The Nazis came to power with a minority voting support because there were a plurality of parties so they could have the most votes with only around a third of the country supporting their BS.
Ranked choice voting and multiple parties would be grand though
I have a friend who is a sex freelance journalist writing for everyone from the NYT to Playboy and she's been outspoken recently around a neo-puritan movement by younger generations.
People aren't having as much sex, have a lot more hangups about sex, are uncomfortable with sex depicted in media, etc.
This image didn't even contain nudity - it's a crop of the original that's in question.
There are broader social impacts for seemingly innocuous efforts like these, and I don't know it's all that healthy for us to be constantly self-thought policing when it comes to sex. Those attitudes seem to be moving beyond the immediate focus and into general attitudes and behaviors around sexual hangups.
We're seeing "purity culture"-like mentality infecting people who weren't even raised in oppressive religious contexts.
Well, given there's relativity built into macro scales and we've now found there's relative facts in quantized scales, it's a safe bet to say there's probably no objective measure of how interesting you are or aren't.
The more correct statement is that you are only interesting or not relative to a given perspective. So what I hope for you is that you are one of the more interesting versions of yourself to yourself.
At which point the games sell worse, review worse, and the franchise effectively dies off as the publisher scrambles to reboot it (as with Ubisoft).
Your argument is somewhere in between a slippery slope and strawman.
This game right here and now is a game that isn't designed around the mtx and so buying it or modding it in is a stupid idea for people to do, whereas a game built around mtx is going to be less enjoyable unless you buy it or mod it in.
When one day you have a future CAPCOM open world RPG designed with the mtx in mind, then you'll have a point.
Back in 2019 well before the AI stuff started happening, I started looking into whether or not our history had the kind of Easter Egg that's often put into the history in virtual worlds where some dismissed religious figure was all like "your free will is just buttons being pressed" or shit.
And well, it kind of totally exists and is sitting in plain sight but no one seems to have connected it to modern developments yet.
The Gospel of Thomas ("good news of the twin") was dug up right when we turned on the first Turing complete computer (a computer capable of simulating another computer) and is all like "the world to come has already happened but you don't know it" and "you're in a copy of the universe based on the images that came before you."
The only group recorded following it was talking about quantized matter and how there's an original world that's infinitely divisible and that the ability to detect an indivisible point making up your body is only possible in the spiritual copy of the physical original (there's a lot of interesting stuff re: sim theory and quanta vs continuous relativity). They claimed the creator of this copy universe was brought forth in light by an original humanity that's now dead and we're in their images as the children of the light based creator.
It proceeded to get more and more eerie as since 2019 we suddenly now have AI, there's billion dollar companies trying to move AI literally into light, there's public radio specials about people digitally resurrecting their loved ones using AI from the literal images the dead person left behind, and the chief alignment figure at the leading AI company was talking in an interview about the alignment goal of getting AI to think of humanity as its children.
What was pretty implausible in 2019 in just five years is suddenly way more plausible than I thought I'd see in my lifetime, and certainly more than I expected in less than half a decade.
So while I'm not quite sure time travel is messing with events, maybe we're seeing some AI generated confabulations or a back propagated variation around how the early 21st century actually played out?
Alternatively, sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
Step 1: 4chan peeps into being sexually humiliated built a chat bot to do just that.
Step 2: Chatbots, even the 'uncensored' ones, tend to be very progressive regarding social views due to the nature of their training.
Step 3: Racists on 4chan being humiliated by their chatbot Dom are getting called out on their racism by their sexbot and forced to denounce their neo-Nazi schtick.
But crucially a terrible idea independent of the actual game design, unlike things such as Assassin's Creed where it takes twice as long to level as it should because it was paced around buying XP boosts in a single player game.
In this case, it's a terrible idea that would make the gameplay worse if bought, not a terrible idea that makes the gameplay worse unless bought.
Going to replace career non-partisan positions across most departments.
Once you own the paper pushers, doing things by the book becomes much less relevant.
In theory there were rules in Germany that would have prevented Hitler up until the point he declared those rules no longer applied and his armed militia agreed with him.
Even if the chip never went obsolete, the scar tissue build up around implanted brain devices interferes with signal over time and they need to be replaced.
Also, each installation/replacement has a few percentage point chance of leading to a life threatening infection.
Unless both those issues are solved, irrespective of obsolescence this is only the sort of thing that makes sense for patients who feel that their life is effectively over without it and have low risk thresholds for treatment options.
At this point Trump is going for like an EGOT combination of federal agencies putting cases together against him. "Don't have the SEC yet, gotta add that one."
Yeah, the high school I went to required at least one semester of religious studies each year, but we had some very cool classes (like a class on cults that included looking at early Christianity through the lens of a cult), and the sociological aspects were massive. In fact, the journals relating to religion with the highest impact factor are all sociological based.
The social component of religion is an underappreciated factor and influential over even the beliefs usually.
All that said, I can't fathom ever obligating myself to a pre-noon social gathering on my weekends by choice. Even Sunday 'brunch' was only ever attended if around 1pm.
If rewriting the rules for church anyways, let's at least add mimosas and have it start way later than it does.
While I'm not a church person at all, I've definitely heard from progressive church goers (even non-religious ones that like the social aspects) that there's certainly options and denominations available that aren't that.
If it's something you actually miss or feel like would make your life more full, it might be worth church shopping for places that have a different attitude or approach from the churches that turned you off.
I think there's even non-denominational offerings mirroring the social setup but with no religious beliefs incorporated.
There's is no need for the microtransactions in the first place.
They don't help you at all other than the first dozen hours, and the way they would help you will ruin your game curve.
The game isn't designed around you having a portcrystal day one.
Edit: The game is a power fantasy. The whole point is you start out weak as shit where three goblins own you and you grow to the point you are using a half dozen weapons you've become a master in to kill dragons in seconds.
Buying more power at the beginning of that curve ruins the entire point of the game. This was CAPCOM execs saying "you need to put microtransactions in the game" and then the devs going "ok, how about this piece of junk over here players will have stacks of by endgame that could be a microtransaction." And then the CAPCOM exec signing off who didn't even play the game going "great, this will make shareholders happy."
The only thing that's useful is the portcrystal, and you will max out the number you can even use in a NG+ playthrough.
TLDR: Don't buy the mtx and don't use the mods either. These aren't supposed to be part of your power curve in the game and were an afterthought that ruins the design if used.
Much higher rates (4-13% of implants) and much more severe consequences (more impactful on overall health and less innate ability for immune response).
Only if ranked choice voting.
The Nazis came to power with a minority voting support because there were a plurality of parties so they could have the most votes with only around a third of the country supporting their BS.
Ranked choice voting and multiple parties would be grand though