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A comforting thought.

We’re in the first act of a shitty, new internet that’s fully captured and tracked.

I do this, but with my half-naked anime figures.

This should be a part of the new employee training for D&D players.

I really have no idea.

So, now that Epic won against Google, Valve is going to swoop in and sell Android games?

For every one game this happens to there are thousands of others that flop every year.

Usually there’s a suitcase full of money politicians are supposed to take to the bank before flipping on everything they ran on. Maybe he didn’t get the memo?

It’s the era where the CIA was operating within US borders, torturing and experimenting on US citizens. Women couldn’t have bank accounts. Everything had lead in it. Workers were basically huffing asbestos.

I could go on, but you get the idea. I’m sure it was nice for a few people, but the average American was worse off than you or I today.

As bad as things are now, at least you don’t live in the 1950’s USA.

This is some shit boomers say after they vote down the high density housing that forces zoomers to work two jobs just to afford rent and groceries.

You’re telling me businesses didn’t want to hold meetings in Second Life and consumers didn’t want Facebook harvesting data?

I’m shocked, I say. Shocked!

The ending is perhaps wrapped up a little too perfectly. You look at something like Twin Peaks and you know who did it, but it ends in whatever the opposite of wrapped up perfectly is and people talk about it for decades.

When a product’s most promosing feature is you can turn it off, you might have a problem.

no way they get it running at playable frame rates without a second dedicated graphics card on current gen hardware.

Their marketers are salivating at the thought.

Reddit ban for a R1 violation.

Apparently if you say punching a nazi is a form of self-defense they’ll say you’re inciting violence.

Finally, Gamers™ are getting a filter for all the female protagonists that aren’t hot enough. Gaming is healing!

I’m very bothered by that change.

I’m unbothered by this change.

It makes more sense than it doesn’t.

Maybe not as shadow cabal type of collusion, but as the path of least resistance that all these entities would find themselves going down independently… at the same time.