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  • Damn near every time travel game I’ve played has ended where you basically stop yourself from starting the whole plot so that none of it ever happens.

    This ruined Life Is Strange 1 for me. Great game, but in the end she somehow knows that undoing all time travel stuff, including letting your best friend die, means that there won’t be a giant storm and not undoing anything will lead to said storm destroying the entire town.
    In the end you only have 1 choice, where your choices throughout the game don’t matter because you undid everything, or your choices don’t matter because everyone is dead.
    Very anti climactic imo



















  • Cherry-picking is an issue when you’re trying to make an argument because you’re choosing a very complicated case on purpose when the more common cases are less complicated. That’s gotta be a straw man argument or something similar? I dunno.

    Ignoring cases where the system brakes down is just as much of a straw man argument, if not more so than giving difficult albeit rare circumstances more attention. In my opinion atleast…

    Did you mean to say something other than fractions here? If not, I’m confused.

    Yeah I meant decimals, sorry.

    I also agree that this isn’t really about metric vs imperial necessarily, although fractions are definitely more commonly used in the imperial system.

    But common measuring devices rarely mark even fractions of cm. That’s the only issue.

    Well then to be even more specific, electronic measuring devices pretty much always mark in decimals anyways, even for imperial. If I take my digital calipers for example, if I set them to inch, they’ll measure with 4 decimal places! Compared to only 2 on mm.

    Arguing that inches are a more comfortable sizes is for one, very field dependent and second, my biggest issue with the entire imperial system; It’s mostly just based on vibes, rather than practical use or precision. We might have a different background but I have a background in design and currently work in the hydraulic sector. And let me tell you, hydraulic fluids at 300 bar (4350 PSI) don’t care whether something was made at exactly 1/4" or not, but they do care when the gap between parts is 0,1 mm (0,004 inch, also known as 4 thou) more or less