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  • There was some stealth game I was trying out that did this. Before you start the game, it’s mandatory to set the brightness level so one logo is barely visible. I figure since it’s a stealth game I might as well just so I can see what areas are supposed to be light and what areas are supposed to be dark. Get into the game, soon find some guards and a nearby alcove in total darkness so naturally I dash over to hide before they notice me. The guards walk by and immediately see through the dark to spot me as if they had night vision goggles.

    I stopped playing the game not long after because there were a lot of things about the game I really didn’t like, but those first few minutes were a tone setter for me. To this day I still wonder why the devs felt it was so important to make sure some things were dark enough to not be visible to the player if everything was going to be visible to the NPCs.



  • When I said “they owned bukkit” I didn’t mean they founded it, just that they were at the time of the controversy the owners of bukkit. Them taking it over isn’t mutually exclusive with owning it.

    Also the controversy I was referring to was back in the peak of bukkit’s use, and they had owned it for some time before that peak. I’d wager the controversy was a much larger component of the fall of bukkit than them “plucking it apart” considering it was a product they owned and wholly benefited from it being the defacto standard at the time.





  • Not everyone in the US has health insurance or (more importantly) the same quality of health insurance. Insurers here have the final say on whether they’ll cover certain treatments, medicines, procedures, doctors, practices, etc. as well as how much they’ll cover, how much they’ll charge the patient, or how much any use of the insurance will affect the price of said insurance going forward. Insurance often prefers you work with doctors, practices, facilities, etc. within their own list of approved doctors, practices, etc. and going outside of that list for any reason may cause you to have to pay for any goods or services out of pocket. Then lastly you have to remember that both health insurance as well as hospitals and clinics are generally for profit businesses trying to maximize profit and minimize costs.

    And the little cherry on top of the whole situation is we’re in a political landscape where even having universal access to healthcare is labeled as communist/socialist by many in a derogatory way.