Same for me, although I would also say that the level of polish a game can attain helps a lot. Red Dead Redemption 2 and Baldurs Gate 3 come to mind as games that were meticulously worked on to the smallest detail.
I adore Return of the Obra Dinn, but didn't quite enjoy the madlibs aspect of The Case or the Golden Idol. However, it isn't necessarily a bad game and it did scratch the Obra Dinn itch a bit.
This reminds me about a couple of famous fics that each have their own fics inspired by them: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality [0], and The Arithmancer [1].
The first has it own wikipedia page and its from the creator of LessWrong. From Wikipedia:
> It adapts the story of Harry Potter to explain complex concepts in cognitive science, philosophy, and the scientific method.
I read it almost 10 years ago but remember it getting tiresome after a while, but it does teach a ton about logical thinking.
The second is a less famous fic where someone who must have at least a masters in mathematics wrote Hermione as using math to create her own spells, theories and gradually becoming better at magic as she turned into a better arithmancer, and everything is based in real world theory.
> I read it almost 10 years ago but remember it getting tiresome after a while, but it does teach a ton about logical thinking.
I remember finding it interesting from a pedagogical perspective, because it starts out as a vehicle for "Harry gives lectures about 'rationalism' to anyone within 15 feet of him" scenes and quickly moves on to "Harry makes very poor choices and doesn't do any actual science", which although it does make for a better story also somewhat undermines the level of trust one can have in his teachings.
Harry Potter and the methods of rationality is so tainted by the author, his agenda and the weird cult that is less wrong, I cannot recommend it (I have read it).
The story is honestly a vehicle to convey a world view while borrowing plot from Harry Potter and Enders Game.
It is fun in the beginning, but it reeks of ayn rand and juvenile oversimplification of the world. This all might be ok, but the story is written with an agenda and its like reading scientology fiction or something.
A rather successful AI researcher with a large fanfiction very weirdly tied into his craft, and his own discussion board/pseudo-cult who believe that unless his qualifications for “friendly AI” are followed the world will end?
And here I thought “My Immortal” was the weirdest Harry Potter fanfiction.
I don't think Uber Eats is the default delivery app in any Latin American country (maybe excluding Mexico). Most used on average are Rappi, Didi Foods and PedidosYa [0].
I have about 150 games in the backlog that I buy in sales to play later, when I don't like them after 30 minutes I just refund them. Steam has been pretty good with this, doesn't matter if I bought it months before, they will still refund them.
I guess the demos would be better for Steam as they don't lose credit card fees.
Refunds don't generally get the fees returned, so I buy a game for $10, $0.30 in fees goes to Paypal, Steam gets $9.70. I return the game, Steam gives me $10, but PayPal only gives them $9.70, so they're out $0.30. Across a million returns that adds up.
Some of those jobs are already in lower cost countries but some can't be outsourced because they rely on military contracts (can only be worked on by US employees).
I once worked on an offshore company that did staff augmentation for american robotics companies, we did mostly software because the hardware was illegal to export.
> I promise it is quite possible for a nation to banish unemployment but still have a majority of people struggling to get by.
You can always end up having a bunch of low paying jobs that don't allow for a good standard of living. Everyone will be employed but I'm sure no one will end up enjoying that.
> You can always end up having a bunch of low paying jobs that don't allow for a good standard of living.
Indeed, but this will gradually kill all but the most essential industries. "Consumers" won't have the funds to "consume" and the 21M US citizens with a net worth of $1M or more won't pick up the slack. 21M people don't purchase 15 Gameboys each when they go to the store.
If it gets bad enough, then the risk is that mutual aid networks will enable "opting out" en masse like during the depression: tents and washboards by the river.
Once things at that point, getting the opt-outs back to play the game requires big promises ala The New Deal.
I usually dream when I have slept really well for a few days. At least for me when my mind is tired I fall into dreamless sleep in a few seconds, instead of several minutes with a soft transition to dreaming.
