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I don't think your math is right. That's 5x length and 4x width, not 20x length and width. If I was suddenly 20x bigger without changing my proportions, I doubt that would even be a facecloth to me.
It's also 2023 and I'm sick of pretending what happened didn't happen just because the internet doesn't like hearing about it.
Well, they are, but it's a story and a very cerebral one. Of course it has a lesson to learn from.
At least it wasn't being woke or preaching about the end times of a 2000 year old prediction. It really does become an issue when the aesop anvil doesn't need to be dropped.
See the difference is that morality has almost completely broken down in CP2077. What did V have to do between the prolog and tutorial to get a nice apartment and a reliable car? Those assholes at the meat packing plant where you get the robot sure don't look like they have any qualms even if V does.
Also, we still have an ecosystem and efficient oceanic transport. Climate change and a rogue AI that controls a global oceanic swarm of self replicating sea mines mean that the pizza is gross because pigs are extinct (they use tuna) and all overseas cargo is transported by air.
People still care about their friends, but that's it. Even if internet in CP2077 was global and filled with punks and not just a NetWatch-policed glorified municipal Teletext, do you think anyone would give a shit about the world they live in on a chat site?
It's also heavily implied that successful cyberpunks are vastly outnumbered by idiots who were in over their heads from the start and it cost those amateurs their lives. Those that succeed and become even slightly known, including V, are often exceptionally skilled individuals.
Because nobody made a Steam Deck until 2020. Everyone plays video games now and have for years, and unless you have a console, the only way to play 99% of video games is using Steam's windows version or a specially adapted Linux .
Don't get me wrong, the moment that Windows 11/12/etc. outright requires logging into a Microsoft account (Protip: As of this writing, using the email "[email protected]" and submitting a blank password forces Windows 11 to let you make/log into a local user account) to use it, I'll be installing Steam OS on my OneXFly, and it's why I don't use my "free" upgrade to 11 on my Windows 10 gaming desktop. I just don't think you realize how big a deal compatibility really is for gaming.
Absolutely. All said I like the Steam Deck's product quality; Far better than I feared, even if slightly underpowered.
And you have no idea how terrible that is. Idiots succeeded so well that in 5 years they won't be able to find anyone in the US who can afford to buy the distractions or will create another generation of workers. Capitalism is about to kill its first empire.
No, the services were made worse to cut costs because Silicon Valley Bank folded and there's no more tech investment money. Social media funded by big data was never a sustainable business model unless you could brainwash people into giving their data semi-willingly, which hasn't been the case in almost a decade; all it took to reveal the truth was two corporate social media sites fucking up at the same time.
Honestly this is yet another reason to distinguish between photographic images/live video of a minor, and the disgusting but necessary evil of fictional material. With scams like this and new AI generation capability, I'm scared that even kids younger than 13 who haven't even been forced to be involved in that photographic/video crap will be blackmailed using only their face and black market image AIs that draw on dark net CSAM.
By making fictional content legal while conversely increasing penalties for adults who exploit or attack REAL children in ANY way, not just sexually (because let's be honest, this scam, kiddy porn and a lot of physical non-sexual violence towards children by strangers is about exploiting kids for the money and nothing else) you deprive the black market of material for an AI-based extortion plan.
The only other option is to make it illegal for anyone under 18 to post content on the internet at all, which would kill Lemmy and the fediverse, big tech, VR, online gaming and modern education.
Yes, but that's because it motivated them to strike. That's basically the less violent version of a riot.
Huh? Just for clarity's sake, is this a good or bad thing?