I understand what you’re saying here but I disagree with it. A game ought to respect the player, not the other way around. Software in general should do that. Nothing pisses me off more about software than when it appears to behave as though it knows what I want better than I do.

It is true of every pseudo-random number generator. I think what you mean is do they pull a new seed from somewhere multiple times during the generation? That’s possible, but pretty unnecessary with a decent generator.

That actually makes it easier, not harder.  Pseudo-randomness is repeatable using the same seed value.  So they would just need to save that seed value and the same procedural level would be generated by it every time.

Again, roguelike is a genre and making one is an explicit design decision. Manual saves turn it into a standard adventure game

Why not? You seem to be assuring sighing up there that the request is just for a save/resume, not an actual manual save point system.

Translation: Tucker is my new Trump.

Doesn’t help with crashing or other game-affecting bugs. A save is a backup you can return to if you want to, for whatever reason you want to.

I really don’t get how they are following Trump and yet not taking the vaccine.

“I have no doubt there are certain factions in this country that are trying to infiltrate and indoctrinate our students,”

This was my first thought too, that the headline was missing some words:

The constitution prohibits splitting existing states up. New states can only be admitted from new territory.

Not sure what you mean “making it easier”.

Is there any reason to be concerned that making it easier to attain statehood might mean existing states splitting up into smaller states?

Of course, in Georgia, the state legislature gave itself the ability to yank those county level supervisors if they’re not being difficult, but Florida’s not there yet

I learned this from Hollywood. They love that, “Don’t call me sir! I work for a living!” line.

I’m really curious what you think that would accomplish apart from handing Republicans another Senate seat.

Yeah... this strategy of bringing up other times when police DIDN’T kill Floyd seems like.... not that great for them?

It was more obvious in the thumbnail version of the header image that I clicked on to get here from the main page.

just take our word

From a conservative standpoint, higher education does “ruin” someone because unlike the rote memorization and repetition of lower education, it actually starts teaching people HOW to think. How to question what they know, what they’ve been told, as a prerequisite for gaining knowledge.