Genres don’t tell me how much of a game is cutscenes and how much of the game is controlled by inputs. I guess you can argue for more labels but then we’ll have labels too long that they need abbrevations (extra cognitive load for the reader) so why not a new word (the same congitive load)?

So as a customer my selection process is shorter. The label “Video game” is getting too big that it’s becoming useless. Imagine all the citrus fruits were called citrus fruits. I mean yeah but I wanna know if I’m buying an orange or a lemon, I like both but not in the same situation.

edit: I couldn’t stop thinking about the fruits: Citrus with sugar elements, Aroma driven Citrus

I need a distinction between VIDEO games (interactable videos with fail cases so it’s a game in the end but barely) and video GAMES (games you can see and not imagine, like basketball: no story, no progression, just rule based win/lose thing)

Is this really your point or are you being sarcastic? Pick one

I’m sorry my comment is not deep enough to be his irrelevant to the topic but I gotta ask: Do you know a text editor which is just notepad but remembers the last session when you close it? I just need a scratchpad, even notepad++ is too fancy for my needs but that’s what I was using on windows. Now I use kate but it feels like I’m killing a mosquito with a rocket launcher when a book cover would do.

Try scientific journals, when the intended abuse target is publicly funded (universities), they go cray

Art cannot destroy my system. Bad code which might ask for elevated access can…

So I’m gonna execute the code of someone who doesn’t know the first thing about coding on my computer? Great!

I’d rather have AI art and human code.

I don’t like the tags (end of discussion). = No symptoms here

I don’t like the tags and I LITERALLY cannot wear anything man made unless the tags are cut = Symptom right here.

but that makes the system confidently wrong, not hardworking.

Professional (as in they earn money, not skill level) Xers fuck everything up. (here, X is an arbitrary verb or a brand name)

My anecdotes: Youtube was good before professional youtubers became a thing (systemic problem, people are not the issue but the environment which breeds them), now it’s attention economy and or one topic discussed for 50 minutes (a video explaining the same topic with the same intensity from 10 years ago is 2 minutes long)

Gamers were problematic but harmless, professional gamers caused betting pandemic (sponsored content).

Streamers were funny, professional streamers are sexy/deadly-sells-to-children.

I liked it when people were sharing stuff online because they were bored, and not because they were hungry.

What is your sample size? Which places have you inhabited for more than 3 months? (Saw at least 2 seasons?)

It feels like I’m a caveman who only has one female friend when I use the word girlfriend. You know the friend which is a girl: it is descriptive because ALL my other friends are males.

Free software doesn’t count :p

I block people if they needlesly use a brand name isntead of saying the group name. Do I probably have some false positives? Probably.

As everyone knows, lungs are dangerous technology.

I do know how a computer works though, at least the abstract idealized computer. I really hope I know because my last long term project was about machine learning models (not how to apply, but how to improve models), otherwise…

How it improves safety: Knowing the limits of the system you use is quite useful wouldn’t you agree? Knowing why brakes can fail, and in which conditions would be a lifesaver for example.

Maybe it’s ADHD dude, I learn what I use.

I really believe, if you cannot buy a “internal rocket launcher powered go machine” on your own, you shouldn’t have it.

I’m sick of people using dangerous technology without knowing anything about it. I’m not asking people to be able to build it… just know the gas laws at least.

It was quite interesting thank you. I hope you understand: the engagement was the engaging part and not the information (I could have googled it but I’d lose on the interaction.)

I often think about explaining stuff to aliens. And I really like it when others also try because it shows me what I’m taking for granted (it’s easier to critize others haha, can’t see my own mistakes as easily.)

Now I’m wondering if more is more for them? Maybe they use an inverted real line. You can say it’s X hot or you can say it’s 1/XXX cold. Without a comparison signal (2D), how do you say which direction is ++ and where is --?

Again, thank you for the enjoyable read!

Thanks! Too human centric for my taste, but pretty good!

If you have time, could you try explaining it as if we were talking to an alien, but only through a one-dimensional signal (like ones and zeroes only = cannot explain direction)?