I’m not a gamer, so I had to look up the definition of a third-person shooter. It seems like very poor terminology; it’s actually a second-person shooter. There’s the player (1st) giving commands to an on-screen avatar (2nd). Where’s the 3rd person?
I’m thinking a true third-person shooter would consist of an NPC shooting at your unarmed avatar?
There’s a reason New Yorkers hate going to Times Square :]
They’re privacy-conscious and don’t want to appear in stock footage?
Crikey, very well-written and well-reasoned! I would just add:
(4)(b) Human have perfect information about the world.
In order to make rational choices, producers and consumers need perfect information. This also ignores so much of reality. Again, there are so many examples, but even in a simplified model transaction of buying a loaf of bread includes so many variables that it would be impossible to know them all: All of the bakeries offering bread, the prices they ask for their loaves, the sensory quality of the bread, the nutritional quality, the bakeries’ food safety standards, and so on. Imagine trying to investigate the food safety record for the producer of each item in your typical grocery cart—an impossibility.
Sure, lady, explain that again when they want to put Ivanka in the Oval Office after her old man croaks.
Aye, that is the one silver lining of this fascist take-over: Miller et al. have attached themselves to a demagogue who has a looming expiration date, so they are speed-running the creation of the fourth reich. Our best hope is that they’re doing it too quickly to really take root. (And that they can’t find another demagogue to step in when the orange one bites it.)
Are there still people out there moaning that “Americans won’t vote for a woman,” despite, y’know, Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote in 2016?
I’d like to point out feckless Democrats that while Citizens United is bad… money ain’t everything.
I started the day with the news that Dick Cheney is dead. Now I’m ending it with news that Zohran Mamdani is mayor. It’s been the best day in a long, long time.
Interesting that it’s turning out so similarly, then.
No, they just believe that they are God’s chosen people. Totally different.
Ah geez, I meant that the Constitution is irreparably broken, and that the nation it created is gone, but yeah, you’re right. I hadn’t even thought about him trying to rename the nation that we have now, but it makes total sense.
Don’t they get it yet? The United States is over. That country doesn’t exist anymore.
I’m forced by the government to give up a bunch of money so that people can feel important rolling around in their $50,000 toys with heated seats and entertainment systems, while simultaneously destroying the planet.
It’s no use. Resistance is futile.
Signed,
Someone Who Raged Against the Destruction of “FUD” Back in the Day
This is kind of like asking a man being attacked by a bear, “When did bears become your whole thing?”
Hey, wasn’t this supposed to be an actual dome? The demented, old dingbat described it as a literal dome.
With all due respect, you’re telling on yourself.
So, essentially the same as a company spokesperson!
Laboratory instruments controlled by shitty software that’s somehow tied to a particular version of Windows, and won’t work with 11. And, of course, the manufacturer won’t update it, because they’d much rather you drop a quarter million on the new model.