Also, mice aren't humans. So, I wish you luck.

*gnashing and graphic whinging* !!!

Just wanted to take part in the easy fun for a bit.

Parents apparently gave these kids a credit card.
It was likely saved for future purchases for "convenience".
It turned out pretty convenient for lil' Timmay to use over and over to buy fuckloads of digital swag.
Parents mad now, yet lil' Timmay plays on.
Definitely Fortnite at fault. Timmay and parent are absolved of all responsibility.
Hurray.

Seriously, who the hell plugs a live CC PAN into your kid's game and doesn't expect it will get used again and again? The entire point of those systems is to bleed you for money, and they're optimized for manipulation. My kids have virtual cards for this sort of crap, they are hard spend capped, and I can turn them off with less than 5 mouse clicks. Get better at parenting.

Also, not sorry for Fortnite. Cigarettes were more fun, imo, but like fellows deserve the same bedding.

I assume you've not worked much in the hourly fields? OT is where you make the party pay, my friend. When you see that sign for 2x pay or (gasp) more, you throw your hat in the ring and then fight to win a spot - that right there is your new car, boat, house downpayment, ATV, pool remodel, whatever-the-fuck-you-wanted. That's fucking Christmas-come-early to tradeskills.

Until you're trying to escape from all those damned dragons that keep swooping by trying to bite you.
The Quato (Total Recall) that's suddenly grown out of your belly advised a high speed getaway by Honda Civic, and that seemed both reasonable and affordable!
Your car is a Toyota, but details like that don't matter when the fate of the world is on the line!
I only wish these pedestrians would stop jumping in front of our new Civic, the windshield wipers work much better for water than blood and gore.

Yep. I'm solid. Hand me the keys, please. :)

Well said. I'm happy to have sacrificed some slashdot karma to have brought your post to surface.

both of these sources seem a bit dubious lately. Do you have any other credentialed sources willing to identify themselves that don't have a recent track record of being incredibly sensationalist for profit and perhaps even propagandist?

here ya go
https://archive.ph/ut1o1

Those are just citizens of the future. They're walking out with the stuff they need because in their time no one uses money, so they have no concept of it.

Sorry, but you didn't include trans members in your game's backstory, so your game is canceled.
It's the 2020's - get with the times

One gets the impression that every plan is moving forward because of him.
Think geriatric abuse. "Sign here, dad. Mom needs her meds to be paid." "Oh good call, Billy, I mean Hunter"

The sooner we flush the old folks home out of Washington, the sooner we'll have younger looking faces that more align to the manipulative fucks that are causing all the problems - or, perhaps, representatives that aren't so damned complacent as to just take directions from their aides - we'll see. Either way, the current situation is FUBAR

No one that makes a bunch of money off their messaging app is going to do it using XMPP.

The point is not interoperability. The point is exclusivity.

If Apple added a special color (let's say purple) to messages sent from a "Carbon Neutral" iPhone (sold for 10x the normal price of the exact same phone), people would clamor to get purple texts. At first they will mostly sell to celebrities with more money than brains. Then, after they milk that for a few years, they'll start to onboard the higher order of plebeians after magically reducing the cost of the 'purple text phone' down to only 2x (via marketing-mumbo-jumbo-magic-spell, of course).

Technically, yes. However, the consumer experience is what I was targeting here, and I feel that from the consumer perspective any answer given that is untrue is effectively a lie. Ie, it doesn't really matter how the algorithm came up with the wrong answer, it only matters that the answer itself is wrong.

How much did he still keep?

They made some massive PR claims out of the gate, and many people were interested and wanted play with it for a while to find out for themselves. Well, now they've mucked about with it and had some soak time -- looks like it isn't as ground breaking as the PR department was making it out to be after all.

It can write short stories based on given prompts, and it will lie whenever the black box statistical algorithm doesn't happen across the real answer. It's a neat toy, and a useful tool to get past some minor writers block, but otherwise not that impressive yet. Sort of like the internet was back in 1996 -- time will tell if it has similar growth potential. In the meantime, it remains to be a really efficient way to burn cash and cpu cycles.

If you want to lazy-mode it, this may be a useful chatgpt prompt: