Yeah, another factor I didn’t even mention. The voluntary surveillance.

Well, we already experience that psychological torture. After 2002/2003, and then especially after 2012, this concept has already burdened our everyday behavior. Browsing behavior, phone calls, texts, emails…every single way we communicate, even face to face meetings with phones in our pockets are open to surveillance. And it’s been shown that it’s been used. Over a decade ago, thanks to Snowden. Now? Things have surely gotten worse and I would bet the farm on behavior very much having changed due these facts.

Am I the only one that thought that walking animation looked…terrible? And for a cinematic trailer. So jittery and stiff. Or am I just trippin?

Well, technically there are a shit ton of shitty subsidiaries. There are only like six companies, period. Which is a problem in and of itself. And it turns out all six are shitty.

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Stealing food from corps is never wrong

For example, a generic shock humor joke about dead babies is different than a specific person’s dead baby that died in a tragic accident.

But…which is the funnier one?

Yeah, I’ve already spent a desert island’s worth of time playing rdr2. Although, I actually like the guarma storyline. Mostly because I want a whole game about Hercule’s story.

Or my data

I…responded to your comment.

While i agree with the sentiment thats a ridiculous comparison. Thinking you have nothing to hide from the government is not the same as thinking you have nothing to hide from random entities on the internet. You already give the government all of that stuff when you literally just exist. Go get a social security card or a drivers license. Absolutely asinine to try to compare the two.

And I said “increasingly the entities are the problem.” And you challenged that. And continued to. Hence where this conversation ended up.

In the privacy community, you’re confused as to how big tech is violating your privacy?

Fuckin Forbes knows it. Establishment democrats know it. But you don’t?

Your cars are spying on you. How is this news?

lol this is literally the next article linked in my feed after I submitted this comment. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/30/texas-meta-facebook-biometric-data-settlement/

…google, Microsoft, Facebook…need I go on?

In the early 2000s, the issue was primarily the government. Patriot act made sure of that. And yeah, it’s still an issue with regards to the amount and types of data they’re storing and who the government is currently comprised of, but in 2024, the much larger privacy issue is from private data holdings. All those random fuckin apps you have, every cell phone carrier, every goddamn car now. Your data is the product now. And capitalism is the problem.

But increasingly, the data you need to care about not being private isn’t from the govt. airs from those random entities. And their security is godawful.

Not to mention possibly have one last happy memory with a relative you thought was gone forever. If he steers it back into hatred, well, at least you tried.

Right? That’s what I was coming to comment

I use aura, but mostly for credit safety and ease of access to freeze/unfreeze my credit report. Got it after the experian hack ordeal. They have a ton of other services, including a data mining record deletion service and a call monitoring service. I would recommend it for pretty much everything I’ve listed. It’s made my life a lot easier, put my mind at ease. I also work a job where my personal info gets put in a lot of hands I basically have no choice but to trust. So this was kind of a necessity for me. Look into aura’s cheapest plan, see if it includes the data mining removal stuff. The extra layer of security for me is worth it, no question, but the added benefits of this, for example, and the spam call blocking just seals the deal in my opinion.

I mean, that’s how production works. It’s an investment. The company invests in the games, spending their own money, and then sell it to make that money back and profit. That’s how it works in every other industry. And, the most similar thing to compare it to: video production. Movies, tv, etc.

This stupid method is what ends up creating all of the problems with game production, namely that stupid “crunch” shit. They take peoples money, creating impatience in the customer, and then squeeze the programmers in order to deliver when the company creates this sudden ticking clock because they didn’t want to do business like every other company ever. Invest in the product, make it good enough to profit. If you fail, it’s your money lost, just like it is for movie studios.

You’re definitely right the journos are pouring gasoline on this fire, but it’s an entirely self-created problem for the studios.

I mean, a big part of why this is such a problem these days has to come down to them getting pressured to release games, right? Why even announce them so early then? Why are we talking about these when they’re not even in production yet. The studio can just say, “yeah, we’ll be making sequels to the games you love, but they won’t be out for a long time, longer than I can even predict.”

They light their shoes on fire and then run around doing stupid shit, releasing games too early by trying to create hype before they’re remotely ready to deliver on them. It just seems like such a self inflicted wound that does not need to happen. Don’t announce shit until you’re really about to button the game up. What good does years of “it’ll be coming out soon-ish!” do for them? Is it all about preorders to fund the last legs of production? I just don’t get it. It seems like a huge problem that they’re just creating themselves for absolutely no reason. Why go through the months of bad reviews, bad press, angry customers, and getting shit all over for a massive fuck up when they could’ve just released it a few months later? The game will be bought either way. And you skip the whole “everyone is pissed because our otherwise good game just isn’t ready yet” stage. So bizarre.

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Umm….

Goth girls never exercise. They’re exorcise