I'm just saying that the cause of game bloat is not in essential game mechanics.

Jees, I've been gaming since Adam (Coleco) and I turn off advanced graphics, music, voice acting, and interstitials as much as possible. I'm not sure where you are getting your data, from rich kids, I guess. The problem with the industry is they think those things are more important than gameplay and reliability.

Why would I want to trust Google with a sample of my voice? I talk on my phone but I don't talk to it. I'm sure that ship has sailed but that doesn't mean I'm going to race to its next port of call to get onboard.

The prevalence of auto-play videos that run in a small box, muted, and are difficult to block is likely to be taken as evidence that people are consuming the media, and as such, want more. After all if your browser is recieving them it counts as a play for advertising purposes. The whole thing is a scam feedback loop to drive claims of general popular support.

Most of the time I close the page as soon as I see them but by that time it is already too late.

Did the security companies learn nothing from the travails of hitchbot?
http://mir1.hitchbot.me/

Apparently, the Robo-phobes moved on from the city of brotherly love, Somebody tell Bender!

The only innovation is new ways of taking money out of the economy and sticking it in foreign bank accounts. Uber is a bad deal for the drivers and a worse deal for the places where they operate. 'You want to tax us for the wear and tear on your roads? Nonsense. All your money belongs to us and it ain't going to pay for roads we need.' Once they get rid of the drivers they will take even more money out of the system.

I wonder, though how likely it is that any regular person would be able to get anyone else to pay their bills.

If you consider stories set in the far future you don't have to consider the characters because the setting itself doesn't exist. You can't have a story set in the future that isn't F or SF.

I could just as easily argue that Star Trek wasn't science fiction because the science fictional devices it used were just in place to comment on the zeitgeist of the day and to drive it forward in a specific direction -- a morality play, if you will.

CS Lewis and Tolkien were not Fantasy writers they were Christian propagandists.

Labels are an inexact means of description they always narrow the essence of what they are applied to. This is why so-called mainstream writers who write stories that are on the face of it SF loudly disclaim the obvious.

The things authors think they are putting into their works are not always the things the readers take from it.

If their characters don't actually exist in this world it must be a parallel dimension and so SF. If they are writing about real people putting words in their mouths it is pure fantasy. The activities they write about might actually occur (historical fiction) but the means and motivations are pure speculation.

yes, yes you are.

The video looked just like water droplets from my dripping tap gliding down the Teflon pizza pan. Bigger drops would push through the grease more slowly and subsequent, smaller droplets would chase through their slipstream, colliding to massive effect.

Slimy trick showing the full screen ad as the background of the landing page with a hidden side tab that holds the content.

Nobody can remember the past because it is all lies! And anyways you can only remember what you have personally experienced, and even then the remembering changes the memory.

Guy was a crackhead not a terrorist, a man with no plan other than death by cop. If he wanted to shoot up Parliament he wouldn't have shot the soldier.

Nobody would listen to him so he came up with some topical way to make them.

it is my understanding, rightly or not, that you need grub2 for uefi boots my magaeia 4 uses grub and the linux mint uses grub2. grub can't see the mint but grub2 can the mageia.