Why not both?

The rich love being in a exclusive secret clubs and creating a secret club with dedicated buildings/rooms is not super difficult if you have money. They are still the same rich though.

The implication that “games as a service” is somehow a positive for game preservation is its own kind of illiteracy.

Its a completely different form of entertainment, way more similar to watching tv.

The main difference is you dont need to plan or think yourself, your mind can take a break just following whats going on. This can be much more restfull and relaxing.

Compare that to activity playing the game and your using much more energy, your brain is calculating every interaction you have to make. It can be stressful at times. A mistake can feel like lost time but an accomplishment gets you a high you will never get when backseat gaming.

Completely different and up to personal preference on how people like to spend their downtime.

Especially for comfort food i can see that being true.

I am not sure how this translates to my example though, it was definitely a restaurant. Though it was known to be an eccentric bordering on rudely rushed experience. He had some contacts to get incredibly high quality fresh ingredients.

Or simply reject proprietary clones all together and go back to the OG public domain versions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau-Mau_(card_game)

FIY: this is also why Uno corporate gets its panties in the a that people are playing their game wrong. Once people realise any card can have any function the illusion falls.

Was going to say i and most cant afford even a single star restaurant but then i Realised those only go up to three and you’re talking about fake internet points.

One of the best restaurants (zero stars) i have regularly been too has no website and most people don’t even know what its called because its not on the storefront or the menu. People refer to it using the chef/owners name.

This is how science fiction is made! Special Meta materials are very under-explored, It seems reasonable that in a future high tech society they would be increasingly common.

Mostly we get “faster engines” and “advanced computermachines that sometimes perform unexplained magic”

Can we make liquids like that? Sounds useful in some situations.

Is that really considered hardcore?

I follow some local news and i have a list of video content creators i download with a script but other then that its just the Lemmy verse for me.

Devided? Between who?

Checks article: And Its berween the people who have lives there versus the ruling class who are about to profit because of course.

I assume that bad cops do exist everywhere but you should check on how london police are taught deescalation.

US and UK cops are not the same. Granted civilians don’t usually carry guns over there but i have seen footage (sorry cant find it) where they dealt with a confused person holding a knife and they just calmly talked them into putting it down with no force whatsoever.

Its probably very country specific though, depending on both recruitment standards and amount of training.