Yes. Former presidents do not lose their benefits if they're convicted of crimes and sent to prison; changing that would take an act of Congress, and there's probably not enough political will or support to curtail the executive branch in such a way.

If he's actually given a prison sentence and not home confinement, though, I feel that they'd likely hold him in a military prison- for his own safety, to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't keep committing crimes or attempt to flee, and to dissuade jailbreak attempts by outside actors.

It's on Steam, and it's very short compared to a lot of games so long as you're not too rusty with the controls.

I waffle between preferring Jet Set Radio cell shading and hand-drawn pixels on any given day.

I feel that sometimes realistic graphics are what a game needs- like some simulators or horror titles going for that form in immersion. We're not quite over the uncanny valley in AAA titles, and pushing the boundaries of real-time rendering technology can lead to improvements in efficiency of existing processes.

Other times, pushing the boundaries of realism can lead to new game mechanics. Take Counter-Strike 2 and their smoke grenades: they look more realistic and shooting through them disturbs only a portion of the cloud.

I do miss working mirrors in games, though.

Once the encryption schemes are broken, it's not just posterity, but every malicious actor with access to encryption-breaking tech will have a field day.

I don't mind a large collection of data about me being made available to historians, I just mind that happening with my contemporaries.

There's a lot of changes I appreciate, though sometimes I feel they can be a little heavy-handed when they try to address cheezing progression. We'll see after it launches if this update nerfed the bone reward so much that it's not worth hunting down on the larger maps without the spirit board, since the candle was the only other reliable way to find the bone without risking death on large maps. (At least in my experience.)

I'm totally okay with the bone reward nerf in and of itself; I just hope they adjusted the map size modifier enough to make it worth hunting down on bigger maps with the added likelihood of sanity loss and risk of death those maps will have.

A better comparison is with studio-owned movie theaters, which eventually led to the United States' Paramount Antitrust Consent Decree (which was the law of the land for movies until the DOJ killed this ruling in 2020.)

I don't feel that studios should get to have their own streaming services much like how I don't feel movie studios should be allowed to run their own theaters.

For all of its faults, cable had a ton of competition between studios on the same distribution system, often with multiple channels with the same focus by entirely different studios. With current streaming services, ther are more accounts to keep track of, completely different (and often lackluster) UX between each streaming service which can make navigating a pain, and instead of competing with new content it can be just as- if not more- viable to buy up as much pop culture video content as possible and centralize it behind one studio-owned streaming services' paywall. (Looking at you, Disney.)

If streaming services weren't allowed to have their own studios, we'd probably have a better streaming landscape than we currently do.

Yes, but Senate approval for higher promotions is supposed to function as a check on the presidents' military powers. I'm by no means an expert, but I think the idea is that having the Senate vote to approve or deny promotions of a certain level or above keeps the president from installing a bunch of loyal followers to key positions and then dissolving the other branches of government through threat or use of his new personal military force.

It sounds like a fuel explosion was caused by a fire that started across the street and spread.

This reminds me of the internet discussions around Avatar: The Last Airbender years back and whether it counted as anime or not.

I haven't thought of that channel in over a decade, wow.

To piggyback on this, I used to play Counter-Strike 1.5 (and later 1.6) a lot. There were servers that ran scripts to automatically chuck people into the air and deal them damage (often called a slap) if they didn't change coordinates on the map for too long. Some would just auto-kick players for doing so. The anti-camper hate was common.

The server I frequented was far more lenient, but camping that prolonged the round(since dead players could only watch, and the rounds were 5 minutes long to make walking and crouching more viable) was generally frowned upon if they weren't outnumbered or defending an objective.

Fair, but from back when I played a ton on my 360, a large number of a games' achievements were progression-based, sometimes entirely. That being said, tracking optional challenges within the save game itself can also be helpful in some instances.

For example, if there are challenges that require you to not use special weapons at all, and then you violate the challenge requirements, it could be grayed out to signify that the player locked themselves out of anything related to completing that challenge in that playthrough.

Resident Evil 4: Remake already does this to a degree, though my thought is that it would be most helpful in long rpgs, where it may not be clear after loading where you are in story or what you have and haven't done if the save hadn't been touched in months.

I think Achievements are useful if they're tracked separately by each save game. Minecraft does this, and I find it helpful when I return to a world save after a long time because I can use the achievements I unlocked to help remind me what I was doing and resume from there instead of looking at what clues may have been left behind.

I love New Game + mechanics. I think it's a travesty more games don't have them.

I hate excessive collectathons or overly repetitious cutscenes or dialogue. I love TotK, but the end-of-shrine bit got old real fast; I found myself missing pre-BotW heart container hunts where they could just be in a chest somewhere. I also feel exhausted just thinking about all the Koroks; I like trying to 100% save games, and the Koroks start to feel like work after a couple hundred in total.

I like when fps weapon recoil moves the player view with the recoil, particularly if the view resets back to where the player was aiming as the recoil cooldown ends. It's satisfying and also gives the player an odd feeling of agency because the recoil mechanic lets them play "can I control the hose?"

We means-test student financial and medical aid based on total household income regardless of whether other people in the home actually contribute to your finances. Similarly, this could mean people who don't actually benefit from the wealth of their families (re: adult children suffering financial abuse from their wealthy parents) could be barred from holding office regardless of their actual circumstances, behavior, or political beliefs.

I feel it's be unethical to put into place a system of political exclusion in the first place, but especially if it could affect people who aren't actually causing harm themselves and are only guilty by association or the circumstances of their birth.

It'd also probably require a constitutional amendment, because it's adding additional eligibility requirements on public office positions, which are outlined in the constitution, iirc.

Instead of barring people from political office based on our means-testing practices, why not just institute a progressive wealth tax that caps at 100%, with a significant part of the funds generated dedicated to enforcing tax laws on the wealthy?