2008 was one of the last years before woke started creeping in, and the graphics then are still quite excellent.
How about they want to create an artificial world independent of humanity's roots which they can rule over as it's creators, like gods?
Unfortunately for all of us, they would still fail even if they got every single person alive to agree with them. I guess that falls under the umbrella of "they're stupid" though.
Pretty sure these dynamics are baked into our society, to keep things stable and the population distracted, while the real impactful decisions about the direction of society are made by business men who pretend to be above such conflicts. Gamergate exposed the highly political nature of big business, while they pretend to simply be following the will of the people.
Our current social model demands that people take on roles which are antagonistic to reality, placing people in a pyramid shaped order with no guarantee that those who hold any particular position are actually suited for the role, yet they still must maintain their position or society would collapse. Such is how nepotism corrupts and degrades social order.
Lying is just about the dumbest thing a person can do, in a general sense. The real world has an infinite depth, so as long as one remains earnest and honest there is no limit to how far they can take things. Start lying, however, and you'll end up 'locked' in place, incapable of moving on to anything else because you're too busy maintaining your lies.
I'm strongly suspicious that human society encourages lying so strongly specifically because it needs people to remain stationary in order to continue it's functions, as things currently are. Take the entertainment industry for example, where the most charismatic of our entire population are lavished with fame, fortune and every luxury money can buy... in exchange for lying constantly to maintain a false image of who they are.
The whole reason the world is controlled by secrets rather than just force is because anyone could reasonably challenge it if they actually understood how it worked. Gamers, because of life-long exposure to their brainwashing machines, became radically better at solving such low-information problems as a side effect.
the goal was to target and groom children. 12 years olds explicitly.
That's definitely what it felt like, in retrospect, as a 12 year old on the Internet. Society already understood that giving strangers access to your children was opening the door for abuse, yet somehow when that access was digital their brains shut down and forgot what strangers might do with said access. Perhaps they trusted companies too much to act on the up-and-up, or they trusted governments too much to properly regulate the new technology, but the harm was done either way, and reprehensibly continues to be done even now that we know how horrible it is.
So we can all stop trying and just go back to making games that are fun instead of ones that tickle our politics.
Unfortunately we'd still have some huge hanging problems before anyone who cares still has to deal with before such things could reasonably be enjoyed.
I guess I'm what's considered "smart" in general. Didn't try the first time in school, but crushed math and physics when I returned and ended up with studying nanotechnology in post secondary.
It doesn't really 'feel' like anything to me, as it's all just normal for me. I have a hard time understanding why other people do things the way that they do sometimes though, and people get frustrated with me for doing things in unusual ways sometimes. It's hard to fit in, but I also just don't try that hard.
Never forget how many women gleefully invaded men's spaces and called us all misogynists for arguing against them
Okay, so if I'm counting that makes zero women I've actually met, and really only a handful of dedicated trolls online. It's really just pervs and simps pushing this crap, using the identity of 'women' to disguise themselves and muddy the waters for anyone trying to shine a light on them. Unfortunately some of those pervs and simps hold powerful offices.
The hell are you on about? I had an egg for breakfast yesterday.