As much as I hated the thief (and catching it early in each level was a priority!), I recognised it as a good mechanic.
My problem was the level complexity in d2 and 3 - it just got too tedious and hard to navigate which killed the fun. The annoyung guidebot was absolutely necessary!
I've no idea personally, but i do remember in that Morgan freeman doco about the penguins, they know each others call (and mate exclusively), so when there's the huge mess of penguins everywhere they really can distinguish 'which one is their partner'.
And to us they all just look (and sound!) the same
Point is, I don't think these guys have much of a plan in themselves. Sure, the party cooked up project 2025, but the 'leaders' sure are being led here and don't seem to have much grasp of things
I finally got to the end of the article where they hang this tidbit:
President-elect Donald Trump said this month that he will elevate Commissioner Andrew Ferguson, a Republican attorney, to lead the agency. Following the announcement, Ferguson, “At the FTC, we will end Big Tech’s vendetta against competition and free speech. We will make sure that America is the world’s technological leader and the best place for innovators to bring new ideas to life.”
Trump also said he would nominate Republican lawyer Mark Meador as a commissioner, describing him as an “antitrust enforcer” who previously worked at the FTC and the Justice Department. Meador is also a former aide to Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican who introduced legislation to break up Google.
Do does that mean they took an existing limitation from the SMS protocol, that didn't apply because it used data instead and then shoehorned it into a godawful web 2.0 monstrosity all the same (and bear in mind, this is significantly reducing the unnecessary character limit!)
That's shocking. I'm currently evaluating my prejudice as that sounds like such a Samsung thing to do (as much as I hate Google and alphabet, I thought the Android crew were fairly upright)
Similar to this, I've got a real beef with our unresolved insecuritues we have as a people (in principle. Obviously in practise this is hard).
I feel like the insecurities that essentially, drive us, are really holding us back from meaningful progress on our legitimately hard problems with climate, energy/food distribution, etc...
We're still drawn into BS distractions and opposing teams and whatnot like a bunch of monkeys with sticks (which is apt, to be fair)
As much as I hated the thief (and catching it early in each level was a priority!), I recognised it as a good mechanic.
My problem was the level complexity in d2 and 3 - it just got too tedious and hard to navigate which killed the fun. The annoyung guidebot was absolutely necessary!