That doesn’t really make it any less crazy.
Imagine working at a smithy called Smiths run by Joe Smith, who is a Smith. That’s at least as wild.
It’s so on the nose that if you read it in a book you’d roll your eyes and call it lazy writing
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Hamas might be genocidal.
Israel is genocidal.
I’m not gonna go so far as to say Hamas are good guys, but treat people according to what they have done and not what they may do. They’re not currently on the same level.
Lucy does keep saying that she is always listening rather ominously
I doubt it.
The kind of data used for “wrapped” type summaries are usually the kind of data that users want to be tracked because it powers features they want.
Like Spotify wrapped is based of Spotify play history, and being able to see your recently played songs is a feature people want.
Duolingo wrapped is based on lesson progress, and it has to track your progress else it doesn’t know what lesson you’re doing.
idk what other apps do this, it’s pretty rare for me, but afaict it’s all just normal stuff.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of privacy problems that apps try to fuck with, but I don’t think that yearly wrapped is likely to be one of them.
They need that assigned to specific use accounts so that people can look at their play history. A thing that people often want to do with their music players.
But “wrapped” type things aren’t using button press telemetry. They’re using data that the user wants access to anyways, like their Spotify play history, or Duolingo lesson progress.
It doesn’t even make sense to anonymize that data because people want to see their play history, not what was popular last week.
Counter counter point: maybe
Oh fuck they’ve begun to mix!
Don’t you dare shatter my dreams
Gps without having to buy an expensive in-car GPS unit.
Gps that automatically updates maps.
GPS that updates routes based on traffic\
Route planning including public transit
Especially when you’re not sure what your departure time will be
That accounts for temporary route changes
That automatically updates permanent route changes
A bit unconventional, and certainly not high fantasy, but: John Dies At The End by David Wong.
I kinda wish it included the dates on these. Not having them makes me a bit dubious
People care about graphics.
But they care about other things more
So the graphics need to be in service to something.
Imo the problem is that studios have become risk adverse because their budget is so big, so they pick an already popular IP, choose a marketable aspect of that IP, and spend that fortune turning the dial of that aspect up to 11.
Like X but bigger map
Like Y but more playable characters
Like Z but better graphics
Etc
But none of the time actually innovating any new player experience.
And players are finally getting fed up with playing the same handful of AAA game experiences again and again with different titles.
Graphics just happens to be the marketable attribute they like to crank most often
What are you doing with your chickens???
I have a separate phone for work. Not government or anything. I have a bunch of personal apps on it, but I don’t like having my only phone be owned by my work.
That’s some prescription strength copium you’re taking.
Some real “everyone disagreeing with me means I’m right” type delusion
You drew a direct comparison between fascist states and social media, on the basis of their evil deeds.
stop being so butthurt in your comments. You’re getting absolutely roasted. Just take the L
Ignoring your mixup of persecution and prosecution, it’s wild that you’re even remotely putting mass execution and imprisonment on the same level as having your singular thread removed from a privately hosted forum that you voluntarily joined.
Censorship by privately run and hosted forums is not remotely equivalent to the horrors of totalitarian and fascist governments. Even if people were to agree that it’s evil (which it’s not, paradox of tolerance), the comparison is beyond the pale.
This is one of the most chronically online takes I’ve ever heard.
I’m aware, that’s pretty common knowledge.
I’ma write a book about someone who works for a tailor named Taylor Tailor at their tailor shop called Tailor’s Tailoring which is run out of a trailer. It’ll be tailor Taylor Tailer’s Tailor’s Tailoring tailoring trailer. It will be a very serious book, because none of this is in the least but funny.