Aceticon

Since you went for an Appeal to Authority as the very first paragraph of your comment, a response that trashes that person's authoritative credentials is logic in the very context you created and thus not an Ad Hominum.

Without that first paragraph on your post you would've been right to claim Ad Hominum.

I think the biggest difference here is that the people who "got scammed" didn't just made a choice for themselves, they also made a choice for others.

Morally somebody who got conned out of their own life savings is one thing, somebody who got lots of people (including themselves) conned out of their life savings (and in some cases, their actual lives) is something very different.

As I see it, it boils down to people going with "I feel like", "Random post on the Internet told me" or equivalent non-info to chose the person to be in charge of running a whole damn country for the next 4 years.

Absolutely, if you're choosing something for yourself alone, go crazy, do stupid shit, whatever.

However if you're also choosing for others, if you can't make an informed choice, at least make no choice at all.

It's been obvious for a while now that it's the British Political Class that's pro-Genocide, not the British Public.

Judging by the shit that's come out around Epstein, I wouldn't at all be surprised if it turns out Israel has a ton of Pedophilia-related blackmail material on top Tories and Labour politicians.

I don't really count special surveillance courts with closed door sessions and secret rulings as Judicial oversight - that shit is a theater of justice meant to disguise authoritarianism as Democracy, not real Justice with all the requirements of it.

So, does this one have real Judicial oversight or is it something that operates without court oversight or under the "oversight" of special courts setup for the purpose of whitewashing bulk surveillance that don't actually operate like real ones?

Want to make tons of lines of code from pretty normal code?

Just unroll your fixed size for loops (i.e. convert them into multiple copies of their contents, one after the other as many times as that loop would loop).

You can actually automate it and in fact some compilers will do that when generating assembly for some microprocessor architectures (if the loops aren't crazy big) because it increases performance in those (because the JMP instruction at the end of the loop is quite expensive).

As long as they can only do it with a court order and for just that specific instance (no dragnet bulk surveillance shit like in the UK and US) just like they would any other wiretap, then I don't see the problem.

The scary authoritarian shit is the bulk surveillance without Court oversight such as in Chat Control.

A somewhat different version of that world and of characters similar to the one he's acting exists in the games.

When building a character for acting one bases oneself in the script to "fill-in the blanks" of "how would this person feel in these circumstances", based on things like the past of that person, the world around them and past events (sometimes actors using Method Action will even during rehearsal enact an important events of a character's past which are NOT on the script, just to try and get an impression of how that might have shaped that imaginary person).

So it still makes sense that now, after he built a character based on the script's version of that world and of people like that character in it, he would avoid different versions of that world and those people.

Mind you, he might just not be at all a gamer and this is just an excuse not to play the game. Then again he might genuinely want to avoid the negative side effects for his character building of being exposed to two different versions of the same world - it is a valid consideration for some actors. Only he knows if it's a genuine reason or just some bollocks he said to get fans of the games of his back.

Well, yeah, automated ultra-fast untiring shameless liars can do way more swindling of people than human politicians and are probably far better at it since they can interact with people one-on-one and swindle in a target-specific way, unlike politicians which relly on mass spreading of their declarations and the halo effect for their mass swindling.

And found out filmset scenarios are filled with tricks that make it seem one thing to viewers whilst being something else, just like 3D worlds in games.

Another possibility is that the massive operation by Israel to get blackmail material on Western politicians doing things such as pedofilia also caught EBU members (or at least people who have power over said EBU members) on its net.

As the Epstein thing unravels more and more what we're seeing is that holding a ton of blackmail material gathered by operations like that (and the whole Epstein affair clearly shows that a lot of it would be pedofilia-related) is the best explanation for Israel's influence.

You generally need a single person with the vision to maintain consistency throughout the whole series, and as far as I know that was not the case with Falout the games.

Yeah, it actually also makes sense for an actor to avoid seeing other films with that character if they're going to portray an entirelly new version of that character.

In Method Acting character building is a lot about what are the motivations and drives of the "person" which is the character and "living truthfully (the character's life) under imaginary circunstances" and judging by how he talks about it he is indeed using Method Acting.

As for games, they might be an even worse influence than previous films because the emotional depth of in game characters is generally zero or close to it (except in things like cutscenes were they used actors, MOCAP and a very detailed model for expressions), akin to a woden performance.

It's valid for an actor using Method Acting not to want to be exposed to a different representation of the world their character is supposed to inhabit and of the characters in that world - Method Acting is pretty "soft and smooshy" rather than a set of iron rules and mechanisms, relying on a person's own "emotional engine" and ability to pretty much forget that they're not that "person" which is the character living those things (think of it as an actor's version of suspension of disbelief) so who knows what influences the actor might take in subconsciously which then affect their embodyment of that character, which would be a bigger concern now that they've already embodied that character (for the last season of the series) and that should not change for actor reasons rather than character reasons (i.e. the character should only change due to things that happen to the character).

No doubt some actors would think that playing the game would make no difference, but it's valid for some to think it might.