What was the free experience like prior to this? I paid for it ages back and haven’t really thought about it. I can’t remember what I even gained from doing that.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think an issue with that is that there isn’t a mechanism for kicking a country out; the US would have to choose to leave. So more likely the allied nations would have to reform a new agreement which has its own red tape.

Ah that’s an interesting point. Perhaps really we’re the big ones then.

I’m just saying this from memory so I may be wrong, but I think size will be a big factor for reduced cancer in small animals. For whales and elephants they have had to gain extra adaptations to handle cancer which accounts for the difference.

I haven’t actually seen it myself yet but I believe he makes a cameo in this new Corridor Crew video: https://youtu.be/MVUuoXAkuUg

If you follow his Patreon it’s insane how much he’s working round the clock for that one video a year.

Shoutout to 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel

Unpopular opinion but generally I agree. Used it for a long time despite being someone that ‘always notices’ etc etc and honestly preferred it. Eventually turned it off though because every now and then I would be distracted by artifacts during fast movement.

Maybe I’m wrong but I’m interpreting this being in the vein of a crime being murder, but potentially also a hate crime. The motivation of a crime is part of its definition and affects sentencing especially in tertiary cases eg attempted murder, manslaughter etc.

What would you expect to see in a ‘real’ universe?

Honestly even that is for beginner teams, frankly. If there’s good shared understanding, clear work, and good interaction regularly within the team (ie you’re actually working together towards a goal), just hurry up and tell everyone what you need, and get out. Fight the sludge.

There’s far worse stuff going on but there is a subtle thing I want to point out: the agent didn’t have to break that window. I can’t imagine they considered these women a threat, and yet they still made the choice to break through the window that had the potential to cause the most harm to these innocent until proven guilty American citizens. Why not a rear window? I think that says something about how their personal desire for violence is leading here. Fuck them.

In the UK this is really normal, we do it because it’s normal in many circles, and to mess with people for whom it’s not normal 😅

Yeah I mean can you imagine working on a big contender for the game of the decade, and being kicked out at the final hurdle?

I understand that feeling and a lot of people shared it, but I was someone that loved it regardless despite generally being a controller gamer as well.

I think to get a good experience you had to be very willing to play with the settings a lot. Not unlike the Deck now, but the software wasn’t as accessible and the users not as accustomed to it. Of course it would never feel the same no matter what, but it was definitely responsive!

Hollow Knight. Didn’t click for me. Don’t think I really like Metroidvania games generally, it just often plays out as lazy game design to me.

And yet, you also judge my understanding of word definitions to be insufficient. See the difference? It’s like there’s two axes in play, good or bad, and correct and incorrect.

To me, in this context, these two statements aren’t opposing each other as I think the word judge can have some nuance to it. For example I could say I found your original comment overly aggressive, but I don’t judge you for it. By which I would mean that I have an opinion about your actions, but I’m not assigning you a moral value on that basis.

Couldn’t agree more. Obviously this system is unimplemented and could be abused, but if they wanted to scan your ID at every opportunity they could’ve already given themselves power to do so with other valid forms of ID.

I think there are some genuine benefits to be had (though reducing illegal immigration is obviously not one of them). I do think there’s potential for a much simpler ID system. One that includes people that don’t drive, and doesn’t include giving your address to a stranger via your driver’s license.

I have had issues with using cards in poor network areas, yes. It seems totally improbable to me that this system ends up using an exclusively online process for sharing ID.

Sure there’s potential that this will result in a mass surveillance system, and I obviously don’t want that, but I guess it doesn’t feel particularly novel. If you’re paying by card you’re logging all your payments anyway. The question on my mind is where you currently see government overreach with exising IDs? Why would a new form of ID guarantee any of that changing?

On your last question, I genuinely do hate handing over either of the existing IDs, as they do carry more information than the receiver generally needs.

I appreciate a lot will come down to the implementation, but I haven’t understood the proposal to at all guarantee that checking the ID will require some online check. This is meant to be a ubiquitous ID that we can use anywhere. Would businesses really accept having to use an ID that might not work if there’s a spotty data connection?

My read of it is that it’s intended, in most cases, to work like a railcard or digital bus pass does currently in the UK. Not unlike showing someone your driver’s licence, only the image of it on your phone is guaranteed to be valid rather than needing a specific physical card.