Have you tried it though? I find that it’s not lootbox-like in any way, although to some extent I suppose it depends on who you follow.

I do not accept “infinite scroll” as shorthand for all that bullshit. I don’t like infinite scroll much myself, for other reasons, but this is the Fediverse. There are plenty of people around here looking at pages containing nothing but things in chronological order posted by people they chose to follow, and choosing to load more by scrolling down.

How the scrollbar works says nothing about what’s on the page. You could make similar claims about web pages in general — you never really know if you’ll get what you were looking for. If anything, having to click “next” to try again would make it more like a loot box. But still not much like a loot box, usually.

No.

Not at present, but I have spent time living in the stereotypical suburbs where nobody walks anywhere.

The only day of the year children are allowed to go on foot beyond the end of their home driveway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m31KxsBb78U

I love that there are still people learning that for the first time. Keep it going.

If we suppose that belief in Hell does some good for some people, what about belief in the Easter Bunny for an alternative? We could train everyone to know that the Easter Bunny exists in Heaven, takes a deep personal interest in every one of our lives, is always watching, and wants us to be good? Those who displease the Bunny will have bad luck until they repent. It might just work, if we’ve ruled out humanistic approaches to morality for some unstated reason.

It’s not a terrible choice as an additional way to distribute a mod for people who are into that sort of thing, I guess. Making it the only way means I’m definitely never seeing it.

Intriguing, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to download it except through Bethesda’s “creation club” so as a Skyrim mod it’s a bit of a failure. Pretty good as a marketing stunt, though.

The idea that B.C. might somehow “be the 51st state” is not a concept worthy of being dignified by denying it on an official sign at the border.

I assume that scheme is part of a long-term effort from Google to reinforce the idea that nobody but them should be allowed to have root on their phones, and is therefore working as intended.

What do you mean? Everyone knows that protein comes from salamanders.

relevant xkcd

Apparently there is such a thing as a “Nexus Collection Downloader” for Mod Organizer 2, although I’ve never tried it. MO2 generally works fine though.

Workers without a boss are like a fish without a bicycle.

You can probably get to 99.9% accuracy by just saying “none of those guys run a worm farm” every time.