*gestures vaguely around*

Find the readers. Postman was right. It will only get worse.

Alright, I gave you the knowledge and you don’t want to integrate it, so it’s on you now. Have fun lying to yourself.

What risk? Sometimes government officials have to do somewhat unpopular things. Elected officials are just supposed to represent their constituency, though. If they aren’t willing to take a risk to serve their constituents, they shouldn’t be in a position of power. If you really believe it has to be done, and you really are in it to serve, you’ll accept the cost/risk. If that scares you too much, you’ll stay home.

And you can bet there’d be FAR fewer collisions if the spikes were present. Driving isn’t a right any more than having political office is, so it’s perfectly reasonable to expect people to accept the risk if they want the benefit.

1d5+5 out of 10 on any given day

accommodating preferences in one is far easier than the other.

Tell me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience without telling me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience. If you think it’s so easy to take every element of a highly complex, performance sensitive program and make it possible to pick and choose which ones you experience without breaking the whole experience or turning a 1 year project into a 10 year project, go ahead and try. Do you also ask movie directors to make their movies so that when you hit ‘skip scene’ because you don’t like the way the scene looks, it still makes a good movie?

museums aim to preserve history

That’s just your failure to understand there are more kinds of museum than a history museum. A history museum does have special work involved, but others don’t share that element. Perhaps you’ve heard of an art museum, sometimes also known as a gallery. They can contain all sorts of elements, audio, video, scent, touch, taste, human interaction, machine interaction, ludic interaction, whatever. The artifacts can be any age, with art from hundreds of years ago or being created in the moment via performance.

The analogy is a failure, to be sure, but only because I hadn’t considered the possibility you wouldn’t have that piece of common knowledge. Now that you do have that knowledge, though, if you can’t see the analogy, that’s on you.

Also, you’re going to have to add on Saturdays for that second term so you can coordinate with management to handle training for the one-termers.

One of my little ideas for ‘fixes’ for political problems has been ‘if you get voted in, you have the job for life, but can be fired at any time,’ as in out of a canon, at a brick wall. Better keep those approval rates over 66%. Donors come and go. The canon is forever.

It’s actually one of the cleanest, most direct analogies I’ve ever used. Both are curated experiences with controlled visual, auditory, and interactive elements. The differences lie only in the physical/resource limitations each has for the kinds of experiences they can include.

You get a second term as a ‘reward’ for your special skills.

You really like the word ‘gatekeep,’ as though it were a bad thing. When you walk into a museum, start complaining about the lack of teleporters and strippers, and then get told to leave, yeah, they’re gatekeeping you, but it’s because you’re complaining about the lack of teleporters and strippers in a museum. That’s not what it’s there for. They have curated a collection of experiences focused on creating an overarching experience, and you have wandered in, said ‘I don’t want to have to walk to each exhibit, teleport me,’ and ‘This exhibit is booooooring. Teleport me to the one with strippers.’ If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.

Publishers are a key ingredient in the recipe for trash games. Buying IP and telling some dev team that is doing it for the paycheck to slap something together is not making a game, it’s parasitism.

If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.

I’m not sure about every game but I’d like to see a lot more games do what Rebel Galaxy did and let you set up paths for custom OST. No game dev can license the perfect soundtrack for every player, but it’s great to be able to slot in what I feel makes the perfect soundtrack. Some people want their fight scenes to be scored with DMX, some want Burzum, and some want the Cronos Quartet. Let them all find their moment.

I was with you at first, thinking you meant in a sandbox game, like turning off hunger/on hardcore in Minecraft, etc. but you’re just whining because every moment isn’t custom built to keep up with your personal ADHD/hedonic treadmill. The point of a game isn’t to just give you a blowjob from launch to credits. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.

Even if some people aren’t, no one is getting psychologically damaged by the sight of some digital boobs. Puritanical attitudes toward sex do more damage than seeing boobs ever could.

Toggleable, please.

It is a bit unusual.

I didn’t recognise any of those names so i did a quick search for Brian Hood. One of the immediate suggestions was asking ‘where does Brian Hood live?’ and it has an address. What the hell?

uBlock or Brave blocks normal ads, including the banners and injected commercials.

SponsorBlock blocks in-video sponsor mentions.

DeArrow removes clickbait thumbnails and replaces them with random frames from the video, and switches clickbait titles to crowdsourced descriptive titles.

I’d leave too if those stopped working, but they work for now.

Edit: And if you are on android, revanced does all of the above. Thanks for reminding us, StarlingUK

Maybe just Debian (for reliability) set to autostart Kodi? (to keep it non-nerd friendly)