If it came down to it, I would take an extension to turn the video black, mute it, and click the skip button for me. Better than having to pull my attention away from what I'm doing to click the skip button or else have an ad that legitimately can play for hours on end. Having the pauses would be annoying but less so than the ad.
The older you are, the more effort I expect. A kid can get away with a cape and a mask. If an older teen comes, I expect full costume, not everyday clothes. Adult? You better be rocking a great cosplay. Not that I'd refuse anyone, but I'll be happiest giving treats to young children or people showing off really amazing effort in the costume department.
View it as a luxury service. Even in a world with replicators, people enjoy cooking but see it as more special. Getting your clothing made or adjusted by a tailor is also a sort of luxury. There's a certain touch that comes with a person creating a thing that you can't get from a computer.
I'm so tired of being asked for tips at nearly every store. Even some self-service checkouts are now asking for tips. Like, for what? I scanned my items, I bagged my items, I had zero human interaction with your staff - what am I tipping for? And in other stores, there's aways someone hovering over the register, watching you when the tip prompt is given, so you feel pressured to tip something. It's absolute hell. I'm fine with tipping the bartender, barista, wait staff, hairdresser, and delivery driver. Everyone else? Yeah, no.
It already is outlawed in the US. The US bans all depictions precisely because of this. The courts anticipated that there would come a time when people could create images which are indistinguishable from reality so allowing any content to be produced wasn't permissible.
I'm pescatarian, mostly vegetarian, and I love to cook but only have the focus to do it a few times a week. My preferred meal plan is to make a giant pot of something once a week, freeze a few servings, and eat the rest. Then I also eat other things I've frozen in the past or have on hand. My favored meals are simple things like an apple and peanut butter, tuna salad, oatmeal, rice with vegetables and scrambled eggs, that kind of stuff. I only eat out once a week and do intermittant fasting as well.
Over the past five or so years, I've watched the vegetarian frozen food section at my supermarket expand from one little freezer door with some Annies meals and Bocca burgers to five or six sections carrying even generic store-brand vegetarian and vegan meals. I don't often buy prepared food but I like walking by to see what they have. Same with milk options - it went from a shelf with either soy or almond to a full section of different nut milks and flavors.
Some of the wildest changes to me have been at festivals and events. It used to be that you got french fries or onion rings or popcorn and that was about it. Then they started making efforts, as misguided as they could be, like just slapping steamed veggies on a sub roll and calling it done, or serving pasta and plain tomato sauce. Now I go to festivals and there's usually at least one really good vegetarian option at every stand, if not an entire stand serving just vegan and vegetarian options. I look forward to seeing what unique choices there will be rather than trying to eat ahead of time so I don't have to worry about it.
People in the comments missing the point completely. The solution to animal cruelty is not human cruelty.
Yes, eating animals is cruel to animals, but meat eating isn't going away, and being cruel to the people who work in those places isn't going to stop the industry. It's just going to physically and mentally harm a lot of underpaid, overworked, poor, immigrant people. People who don't have healthcare for the injuries they incur working in hazardous places, for corporations who see them as just replaceable parts of a machine. Being harmed working in these plants isn't going to result in fewer animals dying or better conditions for the animals we kill. It's just more senseless harm.
In the complete opposite direction, "I just want to enjoy the story" mode, which simplifies or removes more mechnically difficult sections of the game. A few games have this and it's great. I appreciated it in Danganrompa.
Fine, fine. Guess I'll just go lick the warp core!