‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’
Remedy’s next project seems like to be more of the same old same old single player action games, albeit a couple of Max Payne remakes. Not unfuckup:able, with microtransactions, but still safer than some multiplayer hero shooter or smth.
at some point the whole manipulative algorithms should be addressed (but by who and when are the biggest questions)
I have long since been of the opinion that all the big social multinational media should be seen as global technical, communication and media infrastructure. All the companies should be seized and put under some global foundation or the UN, everything open sourced, costs paid by member states and the platforms forced to remain impartial and to be organized for improving human condition, development, communication and understanding. If there is no need for profit then there is no need for entrapping users in toxic swamps of algorithm hell for more platform engagement.
at some point the whole manipulative algorithms should be addressed (but by who and when are the biggest questions)
What features did they exactly disable for unverified accounts?
They are going to play the same old “freedom of choice” defense… aren’t they.
It’s not our fault we made it purposefully addictive, you could just not watch it. Hasn’t this been the case with every tobacco-, soda-, fast food-, etc company. For example: the whole mainstream idea that weight gain is about caloric imbalance and not consuming what you eat. That is the mainstream because is helps the food companies sway public opinion for their cause. It’s not our food that is horrible slop, disruptive to metabolism and engineered to make people eat more and more and still crave more, it’s the people who could just not eat it and if they do eat it they could like run 10km to sweat off the effects of like one sandwich.
They always shift the responsibility to the individuals when they are pressed on their wrongdoings. “The freedom of choice” at large is the great lie that at large keeps society running and is the main defense against any complain why something is systematically shit and fundamentally inhuman, from food to labor markets.
yeah, MP1 and MP2.