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Yeah my big old truck has basically no blind spot. I'm getting a new work vehicle soon and am going to need to retrain my brain hard.

You can host offline servers of older mmos easily. I had my own lineage 2 private server in middle school. Private online servers too. Wow classic became a thing because private vanilla servers were incredibly popular.

You should be able to do this for any game. I understand them fighting it during the games lifetime.

Most games won't need it. When every other offline game says "buy" but the games as a service one has to say "rent" for the same price, consumers will notice I think.

The world got by just fine when answering machines and paper maps were the norm.

What is silly about going to do an errand without distractions? It's more efficient in my experience. I wont look up stuff in the store or answer texts that in reality can totally wait. I've yet to have something happen where not having my phone lead to me missing some big emergency or event.

Going out into the world is in fact the opposite of abandoning all contact, it's directly interfacing. According to your comment, you equated your world with access to your phone.

Maybe the design is terrible, that's an option too.

Thanks, that's wild. I chuckled when I read that it was using deep neural network "YOLO".

Your last paragraph is spot on. From a players perspective, more than one MMO I played clearly had bot/script problems that the devs always addressed publicly but never took the easiest and obvious solutions.

Hard to not see it - esp in smaller games - as the bots and cheaters providing too much revenue to cut out completely.

Wait how does using a capture card let you cheat? Not disputing, very curious. Like a bot sits inbetween and makes the correct moves?

I don't play fps anymore not trying to cheat lol

I just can't implicate a whole country is bad because their regime is bad. I initially had to pause when you questioned "bad regime, good people" but find I can't say all of Iran or China is bad because of their govt - the countries I most often think of when that phrase comes to mind.

Edit: where do you draw the line? Is an immigrant from a 'bad' country a bad person? Why didn't we try more Germans if what you say about support is true?

I am just not willing to say a whole country is bad because a current bad regime has support.

Obviously couldn't be used in most commercial spaces but would it really be that harmful to run at home? I'm not that knowledgeable about computer security. Just don't know why a hacker would target a random home user, if that's even the fear.

That is awful, I see.

I've been to SK numerous times. The older people dislike Japan A LOT. But their biggest base is a US one. I've never heard fear of the JDF. They have another more problematic neighbor.

The United States - who made the constitution that banned the military - does exercises with and supports the JDF. Idk if that fits unconstitutional anymore.

Their denial of horrid events and their attempts to suppress the fact that comfort women happened is undeniably awful though and shows many did not learn.

> Our views and actions are all the product of our environment.

And if that view is manipulated by people way more powerful than you...

I'm all for personal responsibility but we have laws against certain practices because companies can hack brains so well. You don't think states can do it just as well if not better?

Well officially Israel doesn't have nukes. They are widely believed to have them ofc but that's something they have to consider. Breaking the ambiguity by using them could spark a lot of 'we told you they were super dangerous' responses(with action) possibly. You might be right tho.

That's a good thing to know. Thanks.

You were judging the morality of the people in your above comment. Being manipulated into giving support doesn't make the people bad.

I am interested to know why you call out Japan as learning nothing. Obviously modern Japan has an excellent reputation and is not known as a warring nation( "no military" but ofc they have the JDF) so I'm guessing there's something deeper I don't know. Genuinely curious.

I don't even know that much about the school but I read the headline as "Virginia based tech sector scientists"

VA tech does not have the most agreeable ring compared to the others you listed tho that's for sure.

Kinda reminds me of how depth charges work

As a jewelry maker and guitar player I am gonna enjoy this either way

But usually a few minutes of research reveals a better option. I'm guessing most won't so that's a success for advertising I suppose.

It clearly does. That's why my post was about avoiding it at all costs.

I however can confidently stand by my no purchase claim. I'm guessing you arent actually clicking facebook ads(if u don't run adblock for some odd reason.) It's not difficult to avoid that.

I see where you're coming from. I feel it's more like: you've never heard of a product. All of a sudden every YouTuber is shilling raycon earbuds.

Well that's the only place I ever hear of them. They all say they're great! I've never seen them or had anyone else attest to it except ads that all came out of nowhere. Seems like a play to make big moves in the headphone market. They sure did spend a lot on marketing, I hope enough went to design to make em actually good.

Now, I don't own any raycons because as I said seeing this behavior makes me skeptical of the product.

Meanwhile the main headphones I use I've never seen an ad for once. A friend recommend the m50x's when we were djing. I tested em and loved em. After getting them I notice they are basically an industry standard for audio which is my work. I suspect the quality product with savvy ads in appropriate places lead to this situation. No doubt in audio magazines audio technica runs ads.

When every YouTuber has done an incogni, nord, raid shadow legends, or a few others, I have to suspect they spent more on marketing than they did their product which makes me think(and has been shown a few times) that these products kinda suck.

Genuinely wondering as I would love to say what you did in your first sentence: what devices do you use? Are the Asian built phones better, or do you use a smartphone at all?

Which is borderline nonsense nowadays. If this were another website, I'd convey it thru the meme of SpongeBob showing Patrick all the diapers* with captions of "sports betting" "pokemon speculation" "monetization in games" with maybe the last panel being "diamonds are valuable"

They have always had powerful psychological tools but they are next level nowadays. Best to just avoid.

* https://i.imgflip.com/2yg87r.png

(I don't think pokemon intentionally wants such a toxic secondary market tbf)

I too use the metric of seeing a YouTube sponsor or ad usually means it's bad.

I was actually interested in some of those privacy/info removal services but after doing research found those to - as you said - lack value for the money.

You sound like an ad exec. I never want ads ever, they are by their nature intrusive. I have never bought anything from a targeted ad on social media. If one plays and I can't turn down the volume quick enough I will make noise to avoid hearing it.

If an ad is placed in a way that forces you to look at it you have every right to want to remove it. If it's in my personal power, I do.

Thanks for that information - it does seem to provide some good utility. And now that you mentioned it I recall my father uses it to talk to our polish relatives as that's the most convenient platform. I am not in that circle tho as I don't know polish haha.

Glad to hear they aren't mandatory, that would be my fear for certain things.

>Gödel Escher Bach

I'm kinda new here but am surprised I haven't seen this book mentioned more. Maybe I just haven't seen it or it's old news but it seems right up HNs alley.