It seems like we live in a post-truth world now.

China has been a post-truth country for a while now.

Seems to be a staple in diplomacy for powerful states. Can't think of any that are exempt.

How dare you. I'll have you know that here in the land of hamburgers we just play shell games with words and definitions until the dialogue is so confusing and tedious that people just get tired of fighting it.

I'm probably not the only one to observe this, but it always means something different to say "X is just as bad as Y" than "Y is just as bad as X", despite a purely logical outlook implying commutativity.

i was redirected to a iCloud credential siphoning form on iOS.

The page you linked contains a link to download and install MacOS High Sierra.

Although I will try to find this information myself in the meantime, I'm looking forward to you sourcing this.

Furthermore, although it's true that IBM didn't purchase DDOS protection, neither did the government pay them to purchase it. IBM is incompetent but in this particular case I can't blame them for attempting to make a meager profit out of the pittance the Australian government chose to spend on their first act of digital governance.

In all seriousness, based on the ad I was thinking this was some sort of Mario-themed AR game similar to Pokemon Go. It's not clear to everyone.

Exactly what I thought too, man. Don't listen to these people. They aren't providing useful responses.

Why do several people here think that "it's a video game" has any merit or descriptiveness to it?

It's obviously a video game. The real question is, what kind of game is it? And this question was not answered by the video. Plain and simple.

I just replied to one of your other comments where I argued that the title was enough to tell you everything you need to know. But I guess I can see how other people wouldn't see it that way.

For me, the fact that it is a game named Super Mario Run, made by Nintendo, for the iphone, instantly tells me that it will be a side scrolling runner-style game featuring Mario in Super Mario Bros style levels, with basic touch controls. In fact it occurred to me that I hadn't verified these assumptions and I just checked out the about page and found that it looks exactly like I expected.

I guess some people make the exact same assumptions I do, and this is totally not obvious to others, hence all of the miscommunication and arguing in this thread.

I replied to your other comment, and my stance is unchanged.

You got lucky in assuming what the game would be about. If you had done the same thing with other games (e.g. Pokemon Go) you would have completely missed the opportunity to discover a new kind of game.

I advise not judging things by their cover, unless you want to risk not discovering something new.

However, there is an abundance of information on the site about exactly what kind of game it is.

I won't defend the site design - it should be easier to get to https://supermariorun.com/en/about.html, but it still takes very little effort to find this.

I find this disingenuous. I am an IBMer using an IBM provided Macbook, and the main reason the Mac is easier to use than IBM's PC (Lenovo, Toshiba) internal offerings is because IBM has made a genuine attempt at making it a good user experience, I assume 'because it's a Mac', and because of the ongoing 'IBM+Apple' alliance.

They've created a 'Mac@IBM app store' to install common programs like Notes, Flash Player, Java - this effort didn't exist for Windows (any IBMers reading this - ISSI is completely different).

Getting a license for something such as Microsoft Office is as simple as opening this Mac@IBM App Store and clicking download. On Windows you have to use a Lotus Notes form to request licenses, justify your business usage, wait for approval, then take your machine to the help desk.

They use the system internal networking configuration to handle networking. The Windows images use convoluted third party programs with non-intuitive interfaces.

They offer a simple, public facing URL (which I won't add here) which downloads a small .dmg which when run, downloads and unpacks everything you need to take a Mac fresh from Apple into a productive IBM machine, including VPN. The only way to reimage your IBM provided PC is to take it to the help desk.

Even the internal online help for OS X vs Windows is better - the OS X help site is neat, well laid out, and holds your hand through configuring everything. The Windows site is a mash of poorly tagged wiki pages and broken links.

There are definite issues. Sametime and Notes have the same problems they do on Windows. Sametime crashes silently. Notes - I still don't actually know how to close it without using Force Quit or the command line if I'm already there. The Mac@IBM store doesn't actually seem to be able to provide updates to software that it's installed - just throws an error. We are responsible for the security of our laptops at office locations and are provided Kensington locks for this, but Macbooks don't have a Kensington lock slot.

I could go on but I'm not trying to disparage IBM here, just point out the logic behind some of the commentary in the article.