Hang on, there are other countries?

Again, you misunderstand. They arrest you because of your actions and specifically because of the intent.

You misunderstand. Soliciting merely means the act of trying to procure sex for money.

They don’t need a sting for that. They just sit someone near a red light district and roll every car that pulls up and let’s known sex workers get in their car.

Edit: not saying any of that is right though. It certainly feels like punching down… And if anything, it encourages some far more dangerous practices, particularly for sex workers.

Often countries have laws that make the solicitation the illegal act for that exact reason.

Or the arrest folk for conducting their business in public… So lewd behaviour.

The side stories were mostly absent and not interesting at all.

Then

I did the story for Far Cry 6 and some of the side stuff in about 12 hours, then uninstalled the game

Come on pal, I don’t disagree, it felt the weakest of the series… But this feels like you wanted to dislike the game before even playing it. Plus, you can’t really criticise something as being absent if you just chose not to engage with it.

You’d use a big ass gun upgraded with special armor piercing bullets, shoot a regular dude right in the head and he would just shrug it off and keep going.

Yeah? I had the opposite problem. Using the first rifle you get with a silencer and some armour piercing rounds you could one shot every enemy with a head shot. Took away a lot of the fun by making me have to ignore that and use different guns that were substantially weaker just for some fun firefights.

Before GPT I would be googling things for hours each day, visiting forums, watching YouTube videos, etc.

And then…

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So, basically the same but with an extra step that might be bullshit.

Cool.

Dunno, seems pretty good to me.

Which means it is about the economics. Which is what I said.

You just "um achserkly"ed me to make the same point but longer.

I mean, leaving now … How very brave and probably not about the economics of remaining.

The big brain move was to ask them first, thereby proving you wanted to use their IP.

If he had just faked it anyway without asking he might have got away with it.

Genius strategist.

I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.

I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.

The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.

That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.

Yeah? Cool.

I don’t think that’s true. There’s a great video here that highlights the fact that even a lot of modern slang is far older than you think.

https://youtu.be/BFgg-Gy0E2g?si=4qXv92KZaMN0odKO

Mate, the thing about gen x is that they dont care. This is boomer energy being projected.

Which is cool, I guess, whatever.

It replaces workers with robots so it would probably save money too.

And now the workers cannot afford bread.

Next move?

Dead drops and one time pads.

Set up a numbers station if you can afford it.

That makes a lot of sense.

As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.

I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.

I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.

And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.

Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.

As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.

They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.

When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.

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