Sunsofold @ Sunsofold @lemmings.world

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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.

Beer and 'Du...Du hast...?'

The head of the second most child-predatory company that people basically only use for free games is a bad actor. Who could have guessed?

SEC rule update: All stock shares current or future issued, are non-voting shares. Shareholders cannot be trusted to select good operators.

Tax law change: worker cooperatives have 50% reduced tax burden. CEOs are a burden, not a resource.

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.

I haven't seen it. It's disappointing that it was cancelled.

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.

Quite disappointing.

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'd kind of like to see someone do Brave New World a bit better. It was done in the 60s(?) but it's just a bit out of date today, while the book is absolutely something the world needs to think about now. A modern version might actually be even enhanced by certain elements of the modern style.

I loved the first series so much. With the exception of a bit of weakness transitioning to the second half, it was incredible, beautiful, poignant, smart, almost perfect. Then they made more, and it was clearly written by someone who understood nothing of the first series and approached a character driven exploration of philosophical questions of identity, ontology, and social responsibility with the intelligence and subtlety of Wile E Coyote vs Roadrunner produced by the Hallmark Channel.

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.