Reality vs Adventure

Kind of reminds me of Wall-E movie where everyone becomes completely dependent on technology making our bodies genetically decline. No more swinging axes, we now shoot guns. No more jumping out of a plane into enemy territory when we got drones. No more cleaning when you got mini robots to clean. No more cooking when you got your gourmet ration. No more pears because the seeds lost genetic variance. No more physical socialization when every piece of electronic is attached to your social media, even your mirror has messages while you brush teeth. No more concern for regulating heavy metals and carcinogens in food and environment when you can replace your organs and nerves. Our bodies will develop to look more and more alien as we get oversized heads and smaller bodies from immobility and our skin turns gray from never going into the sun. Plus, with everything unregulated including radiation, our population will have a bunch of strange birth defects making humans look like monsters. Your currency will be based on what metal is in demand for technology. Love will be with a perfect machine. Let's not forget that humans are parasites and every new technology brings us closer to destroying everything.

I think it would be cool to go back when automobiles were first invented. Must have been fun riding around on a big go-kart. They probably got the same feelings we would feel if we had our personal little flying car or jet pack mobile.

Now it turns out that Brian Covey, a substitute teacher that posted about empty book shelves in his school has been fired for violating social media and cell phone policies by posting about the empty bookshelves on social media. I think it may be the same teacher in the above video known as @JagsFanBrian, while this guy's name is Brian Covey. Where is that free speech absolutism republicans love so much??? Not only are books being banned, books forced to be covered or taken out, and you can even get a 5 year prison sentence just for having a so called unapproved book, but you can also get fired if you post about it. We will see how that pans out, but it doesn't look like Florida has a constitution or laws or even justices who abide by an oath anymore.

I'm fascinated by games with AI like Detroit Become Human and Cyberpunk 2077, even to an extent with Assassin's Creed integrating AI and religion. It is very thought provoking because it gets to our very core, to our moral souls whether or not AI can have feelings and have their rights respected. Or how intelligent have they really become? Are they immortal in cyberspace? Even in Watch Dogs Legion it was cool how actual human minds were trapped in a machine forever, consciously aware. The depths of thinking about those things is probably the most intrigued I've felt in gaming.

I would love to have a game that is based on mining or prospecting to search for gems and mineral specimens. You would be able to try and find awesome rare specimens and try to extract them w/o breaking it. You have to be careful from dangers as you find your precious crystals. And hunters are out there to try and kill you and steal all your stuff. You then have to journey with your valuables, being hunted, and make it to where you sell items, or keep in your very own vault you can display them. You try to polish and cut specimens and sell on the market and in shows. You can trade specimens with others. You could rescue slave miners of blood diamonds and have a revolt against oppressors and take all the loot. Go on recuse missions, stealing ops, ambush bandits, and treasure hunts. And extreme weather survival, animal attacks, even government special forces trying to take your gems. Maybe you find alien minerals or something unknown to exist. Try and hide from government forces. I used to want to be a prospector and dreamed about it in the past. Plus I collect mineral specimens so I would love this game.

I'd go with a Native American head dress cause it's freakin cool. I'd put a hatchet on my belt to go with it. Anyone pulls a gun I'd throw my tomahawk right at their forehead. I'd have chinese stars too. And a blow dart gun. And a big pipe with funny grass. My second choice would be an olive green military boonie cap.

My cat would say "What the fuck are you doing? Get off that fucking computer and pet me. Shit man!!! Every day I watch you space out on that thing and type a bunch of buttons and laugh out loud. Your are scaring me dude!!! You're fucking losing it. I didn't sign up for this shit!!!!!!!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That's not good at all if they are in trouble with their investors. Money talks, so if they lose investors then hopefully Ubisoft would have enough intelligence to correct themselves or else continue the path of their own destruction. I hate to see that happen with Ubisoft, and I hope they don't become another Kotick issue. Ubisoft does have a union as just last month Ubisoft Paris union Solidaires Informatique called for a strike and even now wants to sue Ubisoft due to the work culture from the CEO. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/french-union-calls-for-half-day-strike-at-ubisoft-paris

That is very true. It's too easy to cross the line into arrogance. I think humbleness is the filter that blocks confidence from spilling into arrogance. Other times, arrogance could be masking low confidence. Very thin lines here.

