|
I am never not darkly amused by the fact that everyone was so paranoid about 'Big Brother', spying/tapping/bugging and the police state that they let big capital spy on them, track them and sell their personal information. Apparently that's called 'freedom'.
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 20:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 22:04 |
|
|
JustJeff88 posted:I am never not darkly amused by the fact that everyone was so paranoid about 'Big Brother', spying/tapping/bugging and the police state that they let big capital spy on them, track them and sell their personal information. Apparently that's called 'freedom'. The fun thing is that we got both!
|
|
#
?
Jan 27, 2023 23:17
|
|
|
There was that joke webcomic about the 50s or whatever where people were worried about listening devices and then jump cut to now saying Hey listening device play a song.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 15:14
|
|
|
Dark_Swordmaster posted:There was that joke webcomic about the 50s or whatever where people were worried about listening devices and then jump cut to now saying Hey listening device play a song. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 15:26
|
|
|
Those types of devices have proved fairly unpopular though, right? I’m sure they’ve sold millions, but iirc both Facebook and Amazon consider their listening device initiatives failures.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 15:32
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Those types of devices have proved fairly unpopular though, right? I’m sure they’ve sold millions, but iirc both Facebook and Amazon consider their listening device initiatives failures. Let me tell you about my phone that shows me ads for things I was just talking to my friends about
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 15:33
|
|
|
Don't doxx me
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 15:46
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Those types of devices have proved fairly unpopular though, right? I’m sure they’ve sold millions, but iirc both Facebook and Amazon consider their listening device initiatives failures. Hey remember how, at least for a while and I don't know if they ever even stopped, Samsung had their TV's listening to you? And a lot of smart TV's have remotes you can talk to? And there are so many unsecured IoT devices like toasters and fridges and thermostats in millions of homes? It's too late.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 16:07
|
|
|
DerekSmartymans posted:We seem to be ok with it…maybe you could, I dunno, go play a video game and chill out about it? How dare you suggest such a thing! Why if I had mod buttons right now!
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 16:15
|
|
|
Rinkles posted:Those types of devices have proved fairly unpopular though, right? I’m sure they’ve sold millions, but iirc both Facebook and Amazon consider their listening device initiatives failures. As I understand it, the 'problem' is that they were going to use devices like this to make people buy more, but in practice everyone only uses these speakers for things that are fundamentally impossible to monetize. They wanted people to buy things through Alexa, and instead they have a million people who bought speakers at-cost who keep asking about the weather. They're getting a lot of information from their daily lives, but they didn't invest all that money in them just for information when they already have so much information on everyone thanks to the modern social media panopticon.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 16:18
|
|
|
There's also a weird thing where devices now come with a microphone or speaker, but don't mention it on the box or in the manual because they aren't activated. Then after a while a software update turns them on. It feels super creepy. Also LOL at those people who got special camera roombas or something that started posting pictures of the owners on the toilet. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 17:53
|
|
|
Dark_Swordmaster posted:There was that joke webcomic about the 50s or whatever where people were worried about listening devices and then jump cut to now saying Hey listening device play a song. Keep in mind that the Red Inquisition was in full force during the 50s and 60s thanks to old Uncle Joe. It's entirely plausible that if one had the nerve to say 'Maybe it *would* be better if workers owned the means of production' then you were pulled up in front of a 'committee', labeled a subversive (read: Threat to capitalist hegemony) and never heard from again.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 18:04
|
|
|
Medullah posted:Let me tell you about my phone that shows me ads for things I was just talking to my friends about In most cases this is just coincidence from inferences based on data of you and those who are around you or that you communicate with. I don't believe there have been any actual cases of phones explicitly listening without user notice in years.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 18:07
|
|
|
Automating that kind of voice recognition on a broad scale just to sell ads is not feasible. On the other hand, it's much easier to keep a giant database of everything you buy, and everything your friends and family buy, and using that plus their knowledge of all your relationships to cater ads to you based on what people in your life are buying (or even just looking at on Amazon but haven't actually bought yet). And since you're most likely to discuss recent purchases, sprinkle in a little bit of confirmation bias, and viola: everyone thinks their phones are listening to them.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 18:45
|
|
|
Noper Q posted:Automating that kind of voice recognition on a broad scale just to sell ads is not feasible. On the other hand, it's much easier to keep a giant database of everything you buy, and everything your friends and family buy, and using that plus their knowledge of all your relationships to cater ads to you based on what people in your life are buying (or even just looking at on Amazon but haven't actually bought yet). They're using the alien tech at area 51 for it
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 18:51
|
|
|
Well yeah, that just makes sense.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 19:30
|
|
|
Blurb3947 posted:In most cases this is just coincidence from inferences based on data of you and those who are around you or that you communicate with. I don't believe there have been any actual cases of phones explicitly listening without user notice in years. I've read the same thing about this specific topic as you, it seems - it's easy to assume people are listening when you talk about something in private and then the panopticon seems to know the next day. But the fact that the panopticon knows without listening and can instead make a guess based on linked data points and metadata and be correct so often is a lot more unnerving.
|
|
#
?
