ninjan

Now we just need some sick beats to these straight fire bars!

Yeah, I think the real exception here is Dragon Age: Origins. It has a lot of interesting choices, many matter and they impact the end in complex ways. Sure some of it is slideshow based but that is completely fine IMO. And all choices made can carry over to the final game in the series, actually altering the experience there in noticeable ways. First Mass Effect also had a good ending variation but it was far more subtle, small differences that ultimately didn't have much impact on later games (though I applaud them doubling the voice lines by allowing your choice of leader of humanity to stand in subsequent games). Mass Effect 2 however had a very interesting take on ending given that the ending is basically the whole of the final mission were all your choices impact how that mission plays out. It's interesting how you can "fail" that mission and it's a viable ending. Kinda like a "bad ending" in a visual novel.

So I'd go with DA:O if we're talking strictly multiple endings as we normally think about it and ME2 if we want to consider the final mission as a way to do a new take on multiple endings. Maybe "dynamic ending" would fit ME2 better.

He looks like a member of the banking clan in Star Wars. That or a Star Trek Ferengi in a poor disguise...

I'd argue a presidential primary is also well to late. And for a primary to matter you need candidates that actually want to challenge the presumptive choice in the incumbent president. If no alternatives exist there's no point in vasting money on a primary.

Sure, and I have no interest in defending any positions of his that I oppose. But as you say this autumn it isn't about what I want in a politician (and you'd be hard pressed to ever find someone you agree with on every policy) it's about Trump or Biden. Democrats or Republicans in Congress. It's a shitty choice, but solving that is about voting for replacements in primaries and if none exist then actually putting your name in or pushing someone you think is suited into that track. It's about actually getting involved in democracy and not just leave it to the rich and powerful. Come election day the choice is A or B. If you want C then sorry bud but you missed the window to get C on the ballot or C isn't nearly as popular as you think.

Yeah that's is an attack on Netlify and not on him. It's them that should have protections against this. I argue that the customer can't even effectively defend against this themselves if they're using Netlify, which is turn means a court would likely get them off the hook for anything that can easily be classified as a DDOS attack.

No that is clearly his politics. He has always been a staunch supporter of Israel. I don't particularly like that but it's not out of character for him.

I meant in the private sense. He wouldn't pull a favor for a relative when that favor would be questionable not only ethically but legally, it's just not worth it if you're angling for the higher echelons of political power.

I'm basically serially online and I have literally never seen anyone defending Hunter Biden. All I've seen is disbelief that Joe Biden would in anyway be involved in Hunters missteps and potential crimes.

Joe has been a politician for like half a century. He knows better than to in anyway associate with shit that can and will bite him in the ass politically. That said literally no one is squeaky clean, everyone at least parks unsafely or drives to fast or similar misdemeanors at least a few times at the bare minimum. I'm sure Joe has done quite a few questionable things but something blatantly criminal? Unlikely but if there is some actual evidence I would join in with the notion that he pays for his crimes like everybody else should.

For sure, as I outlined social media is a completely different beast and one I do not permit my son to interact with and will hold out for as long as is reasonable.

I'd argue that so far the load as it is, is from my outside perspective about the same as what I had. It's just split over more stuff and what pressure you face is much more related to the crowd you interact with. My son, like me, is more of a nerd while having a theater side that I don't. The pressure he faces is keeping up with YouTube trends, Roblox games and Minecraft mods that the creators that are popular play. While some of his friends flaunt in-game items and follow creators that do content that I personally don't find child appropriate I have had no issues so far talking about that with him and setting limits on what he's allowed to interact with and have managed to instill understanding about the ultimate pointlessness about avatar items. And given the vast sea of content there is there has been no issues finding appropriate content and he's confident enough to bring what he found/enjoyed to the group and not just mindlessly follow.

It helps that he really hates loot boxes IRL, like say kindereggs and gumball machines. He finds no enjoyment in the surprise part, only disappointment when it's not the one he wanted.

That said I understand that while I put in work as a parent the exact same amount of work might be woefully inadequate with another kid, due to no fault at all on the parenting. Hell I have three kids and they all have had vastly different challenges. Stuff that was easy with one took extreme effort with another. So I don't really fault parents for the small stuff, if a kid watches one YouTuber that really isn't age appropriate, OK. If they watch only stuff that is not at all for kids then I have an issue with that and have raised such concerns with them.

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As a parent to a kid smack dab in the middle of this right now I gotta say that while I welcome regulation on 1, 2 and 4 generally, not just for kids, I really and firmly believe parents who allow their kids to buy whatever they want in game (i.e. gift in game currency and leaves it at that) are horrendously lazy. And I have an analogy for that as well.

Back in my day what happened when kids got unsupervised cash was at best candy instead of lunch in school and at worst alcohol or cigarettes. Back in my parents time it was basically, due to before mentioned conformity, only cigarettes as the only possible outcome.

As such I really feel loot boxes is decidedly better than cigarettes and alcohol while being tied with candy for lunch.

3 is just a parental issue. It's the same as not knowing where your kid is and who he's playing/interacting with.

5 is a big societal issue right now. Social media is really fucking with not just kids but virtually all of us. Me being here is largely a way to combat my own unhealthy relationship to social media. We're extremely social creatures at our core and social media manipulates us in ways we have little chance of resisting with mindful consumption. It's cigarettes as they were back in the early 1900s.