They already are. Tons of military recruitment propaganda is aimed at gamers. Including an esports team and COD cosmetics, not to mention COD basically serving as military recruitment on its own.

If you can believe it, it’s more to do with the commercial interests that develop these properties don’t want to pay to do things right so it ends up being cut corners and underpaid labour on anything that doesn’t help you sell it for a quick buck

Or compared to fishing, or farming, or garbage collection, or delivery drivers, anything in construction…

This take from adults always perplexed me. I’m surprised I made it out alive

The most successful gun designs are those that could be put in the hands of teenagers to turn them into killing machines

I immediately thought of NitW too!

So the US should balkanize before they get better leadership

Peripeteia- Dark cyberpunk imsim. Obviously inspired by GitS and deus ex. I’d consider it pretty dark and pessimistic but lots of fun to play around in and explore the different ways you have to solve a problem.

You’re obviously not considering the economy. We have to find a way to consume our way out of this problem

Only if you’re in California

They used to do this and it turned out exactly how you describe. I would probably also add it’d incentivize politicians to dismantle educational institutions serving certain demographics

George didn’t like the original Greedo footage they shot in London so they did reshoots in LA with George’s Assistant playing Greedo. I guess she liked her heels

Or Greedo’s heels

I think communities can just take care of each other. Bakers make bread, plumbers lay pipe, gardeners sow plants and those that love each other make sure they’re taken care of. You wouldn’t be able to be an asshole that just takes from the world around you because nobody would have a reason to make sure your water is running. Your time is compensated by a social contract

Capitalism doesn’t free us from any of that, community does. It’s standing on the shoulders of giants and advancing our understanding of the world that saves infants and puts food on tables. Not people who own the tools skimming off the top from the people that do the work

The revolution will not be brought to you by xerox without commercial interruption, the revolution will not go better with coke, the revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath, the revolution will put you in the driver’s seat

I do wish we had more of these but they were made by machinegames who just put out the new Indiana Jones game which has been favourably received. I’ve been meaning to check it out

Pens can often pick up paper fibers that gum up the works. In the case of ballpoints I can see this being a pretty permanent problem once it builds up enough to stop up the pen

Is a steam deck not a console?

Could academia today be seen in the future in a similar light as we look at the medieval church? It was the gatekeeper of philosophical education (largely on classist principles), to things like literacy, and used humanity’s curiosity and hunger for knowledge as a carrot on a stick to buy into an oppressive status quo.