Oh look, here is something to add to the list. DeSantis is forcing universities to hand over medical records of all trans students. Say what??? Does Florida not even have a constitution? How does someone even get away with this? Are students gonna be forced to wear color coated badges now??? Modern day nazism right here in the USA.

The super power of confidence so I will be able to withstand anything. I think that would fall into a useless superpower as it doesn't really do anything at this point in life. But at least I will be able to do the things I want to do any time without anxiety holding me down or making me angry. I would probably go out more, meet people, and know how to interact better. I have everything I want right here though with the woods as my backyard and peaceful seclusion. So that is why to me it would pretty much fall into a useless super power. I'd rather hang out with animals then to drive everywhere looking for something to do and waste time. I'd rather sit under the sun and read and watch my rabbits hop around then to go to a bar and get into trouble. Plus, confidence isn't always good because overly confident people can get their asses kicked. 😱 And other times overly confidence can be conceited. I simply want to be free of all anxieties and not get angry in the broken society in which I live.

That whole acquisition stinks to low hell and while this is a perfect opportunity to get rid of Kotick, both Microsoft and Activision are sending a clear message they are not interested in making a change for the better despite those serious workplace controversies. Plus, look at the fiasco with NetEase destroying Activision offices in China. If the acquisition goes through Microsoft has agreed to allow unions. How exactly that will potentially play out now is confusing because Kotick is the face that requires the need for unions. He isn't the person who would respect a union. He would corrupt it and give unions a bad name as that could be a possible intention. And Microsoft also hates unions. Does a union automatically make everything better? With a CEO like that, he could demand another vote to keep unions and put pressure on employees and threaten their jobs if they vote to keep it. That is what Amazon did to their employees. And it seems that Kotick is surrounded by a bunch of yes men. Looks like Microsoft is getting ready for possible unionization too by firing 10,000 employees. And who exactly will they be firing? Probably people who would support a union. If the acquisition doesn't go through then Kotick stays CEO for Activision for sure, and that is w/o the agreement to unionize. Activision would remain how it was soaked in controversy. And their relationship with China now isn't too good. This whole greedy shit never should have happened is what I say. Block the acquisition, form a union, and get rid of Kotick. Those 3 would be a happy ending in a fairy tale. We will be stuck with at least one of those 3 not going right, and maybe all 3 not going right cause that is the world of reality where we all are trying to coexist with forces working against the common person.

Probably get rid of human's ability to genetic engineer any organism from bacteria, virus, seed, plant, bugs, animals, humans, and beyond. That just creeps me out. Every time I eat a piece of fruit that has no seeds in it, freaks me out. We might lose the ability to protect ourselves and food from disease, but so what. More harm than good comes out of it in the long run. I don't want a bunch of soldier enhanced clones, or a human fish face, or human giraffe neck. Roach antennae. Or become the Thing.

I would probably go insane. I don't really know any jokes, but I do make myself laugh a lot thinking of funny stuff. If I mumbled that stuff out loud, then a clown shows up while I'm laughing by myself, yeah, I'd go insane. As @The Blackangel says, I may have to shoot it. I do love comedy though. If the clown told really good jokes, maybe I would get used to it and have my personal laughing therapy. I can only picture those real crazies telling racist and bigoted jokes then have a clown appear. Society would get very looney real fast.

A good example is a big company like Ubisoft who has had financial problems and the pandemic pretty much opened the wound up and got infected. I've read the reason could be because Ubisoft makes such large games plus online multiplayer features that has had issues. Limiting interaction among employees when trying to make such large games kind of spurred on their decision to abandon some of the games they had planned. The new Assassin's Creed game, Mirage has a smaller map concentrating more on a particular city like some of the older games in the series. Maybe cutting back on large scale games can help them get things in order to work on bigger projects in the future. Because I have no doubt AC in the Japan setting coming soon will be the fucking ultimate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really don't know how Covid has affected stakeholders. Far as I know, it seems the stocks in the gaming industry has come out of the pandemic pretty well for the larger companies. Everything else that hit the gaming industry like war and the chip shortage may have hit the gaming industry and developers in other ways that could have affected stakeholders as it all happened at the same time. Because the chip shortage had an effect on what engine to run their games on whether to stick to the older generation or the newer generation console. Those issues could have affected sales of games and release dates, which affects their stocks. I'm not business oriented, but those are some things that would make sense.

