It's not that games today are good, it's that they're addiction factories. They're designed to keep giving you psychological rewards to get you to keep playing. It's the reason why every game keeps getting level systems and loot drops even when they don't help keep the game interesting - they're just skinner boxes that are training you to enjoy the experience.

That's not to say older games didn't also use them at times, but they are a whole lot more prevalent in modern AAA productions.

Also as others have mentioned, older games are generally not designed to take up as much time as modern games.

It happens a lot more than people realize. Especially when the watch is in play too. Often in impacts that are require the full support of all the public services, phones will get away from the drivers or passengers. The older button press to alert on the watch way was a sure fire solution to get someone to your exact location quickly. I’ve had patients come into the ER with the watch screen shattered and the phone screen shattered, but the service still worked and they were found in some east jesus knees rural setting in the dark and wreaked.

I’m going to need to look at the statistics since it is something we track (that they were responded to by automated phone services), but it does have a small error margin since our cardio patients with pacemaker/cardioverters/life vests all go home with a 4g monitor. I know that I’ve personally been involved in around 30 calls this year that involved the cellphone being the saving grace in an MVA. Not sure how many going back 5 or 6 (can’t remember when it actually started) years since apple started doing the SOS button press.

Have they fixed the roller coaster issue yet? Heard there was a problem with it accidentally calling an ambulance on people riding roller coasters.

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Most people either make their own. Either by retrofitting an existing commercial cabinet or making their own from scratch.

Then you’d know like 20% of patients are the same people on their latest bender and how common wasted 911 calls are.

Seriously, this sound fake. I got into a fairly major crash and the iPhone feature was completely useless, didn’t detect it at all.

Completely made that up.

Well that’s very sad that you’ve taken the view that people should just stop calling.

Clearly not the solution, how about better educating the general public on first aid?

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And frankly unlike 2010, you can achieve an app experience w/ mobile sites. You really can do it all w/ an iOS device. Including playing and saving emulated games.

It wasn’t an attack, it was a post opinion on what could have prevented such jade to keep YOU happier but I can see your point. Not trying to be offensive. Thank you for dedicating your life to your calling. It’s thanks-less at times and gets worse with time.

When I first started in the ED I remember clear as day a nurse who was a FANTASTIC nurse asking someone “when exactly did this become an emergency?” To something that was clearly not an emergency but was presented to the emergency room.

Her nursing was on point. She could work harder than anyone I ever met. Her attitude and jade weren’t. She (thankfully) left shortly thereafter to become the most incredible advocate for change but from a distance so that she didn’t continue to feel angry, frustrated and disappointed in a Brooke system but could continue to use her servants heart with action.

I left front lines for essentially the same reasons. We have all experienced the worst in people if you work for a single moment as a first responder.

But we’ve also seen the best and most selfless acts that the world almost never sees. Being grateful for an additional service that helps response times and assists in locating victims should be celebrated.

I hope you’re proud of what you did and can forgive those that took advantage of services that they abused and weren’t intended to use as they did.

Can’t argue with that.

I worked at an arcade bar, and we started a pinball league with the 5 pinball machines we had. Unfortunately they were always breaking down and quite costly, so we had to host the league 1 night a month to keep up. Well the league took it into their own hands to host the other 3 nights at their homes with their personal collections. The eldest of the group, had a basement with 71 pinball machines. I saw a video of it as I wasn’t in the league, but some of the players valued his collection at over $1 million worth of pinball machines. All kept up and maintained by the man. Which makes him, the man.

My "jade" as you call it is well earned and an opinion I am well entitled to. I wanted to make the system better ("We want to hear from you! Tell us what you think") and was ignored. Some due to politics and power struggles between medical directors, chiefs, hospital CEOs etc.... Ironically the very things I spoke of are now starting to be instituted, not because they are more efficient but because of economics. The system simply cannot continue this way anymore. I loved my job up until the day I retired and considered it a privilege to help people. I got angry when I hear a chest pain come up and I was taking you in for an earache at 3am that you were too lazy to call you're doctor about at 3pm. Every medic feels this way eventually, even you, after seeing how horribly run 911 is in this country. Litigation /fear is a big part of it as well. Suffice it to say you don't know me, nor I you, so let's work a shift together and tell me if I'm "jaded". Ad hominem attacks are a sign of a weak argument.

Because an OLED has REAL black. It’s off. This is the correct way to display video.

LCD is awful. Once you see that grey bleeding into black it’s all you can see.

Android also has crash detection.

I also choose this kid’s father.

You’ve obviously never worked in a hospital or in the medical field.

People call for an ambulance when their toe is stubbed. But, there was one day that always stuck out to me, there was a woman who came in, a nut job who wears a helmet to walk around outside, because she tripped and fell on her arm. It wasn’t broken, it was sprained, scraped and a bit bloody, but no worse than an average afternoon for an elementary school boy. She claimed to be in 10/10 chest pain though, so she was brought back, her only issue was the arm and she wanted to be seen quicker.

Meanwhile, waiting there, was this woman who was like 6 months pregnant and had lupus, going through some major complications, being carried back and forth to the bathroom by her Boyfriend or husband. Occasionally screaming out in pain; And an 18 year old girl, who’d been hit by a car going 35 mph through a red light who had 2 broken legs, and had been knocked out by the impact, Trying her best to bear with the pain

Those two waited for fucking two hours (at least until the end of my shift) because they told the truth, the helmet nut, was out in less than two hours with only a bandage.

Oh yay, more apple marketing. Wow! Are they that desperate to sell overpriced phones? I guess they need this to justify their overpriced phones... 🤬🤦🏻👎🏻 Crash detection came standard on pixel phones 4 years ago...

Yeah, most people nowadays have had phones for long enough that there isn't much novelty to messing around with apps or widgets.

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Personally, even though Apple has mostly caught up with respect to hardware, there are still quite a few software features Apple does not support:

• FireFox mobile adblocker
• Game emulation
• Root access
• Support for more USB devices
• Always-On-Display tweaks
• YouTube Vanced

If they fixed some of these, it'd be a much closer decision.

I-see what you did there. Nerds unite.

Edit-dang Apple autocorrect.

How the hell is this even considered journalism? They could have at least contacted him for a comment.

Maybe you should have retired at 33 years to have less jade. Former first responder here too. Leave before it gets you to this point of view from a Reddit post.

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"He was on a phone call with her when he heard her scream — and the line went dead."

"Another driver had been distracted and crossed into traffic, hitting his wife head-on"

seems like she was distracted