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It's a useless number. People don't tend to remember useless numbers they can recalculate with no effort. Same with the number of doors or plants.

Even when interacting, why would you count them?

Yes, Metroid III (SNES) was the last game in the series that let you go off track. I've played through it many times and never took the exact same route. Everytime it's a new experience. It's unfortunate that the games that came later copied pretty much everything from Metroid III except for this.

Zero Mission ruined things that made Metroid excellent. It's just not obvious on the first playthrough. Unlike previous Metroid games, you can't really do Zero Mission out of order. There's a path you have to follow and if you go elsewhere the road is blocked by Chozo statues, that weren't present in the original game.

Benefits do not have to be economic. It means getting the things you want.

I wouldn't classify putting LSD in the water supply to be "mundane".

Neither would I classify MK-Ulta that way: "Techniques included the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as other forms of torture."

Or the releasing of biological weapons (MK-Naomi): "at least three covert techniques for attacking and poisoning crops that had been examined under field conditions."

Or Operation Notherwoods: "to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba."

Or the Tuskegee experiment: "The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African American men in the study were only told they were receiving free health care from the Federal government of the United States."

The list goes on and on and on and on.

What would a genuinely good reason even be?

@Beltiras Or maybe that's just your excuse to not even try.

Maybe unfounded but it's no like I can't see where they are coming from. Neither do I have the ability to refute any of those points.

Alternatively your reasoned answer wasn't as good as you think it was.

Define "rare". Based on the ones I know were admitted alone, I'd think they are rather common.

It's always about benefits. Incompetence doesn't cost government benefits, so nobody cares. However, if there are benefits to be had by organizing a conspiracy against whomever, you can bet your money that this will be done. Nobody cares for "the greater good" or whatever. It's always about personal benefits.

Maybe game literacy is a thing. After all, can't enjoy a book if you don't know how to read. But if you don't know how to read, that's hardly the fault of the book.

When was the last Metroid game that is "just as fun and joyful as the previous ones"? Metroid has had a tough 20 years or so. Last I checked Nintendo released a poorer version of a remake some fan released a year earlier.

GameBoy lasted weeks. I remember reading that it lasted about 40h.

Didn't Nintendo drop this philosophy the moment Gunpei left to work on a GameBoy competitor for Bandai and pushed out the GBC? Or was it after Gunpei died in a car accident shortly after? The NGC also didn't follow this philosophy and neither did the GBA. It wasn't until the Wii/NDS era, when they kind of brought it back.

Antarctica is about 150% the size of Europe.

As long as they also don't ask for my money (or tax money), I see no problem. People have to sleep in the bed they make.

If you happen to remember, please tell me. That sounds awesome.

Know the functionality, but how should you guess the term from operating a lawn mower?

Especially given that the possibility of using that move isn't tied to where the pieces currently are, but to what the opponents last move was. Wonder if anyone ever managed to write a bug report with the exact behavior only to be told that this is a feature and not a bug.

I never read manuals for games before playing them. A controller only has so many buttons and pressing them all usually reveals enough to get going. Some level of perseverance is needed for this, however. There were times when I got stuck in games and tried for months or years to advance. Sometimes I eventually managed it. Other times, I didn't. But if you lack the perseverance to keep trying for years, then maybe you're just suited better for another hobby.

Personally, I think it's the wrong answer to hold the hands of players even more than they do nowadays. It just waters down the experience, when there's zero skill required to beat a given game.

If you play chess on a computer, clicking on a piece will reveal it's movement option. Of course, just like when playing on a real board, moves like En passant are hardly ever explained to newcomers. In fact, none of the people I have played chess against even know that En passant is a valid move. It's kind of like the wall jumping in Metroid, just that knowing about it won't enable you to do all kinds of cool tricks.

I think the best games are the ones not outright telling you how stuff works. Figuring this out is part of the experience and then, when you learn a new mechanic you can go play the game again and feel how powerful that knowledge really is. Like the wall jumps in Metroid III (SNES).

Unfortunately game designers are often lazy, just printing some instructions on the screen instead of making the game in a way that the player will naturally learn these things.

That's just an excuse to shift responsibility. In a kill or be killed situation, you could always choose to be killed instead of killing, you'd just have to sacrifice your life. It's just that people don't actually care enough to give up their life or any of their benefits.

It always comes down to the fact that people will not give up their own benefits for someone else. If you want people to do something you have to appeal to their self-interest, not their morality.

We do. Doesn't mean you should waste your money. It's a non-sequitur.

If you haven't saved enough money to survive for a year without income, you really only have yourself to blame. Just live a frugal life until you have saved enough. I lived my life frugal for so long, I don't even know how to spend the money I make. I've went years without buying stuff that isn't needed for survival and only spend money on shelter and food. If people can't do this simple thing, they can't expect pity from me.

No one cares that their products are made possible by literal slave labor. Most people care so little, they aren't even aware which of their belongings are made possible through slave labor. You really think anyone is really concerned with how companies treat human life? Concerned enough to sacrifice their own benefits instead of just parting with pretty words? I don't think so.

Why would it be reasonable? If you're not willing to perform a job at the current pay grade, just quit your job. Either you get replaced immediately or you've got yourself a chip in your salary negotiation.

That you think a sad person needs consoling reveals your lack of understanding of the problem. It wouldn't occur to an autistic person to console someone who is sad. The ability to read emotion isn't useful on its own. You also need to know how to react to this emotion. Knowing someone is angry won't help you if you have no idea how to defuse this anger. Social interactions do not make sense for autistic people and need to be learned like a foreign language. It's like writing a computer program. You have to be very precise when telling a computer what to do and the same goes for autistic people. You can't just tell them someone is angry and expect them to know what to do. Or when someone is sad, even if you tell them that they have to console such a person, they'd have no idea what consoling even is and how to do it.