provide information" to. The world will not be changed by you no matter how much you want to make this conversation about you.