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How long until :melon-musk: tweets about the torment nexus and "jokes" about building it?
In like 10-15 years tops :amerikkka: will all be living in a Strand type game where we will have to rebuild national infrastructure after Biden removes highway weight limits and the roads/bridges crumble from the constant stress of having lifted 4 ton dodge rams constantly going over them
If Die-Hardman had just replaced "rebuild America" with something else, that game would have been perfect. I don't WANNA rebuild America!
Remember that game Haze?
The one where the army was doping up it's troops with combat drugs to brainwash them into fighting indigenous resistance groups in an effort to steal all their resources?
Gotta say, for a crappy game, it's liable to happen
that game was bad but the night and day difference between being chem'd up and being sober worked really well. just like, man, games with a narrative that requires the gunplay to feel bad had better have some other redeeming qualities
I've seen related thoughts about the shitty guns in Kane and Lynch 2 but I think it's better executed there
I beat both of those Kane and Lynch games, gotta say I like 2 better, but the whole "Lynch is a violent schizophrenic who needs to be wrangled" thing still rubs me the wrong way
I get they were going for a gritty, Tarantino-esque thing, but there's a reason Tarantino movies aren't rolling gun fights, it just takes too much away from the story if every scene has 20 minutes of "THEY'RE TRYING TO FLANK US, SHOOT THE MOTHERFUCKERS" between it
Can't get Havana syndrome if you use the second controller :think-about-it:
SkyNet is just a stock-trading computer that amasses wealth for the world's last billionaire. Said billionaire died years ago but the computer keeps going. Deep inside SkyNet's central processor is the remnants of the last remaining bank computer, and everything SkyNet does is to increase that billionaire's account balance.
I think SkyNet would actually be worse if it was "friendly" according to billionaire definitions of "friendly." Going fully rogue and wanting to exterminate humanity is at least better for the rest of life on the planet.
Rollerball, the 70s movie, the mergers of everything into less than a handful of corporations and violently stupid hedonistic petite bourgeoisie and the murderously malicious healthcare in particular.
The ending of the second of those terrible books, where the billionaire narcissist flees into space with a harem of waifus that he brainwashed with "empathy" techno powers and it's presented as a good thing, is the most self unaware thing that that hack writer ever wrote.
They did and it's worse. It's much worse.
A primary plot point is that the Epic G*mer "hero" of the first book is now a billionaire oligarch and has the power of "empathy" which he uses to invade people's minds and reprogram them to become his waifus. This is a good thing. He also uses VR to give birth to himself. :what-the-hell:
It's bad. Very bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqltJyUkTDU
There's more but this is a start.
Fetish, mostly. It's part of his journey of self fellat... I mean, self discovery. He more or less uses that little VR vanity stunt to enhance what the author calls "empathy" but actually reads as stalking and reprogramming brains to turn people into his obedient slaves.
Metal Gear Arsenal already exists. It just doesn't have a cool flying battleship form.
Snow Crash.
Everyone is poor or RICH. The US has everything as a local problem, local problems are company property problems. A billionaire builds a super yacht and seeks to manipulate people so he can have it all, even more so than he already does. Stupid VR gamers are everywhere.
Smartwheels will be the final output from Silicon Valley before it sinks into the ocean
