there are two goals here. one, keep people safe. Two, take back the streets from the automobile. building tunnels or walkways just cedes more territory to cars. we want walkable, vibrant communities, not traffic islands and expressways. cars will slow down and they will take heed.

yeah, rounabouts destroy cities, too. converts a vibrant intersection with cars, peds, bikes, shops, parking, businesses to a sterile area that feels like a perpetual onramp. it's like a mass fish kill event for the city life.

if you've ever been to paris, you've likely seen the arc de triumphe - the fanciest traffic circle in the world.

I suppose, perhaps, depending on regional availability of these app stores and language support for non-English languages. I can only speak to the US experience.

there are plenty of online curated guides to help you cut through the crap, like toucharcade.com. steam and console platforms allow indies to post games for online download for a couple bucks. yes, before anybody could distribute their own shareware games and people could download them off their website, but that's not like today with massive distribution channels.

I was corrected in another thread, it's the silver age of gaming.

the OP had it best. they can be effectively banned if they won't sell. the publishers will self censor and focus on games that will sell. if walmart, target, gamestop etc refuse to sell a game then that scares the publishers. Combine this with an industry-wide rating system that evaluates content for appropriateness and you have a pretty effective censorship system, at least under the old industry structure. The new way, with google play and other online stores, publishers have much more freedom to explore game content. Apple is still pretty strict about content guidelines, but otherwise there's more freedom.

fine, it's the silver age, like marvel/stan lee.

I agree, in US fewer and fewer games are banned (as a percent of all video games). This is because the number of avenues for games publishing is mushrooming, opening the door for many devs to publish games that wouldn't have gotten wide exposure before. At the same time, the costs of game development is dropping, creating a space for indie devs who aren't making the next AAA shooter.

This creates a vibrant scene where we're seeing games about topics that would have been unthinkable before, because they would have been considered unviable and not worth the investment. Games about censorship. Games about cancer. Games about all sorts of topics, including ones that would be banned under traditional media, either by a govt agency or through self-censorship.

It's the golden age of gaming!

That's why they have to put the sheets over the bars.

oh gawd, we didn't even get to units for photographers. what the eff is an f-stop? I never understood it, other than to intuit that it is the inverse fraction of something that may otherwise make sense.

holy shit you're right. I never realized that before. That makes it so easy! And, as the person says below, a pint of water weighs a pound.

[citation needed]

what DRM? You stream the music through the iTunes app. If you want to buy a song or album you download it as a DRM-free mp3. I don't see the complication.

for the non-fanbois, apple connect is a social media network specifically for music and tied to apple music. Remains to be seen if it can take off considering it is not facebook/twitter.

. It works on any apple device. it may also work on some androids, I don't know. check if your device supports it before you do the free trial. if your device doesn't support it, then use a different service (spotify, Pandora) that does support it. no big dea.

after reading your post, with the words "danzig", "1708/09", "brine", and "blood-heat", the answer is obviously yes. none of those words are part of my human experience.

nopee. an imperial gallon is a little more than 4.5 liters.

you're thinking of the little-used unit "quadliter", which falls between a US gallon and an imperial gallon.

i disagree, especially about the temperature scale. 98% of the human experience falls between 0 F and 100 F. in metric, the range is -20 C to 40 C. You must agree that the F scale is much more intuitive.

Proponents of the metric system make two points:
1) the rest of the world does it so it must be good
2) it feels intuitively nice, orders of magnitude, etc.

the above point speaks to number two on this list.

I think you misunderstand the purpose of anal sex. The desired outcome for both parties is not for the recipient to "feel comfortable".