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Are judges in the US elected? I know some are appointed. In some countries they are career public servants. They pass an exam and dispute with other candidates, so they are experts in their field that went in a public selection process.

The article says 4 out of 5. Maybe OP was mistaken or the article corrected at some point.

I hate cars and love walkable cities as much as the next guy in this community, but this comparison is just nonsense.

If the only thing you do and are comparing is 4 trips a month to the grocery store that is in walkable distance you are not spending $200 a month on gas and probably also less on maintenance and stuff. And if you are only doing that you also don’t need the newest and best car.

I feel like this type of bad faith analogies just hurts the message.

Off topic but I love that slowly but surely the communities that I used to like on reddit keeps popping up on lemmy, and on all for that matter, which means they are getting traction and I don’t even have to hunt them down to subscribe :)

A camera bump in a camera bump is definitely a choice.

I am not from Canada, but my country for decades has been using speed cameras and I think I can give a perspective about them being “tax grab”.

The answer is, it depends on the situation, but in my country most of them are NOT tax grab. You can tell when they are when the cameras (or the police officer) and the speed limit is done in a way to trick people. One such case is when the speed limit is lowered (usually in highways) but there is limited signage and/or effort to inform the public about the change, so drivers that are used to the road ended going at the old speed without noticing. Another case is when there is an abrupt change of speed limit, some times over a corner or even without and change in the road that would make sense the limit change, or even if it is a limit change that makes sense but they put the camera right at the change when a lot of people have not yet have time to slow down.

So I feel like, if the speed cameras in a place are tax grab the solution is not to remove them but position them where they make sense.

That is true. I also was luck enough to have a friend that didn’t mind at all to pick me up out of his way even if just as a companion to do errands and stuff. Otherwise the distance would be a problem.

For some reason only games with bad UI comes to mind, like Skyrim.

That is so true. It is like a silver lining. I may be procrastinating but I am helping and spending some quality time with a friend.

I love this type of bonding with friends and used to do it a lot. The problem is you have to live or be kinda close by, but I guess that is true for any less formal meetup. I guess the furthest away you are the more “a thing” the meetup must be and the duration longer.

In any case I love do errands with friends and even go help out with something. Even though I don’t have time and energy for my stuff I feel like energy for hanging out with friends doing errands como from a different bucket.

I think the person is not implying that by going with the person doing an errand you also have to spend money. You are going as a companion.

But that is the definition of today’s indie games. You have games that are done by a single person, or a very small group in a shoe string budget. As far as I know there was no such thing back then, especially in the console market (I can think of a few exceptions on PC) . What today is viewed as less resources back then was still for that time a big studio or team.

Ok, I reread my comment, sorry, it is my bad, English is not my first language and I should have proof read it. I will edit my original comment.

What I meant was that The menu in Symphony of the Night is famously bad, not that the game is known for or only because of its bad menu.

By avoiding it like the plague. They really did it didn’t it? When I used to Google something I was stoked when there was some reddit link in the results and would always go there, now I just die inside a little more when I scroll the results and the only relevants seems to be reddit.

Is that a parody? Castlevania: Symphony of the Night famously have a god awful menu screen that was literally a placeholder and they forgot or didn’t have time to change it. Not that it is a bad game, I point it out to say that even back them AAA not always is the Pinnacle or effort and polish, and how can they be, they are subject of so many constraints, like release date to fall into marketing strategies and such, specifically with physical media production. So if a game was to be released for the Christmas shopping season it would not be postponed because a lack of a menu design.

I too was there 3000 years ago and there was a lot of shit AAA games even back them. For one there was a lot of bad habits from the arcade time that made a lot of gameplay suboptimal. I think that it is just survivorship bias because the 90% not great is forgotten with time and we only remember the great games.

But all of that is beside the point, how can you put Fez and Slenderman in the same group? Fez is a great game, there is no lower quality in any aspect of it. In fact in modern games I see more experimentation and innovation in Indie titles and almost none in AAA because they are so expensive they have to always play it safe (same shit happening with the film industry by the way).

He has a number of good movies. I guess because the most popular means visible movies are his slop comides for the whole family his “real” movies kinda goes under the radar.

Uncut gems is a masterpiece but I wanna mention Spaceman because it is fantastic. It is kinda the opposite of Uncut gems, if the first is like fast pace on the edge of you seat that you spend the whole movie holding your breath that shit is about to hit the fan, Spaceman is super slow and introspective, big great nonetheless.

English is my second language, maybe that is why “charged with stunt driving” sound really funny to me.

“You there, stop doing stunts!!!”

Like it is the same charge if you are speeding or doing weelies in your bicycle in your neighborhood

That is what I thought was in the US also, but it seems to not be the case.

That is what I thought, so not something you wanna do to send money to random people.

Nearly…but some don’t. And that is the problem. Other countries have bank transfer figured out and not dependent on voluntary adoption from a 3rd party service. I was very surprised when I learned how behind the US is on banking, even compared with some “3rd word” countries.