In the Gog character text box, the symbol on the far right is the symbol for the SS

No one was debating whether malware should be installed. If companies don’t want their data nuked, they shouldn’t give nuking powers to AIs that execute anything they read.

Most people you’d meet in real life were still jerks, but there was less existential dread. It was more “you win some, you lose some” and less “humanity is doomed and the human condition is irredeemable.”

Products were designed to last.

Most of the people you’d chat with on the internet were curious, benevolent nerds, not narcissistic political hacks.

Someone calling their own take hot is how you know they’re an irrelevant chode

If the AI bootlicking wasn’t clear enough

Don’t credit unions have desktop sites? Can’t you use an e-mail for authentication?

You just admitted the “girl” was an AI video persona, which is possible to identify with a trained eye. Thus, there was video evidence that the “girl” was being deceptive and all traits they claimed about themselves were suspect. To quote Ready Player One, “she could be a 300-pound dude named Chuck.”

The defendant could claim actual 14 year olds would be unable to orchestrate such a setup with AI personas. Thus, it must have been an older person doing it.

Maybe in a couple decades it will catch up with you. I’ve been constantly adapting to my aging body’s needs these last few years.

Good thing you’re not on a jury! I’ve met people who do age play but I haven’t myself.

“I understood they were 21. The fact that they were an adult roleplaying as a child was understood by both parties, and it was obvious, given the wording they used. Roleplaying is quite common on dating apps. Roleplaying as a different age is so common it even has a name, age-play. When I messaged the other party, I thought I was pursuing an age-play dynamic with a consenting adult.”

I suppose your teacher read a statistic that Americans are more likely to be constipated due to more cheese and less veggies and fruits in their diets, and constipated people on average poop less, and just simplified this trivia in their long-term memory and lost the details.

I might have beat him, not sure, might have used debug mode. 0 rings? 12 hits? Spike arms? Blegh.

Metroid Prime (the boss) was easier than Omega Pirate, who you seemingly must have defeated

Did you get to the 2nd phase? You have to stand in the phazon pools to deal damage in that phase

Wow that looks like straight up not a good time

Our reaction to such a scenario should be the same as if they were recording with their phone.

You wouldn’t turn into a blithering feral beast because someone was recording you with their phone. Why should it matter if they’re using glasses instead?

Go for the flowers, stay for the etymology of fictional country names

TIL the two countries in The Princess Bride are both named after a Dutch currency

That’s three felonies, counting the threat

Does this Scahill bloke just repeat perfectly understandable phrases with a question mark for visibility and plausible deniability?

Since aqua sounds a bit like alco, the implication is that the boat owner likes both water and booze

But but don’t you understand, AI will allow them to reduce spending, if you only look at wages paid to humans and ignore the material costs of all the infrastructure and propaganda about how great it is

Of course if you focus on the highest-budget titles you will see buggy, overpriced delays. Shift your perspective to smaller titles by smaller studios. Bigger doesn’t mean better.