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What do you think the show worked towards and established prior to the ending? Because in my eyes what the show did up to the ending was in service of the ending.

We’re supposed to take racism and far-right conspiracies as legitimate backlash? Normal people don’t care about shit like that. I’m with the other person, the reception was lukewarm because it played it safe.

Just take some basic safety steps, like discharging the capacitor and you’ll be fine

You already lost the average gamer at “discharging the capacitor”.

Because the verification system doesn’t take performance into consideration at all. It’s more of a “how much effort does it take to get the game running” indicator.

I never refuted that?

Exactly. Skepticism is about casting doubt on beliefs and dogmas, not outright rejecting facts. When it comes to germs and vaccines there’s scientific consensus on those matters. They’re as close to facts as you can get. But rejecting those you’re not a skeptic, you’re a denier. There’s no scientific debate on those topics, only a political debate on whether to reject science or not.

I was just about to say that if you had spent your entire life doing parkour then you too could do parkour with ease. The reason we allocate specific times to train our body is because our daily lives don’t contain enough activity to naturally train us.

Young me got that lesson when trying to play ARMA 2 on a 5400RPM HDD. It would run 60FPS if I didn’t move but as soon as I started moving the game started stuttering. When I installed it on a 7200RPM HDD the game no longer had any performance issues.

It all comes down to what specs the game was designed for and I imagine most modern open world games are designed for SSD-s. Putting them on HDDs will absolutely have a negative effect.

My bad. For some reason I associate all the consent pop-ups with GDPR as I don’t remember any pop-ups prior to GDPR.

That’s also not entirely correct.

you’ve never had to ask for permission to store cookies that are required for your site to work

You don’t need to ask permission for cookies that are strictly necessary for your site to work. They can contain personally identifiable information (PII) but only to the extent that is strictly required for the functionality to work. If your “required” cookie does anything more than what is strictly necessary (such as collecting more PII than it needs or has built in tracking) you need to ask consent.

you have to ask for permission for third party trackers to store cookies when people use your site.

If you’re using something like on premise tracking, like Matomo, then you still have to ask permission. There are some exceptions like if you don’t use cookies and you don’t track PII.

And just for extra clarification, if you are collecting PII (for example into logs) you need to ask permission even when you’re not storing any cookies.

Actually they do. They can’t just process your data without your consent. The exceptions where they can process your data without consent are (at least to my knowledge) legal obligation (for example processing your income to calculate your taxes) and public interest (for example doing statistics on households), both requiring some legal work before actually being allowed to be used without your consent.

Technically they can do so that they don’t have to care about GDPR but then it also has to become public knowledge that they don’t want to care about GDPR and it becomes the responsibility of the citizens to oppose such moves.

EDIT: Forgot to add that in this case it most likely would become part of the law so yeah, they wouldn’t have to care about GDPR in this circumstance.