It does mean the lootbox mechanic. The term comes from gachapon, Japanese vending machines where you get a small plastic capsule that contains a random figure/toy of some kind. In gaming, the virtual capsule can of course contain anything, such as new characters, recently often anime girls.

Additional information for innocent bystanders: Frau Klöckner and Nestle REALLY like each other. Do with this what you will.

Ich weiß ja nich, ob es so ne wahnsinnig gute Idee ist, zwei Gruppen, die auf Unterstützung angewiesen sind, gegeneinander auszuspielen.

… Moment, wo wird hier nach oben gebückt?

Different situation altogether.

Abteilung “lieber nich fragen, nachher nerv ich noch (ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ)” hier. Lehre mich deine Wege.

I need them all but that is so much moneyyy-hyhyhyhyyyy (T____T) *missing 13 noises*

I don’t really care whether you benefit in any way from my picture, published or not, for profit or not. If I don’t want you to have it, you don’t get it. What gives you the right to take my picture? Besides, why do you even want it if you’re not using it for something?

Oh good. That is reassuring.

I’m okay with a shorter season and that ending as long as it doesn’t lead to more Kirk. The man’s been dead for 31 years, let him rest.

“Let me put it this way: I certainly wouldn’t say no [to a follow-up show set on the Enterprise]”

I would.

The title here seems misleading, in Nintendo’s favour. Apparently Nintendo claims there is water damage to get around a repair.

You can use public spaces all you like, you do not get to use my face however you like.

Yeah, even the fact that OP seems to think (a lot?) about focussing their mind and paying attention might suggest something in that direction. Neurotypical people don’t seem to think about that shit (read: that amazing ability to “just do the thing”) at all. But I have ADHD too, that’s why I know that shit only becomes good (or even gets done) if I actively make myself pay attention to it. I just don’t think that’s unusual per se, only that I need to work harder than other people to achieve the necessary level of attention. I also (sometimes, on good days, when I’ve just finished a piece) consider myself an artist and part of that is (most likely) due precisely to the fact that my mind doesn’t want to focus.

Maybe I’m just confused by the flowery language.

It seems to have been a thought you had that you deemed significantly unusual enough to post it in showerthoughts. I’ve been telling you my understanding of your words, under the assumption that I must be misunderstanding something, so you could clarify them for me. Your replies have unfortunately stayed too vague and flowery for me to understand. Carry on.

remove even more of our liberty to use public space (which is supposed to be ours).

I mean, your freedom to record in public ends where my freedom to not be recorded in public starts.

The way I understand it is that if anyone complains, you’d also have to prove that you didn’t record and the device has never had the ability to create a permanent record. Which seems difficult.

I honestly fail to understand what seems to be so mind-blowing about this for you. I’m genuinely confused. Because it still sounds to me like you’re saying if you focus on the thing you’re doing, it becomes good. Which, yeah? That’s how that usually works? Again, genuinely confused.

Or you could help me understand what you’re saying. If you can’t be bothered, okay, but it would be nice if you said so.

I suppose I’m asking for clarification.

So you’re saying the solution is to write a description of the thing you want the word prediction machine to write of description of.