I would expect lots of pushback from corpos on this because it wouldn’t implement tracking dots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

One of. The biggest is the fact that no one even thinks about sugar or caffeine.

EMPTY FRIDGE DETECTED.

PLEASE INSERT VERIFICATION CAN.

Wanting to do something to the maximum possible extent without being [thing] automatically makes you that thing.

Oh, you think that solves the problem? Go play MGS4 or Death Stranding. Skip every cutscene, then come back and tell me what happened in the story.

As someone who loves Kojima games and has since MGS1, not wanting multiple hour-long cut scenes in an action game is a perfectly reasonable preference. Even diehard Kojima fans acknowledge he’s long-winded with his storytelling and his pacing is glacial; it’s practically part of his style at this point.

Kojima originally wanted to be a filmmaker. When he couldn’t break into the industry, he switched over to making video games.

He pitched it, it was approved, he started working on it.

Then he received pressure to make it multiplayer (presumably to add microtransactions). He refused, so the game was canceled.

Yes, that Kojima. The same Kojima who never sold you a microtransaction, weapon skin, season pass, or even a paid DLC. The same Kojima who never compromised his artistic vision for a payday, the same Kojima who never bowed to studio pressure to make his game “more accessible” or “more marketable”. The very same Kojima who had to be forcefully removed from his own studio before he’d allow Konami to have a say in his creative process; yes, him. That’s the Kojima you’re referring to.

So you’d rather live in a world without Metal Gear Solid, Zone of the Enders, or Death Stranding?

There’s no way Konami or Sony are going to let that fly. Should Kojima have died on the DRM hill on principal instead releasing his art to the world the way he did?

Never accept criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.

But you can still run for office as a Socialist and win if you get the votes.

That “if” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Many jurisdictions require a petition with X number of signatures to be even be put on the ballot. That alone is prohibitively difficult for a majority of people who work for a living. Once you’re on the ballot, it takes a ton of time and money to even get your name out there so people know who you are, not to mention how much it costs to fight off the smear campaigns for being a “radical left woke terrorist”.

You can still protest the government without getting beheaded.

No, but you can get shot in the head with your own gun, deported, or taken to a secret holding site and released after 48 hours with no charges filed (hope you don’t miss work!)

You can still practice the religion of your choice, or none at all, without losing basic rights.

Unless receiving an abortion is a basic right in your religion, then, theoretically, yes.

You can still expose your hair in public without going to prison.

For now.

You can still move here with nothing and start a small business to put your kids through school.

Our credit score system and banking regulations literally makes it easier for a foreigner to do this than an American. Citizens must have “good” credit, but people from countries without our credit system (all of them) are exempt from this requirement and assumed to be loan-worthy until they don’t pay one back.

You can still marry the person you choose, and live together wherever you wish.

For now. SC has teased overturning their ruling and over half the states have laws on the books banning it that will instantly go into effect if that happens.

Let’s also take a moment to recognize, if you have to compare the richest, most powerful nation in the world to authoritarian third-world regimes to make them seem free, that’s a pretty good sign there might be some room for improvement in that area.

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Downvoting because I’ve heard this a million times over the course of at least a decade.

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Ill tell you what he’s NOT going to: anything to improve anyone’s life but his own.

Agreed. To expand on that, I have zero sympathy for anyone who complains about the worldwide rise of fascism while still participating in corporate-owned social media or shopping at Amazon/Temu as anything other than a last resort for essential items.

Like, who do they think is funding all these fascists and where exactly do they think all the money comes from?

Corpos gonna corpo. Anyone who’s seen how meta operates could have and should have expected this. Plus, these are a luxury. Nobody “needs” these to live.

Meta is shitty for doing this but I’m still having a really hard time feeling bad for any of the buyers.

It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob

Since you didn’t learn from the top comment in your last thread, allow me to repeat it here:

It’s your fault, accept the shame and teach her.

A fridge full of condiments and no food. Why don’t you throw out some of those (probably expired) jars of goop so there’s room for leftovers?

You’re right, I’m getting side tracked; let’s keep the conversation about your daughter. Maybe you should have a talk with who raised her?

Edit: just saw your linked post about the dishwasher. Wow dude. Two years and you’re bitching to the internet instead of raising your children. I hope you’re looking forward to sitting in that nursing home wondering why the kids never call.