Honestly, I’ve always felt Kojima’s greatest strength was his ideas and his greatest weakness was his execution…
If someone with a little more, uh… discretion, I guess? was given the seed of a Kojima idea and allowed to run with it without Kojima’s incessant need to over explain and over indulge, I think we’d end up with something really magical.
Also, blaming Iraq on naivete? How actually naive do you have to be to believe that? Good lord…
The one advantage I can think of to this approach is that it makes it harder to “snowball”.
Civ VI had a big problem with this were you’d end up so far ahead by 1000 AD that you were all but guaranteed to win the game… but you’d still have to play through multiple ages to get to the end and there would be very little challenge left for the multiple hours it would take to grind through to the end. I think I got bored and just restarted more often than I actually finished games in Civ VI because of this.
If you have multiple soft resets along the way, I could maybe see that giving the devs some ability to reset the “power curve” periodically so that you’re always dealing with some manner of challenge as you move from age to age.
20 hours in
Pssh… at least finish a full game before you post a review!
Man, I don’t know… the last few decades have shown humans to be surprisingly easy to “hack”
because IT sector wouldn’t have all it’s eggs in one basket that might break if one guy leaves or dies.
Whooooooooboy, that has not been my experience in tech!
¿Por qué no los dos?
It absolutely is, which is why MAGA lawmakers are gonna keep pushing it relentlessly.
Kentucky tried to do something similar via a constitutional amendment this election cycle, but the voters soundly rejected it — in one of the most conservative (and religious) states in the country.
Nobody wants this, except for the conservative policy makers attempting to create the next generation of brainwashed youth.
You gotta admit, no one is better at projecting than Trump!
You know who doesn’t hate Jill Stein? David fucking Duke.
Maybe I should have read the article
In their defense, the article is extremely obnoxious to read (at least on mobile). We shouldn’t have to scroll past dozens of huge images and ‘interactive’ graphics just to get to the actual text… and that’s with an ad blocker installed — I imagine it’s even worse without one.
Lots of people are voting third party.
[citation needed]
Looks like plenty of people disagree with you
Those are your words to another commenter, whom I think we can very safely assume is also not running for president. So why bring it up at all if it doesn’t matter?
What does that have to do with anything?
Looks like even more disagree with you.
Fun fact: for a third party candidate to qualify for ballot access in New York, they need to get 45,000 signatures (which none managed to achieve this election cycle). That means that in a state of 20 million people, no third party candidate could earn the support of just 0.225% of the population… Even Kanye got a larger percentage of the vote than that in some states!
And yet there are still people in this community trying to convince us that these candidate are running in good faith, when clearly no one actually wants them. Hmm…
Observe the slow, uninterrupted decline that starts in 2004
Ah, yes! 2004! A truly defining year for the Obama presidency when…
checks notes
…he was still the junior Senator from Illinois. Huh…
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Yeah, this is pretty much exactly how I feel about it. The universe is nothing but dead matter being pushed around by blind force, and any sense of agency is just an emergent phenomenon that exists as an illusion in the brain without having any actual bearing on reality. If you perfectly understood all of the forces and matter involved, you could perfectly predict what any given human (or anything system at all) would do.
That said, I also believe that it’s a completely useless idea when you’re trying to navigate through life, so I mostly just keep it in the back of my head like some half-forgotten piece of trivia and spend most of my time pretending to be in control like everyone else. Cheers!