Both I reckon. The old ones are all offline of course.

Then they will always be useless as standalone trustworthy agents.

I’m ancient, but I learned both to use the computer and English when I started gaming on the family Amiga at around age 6. My fondest memories were of adventure games like King’s Quest and Space Quest, which incidentally required decent command of English.

There’s tons of more modern and kid-friendly adventure games out there nowadays, but the principle stands.

No, the corporations learned their lessons from back then and they’ve successfully divided us along ideological or other lines, rather than class. In fact they’ve tried to fully erase class consciousness and I’d say they sadly succeeded.

I meant Theroux’ interview, not his subject. He’s not responsible for the things his interviewees say.

Speaking truth to power was always a revolutionary act. Seems like we’re going back to the old days.

Recently added n° 3 to the list as well. Gotta say, anxiety and despair hit different when possible homelessness enters the mix.

I don’t know whether to fear or admire people who manage to thrive under these circumstances.

Hardly surprising from people whose family tree looks more like a circle.

Definition of shortstack lol.

It’s crazy, it’s as if these corporations don’t WANT my money. Never, EVER buy into day 1 DLC, it’s the most anti-consumer practice in the entire games industry.

People need food. People need housing. People are freezing in winter and boiling in summer.

“Please help us”

“Sorry, best I can do is ChatGPT. Ask it how to survive, or how to entertain you, idc.”

I’ll probably still buy it… in a year or two, heavily discounted with all dlc included. But at these prices and conditions at launch? Lol.

Sorta. It’s being somewhat selectively enforced. Certain people always seem to be able to skirt the rules without consequences.

Here in Belgium you pay an extra tax on unoccupied homes. Unless you can prove you’re working on getting it up to standards, but there are hard time limits on those permits.

The common people? Hardly. To them it really didn’t matter all that much as long as they were protected from war and famine.

But eventually that happened and they couldn’t ignore it anymore.

The elites of society will have been much more aware of the situation (and acted accordingly).

Yeah I think the Romans around 400 AD felt very much the same.

Holy shit, that’s Caligula levels of conceit. Next he’ll make his dog a fucking senator.

Not accurate. In reality the piss splashes down on the unwashed masses beneath.

Ayup. People seem to have no idea what’s coming next. Millions will die. And we can warn them as much as we want, no one will believe us. That also absolves us of the responsibility imho.