I haven't played any of these games from Remedy. My curiosity is definitely piqued though. Max Payne is gonna be a big one. Should be a big one. And those remakes will be done in the latter days of 2027 and the world will have gone to shit by then so we will never see it made. If I take a look back 4 years ago I was sipping tea under the sunset. Now I'm breaking bottles over my head with a chicken bone sticking out of my teeth. 2027??? I'll be traveling across the apocalypse looking for a lab to try and cure humanity's Stupid Syndrome. Alan Wake and Control both look interesting to play. I'm glad to see this developer open up about their prospects for us and they have a pretty good plan the next 4 years. I'll be looking into these games. Thanks for sharing the info!!!

I don't know what to say either. Haven't heard much about the hurricane in Florida, but I'm sure the rich will get better boats out of it. And to think that DeSantis voted against hurricane relief for New York and New Jersey for hurricane Sandy, but expects aid for Florida. Of course, republicans love to politicize natural disasters. Maybe DeSantis is distracting from something. Is it from the hurricane response? Well, DeSantis has been engaging in an all out culture war before the hurricane. He began all this during the Covid crisis. At one point Florida had the most cases and deaths in the whole country because he refused to comply with mandates and messed up all the schools and hospitals. He had government Covid funds to be used for hospitals, and while people were dying in the hospitals at max capacity, DeSantis still did not utilize the Covid funds to try and save their lives. Instead, he used those funds to write a freebie check of $450 to Floridians as a voter bribe. That free check is fucking blood money. There is an investigation where he also used Covid funds to bus migrants to Martha's Vineyard. And even now, DeSantis wants to investigate Fauci, who republicans obviously hate. Dr. Fauci is a modern day Galileo who went to prison for saying the Earth revolves around the sun and christians couldn't handle the science. While at the same time DeSantis obstructed Covid data to the public. I don't think his culture war is a distraction. I believe it is all out fascism. Fascism ideology itself is one big distraction while all your rights get taken away. Here is a list of things DeSantis has done in Florida. After looking at this list, any sane person will agree what the motives are, which is fascist authoritarianism. Fascist I say? Yes. This is what it is and what DeSantis has done: 1) Racist gerrymandering and voter suppression 2) Anti riot bill with selective enforcement aimed towards liberal protestors with harsh punishments and it legalizes the terrorist act of ploughing your vehicle into protestors blocking the street. This bill has even caused concern for the United Nations saying that the bill violates human rights. 3) Don't say gay bill bans any talk of gender or sexual orientation in schools 4) Ban gender affirming care for trans under 18 5) Ban businesses from choosing what they can invest in; they can no longer invest in anything woke such as the environment. DeSantis also abused his power to attack Disney for speaking out against him. He even wants the House republicans to investigate a cable company for making it's own business decision to no longer air Newsmax on the cable channels. Yes, DeSantis wants congress to investigate why a cable company has the freedom to make its own business decisions. WTF..... 6) Ban African American studies; ban discussion of anything related to racism, slavery, segregation, civil rights etc. At the same time DeSantis displays hypocrisy by forcing all schools to teach about victims of communism in the classroom. Why not victims of slavery, racism, or segregation, or even fascism??? Clearly racist hypocrisy. 7) Ban books including Math books. Teachers now can get a 5 year prison sentence for having an unapproved book. 😎 Ban DEI in universities which is diversity, equity, and inclusivity. A proposed bill to ban any course, discussion, or anything related to diversity, equity, or inclusivity. Professors can now be sued for anything and tenure is banned. DeSantis has eliminated all liberal education board members and installed his own ideological lackeys to enforce white washing of education. University staff and students now have surveys that ask all about your personal political ideologies. 9) A bill is now heading to the supreme court forcing what social media can or can't do. A ban on social media being able to ban or suspend people no matter what and allow anyone to sue social media. 10) Ban abortions 11) DeSantis unconstitutionally got rid of a judge for opposing DeSantis and determined to be unconstitutional by the court and still the constitution was too weak to allow the judge to get his job back. 12) DeSantis claims he has executive privilege to keep public records secret and executive privilege is not in Florida's constitution. I'm probably leaving a bunch of stuff out. These are some pretty big issues that we do not need from anyone who wants to represent America. Attacking women, gays, trans, education, universities, elections, independent businesses, ethnicities, protesting rights, and on and on is clearly fascism. Republicans want a dictatorship. And why? All of this distraction to please a racist base and lose rights to please a bigoted base distracts us from their agenda of a dictatorship. Who is indoctrinating who? Democrats are not abusing the laws of government to ban books or block discussion of history or what courses you can take in college. That is the difference in that republicans are abusing the laws of government for their cheap racist and religious ideologies. Republicans entered very dangerous ground. They are a morally broken society. And they are bouncing from Trump and going with someone who they believe would give them a better chance at a dictatorship. Yes, this all sounds extreme and that's because it is. Look at this list. This isn't behavior or legislation from someone who respects our constitution and civil rights.

