Far cry 2 had the best fire and foliage. It lives rent free in my head lol. Only downside was the constant patrols trying to mess you up.

I recently heard on the news in passing (or at least I think that’s where I heard it) that shoplifting has gone up by like 30% over recent years.

They were talking about the new ways stores are incorporating security measures, and it made me laugh a bit. All this time and money spent on increasing security when they could rally around paying people better and decreasing inflation.

For example, if you want people to spend money, they need money to spend. Mind blowing stuff, I know

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Everyone else, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

I’m a very casual downloader. I rarely download and it’s usually older content like movies or retro games. But my personal method has been do a ton of reading. Find chatrooms, forums, etc, where people discuss this topic and read up on the various sites and people’s experiences with them.

Have a separate device if possible. One you’re willing to wipe if something went wrong. I’ve also heard of people sandboxing downloads to try and keep things safer, but I’ve never personally tried it. My assumption is that the older and less complex a download is, the better, but that could be pure ignorance on my part.

For example, if I’m grabbing a GBA game, it’s one single file. There’s less to visually scan, and it’s easy to see if there’s something that looks off. This isn’t always the case, though. For example, one .exe file could ruin your entire machine.

Something newer like a more modern PC game release, I would pick it from a list of sources that people claim are safe, and then basically hope and pray that I didn’t just infect my machine lol. At that point, I try to also look for any suspicious behavior, or if i notice any kind of slowdown, issues with the machine, etc.

Generally speaking, anytime I’ve infected my machine (that I know of), whatever virus protection I’ve been running has caught it and prevented issues. But generally speaking, I would assume that unless you’re downloading simple stuff, you’re taking some risk.

One of the best gifts I got for someone else (and myself I guess because we enjoyed it together) was all the episodes of Reboot. To be honest, I’ve been at a loss as to what I would even sail the seven seas for right now. I have too much of a media backlog to warrant finding something new anyways.

I can’t even imagine a child wishing death upon themselves. Never mind comprehending it or understanding the severity. Those poor kids man. I don’t understand why peace can’t be an option. I just don’t get it.

I feel like it was bad that I was thinking of the Super Mario Bros when I read “trillionaire.”

I have very conflicting feelings about it all. We ultimately should have processes to stop people from accumulating too much wealth. There should be a cap, in my opinion. But I have no idea how that would be implemented or enforced. People become above the law when they hit a certain point, which defeats the point of our society. At that point, they are no different than kings and queens.

Was gona say, I wish Zuck would send me even 10k lmao

I think books were also a target at one point

Unfortunately, that hasn’t helped North Korea. I sometimes wonder about this myself, but I think It’s unlikely people would attempt to overthrow a brutal government. It requires extremely desperate angry people with absolutely nothing to lose.

I once saw a replica of a Naruto Shuriken as a fidget spinner. I really want to find one, but they all seem to be from sketchy looking websites lol

I never understood that. Nobody is going to want to work with America again in the future. They proved they can’t be trusted. Seemed pretty short-sighted when they’ll eventually need assistance again in the future

I’m surprised they kept going. I thought they would have stopped a while ago

Animal crossing pocket camp just became buy to play. It’s currently on a reduced price right now, and it’s pretty fun. I enjoy it because it’s played vertically, and now that there’s no micro transactions, I can earn all the items just by playing. It had a 7 year life cycle, so there’s a lot of content to check out.

The gameplay loop is fairly limited, and I wouldn’t say it’s the most fun. But once you get enough items to start decorating things, it makes it fun to spruce to your campsite and personal spaces.

The only game I played that was released this year was the eldin ring dlc. Give me a couple years and I can tell you what the GOTY for 2024 was lol

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/no-time-for-bullies-baboons-retool-their-culture.html

I always think back to this story and wonder if the same could happen for humans in some way. Maybe one day we’ll figure out a way to fix our societies

The LED headlights being put in are blinding. It didn’t used to be like this. A friend recently got a new vehicle that had them straight from the factory. I don’t understand it. Whenever I’m driving at night, I’m constantly getting blinded. It’s weird

I would assume anything posted to the internet is accessible by AI. Nothing is sacred. I’m sure if your voice or face has been posted online, there’s a chance for it to be used by AI in the future.

I guess you’re right. I guess I was thinking better service would equate to more sales /less worry about piracy

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