Fuck no this is a technocrat idea?!

Hahahaha. Those fucking idiots had ideas so bad they’re going to destroy the USA a hundred years later. Amazing

The raw numbers maybe obscure this but aren’t the popularity levels are really about how far along the radicalisation they are?

People start watching for the lifestyle and fitness then end up believing the other stuff and watching for that. I guess women stall out more because who could believe that kind of stuff about themselves?

He had a career spanning dozens of stone cold classic movies, incredible performances all.

And I will always first remember him corpsing over SPAAACE!!!

By age checking everybody connecting to social media

It’s not fictions job to sell your latest rentier extraction tool. The news media already does it by reprinting PR releases just be grateful for that.

If you want a positive view of the future any startup has the power to make one at any time. Then when you don’t get funding you’ll see where the real problem lies.

I suppose if you use that definition then when America invaded it became a failed state run by warlords and now it has recovered.

Typically working with a junior on a project is slower than not working with them. It’s a little odd you see this as like that and that it’s also faster.

The thing to understanding crashes is that they’re a crude signal of an underlying reality. Not a thing in themselves.

This isn’t like the 2008 crash, or any other, because the reality that’s causing the number to go down is totally different. Except maybe the great depression. It’s a bit like that.

There’s a lot of suspiciously crap games that manage to explode to the top of the steam trending list. I’ve been bitten before.

This one has art that looks so generic I can’t even tell if they’re screenshots or promo pics unrelated to the game. It suddenly makes sense now I know it’s genai. It’s not trying to communicate anything to a user it’s just vibes man.

It could also spell the end of today’s open Internet, as Europeans look to build alternative platforms to those of the giant U.S. tech firms.

I think you mean “closed internet”!

Shadows is great tbh. Can’t speak about sales figures but it’s the most fun I’ve had with AC in ages. The jumps being ninja roll jumps is perfect.

Valhalla was far too serious, a schlocky Japanese revenge flick is much more on target.

What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?

Oh no

It peaked at 4 with the fall from heaven 2 mod

There was a story about two teens in Germany recruited to a private discord through I think Roblox, a bellingcat podcast on use of games as recruitment mentioned it.

The act of helping in the game builds trust fast and speeds up the recruitment.

Luckily these two went to the police after the blackmail/encouragement/ conditioning escalated to performing real world violence.

How many others didn’t? Or were pushed slower so they were more caught up?

Awful stuff. And we have the UK shutting down local biking forums and fedi servers to protect children.

The draw from Skyrim and other ES games is wandering around and stumbling on cool stuff.

They both removed wandering by having you fly your ship to a planet, and removed the cool stuff by making the planets procgen.

It’s good fun exploring the cities and space stations but then that’s it. They designed out the entire game in favour of more procgen content.