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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.

Sounds like a pretty standard Method Acting way of going about it.

It's Tradition

Oh, I wouldn't at all be surprised if a lot of national delegates quietly and behind closed doors expressed a will for there not to be a public vote, since they did not want it their support for the Genocidal state of Israel to be on record and publicly known.

In Politics (and Eurovision is much more Politics than Art) many if not most things are really decided behind closed doors either without a vote or with a rigged vote - politicias abhor transparency and accountability.

Yeah, the amount of TV time spent on it is similar to the amount of TV time spent covering the European or World Football (soccer for Americans) Championships.

I suspect that without that overboard TV coverage almost literally shoving it down viewers throats, most people would forget about it.

Thanks for providing the seller point of view.

By "better option" I meant it for buyers, not sellers.

In some distros Linux is already at the "just works" stage for gaming at home, at least for desktop PCs.

I would say that investment in Proton and general Linux support was already driven by the strategical consideration that Microsoft might try to lock-down the PC gaming market.

In that light, the Steam Machine is another part of the same strategy.

The general point is that a closed proprietary system is seldom a better option than an open non-proprietary one.

Yeah, sure, "It's Steam" and "Gary is a good guy" (so supposedly was "Elon" about a decade ago, by the way), but Gary might have a heart attack and die tomorrow (nothing personal, Gary, I can happen to any of us) and then those with the closed proprietary system are way more likely to end up shafted by Steam's new "enshittification is the future" MBA management than those with the open non-proprietary one.

Ultimatelly it all depends on just how easy it is to wipeout the OS in a Steam Box and get a new one in.