I’d argue that there is appetite and that those skills have not been lost forever and while there are those that would have use only play and consume, to assume that this is the only thing happening is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum.
Guess I need to re-read my shit. Lol.
“If [cigarettes] are behaviorally addictive or habit forming, they are much more like … Gummi Bears… I’m certainly not addicted to them.”
-Philip Morris CEO
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They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.
This article is from 2019 http://archive.today/kYbQV
…and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
Just having the product listing with spec should be fine, but the way CPB doesn’t seem to care about civil rights, I suppose anything could happen.
Worst case, see if you can have a product listing with specs so they can visually confirm. Pretty easy solution. Heck, mine doesn’t even display spec, but would be easy enough to look up.
With any luck though, the TSA loses funding, amirite?
This has been the same in the US for some time. They don’t generally give you any funny looks unless you’re walking through with a 30 lb battery with an inverter attached to it or something.
I wouldn’t worry too much but your mileage may vary. Pun intended.
That’s so disappointing. I loved their games. 🥺
I appreciate your efforts and good on you for doing this but I don’t have time to do that with hundreds of people.
It’s just not ready for production yet.
I actually just went and checked to see if I had any messages and element x was complaining that I didn’t have a separate app that I needed to use to get push notifications which one would think element x would do on its own but it does not.
Once I installed it apparently there’s some extra shit that I’ve got to do to make that work too and it’s just stuff like that that’s just user hostile and not good.
I do like element and I love the idea of it but it’s just not compatible with most humans, apparently even myself, though I’d thought I had it all ironed out.
Yeah, it really is. I feel like if I have trouble getting it to work, my friends have no hope.
… I mean, I did get it to work but the struggle was real.
For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.
So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.
I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.
The best part is if the third happens it doesn’t necessarily happen immediately. It might just happen while you’re sleeping.
Wheeeeeeee!
I believe it, most especially in your specific case.
Maybe it’s about time for another essay.
I dunno, I did going in but what I got from it was his method of explaining it to people that truly don’t understand.
I’ve always liked this man. Today I love him.
I think you are absolutely correct on every count and the point that I was trying to make here is that the same types of arguments are being made by the different people that there is nothing wrong with their product. It’s a problem that is being created by the user of the product, etc., etc. You can also see this with the petrochemical companies shifting the blame on the user and the plastics companies. Again, shifting the blame on the user instead of taking the blame in the production level where it should be.
The strategy is called delay, deny, defend period if it sounds familiar, it should.