Games these days are insignificant experiences for people who've already played plenty of them. Taking Secret of Mana, that was surely the first game at all of its kind that I'd played. But I'd barely part with any money to buy an RPG today. Games today have a much harder job being original, and tend to be shameless in their lack of originality anyhow.
It was a few years back that FF was so sluggish in linux. (fast in Debian now)
That was the time I tried Opera. The difference in bootup time was like night and day, and it was quicker rendering certain pages, but in the long run those pages were outnumbered by ones Opera was actually slower at.
For those who go straight-to-comments on HN (myself included):
Users first play a series of games with cartoon spiders, which start out as cute and harmless-looking but gradually become more realistic.
One early task involves helping a spider hide in a slipper while someone is using a vacuum cleaner.
This needs more votes, simply for reminding people that bullying isn't some generic situation. The least bad case of bullying is when you have a single bully, who can be made to start treating you as a human being without going as far as a fight. The worst case is a group, who chronically hate you for whatever reason. Not every situation in life has a solution, if you have enough enemies.
One day, pal. I believe it will become possibile too. There are various upsides and downsides to humans achieving self engineering, I realised a terrible one recently - people would truly have nothing that belongs to themselves.
It's hard not to have a crush on the japanese when you can relate to all this. I recently walked a man to his destination for 10-15 mins, because giving directions / pointing on his map "left too much room for error" as you concisely put it. All so I didn't fail as some anonymous directions-giver. It's just something you expect to get right.
But I don't desire 'perfection' in anything, I simply have standards that don't degrade. Think of TV talent shows, and the horrible people you get to see during the auditions. These people lost their standards somewhere along the line.
The problem is, existing 3 year degrees in America are compressed 4 year degrees. America should ditch gen-ed at the same time (as switching to 3-year).