I'm a huge fan of Evil Within so to me it's too good to be true. It is kind of random to add that mirror in there. Maybe there are more easter eggs for Evil Within. But so far I'm not convinced they are making a part 3. I didn't know Ghostwire Tokyo started off as EW3; that is interesting. At least the idea is out there.

If you are streaming episode 5 on HBO Max, then this weekend it is early because of the super bowl. It will stream Friday, tonight, 2/10 at 9:00 EST. And on Sunday nothing has changed for regular HBO, same time.

PS4. It will stay that way till the prices of ps5 goes down. Or go rob a bank. If it's successful, I will buy everyone here a console.

I missed every era of gaming from right around the time of Nintendo 64 to the ps4. I played only a couple games on the 64, the main one being Goldeneye 007. Then absolutely nothing until the ps4 generation. At that point I bought a ps2, ps3, ps4, and now an Oculus VR. So I started gaming again about 5 years ago on the ps2 and Nintendo Mini Classic Edition with a bundle of games for nostalgia. This is all during the ps4 generation. I wish I stayed inside playing games instead of getting into trouble those years. None of it was worth a damn thing. I would have had much more better memories being a gamer. It was nostalgia which brought me back. And to see the realism in games today is like a time warp from jumping from the old games to the new. I'm hooked on the ps4 and the games I play. I love it. Gamer for life.

Talk about nostalgia! I'm gonna have to watch a full episode of Pac-Man now no doubt!!!!! Hey! He does have feet!!! 🤗

Games are also known to have bug issues in them so even turning a setting off will never 100% guarantee anything. What if some kind of glitch happens where it triggers some lighting affect. Or it could be something simple as a sword glistening in the sun light, or even water. I have no idea what kind of lighting triggers a seizure, but there are so many variables. Maybe experts can weigh in on exactly what triggers seizures. I doubt any would leave their reputation on the line and say gaming is 100% safe even if those mechanisms are switched off.

I’ve encountered that before exploring an easy section then crossover into a challenging area and a wild animal kills me with one touch. Say whuuut??? Just rolling my eyes looking at my carcass while my happy moment ends.

I can't recall a situation where a game helped me in real life. I have gained knowledge in some games and you really never can tell the affect knowledge has in your life. Imagine if games was used more in education purposes. Then many people would be able to answer this question easily. Just by playing games in leisure no doubt there are ethical decisions, social interactions, history, survivalism, puzzles that all can help in a specific situation. Even gaining the ability of faster response times by playing games could save your life in real life. Gamers would make good police as their reaction times are sharper without losing much quality in decisions. So it is hard knowing exactly where to pinpoint how a game has helped in real life because all these thing like knowledge, response times, concentration, all can help in some way.