Its a completely different form of entertainment, way more similar to watching tv.
The main difference is you dont need to plan or think yourself, your mind can take a break just following whats going on. This can be much more restfull and relaxing.
Compare that to activity playing the game and your using much more energy, your brain is calculating every interaction you have to make. It can be stressful at times. A mistake can feel like lost time but an accomplishment gets you a high you will never get when backseat gaming.
Completely different and up to personal preference on how people like to spend their downtime.
Software is at its core just digital information a computer can use.
Knowledge/Information (that is not personal information) should be free.
You can make a argument that software developers still must sell copies of their code to make a living but if you look at the reality of software that appears to simply be some kind of bias. You can make software that is free and still make a living they are just not always related.
The software that runs the world’s infrastructure is increasingly FOSS, from critical cybersecurity to vending machines. Even big corporations are increasingly getting involved in using and making open source components for their proprietary fronts.
As a linux user everything i need can be done legally with free software, not only is it free is most of the times vastly superior then a paid product.
Ever needed software on windows to find the installer got bundled with spyware and then the final program turns out to be a trial before
Requiring a subscription? That is only because they need to make money.
On linux, you install it, it’s only the thing you actually need, and it works. No bloat, no
enshitification. Some person or group realized there was value to be created, created it and as a result the entire world won collectively.
I have a few products of my own that i hope to publish some day and i already vouched to never make them proprietary, My dad called me insane not to try to profit. I call it nothing but ethical to make the best value for humanity that i can. My very common office job provides enough liveable wage and work/life balance for my family and still find time to do such.
I assume that bad cops do exist everywhere but you should check on how london police are taught deescalation.
US and UK cops are not the same. Granted civilians don't usually carry guns over there but i have seen footage (sorry cant find it) where they dealt with a confused person holding a knife and they just calmly talked them into putting it down with no force whatsoever.
Its probably very country specific though, depending on both recruitment standards and amount of training.
For an mmo game that was released 2 decades ago and has a large established userbase, the main thing left to do to continue being a good game is organising events for continued engagement.
There is a chance because they no longer seems to care to pretend there not evil, however they very much know what she is trying, they know everyone knows they know she is coming.
The only way she will get killed is on purpose, the nature of her actions are too publicly political to be an accident.
They definitely will try to stop and scare her. But the chance of death is not “high” in this case.
Its similar to political officials visiting gaza. They will do things nearby to scare them but there not dumb enough to get them killed.
They want something to change in the benefit of the people.