[–] 9 points 1 week ago

Just wanna comment that the use of play in his language is telling; really drives home the fact it's all just a game to them and we're just pawns or mobs to exploit

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    It really depends on the genre and individual taste.

    There's a game called the incredible machine which I greatly enjoyed as a kid. You were given an objective like bring the mouse to the cheese or vice versa and you had to build a rube goldberg machine to do it. A guide or walkthrough would ruin the game because then you'd just be going through the motions. However a hint system would go a long way to alleviate frustration.

    On the other hand, as a dad gamer I am more conscious of my time spent gaming so I would utilise a 100% guide on games like the Persona series to see everything, as it's really the story beats, character designs and music that are attractive to me. The gameplay really isn't special (just a turn based creature collector/battler really)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    You'll be surprised how many people will take offence or retort with 'not illegal what'. Singaporeans are used to being babied by the nanny state so they'd only take action if they have 'official' reason to back it up; we frown upon vigilantism/lack backbone. That's just our style of societal engineering - disbursements for desirable behaviour like recycling bottles and cans (even for reading books!) and fines for vices like smoking

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you try to heat up carbonated water it will just cause the dissolved carbon dioxide to escape and you'll just end up with regular flat water that is hot.

    Physics doesn't let you carbonate hot water very well apparently but I'm not a physicist just applying what I remember from school. I'm not saying it's impossible (because who knows you just might be the one to invent the method) just extremely difficult.

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