Oooo a fresh take on the reality of the situation.

Yeah, that’s the notion I think I most identify with. I was like “support better behavior for a relatively low cost? Hmmm I guess so, there’s a huge value here and it feels like an olive branch”

And hoooo how wrong we all were. Never again will I ever trust one of these companies. Now, it’s me as a user and everything is transactional and always with a free alternative.

Same

Uh oh.

Yeah w7 is so easily hackable it’s insane. It’s like a flashing wide open door onto the entire network.

Fuck

Hopefully they don’t ever connect to the Internet…

Thank fuck

Holy shit!

What the fuck

It was bad enough when potential dates stalked you online.

Then it was shitty when bosses started doing it.

Then infuriating and decimating when potential employers started doing it.

And people were just … Okay with it for some reason.

And now the ACTUAL GOVERNMENT is doing this?

No. Actually no. This is only going to get worse. Literally stop and think about this for one minute, this is actually terrible and we have to put a stop to it.

There’s far too much stuff trying to control me and I’m fucking sick of it.

You will Nazi it coming.

Depends on who you are and what circles you run in ;)

Excuse me for being a bad techie, but… Wtf is rss? I’ve been around since before dsl, and rss has never been something I’ve researched or understood.

I get that it’s a feed, i think? Is it like a file that is a subscription protocol?

This tech has been in TVs easily for the past ten years.

Did you know this stuff is in most modern cars, too? Fuck. EVERYTHING listens to you now.

I hate to use this phrase, but, back in my day, we used to call this SPYWARE and it was treated as a virus - it was highly unacceptable by people.

Nope.

Don’t like that.

That sounds amazing to have been a part of

I mean, we already knew what the UK thought, it’s all over in their day to day language

I, too, sometimes like to pretend like I don’t know anything about global politics to make myself feel better.

I regularly play gw2 and in it there’s a mode called world-vs-world that’s a three way team “bigger” scale battle (bigger than 5v5 pvp) that often has hundreds of players in (I’m not sure exactly how many, I just looked it up but there’s little concrete information because it looks like the devs change it over time, but I’m guessing like 300 total players per map that often gets maxed and you have to queue for).

Players can spend a chunk of gold to enable a toggleable commander status tag on their entire account (you get 1 gold for base dailies, costs 300 gold for tag). In WvW, those commanders often lead larger scale pushes for claiming territory over a ranked “tournament” that ends and resets each month.

I’ve noticed it’s also an interesting sociology study, but from what I’ve seen, the Chinese commanders do coordinate and split up and do pincers and stuff. It seems like one big zerg isn’t as effective since yeah you’ll take what you go for no matter what, but it’s all about allocation of resources and fighting the actual battle… and that takes actual work, when a lot of people are just interested in farming out crafting materials, currencies, achievements, or other reasons. Which is fine, but part of me wants to see the game mode go 100% and see what it’s capable of.

Depending on time of day around the world and when people are awake or home from work, there are huge spikes in activity.

I never played much PlanetSide 2 because at the time my pc was a potato and I was still wrist deep into counter strike. Would those maps ever end? Or was it also like a perma-sisyphean timeless battle? Was there ever a winner?

The only good nazi…