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  • Wherever Stanley Parable is a game or not, isn’t really important. Someone could make the argument that open ended games, without a clear winning or completion state aren’t games, but instead simulations.

    Someone could argue that the winning or completion state of Stanley Parable is seeing all endings.

    Other people say that to be a game, you need some kind of adversary or challenge to overcome, but that would depend on the definition of challenge. Is figuring out what to do in order to see a ending you haven’t seen before a challenge? If not, that would exclude many other genres.

    So I just do not want to down the road of making useless distinctions, and be liberal in my understanding of words, and just ask if something is not clear.

    I just call Stanley Parable a game, because the creators call it a game, you can buy it and games similar to it for game consoles and on Steam under the game category. Wherever you can or cannot find enjoyment in experiencing it, does not depend on wherever it is a game or not.


  • I would say many games with procedural generated worlds, like Minecraft, No Man’s Sky, etc. Where the main task is deciding where do I go next, where do I settle down, maybe there is some better place over the next hill, next planet, etc.

    There are other games, where it is also sometimes not quite clear what to do next. Like games have a lot of progression and rebuilding of stuff that was done before because of it. Like Satisfactory, Factorio, etc.

    And on a more literal sense, where you actually redo the game over and over to progress, like The Stanley Parable or Outer Wilds.

    Some games have a very labyrinthine level design, where it also isn’t really clear what to do next, like Dark Souls, Subnautica, etc.

    Or environment puzzles, where you have to figure out how to progress, like the Myst series, Riven, etc.






    • Sometimes you need to move a thing that is oddly shaped and doesn’t fit within the confines of an enclosure

    Like what? And is that a common use case?

    • Depending on what you’re hauling, you may want separation between the cab and the payload. Like if I’m moving dirt, I’d rather not have it rolling around my cabin

    Or just put down a nylon sheet, put the dirt on top, fold the nylon sheet over it and bind it down. Now it is covered under and over and will not fly around.

    In most cases I guess people will just buy prepackaged earth in bags. That also doesn’t fly around.

    Sure, if you are one of the very few people that work in the woods or on a field, where this common use case, then alright. But that would not explain why those cars are so common.

    • Easier to clean, just take a hose to it without needing to worry about soaking the cabin

    Buy a bus with removable carpet, then you can just hose it down as well. Many buses have a small step, which separates the cabin from the back, so water will not flow into the cabin.

    • Access isn’t limited to just the door, which can be useful when unloading something

    There are many different rear door types and sliding side doors on the side that provide ample and easy access. This isn’t difficult or complicated.

    That didn’t convince me that pickup trucks are not a very specialized vehicle for just some uses, while transporters and mini busses are much more useful for all kinds of purposes. Be it furniture, tools, sport equipment, electronics and other sensitive equipment, and people. While also being good at hauling the occasional dirty stuff, if you just put something underneath.



  • What is up with those pickup trucks anyway? Why do so many people in the U.S. (and elsewhere) buy them?

    Everything that you put in the back is subjected to weather and one of first additions people buy is a cover.

    Compare that to a mini bus or transporter, you can transport as much or more than with a pickup truck, protected from weather, and you can add or remove chairs, if you need to transport people.

    If you have a transporter, you can also much easier furnish the inside with racks etc, to improve space use.




  • What do you mean with “not enforced”? Do you mean that people that find manipulated odometers with proof go to court and then nothing is done?

    I get that it is sometimes difficult to proof a manipulation of the odometer, and that fraud here is pretty wildly spread, and maybe more prevalent in Germany compared to France, but that doesn’t mean that other countries are not doing it.

    I would also agree that anyone should prefer buying from local sellers first, but just saying that this is a special issue that only Germany has to deal, because they do not care about the law and order is wrong.

    This is the same logic that some people on the right have: “Crimes happen more often in cities, and the reason for that is that they do not care about the law there.”




  • What you consider masculine or feminine behavior is mostly socially constructed.

    There are these myths that only men where hunters while women where only gatherers, which turn out to be false. Women and men both hunted and gathered. Link

    IMO, the real issue is that current society places to much attention to gender roles, and for men it is done it in a way that makes it difficult and contradictory for young men to find their place: “You are a ‘man’, and you have to behave this specific way, however if you do that you are bad and will have trouble finding a partner. However if you do not behave like a ‘man’, you are weird.”

    The conservative gender roles don’t only hurt women, they hurt men as well. And dating and finding a good partner sucks for everyone.