I’m not part of the target audience as I don’t have a cat, but I don’t see the value in this over a cheap red laser pointer. Automatizing play with your pet sounds super dehumanizing, like, you can’t even be bothered to spend 5 minutes entertaining your pet?

Why should I put any more effort in this when you didn’t put any on the initial argument or any other reply in this thread?

The “shameless pedantry” is meant to ensure that the point you’re trying to make is clear and not an infinite exercise of “moving the goalposts”. If the premise is bad, the whole argument fails.

As for the point, the other poster that said “it’s the current reality” made the best reply, in my opinion

It really feels like you’re trying to make any sort of persuasion = advertising, which is just stupid.

Also, calling “a body of techniques” a technology would imply that martial arts and dances are technologies.

By your logic, a political or religious speech would be advertising.

Still on X4, over 150h in now. Got a small fleet of destroyer ships and “conquered” a sector that was originally Xenon owned (Tharkas Demise I think, north of Hatkivah Choice). The problem is that they keep sending fighters and, once in a while, a destroyer - the latter WILL destroy 1 or 2 of my destroyers if I’m not manually piloting one of them

Why not Haiku 🙃?

Kurumin, a brazilian offshoot of Knoppix, sometime in early 2007 I think. The distro has been discontinued back in 2008. I was completely amazed that the whole OS would boot and work straight out of the CD, without needing to install anything.

It’s been a trend for quite a while now, “reaction” videos. There was even a YouTube gremlin who wholesale stole content from everyone and did nothing on camera

X4 is a very complex game. You start as a relative nobody in space, but can earn money to create big mining and trading fleets to get more money while you’re busy with other stuff, finally using said money to buy military fleets.

It’s full of eurojank, it’s a huge time sink (I’m a bit over 100h now), but it may be the kind of thing that tickles your neurons just right.

Playing X4, despite the crashes.

But to be really honest, giving drawing lessons to 9-11yo kids. Something I never considered doing in my life, but damn does it make me feel good, though the kids’ progress (or lack thereof) often leaves me wondering if I’m actually being any good

Point 1 definitely has some 50+ countries in it, but point 2 almost immediately leads to Iran, who suffered a coup in the 1950s because the then president wanted to nationalize the oil reserves.

Point 3 is the rise of Saddam. Point 4 is the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and the Iran-Contra kerfuffle. Point 5 is the two invasions of Iraq by the USA, 1991 and 2003, the latter leading directly to point 6.

Demontower, found within Night in the Woods. That could easily be a standalone short game

1. On average, how much do you think your fellow North Koreans actually believe in the dear leader?

2. How do you feel about the general culture of absolute obedience to people higher up in the hierarchy?

3. How do you even have access to a computer (phone?) and the internet? Aren’t those heavily restricted and watched by the police?

4. Youtube has some propaganda/advertisement videos showing shops in Pyongyang with ice cream and other sweets. Do the locals buy there often, or at all?

Lawful good: absolutely nothing

Neutral good: Pascal

Chaotic neutral: Python

Chaotic Evil: Brainfuck

I feel like I only have the old lady who’s fed up with all this shit

I did buy a number of fake flash drives, so they’re definitely up there. Luckily I’ve always won the disputes and got my money back from every one of them.

There were also a number of headphones whose sound was so fucking bad, listening to stuff off my phone’s speakers was better

Brazil is currently fighting to increase the income tax of the top earners. I don’t expect it to pass because congress and senate are, by and large, protector of the interests of the wealthy.

To me, some NSFW forums, like F95 and LoversLabs

Great shitpost, wrong community tho