tiredofsametab

I mean, if you change it to “if Bob murdered a guy in cold blood (i.e. not defense, etc.) and no one was looking, did Bob break the law?” The answer to me wouldn’t be anything but yes.

Just because the offense is different or you don’t agree with it doesn’t change that in my eyes. It generally doesn’t change it in the eyes of the law, either. Always campaign against laws you think are bullshit. If enough people do, you might be able to do something about it.

I will continue not using it. I was interested in Oculus until they sold to FB and then I nope’d right out of that. I really did think VR was neat, but various things kept me from pulling the trigger. If it becomes the only way to use chunks of the internet, I just won’t use them; I grew up still in the analog world (though we did have BBS and very early dial-up in the '80s), and I could go back to it. I’d honestly miss educational content more than anything else, but I can get books. In my lifetime, that strategy would probably still work fine.

What do the terms of use and privacy policies say? Who’s paying for the servers and what are they getting out of it? Also, since your data is federated, what happens when it hits a server with any different policies (or who may be in violation of the license of the software itself, but is getting no enforcement)?

If you are not paying for some service, you and your data are almost certainly the product. It was true then, it’s still true today.

I was wondering if it were tied to recent court decisions in Korea to allow someone to sue over wartime labour, but it looks like this has been going on a lot longer.

Not particularly, based on my experience. Now, if you want AS/400 people and such…

I am so happy not to have to mess with that. LOADHIGH agony.

Don’t be sorry :) I’m sure different people would even argue about the definitions above. I lived in a super-left (comparatively and using US terms) neighborhood in a generally left city, in a generally left district in a state that mostly voted conservative. Depending upon the granularity (and definition of all the above terms), the results would play out rather differently. I’m a software engineer for a living so exercises a bit like this are something I do often

I think it’s too broad a question. How is conservative measured? State level? District? Past voting? Voter rolls?

I also imagine the type and level of crime matter. But there’s also what isn’t recorded.

Interesting question, though

I mean, LOAF was a thing (Linux on a Floppy) that had basic functionality even as most distros were downloaded or on CD. I can’t imagine anyone still develops it, though.

The term of a US president in the early 1980s.

I think “rogue-lite” or something like that is a better term for what I like. I’m currently playing “Against the Storm” is one a coworker recommended recently and I’m enjoying so far. Spelunky 2 was OK. There are probably a couple other’s I’m not remembering at the moment.

Well, that’s something I’ll want to turn off, though all they’ll get from me is random appointment reminders and confirmation codes.

Yep. I think my age (I’m in my mid-40s) and being an adult when I played them or they came out has a lot to do with it. I think having less free time and a number of issues I deal with makes it harder to enjoy certain types of games (this is not to say young people don’t face their own stresses and issues!)

I think any game you grew up with gets a nostalgia level assigned to it and it’s easy to overlook certain flaws. For me, OoT felt like a step back, but I had been playing PC and Amiga games lot (I hated Starfox for this same reason). I’m sure I have the nostalgia glasses for some games, but I’m old enough that I think many wouldn’t even know them, hah.

I have the exact opposite opinion, heh. Sniper elite drove me crazy when I’d carefully line up a shot and be just too far inside cover and shoot a wall I couldn’t see because my freaking character was in the way

FF6 is still my favorite.

Heh, exact opposite for me; I hate 3rd person games and feel frustrated most.of the time (sniper elite comes to mind)

• any 3d Zelda games. I didn’t play OOT until I was in my late 20s and it was awful (specifically controls and camera). I tried watching people Speedrun it or do the randomizer, but the sound link makes when rolling (which most did most of the time) drove me crazy. BotW seemed like something I would like on paper, but Nintendo just had to work their new controls into some shrines and I found it frustrating. Also didn’t like the breaking weapons. Link Between Worlds (神様のトライフォース　２) sits in a weird place. I mostly liked it, but hated the gimmicky 3d bits on the 3DS.
• goldeneye for the same reasons - felt like a step backward and I had no nostalgia for it, playing it for the first time in my 30s.
• anything with the N64 controller for the same reasons. It felt so unnatural and weird.
• most roguelikes (but not all). Losing to random chance is annoying. Some randomness is of course fine
• dark souls and the like. Watch boss. Die. Try again. Die. To me, that’s boring. I’d rather have in-world ways of learning about the boss.
• pokemon. I was already in high school, working part time, and doing a lot of school stuff (band/theatre/sports) and just never got into it. I tried Pokemon go and didn’t care for it (but did like Dragon Quest Walk that came out later)
• Final Fantasy 7 – hated the camera and other similar things. Story and all was fine
• Most 3rd person shooters (with the exception of Just Cause). I would line up the perfect shot in Sniper Elite only to shoot the few pixels of the corner of something I couldn’t see because my character’s dumb body was in the way
• starfox. I was already playing better games like that on Amiga and other platforms, so it felt like a step back to me

1 + false ? (I have no idea in which order JS would evaluate things as I rarely have to touch that language much anymore)