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Arguments over whether Goku would beat Superman in a fight.

If your free time is required to be spent optimally then you aren’t experiencing the actual freedom of it. If what you want to do is nothing then do nothing.

The answers you’re getting are backwards, causally. The trend of Japanese games using the rightward button for confirm and the downward button for cancel started on the Super Nintendo, which the PlayStation copied its controller design from.

The four shapes used on the PlayStation buttons were chosen as pictographs representing their intended uses. So O is O because O was already equivalent to a checkmark in Japan, with X being negatory across cultures. Square was intended for menus or references, shaped like a computer window or sheet of paper. And if I remember right, the upward pointing triangle represented the idea of the top of the player character, suggesting head, suggesting eyes, suggesting camera control in anticipation that 3D games would need a primary button for that. But these other two buttons being prescriptive of function instead of reflective of the function that was already there got roundly ignored. Western games, which already favored the downward button for confirm before the PlayStation, ignored all four intentions.

As for your GTA experience, many games localize their menu controls just the same as localizing their language.

Why, since the days of the Super Nintendo, has Japan favored a rightward confirm while other countries favored downward one? I haven’t the foggiest.

discern what’s real from what’s created to play with my emotions and generate money for the creator or advance an agenda.

Not mutually exclusive.

When AI can make a convincing facsimile of something, that thing in its genuine form is already hollow and manipulative.

Final one made by him, specifically, with the explicit plan being to then sell the property off for other people.

It’s destined to turn into a zombie regardless of what he does but he wants one more go himself before then.

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It would greatly benefit your argument to provide another possible explanation.