Rhaedas

The blue collar worker should try this approach. Oh, right. We wouldn't have a job in a few days.

You could make the same case for a browser, an email client, a graphics or video editor, etc. The UI is an interface to basic core processes that are usually the same that all have, with some extras on the top for uniqueness and features that might be more appealing than other UIs.

Never thought about it, but don't most of their movies have 4th wall breaks anyway?

No different in action that all the major companies and governments putting in backdoor stuff for various purposes. The only saving grace is that it is readable code here, but is the fact it wasn't found early on the fault the person who wrote it, or the community that didn't see it?

Would people have used it if it was commented and documented on its purpose? That should tell you something. And if you say yes, that should tell you something as well on how much you want to defend this.

All the drama and stuff beyond this was wrong. But this is core of open source, to make sure code is valid and honest and to call out bugs and maliciousness. Are the people who found and reported it responsible for others' actions after they were pissed about it? Of course not. Doesn't make things beyond dropping the use of it okay, but hey, consequences. Maybe don't do things behind people's back.

It's all Republicans, and some Democrats. Oh, and some Republicans that label themselves as Democrats, even running as one. Which should be illegal and prosecutable as election fraud.

Pigeon on a chess board. With an audience clapping and saying they've never seen anyone play the game quite that way. Genius.

Yes and no. He gave the orders. He didn't actually do the actions to make them happen. "I was just following orders" still doesn't work.

if anything else happens that is ACTUALLY important

Then his leadership and tactical brilliance will...

Oh, we're fucked, right?

Companies aren't going to do the best thing for the long term, they're sole purpose is to maximize what's best for the company. It's the role of society in the form of the government to constrict what they can do for the betterment of everyone. So anyone who complains about regulations are probably the same ones who complain about taxes. They don't understand their roles and complexities and just use the sound bites they've heard.

This is true of a lot of modern materials. Plastics, alloys, and microelectronics. The advancements make them better than anything which would be easily reusable or recoverable, or repairable. But we pay the cost, both in them being disposable instead, and in the forced design of being throwaway and not lasting, so profitable to make this was for the companies.

I'd be good with that. Makes sense, the self image imposed on the characters. Nice challenge for the actors too.

They'll certainly go with a new adventure using the previous characters, but I'd honestly love it if their roles were cameos or background to some new people in different roles and new issues to overcome, in a new setting. The general vehicle of seeing an actual game from within the world worked well, and plenty to use, but I feel we've seen these characters' arcs and it will feel heavy handed to invent more problems to overcome. And I get it, that's exactly what players will do with their established party, but a lot of the deeper arcs wold be over many adventures and playing sessions, not as a one shot.

But I hope they turn out something decent. I'm all for a lower budget, more character interaction and back and forth.