I have never seen my father without a mustache. And never will, as he passed. Sort of odd, all in all. I did have an older friend who went from a longstanding full bearded look to completely clean shaven. It can be quite the shock.

“If you could actually get through his thick skull and convince him that his words and actions actually endangered someone’s life”

Same.

“You’ve reverted to semantical arguments, perpetuated by your agenda” 

All your examples had the quality of being public colleges, which could convey the wrong impression. The Claremont Schools have prestige on the order of similar “small liberal arts” colleges and things like FIDM or ArtCenter have good (national) reputations in the sort of things an Olivia Jade might actually do.  Just…

“whilst you have every “right” to go and punch someone in the face, it won’t be without potential consequences, assault and battery, GBH etc.”

There’s also the Claremont colleges. Or things like Pasadena College of Design or FIDM, which might’ve been more to her daughter’s “taste,” such as it is. It’s not just USC vs the UCs and then state schools with no national reputation.

“ It’s not an option, and they obviously didn’t want there to be one, “

That you assert an easy mode is somehow bending over backwards is telling. Either you’re being very obtuse or you’re being disingenuous to make a bad faith argument.

“I can’t wrap my head around it”

And mathematically there is an effective 100% chance of winning games of chance if you determine iteration and bet size. The house doesnt extend you that option, though.

You realize people become millionaires out of purely tipping based systems? that restaurants, distributing actual scarce goods, have operated on the basis of PWYW? That plenty of artists have survived off commission with little to no earnings from reproduction for decades? There’s a fundamental mistrust of not just…

“ a wildly unfair thing to say to a developer in a scenario like this.”

playing stellaris at 4x speed no pause might be very taxing for me. Playing it at slow with pause might not. Do you not understand how trivial a modification this is to make?

“the game has to be as difficult as it is to create that’s sense of accomplishment”

“Of course not. And the same applies here.”

“if an artist tells you that their art is like it is for a reason and that altering it is not an option, what can you possibly say to that?”

“The simple presence of an easy mode in Sekiro (or other Soulsborne games) would negatively impact the experience of the people who enjoy those games.”

every once and a while while playing civ vi I drop out of my gaming trance and get really jarred by the visuals.

its bizarre to me. is it slightly annoying to use battle.net, uplay, origin, gog, steam, & epic? I guess. But as for steam’s “features,” I have the internet.   Games have wikis and reddits.