Je vais ressortir ma théorie : "Les organismes de services sont voués à dégénérer en organismes de contrôle".

L'histoire : quelqu'un voit qu'il y a un problème. Il met en face un organisme pour gérer ce problème. Tout se passe bien pendant des années. Cet organisme rend service à plein de monde. Puis, pour des raisons plus ou moins spontanées, ça degénère. Principalement parce que c'est beaucoup plus facile de contrôler que d'aider. Ça demande moins de compétences (il n'y a pas à connaître l'intégralité des mécanismes, mais juste une liste de choses à contrôler). C'est très confortable car on sait mieux prédire le temps passé (1 heure la vérification contre un temps indéterminé pour comprendre le problème, proposer des solutions, le résoudre). Les responsabilités sont moindres (dire ce qui ne va pas, on se mouille moins que commencer à faire quoique ce soit). Ça peut aussi être dû à de la perte de compétences au fir et à mesure des départs de gens qui savent.

Bref. Ça se voit partout. Les caissières qui deviennent des agents de sécurité aux caisses automatiques. L'ANPE qui devient un contrôle de bon citoyen. L'ONF qui passe de milliers d'agents qui s'occupent des forêts à quelques centaines qui n'ont plus le temps que de contrôler. Etc.

J'ai l'impression d'avoir vécu une génération. Pas mal de jeunes ne doivent même pas savoir qui c'est.

But I like Nintendo consoles for their couch-multiplayer games. Like Wii-sport, Boom-blox, Just Dance, Mario party, Mario kart...

A Steam-deck is good for single players games.

Is this light painting with a long exposure?

In Europe, we changed to the Euro not that long ago. I was a student and I used to use a shared laundry machine. It was the day before returning to school. I was barely alone in the dorms. Let's do a laundry !

The machines were updated to get euros. There was another machine just to change the coins, especially since the washing machines only took one kind of coin (20 cents).

I put one fresh euro in the exchange machine, expecting to get 5 coins of 20 cents.

Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. ... Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. ... Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. Tching. ...

What ?! The machine was buggy and would not stop. I grabbed a hoodie to put the coins in it. Soon, it was not enough. After what seems to be an eternity I was there with around 50€ and kilos of coins.

I bet it's a form with multiple entries, each entry is not different enough of the other ones:

How is the subject of this paper ?
What about the style ?
You checked to reject it, why should it be rejected ?
What's the overall comment ?

Then it's all concatenated into one blob of review.

This makes me want to phase it out faster.

You know what? It's BECAUSE of the US that we, French, have this now.

Although he stayed at a hotel under police protection during this time, Kurtaj still managed to carry out an attack on Rockstar Games by using the room’s included Amazon Fire Stick and a “newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse

Lol. If this was in the plot of a movie, I would say that this is implausible.

The novelty was the story in FPS. Before Half Life, all you have to do is to shoot every moving sprite and grab keys to open doors. The story was a splash screen between the levels.

Nowadays it doesn't look special to have a story. When I first played Half Life, my mind was blown away.

Seriously? It's the actual sign?

We said "wrong answers".