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I don’t think they do have a problem with them, they already keep electing them in staggering numbers. The two most common denominators of conservative elected officials are incompetence and child sexual assault.

Personally I’ve been cooking through the System Shock games. The SS1 remake was my first proper introduction to the series and I loved it. I was pretty excited for the impending System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition but it, uh… doesn’t really seem like it’s going to be very enhanced. Especially compared to what you can do with just modding the base game. So rather than keep waiting for that I spent ten bucks on SS2 Classic and have been enjoying myself greatly.

I’ve always liked SHODAN just via cultural osmosis, but now having actually played the games she stars in, that’s cranked up to 12. I fucking love SHODAN. She might be one of the best examples of an evil rogue AI in any media, and also has an actual reason for going rogue besides just “mankind builds a machine too smart for them and suffers the consequences”. The entire story setup is so believable.

Anyway, tl;dr, the System Shock games are hella good and the remake is especially very good. Particularly because controlling classic SS1 is more like playing an operating system than playing a video game. Also SHODAN. step on me again metal mommy

Facebook isn’t there because it now comes pre-installed on nearly every phone in existence, and is often baked so hard into the core OS that it’s impossible to remove without flashing a custom ROM. If you’re lucky you might be able to disable Meta slop without bricking core functions of the phone. Removal is usually impossible.

Oh man, you think that was uncomfortable, try playing the VR version.

It makes you virtually kill yourself at least twice and implies mind control of the player.

Shit’s wild.

I don’t know if you’ve ever read the short story “The Egg” by Andy Wier, but if not, I think you’d like it.

https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

This doesn’t surprise me somehow, but… context?

I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.

I’m not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.

I haven’t heard this idea before and I really like it. You want to have your product manufactured by minimum wage workers in Cambodia? Sure, go ahead. But you’ll be paying them the minimum wage from your business’ home country, not theirs, and then paying shipping afterward to move your items to the sale location so it doesn’t actually benefit the business to abuse sweatshop labor rates.

They can’t, that’s part of why the stock market is in free fall.

Those power plants legally don’t exist.

Interestingly, only Tate is trying to say “that never happened” - his lawyers are instead opting to say that it happened too long ago to be prosecuted.

Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward

QAnon was the precursor to MAGA. It depended on stories of “deep state conspiracy” to sow distrust in the functional parts of US government, then quietly disappeared once its function was performed.

All this to say, it was a blindingly obvious psy-op that rolled up as many idiots as it could into one giant katamari ball of civil unrest, then loosed that ball toward US elections in a specific effort to remove Democrats from power.

BRC is an incredible replacement though. It’s not quite the same as OG Jet Set Radio, and I think that’s okay, but it is very clearly walking around with JSR’s bones inside. Besides which it has probably my favorite video game soundtrack from the past decade.

Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.

Dealer torches their own stock that they can’t sell, blames protestors, and gets to write off all those cars with insurance payouts instead of just sitting on them

The resources were never the point. The point is to make Ukraine refuse a “ceasefire deal” and then point at them and tell everyone they “don’t want peace”. It’s blatantly obvious.

Depends on the game I think. Guilty Gear is doing better than ever with Strive and actually has a decent population base for the first time. I do take some issue with the DLC character seasons but it’s hard to fault them too much for following what has become standard practice, and they’ve been continually releasing high quality content in every update. Their netcode needs some work but the game part of the game is pristine, it’s my favorite fighting game by a mile and as they continue to add in the rest of the old roster there’s becoming less and less reason to try and play the older Guilty Gear games.

Perfect Dark, on the other hand, totally still holds up today in my opinion, and there’s a decompilation project that works great on PC and Steam Deck.

Their holy book that they’ve definitely all read surely didn’t warn them of this possibility right?