Interesting :) And yes, for me it also became easy to switch once I was aware of the truth of what I was looking at.

If you look directly at the can you can see it as white, but if you look elsewhere and the can is only in your peripheral vision it seems to always be interpreted as red.

There are lots of reasons why governments might desire to get rid of physical currency.

1. Crime - Physical money is the option of choice for criminals as it allows them to make off-record transactions so their activities are hard to trace

2. Tax - When otherwise legal business is conducted in cash, it’s possible for business income or employee pay to be undeclared or underreported, meaning the government is losing out on tax revenue. This is huge, and the gov really wants their slice of that cash.

3. Manufacturing and distribution - A minor point, but it is expensive to make physical currency, as well as to keep improving it to prevent forgeries and such. Getting rid of physical currency removes this problem.

I’m sure there are other reasons but those are what came to mind.

Despite these factors, any move to a fully cashless society is controversial, because not everyone is in a position where being fully digital is feasible. It has the worst effects on those who are already marginalised and disadvantaged in society, like the homeless, who may not even be able to open a bank account.

So I think it will be quite a long time until it might happen.

It’s a nightmare that we live in a world where this bullshit even exists.

This annoys me so badly.

I don’t drink carbonated beverages, so when I go into a place and don’t want beer then my options are basically coffee or water.

Fine in the mornings, but I don’t want a coffee at 5PM. So I guess it’s just water then huh

It will stop me buying the game, is what it will do.

They both are to an extent, but I think Prey inherits much more of the DNA.

I first played Riven as a child, together with my mother on the family’s first-ever PC, which was a Pentium 133 MHz with 16 megabytes of RAM and no Internet.

At one point we got totally stuck, and after days of fruitless wandering we were forced in desperation to call the premium-rate phone number that came on a leaflet in the box, just to get some hints on the solution.

Different times.

I played every Myst game since, and I’ll probably play this too.

Interesting.

I’m certain there are very real differences between men and women in this regard, but the methodology feels like it reduces the quality of the data.

It would have been nice if the researchers could have used eye tracking to see where people were actually looking, rather than asking them to click on what drew their attention. There’s surely at least some difference between what people are actually doing, versus what they self-report as doing when asked about it.