There's a lot of it too. It's like the Westwood v Blizzard output. Back in the day, Blizzard occasionally released a game and it was on the shelves for a decade (like Starcraft). Meanwhile there were like 50-billion Command and Conqueror Dune 2 Red Alert Terra Nova Spy Ops Edition games. If you looked at it as a whole, you'd say RPGs were repetitive and kinda sucked. But you'd miss out on the bangers like AoE2 (Dune 2000 wasn't bad either for Westwood).
Quantity verses quality. Like how Ghibli and Trigger try to smaller amounts of high quality stuff, versus companies that make any random comic they can find into a series.
Interesting. I never though about it working both ways: the ocean vs the jar.
It makes me think about the Plato's Cave allegory and how it's literally impossible to tell if you're inside or outside the cave. (Say someone finds a mystical cave that's full of wonder, and tries to convince everyone true meaning lies inside the cave ... honestly could be a gooner metaphor :blobfoxinnocent: :blobcatgrimacing:)
Do you think there is a "chief end of man?" .. or ultimate purpose? Or that it's up to each individual to determine if there's a purpose and what that is?
What is "real" in these contexts? I'm not familiar with those belief systems. Is a simulation theory world not-real? What if the simulation wasn't inside a machine, but our universe was on a giant's table-top .. like Sea Monkeys? Even if we're in a machine of some kind, wouldn't we still be .. "real"?
I guess it's all in how you define the material world.
I haven't been to half that shit! I went to Dollywood a year back with some friends, but I haven't been to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburge stuff in like 20 years (I'm not far from it in Chattanooga). When I went as a kid it was just the Go Cart Track, Wax Museum, Ripley's Believe it or Not, a Haunted House ... can't remember what else. I also went out there in high school with some friends who rented a three story cabin.
What's weird is none of it is even on a major Interstate. It's kinda away from the main travel roads.
I need to get some people together for Dollywood. Kinda morbidly curious about all the other tourist trips, even though I know they're probably terrible. The hiking in the Smokies is pretty nice though, so long as you don't run into bears.
oh I think you need real GApps for Android Auto ... I stopped using that too. My head unit is really good so it didn't matter much to me. But I don't think anyone has re-implemented the Auto API for microG.
You should try HERE WeGo maps though. It's the former Nokia Maps and it's pretty good. I prefer it's navigation.
I use HERE Maps and OSMAnd. Here is closed but doesn't need Google Services. I usually just use offline nav on my car anyway. If I really need GMaps, it works through a web browser (gotta click no on opening in an app, then click no again to download the play app, but after that it works fine).
My main back app doesn't work without Gservices, but my local bank's app does. I only ever use it to scan checks like .. once or twice a year. I rarely do any banking away from my computer. Once again, unless you need to scan checks, the web browser should always work.