Jan 28, 2023 22:59
|
|
|
I refuse to have any of those devices in my home, but yeah. We're all already carrying around tracking and monitoring devices and you can't really opt out of having one anymore.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 04:53
|
|
|
Lurks With Wolves posted:City of Gangsters, a tycoon game about your gang taking over a Prohibition-era city. Other people can say if it's actually good, but the concept's pretty clear. The Crusader Kings-style relationship system is an interesting addition to a gangster sim, but this game will probably just make a player nostalgic for Gangsters: Organized Crime. In other words, a perfect game to nab for free and not play.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 04:57
|
|
|
Speaking of insidious devices and gigacorps stealing your vital fluids, I just remembered to look up the Amazon Prime crap for February. Feb 2: Morrowind GOTY Edition, Onsen Master Feb 9: Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield, Divine Knockout Feb 16: One Hand Clapping, BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad Feb 23: Space Crew: Legendary Edition, Tunche, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator I've heard good things about that last one.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 15:48
|
|
|
I've heard okay things about that first one.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 15:52
|
|
|
The Kins posted:Speaking of insidious devices and gigacorps stealing your vital fluids, I just remembered to look up the Amazon Prime crap for February. This made me want to try it…also, Sseth has the sense of humor of a Goon for reals, at least, from the early times.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2023 19:59
|
|
|
The Kins posted:Speaking of insidious devices and gigacorps stealing your vital fluids, I just remembered to look up the Amazon Prime crap for February. Only interested in Space Crew and Space Warlord, but not enough to resub to prime. I need to make sure I don't resub to prime this year.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2023 05:00
|
|
|
Tagichatn posted:Hell Is Others/free on EGS today I spent yesterday playing this and it actually kinda owns? I imagine it's gonna get stale fairly soon but its good for a day.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2023 13:16
|
|
|
kirbysuperstar posted:Realm Royale has been around for a while now and somehow not died, I still fully expect Rumbleverse to go down before it (if only because Iron Galaxy doesn't have several loads of staff and funding from the state of Georgia) https://www.gematsu.com/2023/01/rumbleverse-to-end-service-on-february-28 Dave Lang can not catch a break
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2023 00:15
|
|
|
Seems like Dave Lang's been catchin breaks for a long time
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2023 00:37
|
|
|
dogstile posted:I spent yesterday playing this and it actually kinda owns? Yeah I've been playing it (!) too - tense but the short run times make it a lot more palatable, even when you get completely stomped by someone with a good weapon and custom bullets. It only came out at the end of last year so I'd be keen to see how much more content is planned for it.
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2023 03:20
|
|
|
kirbysuperstar posted:https://www.gematsu.com/2023/01/rumbleverse-to-end-service-on-february-28 i'm sure he's crying in his bed of millions every night
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2023 03:28
|
|
|
I played a bunch of Hell is Others over the weekend and it was pretty decent. Kind of plateaued at level 6, though, unable to open the shops I wanted because their neighborhoods inexplicably became packed with hostiles whenever I wanted to try to drop quest items off...
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2023 03:57
|
|
|
Cugel the Clever posted:I played a bunch of Hell is Others over the weekend and it was pretty decent. Kind of plateaued at level 6, though, unable to open the shops I wanted because their neighborhoods inexplicably became packed with hostiles whenever I wanted to try to drop quest items off... You can drop them off in partial amounts, too. You don't have to drop everything off at once. It'll carry over between runs.
|
|
#
?
Feb 1, 2023 04:36
|
|
|
Dishonored Death of the Outsider and City of Gangsters are up on EGS Recipe for Disaster next week
|
|
#
?
Feb 2, 2023 17:49
|
|
|
Sims 4 is also free on EGS atm.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 05:21
|
|
|
Sims 4 is free period. They made the base game free a few months ago.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 05:27
|
|
|
Proletarian Mango posted:Sims 4 is also free on EGS atm. DLC not free
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 05:51
|
|
|
repiv posted:Dishonored Death of the Outsider and City of Gangsters are up on EGS Doto is very good, if you liked dishonored 1 or 2 highly recommended. Its about billie, dauds right hand.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 07:29
|
|
|
Son of Rodney posted:Doto is very good, if you liked dishonored 1 or 2 highly recommended. Its about billie, dauds right hand. Pretty sure that's ableist in Billie's situation. I'd go with "protégé"! 
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 09:44
|
|
|
Sims 1 was a great start, but rough. Sims 2 was a huge step up. I'm a twat who bought every single expansions and stuff pack for Sims 2, and I was able to get the complete version on origin when they did that promotion where one could show proof of owning a disc and get the ultimate edition of the game for free. Sims 3 was even better, but it's when EA really started to take the piss regarding micro-content. Sims 4 is when they stopped trying.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 17:21
|
|
|
My gf owns every piece of dlc for Sims 4. It's rhe only game she plays on her own, and she plays the poo poo out if it. She loves building houses and uploading them, but she insists on using poo poo from all kinds of different DLCs so very few people can actually play in them. Her most popular upload is a little 2 bedroom she made for my Sim and Vin Diesel that only uses base game stuff
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 17:39
|
|
|
big cummers ONLY posted:My gf owns every piece of dlc for Sims 4. I'm sorry about the dire financial straits your girlfriend is in.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2023 23:07
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 22:04 |
|
|
big cummers ONLY posted:My gf nice
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2023 00:00
|
|
