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I doubt most cheats were found by brute force. To find the memory address for something like health, it would be easy for the GameShark developers to monitor the RAM in real time and find the value by changing it in game. For example, if your health is 100, the developer could intentionally take a hit for 10 damage,…

You must be talking about Europe, because Americans are less free, less healthy, and in some ways less safe than we were 30 years ago.

When I said slave wages, I meant any wages that are less than what you need to survive. It was hyperbole.

Not yet, but if Republicans win the White House in November...

You say that like America doesn’t have the same things today. We call it “prison labor” so we can sleep at night, but it’s still a gulag. Not to mention the slave wages paid to undocumented workers in meat packing factories.

People who call women “females” always make me think of Ferengi.

If there is a Canadian trucker level, the only acceptable music for that level is Ram Ranch. If you know, you know.

Interestingly, both of those games were made by Ambrella, which was a third party developer that made Pokemon spin-offs. Creatures (one of the 3 owners of Pokemon, along with GameFreak and Nintendo) bought Ambrella a couple of years ago. Creatures manages the TCG and merchandise (which is where the real money is), but…

Hmmm... 32 replies and not a single mention of that wizard game, after so many grays complained it wasn’t nominated for a single award. Weird.

Or Sunday Comics

I haven’t heard a single expert claim that rich sociopaths will use AI to kill 8 billion people so they can rule over a dead world.

Well, that is the least plausible version of the grimdark future I’ve ever read.

What possible chain of events would cause that?

But the cops AREN’T the unwashed masses. They AREN’T oppressed, they’re the oppressors. They have everything to lose by fighting against the people who give them special privileges.

No, there will be the wealthy, their enforcers, and the unwashed masses. Cops exist to protect wealth and the status quo. They always have.

I don’t know why they would be worried about law enforcement. Historically they’re some of the most reliable supporters of an authoritarian status quo. They don’t need to be in charge, they just need to be above the people they’re policing. As long as they’re better off than the average person, they won’t rock the…

That sounds like they’re just bombing entire neighborhoods because they want to, and passing the blame to the AI.

I thought the purpose of AI was to replace all employees with machines, bringing back feudalism where the lords are the people who own the machines, and the rest of us are serfs. They think the cyberpunk genre is aspirational instead of a cautionary tale.

Shit like this is what inspires people to build guillotines.