This field is ripe for security consulting firms, but they seem completely uninterested. Weird.
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"When I get what I want, there is rule of law, when I don't, there isn't" is not a valid way to parse whether actual 'rule of law' exists.
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This is, quite simply, a lie.
https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2023-section-1-cost-...
Figure 1.12 shows average annual premiums from 1999 to 2023. The ACA was passed in the middle of that range. It's a sustained upwards march, before and after its passage.
For all that cost - 2-3x as much as the other OECD nations spend, inclusive of taxes - we get shitty outcomes.
https://assets.ourworldindata.org/uploads/2016/04/ftotHealth...
Prior to ACA all my colleagues in my peer group had employer provided health insurance that cost us very little, and it paid for virtually all medical bills except prescriptions. A HDHP was an option, but it only saved maybe a hundred or two a month, if that.
Today for most employees a HDHP is the ONLY option, and the cost is much higher than the old standard health plans were.
What if it was a primitive form of identification?
"Oh you're a Roman citizen you say? Can you prove it?"
"You know I can't prove it, you'll have to take my word for it" nonchalantly fidgets with their dodecahedron
"You know, I'll just take your word for it, be on you way" wink
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> Thats exactly what is happening today but in reverse.
No, it's not.
For a start: it's not some overlording organization demanding this from the top: it's a ground-swell of people who come from diverse backgrounds entering the industry and making their voices heard.
For another it isn't an edict at all from an organization, government-affiliated or otherwise. It's companies realizing that making inclusive games boosts sales, and it doesn't hurt that they get a huge dose of free marketing from the Outrage Merchants by courting controversy that no well adjusted person gives two shits about, and well adjusted people tend to have more money which is all they care about.
If you don't like nonbinary pronouns, don't use them. If you find the new Horizon simply unbearable because Aloy doesn't look like a pornstar, don't buy it. There is simply no version of this where "Every product in this market isn't suitable for me, therefore I am oppressed" is going to scan for anyone outside your weird little group.
Touch grass.
>>If you don't like nonbinary pronouns, don't use them.
That's not even what I'm talking about, it's "Body Type A" or "Body Type B" where the proverbial child has been sawn in half so nobody can have it, these mods restore the choice back to people who have a legitimate claim TO their pronouns.
> No, they really weren't, they were made to restore an experience that matches 99.99% of people's own experiences and sensibilities at the very start of a game.
Too true! I can handle VTOL spacecraft, lizards with tits and guns that shoot other guns, but a gay person!? IMMERSION RUINED
That misses the point entirely. You know how bigoted people were in the 1970s right, when video games were still in their infancy? What if the early game industry or congress and the courts had decided that any depiction of a woman in games must conform to the moral standards of the day, so that if you have a female, she must be either a straight virgin, married to 1 faithful man, an old maid, a widow or dead.
Thats exactly what is happening today but in reverse.
If we're being honest those mods were not inoffensive, in fact most of them were specifically made for the purpose of causing offense.
No, they really weren't, they were made to restore an experience that matches 99.99% of people's own experiences and sensibilities at the very start of a game. If that's somehow offensive, then I'm sorry but it's utterly deranged and hateful for the 0.01% to insist that their way is the only way that can or should be for all.
Or look at it this way, nobody will demand any mods be removed or censored that do the opposite to older games.