I feel like that's all you need. You don't have their apps installed, so the problem is already solved. If you use uBlock Origin to block their trackers, the problem is solved. So you've solved it twice.

You know who hates time zones the most? Programmers.

So does this colleague suddenly have to work 9-5

Worst of all, he sees a bit of daylight on the sunrise commute home. Yet I as a +10 would never see the sun.

Everyone who works a daylight job would work a daylight job with Universal Time. We exist under Universal Time right now, and yet you (and the majority of other people in the world) work during the day. Nothing would change.

Everyone would work whatever part of the day they work right now, except the numbers would change. And you'd have to learn what numbers mean "get up", "lunch", "dinner", and "sleep" because they won't be what you're used to.

The current clock numbers are entirely arbitrary. (And they repeat!) When you were a kid, you had to learn what the hours meant relative to what part of the day it was. Under universal time, you would simply relearn that. Children learning it now would never know the difference. They would think local time is weird.

I don't understand why every time this conversation comes up, there are always people who think that it means you'd have to change when you sleep, live, and work relative to the sun. I just don't get it. It just seems like such an odd conclusion to me.

With global UTC timezone, then you need to ask, which are your work hours?

Which would be beautiful because you'd instantly gain an intuitive understanding of how that overlaps with your own work hours instead of having to do a conversion.

It was never about fun. It's about experiencing the game.

When I read a book, the goal is to have whatever experience the book is going to give me, and leave my own life behind for a while.

Getting lost in a AAA fantasy world with super-high-fidelity graphics is an amazing experience.

Why do handsome men always pose with their art? The art should be the focus. We get it, you're beautiful, but let the art stand for itself. This is just upvote fishing. /s

Chicken sashimi is a thing in Japan. It's slightly cooked on the outside.

https://youtu.be/U6rVZng-AnY

Kill the nickel and dime while we're at it.

https://youtu.be/58SrtQNt4YE

This is dumb, police have been hiding behind roadside billboards to catch speeders since the advent of the car. It's nothing new.

I for one am glad for speed enforcement, I fucking hate people who race on highways or city streets, dodging between cars with half a car-length to spare in front and back. Before texting, speeding caused the majority of highway fatalities.

I don't know who I hate more, cops or fucking asshole drivers.

They lost me at "whom were".

"Thought-terminating clichés"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

Also... I don't think it has a name, but dubiously claiming any of these examples in an argument. Maybe it'd just be called "deflection".

I've seen so many valid arguments shutdown as whataboutism, sealioning, concern trolling when they were valid arguments. It's just as much bullshit as actually doing any of those things.

I highly doubt it was the code. They probably reduced texture and background fidelity and compressed the cutscenes heavily. It's simply impossible to reduce a codebase by 91% and have it still be recognizable. However, the N64 had better hardware and it's possible that some code could be eliminated because the chips had features that made them code not needed. But not nearly 686 MB worth.