Not just the children, but the women and men, too

But it’s okay, because people can choose whether or not to add features they don’t agree with, right? Updates are objective changes and optional, right?? They’d never force updates so the product people bought becomes less like what they chose and more like a curated, restricted, leased item…

I’m right with you there - freedom of expression is fundamental, I feel, and freedom of autonomy is not only a privilege to us as conscious, self-aware beings, but also a constant. Imagine a couple billion international people being told they can’t have nice things or freedom by a thousand extremely conservative people from one country. This whole thing is a joke, but if it’s any consolation the people will always fight back. We will always find a way to reject the doctrine of some buffoons. Chances are some people are already compiling a catalogue of every game removed from Steam in order for them to be available. The most low-effort controversial titles may not be much of a loss, but everything following them will be.

Clickbait doesn’t explain properly - the reason queer games were removed from Itch.io is because (and this is another issue) they were one of many media hosters who labeled anything LGBTQ+ as NSFW. The tag itself gets improperly used but anyway. They were still banning under 18s from learning and experiencing diverse life. Romance ≠ sexuality ≠ identity but some people don’t understand that.

There are many reasons why mentally mature people also find an interest in content designed for immature minds. The first of which that I can list, in regards to bronies and pegasisters being fans of My Little Pony, especially Generation 4, is:

1. That kids shows are chock full of moral lessons that everyone can benefit from.
2. MLP may have more compelling drama plots per episode compared to ‘adult’ soap operas.
3. The desire for a fantastical escape from a world that’s becoming increasingly negative.
4. Psychologically I suspect the characters or settings were very relatable, perhaps in terms of innate desire to:

• Fit in (Twilight)
• Be happier and less depressed (Pinkie)
• Be useful to society/have a loving family (Applejack)
• Be peaceful/coexist with animals (Fluttershy)
• Be popular/cool/more confident (Rainbow)
• Have self-pride/be helpful to friends (Rarity)

5. The fantastical idea that conflicts can be solved with love, not war.
6. Many animations are often designed with references or jokes that only adults would know, and keep them entertained. For example, how many children would recognise Dashie’s morning wing-boner as anything of note, or that one episode was a parody of Murder on the Orient Express?

Either way, something relatively unique and wonderful happened with MLP:FiM.

Makes sense, as all services I’ve encountered that mention age in regards to data collecting imply that it’s illegal to harvest those under 13. Mobile games and other services would not harvest data if you state your age as well below 13, but the increasingly vast majority just say “we will be harvesting you; by clicking this button or making an account you confirm that you are over 13 years of age…” Because, you know, real child protection laws are in effect.

Maybe, maybe not. I recently watched a mini-documentary featuring N64 Tetris tournaments at CTWC (The First Perfect Game of Tetris Just Happened) - this story is of a professional Tetris player who “beat” the game in 2023, aged 13.

Guys I need to ask something. The special physical edition of SR2 is hosted by iam8bit.com, and among the bonus material is something they call an “O-sleeve” -

There are no images of this on the site. Aside from sex toys or armwear I have no clue what this could be. Searching it hasn’t clarified anything. Does anyone here know what an O-sleeve is? Is it something O shaped?

Edit: the only thing I can find related to sleeves and discs are these, but this’d be weird to include…

Many places like itch.io blanket tag LGBT under NSFW, so it’s already affected. Despite sexuality, existence and personality not being taboo

“It’s over, Republikin! I have the high ground!”

“Of course it’s all in your head, Harry, but who’s to say it isn’t real?” - Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore

I have a theory that reality and worlds are objective. For example, two people can look at the same item and see different things. Everyone’s worldview is a current perception based on their experiences, and what stories they’ve acquired defines what kind of stories they see in, say, a statue of a cat. Person one may have fond memories of felines and see the statue as a wonderful symbolism of pride and agility. Person two may just see a statue, cold and disrespecting to the nature of a warm-blooded animal. The statue is in the shared reality. The idea of the statue for both people are both real, both true, but not shared. Thus, two realities.

For an optimist, their world is pretty and full of opportunity. For a pessimist, their world is a blend of grey and full of cruelty. Both worlds are real, but only in the view of the individual. Experiences shape perception. Perception shapes shared reality into an individual reality.

Take someone who has hallucinations of creatures imposed on the shared reality by their mind. To them, the hallucinations happen. They are, for them, real and they interact with, react to, the visions regardless of whether they are in the shared world. But whether they are part of the person’s world depends on if they perceive the hallucinations as real.

What is real? Is it the idea of something that is shared between worldviews? Or is it explicitly a tangible, physically interactive something?

Thus, Barbie’s world may be a view of our (shared) reality, or it may be entirely fictional, but it is definitely real, down to the sentient nutcracker.

I often view works of fiction as alternate realities, meaning their worlds are real, their stories are now really in our world, but they are stories of a reality as imagined by an author and therefore every novel, motion picture and photo album is a replay of an event the author experienced, a privileged view through a portal into another individual reality.

I know I’m not the only one to theorise on this, as proven by Phil Collins’ Two Worlds, referring to the worldview shared by members of the human colony and the other worldview shared by the predominantly gorilla colony in the movie Tarzan.

For reference, an agency is a type of company that serves others by offering a service. A company serves themselves by offering a service or product.

A ship is, by definition, a large vessel for navigation purposes. Spaceship is an adaptation from spacecraft to specify that it is ‘manned’, and spacecraft is a vehicle designed for space. ‘Craft’ means power, strength, skill or requiring skill, and as well as originating from the items that skilled craftsmen would create, was later used as a nickname for original ships, possibly for a multitude of reasons, such as the skill required to build the vessel, to control it, or the general importance and power of using it for trade between communities.

That sounds like a toxic gossip train

The issue with the media is they’re constantly trying to paint the best chance we’ve ever had at FSD, Tesla, as shit. They ignore that Tesla is the safest SD car, and >50 times safer than humans in the USA. Anyway, there’s another issue with this test: They all take place in infrastructure designed for human control, to facilitate a transition period. The only way FSD will be actually flawless is in infrastructure designed for machine control. Yellow lines depicting the edge of the lane, for example, are deemed the most vibrant, optimal solution for optical vision, the sensors best suited for humans. But what about sensors best suited for the cars? LiDAR/radar/ultrasonic sensors are great at 3D mapping, but what about flat surfaces? Highways need to be optimised for machine, just like we converted roads from foot to horse to car, building better barriers and separate footpaths and bridges and tunnels. Until then self-driving will always be on the back foot. And yet, despite the disadvantage, they’re significantly safer.

There will always be a way to bypass laws that do not serve the people.

The poem sounds like extremist drivel. While based in some truth, it is disproportionately balanced and most likely is just used as fuel to make people’s worldviews more polarised or, rather, passes black and white to just become black.

Propaganda is dangerous. Unbiased information and education of related subjects is far more powerful. Be careful with what you consume, OP

US, not UK as the URL suggests

At the cost of a less stable value, you can convert your currency to BTC, store it on a physical wallet like those made by Ledger and self-host BTCPay Server to make receiving money easier (alt cryptocurrency available via integrations). As for spending, that depends entirely on the recipient cooperating and accepting BTC. There are also ‘payment gateways’ that should help, including self-hosting a verifiable debit card. I’m still looking into it.

TL;DR: 10:17 in the video

TL;DW: To align with the Europe, as the UK was the only market in the world in which Snickers was called Marathon, and when TV broadcasting began to include transnational channels, advertising on that channel had to refer to the bar by the most commonly known name for simplicity.