To me it seems like any kind of communication in multiplayer games has gotten less and less over the years. Used to be pretty common to just talk about random stuff with random people in games like CS, DayZ and even Overwatch years ago, but in recent years, I hardly remember any instances of people using voice chat at all, let alone using it to say anything positive. So if this is true and common for Arc Raiders, which I haven’t played, it seems to be a positive outlier. Also curious about other people’s experience.

Then they can just use Tor or a VPN to access sites on the clearnet though.

No way you haven’t read the other replies to my comment.

The US is a hellhole with a billionaire class living above the law, sure, not arguing with that. I guess maybe I should have assumed US defaultism for this question.

But OP made a blanket statement about all laws, and didn’t specify a country either. If your username is any indication you’re a Marxist. How do you think a Marxist state would work without laws?

That has certainly been the case in some places, though by no means all of them. Enforcement is also a separate issue to the law itself.

But to provide some maybe better examples, do laws that enshrine workers’ rights to form a union only serve to benefit the rich? Laws that limit donations to political parties? I really don’t think you can make that argument for all laws.

I guess I haven’t yet. Maybe you can help me: How do laws against, for example, rape, only benefit the rich while oppressing the rest of us?

Mate, the point is that they’re not talking cartoon anthropomorphic animals, like the characters in Zootopia are. Was that really not obvious or are you just in the mood to argue and insult some people for no reason?

I meant to write sapient, not sentient. Fixed.

Carnivores in Zootopia eat fish and insects, which are considered non-sapient, as well as plant-based food.

Yes. Never liked the feeling of sitting or sleeping in a room with the doors open. Also I generally have the heating at different levels in different rooms.

I’m planning to give it another go. Only played it for maybe 15 hours around launch and found it pretty underwhelming.

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Technically no, it still grants you a license like any other store. In practice it’s a bit closer to ownership than what you get with other stores, as GOG does not have the ability to take your games away once you have downloaded them and you can do whatever you want with the files. But you’re not legally allowed to sell your copy for example.

Sure. But all I’m saying is to consider the possibility, since if it were a paranoid delusion, you wouldn’t know it. It would feel completely real to you, because that’s how it works.

And I’m not even saying that it’s necessarily that. There are many medical conditions that could cause the type of pain you describe. Maybe see a GP first.

But your neighbors using some kind of “device” on you - that’s extremely unlikely and AFAIK not even possible in the way you describe.

That is, indeed, what every paranoid individual thinks. If people were aware of being paranoid, they wouldn’t be paranoid.

Think about what’s more likely: your neighbors torturing you with some kind of sci-fi tech, or you having a medical condition?

There is no such device. What you need is, in all likelihood, a therapist, or a doctor in any case.

A few channels I like that I think should fit. AFAIK none of them use AI whatsoever.

Stefan Milo (Prehistory/Archaeology)

Told in Stone (Ancient History)

World of Antiquity (Ancient History)

The Pharao Nerd (History)

Trey the Explainer (History and random topics)

Anton Petrov (Space and Science)

Big Joel (Culture/Media)

STRANGE ÆONS (Internet culture and random stuff)

Can’t believe DF is so positive about this, just looks horrible. I’ve actually been quite positive about technologies like DLSS and FSR but this… no thanks.

In the short term, we should probably focus on fixing our problems on earth. Some space research should still be funded, but not as a major priority. Once we finally have our shit together, we can start exploring the stars.

Well, it comes from Spain. Even if all your American ancestors came from Norway (which is unlikely), people in Europe have been intermixing for millennia. “Pure blooded” people don’t exist.