you don’t have to say that, the social-score app will show that to everyone who looks you up.

i wish you could recognize that you consume just as much propaganda as the chinese, the difference being that your propaganda is aimed at keeping you small and fight your own fellow citizens, whereas the chinese propaganda is telling it’s people that they are doing great things, and how they can shape the world by working together.

It’s kind of fun to see you recognize that there are assumptions at play, and then do the same yourself. Technology as a threat. What if the threat is not the technology, but the west’s inability to keep their resources from being stolen by shareholders and billionaires? Because that is what is holding us back from developing and making the future ourselves. we just watch all of our resources go to infighting, incompetent management egos, and mega-yachts and fighting progress.

We in the west don’t even remember what a society can achieve without the bloodsucking billionaire parasites and shareholders siphoning off wealth. For us that would be “splurging”, for less insane societies it would be common sense.

because that’s what this is. Premade animations choreographed and scripted.

BUT

Do you have any idea what insane technology in soft and hardware is neccessary to make this happen?

this is beyond impressive, and China is way ahead of everyone else. Electric cars, Robotics, Renewable energy, medical research, Drone technology. The west needs to get rid of the incompetent conservatives that cling to a world that no longer exists or the west is the new third world.

it would be very very good AI made, and i have seen those robots do these things in tech demos before, so they definitely exist.

time to learn Chinese.

I understand it, it’s definitely a hobby, and it’s very hard to play “a bit” Eve Online :D

But, you know how it is, you don’t quit Eve, you just take long break :)

I’d say it’s in a very good state currently. much drama was had recently, Pandemic horde collapsed in less than 3 days after a botched attempt to leave dronelands and Panfam. WinterCo is attacking The Initiative. for the 4th time this time for realz. And Goons are so lacking targets that this time Test is actually next.

Intersting times, and a very good time to get in on the fun.

Eve Online, because it’s still the best playable Space Opera ever made.

if you haven’t, you should play Legend of Grimrock (1&2)

I understand that this is a problem for the studio, but no one would expect Disney to distribute a David Cronenberg movie.

Steam is THE mainstream distribution platform for games, and for that they are already pretty open for weird shit.

It’s this weird american free speech thing only for video games: “I’m allowed to make it so you have to sell it!”. No?

That is a valid point, and I think i’ll preemptively pivot to woodworking.

Well, good luck with that. Software development is a shit show already anyway. You can find me in my Gardening business in 2027.

Ahahahaha. .Good luck with that. :D

I think “difficulty settings” can work

all of the things you say are completely, 100%, unaffected by a difficulty setting.

The only thing a difficulty setting changes is that some people can say “I am better than you, I beat [game X] and you didn’t”

that’s it.

and even that is a complete illusion, see the prominent worst business man in the world, paying someone to make PoE ranks for him. Also there are mods, cheats and plain lying.

This whole thing is excluding people, and for what? Literally worthless bragging rights.

are you aware of the meaning of the word “setting” in this context?
Just in case I can explain:
It means you can switch something from one behaviour or effect to another, basically giving you a choice of how something should work. So, adding a difficulty setting changes nothing about your experience of the game.

do you need more words to explain this simple thing?

I can try to use simple language and shorter sentences if you require it?

would they still like it if there was a difficulty setting?

yes, i HATED that, and don’t think I ever finished any of those games.

that was not a good thing.

Every game should have difficulty settings, the more, the better.
That goes for indi darlings too.

Yes they do. If I want malware and non malware on my PC then that is up to me, I am the fucking admin.

Fixed your post, and yes you are the admin, you can do what you want.

I mean, i expected some comments on this, but that ? really?
very weak. back to the drawing board.

alternative: Games do not belong on computers that do non-game things.

Anyway, this is going to be resolved as soon as north korea finds out who many people have important stuff on PC they game on, and hack some hapless devs source to install a rootkit on 100m PCs via steam.

I just checked and i thought it would be more.

But I do not know and will never check the amount of time spent playing.

Oh, sod off with those posts allready.

I know perfectly well that I’m old, even without those “Hei, didyo know that yu are closer to WW3 than The first single of the Brian Eno”

I used to own a ilyama crt, it died a honorable death around 2000-ish while i was playing Dark Age Of Camelot. RIP my friend, i will always remember your 18kg of glass and plastic fondly.

The problem is that they are clearly targeting minors who don’t pay their own electricity bill, and dont even neccessarily have awareness that they are paying for their fortnite skins with their parents money. Also: there is a good chance that the generated pictures are at some point present on in the filesystem of the generating computer, and that alone is a giant can of worms that can even lead to legal troubles, if the person lives in a country where some or all kinds of pronography are illegal.

This is a shitty grift, abusing people who don’t understand the consequences of the software.