The AC in this thread is very very mad. There's plenty of evil that can be done. I don't see games becoming free like TV through an ad model anytime soon. I see people being fucked even worse, perhaps even forced to play games riddled with crapvertisements. And deliberately programmed to really stupify people and give them a false sense of ... I don't know, well being? Games now really do not permit any self expression. Imagine being forced to sit through mass effect over and over and not even have a choice in the dialog and having it be used to sell and push political agendas or make young people think war is ok.

OOhhh wait. The USA already experimented with FPSs.

yeah, a lot worse could come of games than currently is. A lot worse. I'll prob get modded down. But it's not far fetched to see a dystopian future were fucked up games are a part of that dystopia.

Some veterans make their opinion on a war known. Not all. But some do. Some do the honorable thing and stand up for what they believe in and the oath they were sworn in on.

Some do indeed.

Even some that keep on trying to fight.

All of that is very illegal for civilians to own citizen.

Powerword Blindess, roll fort save vs 14 or be permanently blinded!

Will spew whatever they think their bosses want them to spew to get that phone call under 30 seconds. Few people if any actually have any real understanding of these issues.

Unfortunately.

The big bang happened but on a much smaller scale, and there was already stuff here before the big bang.

We assume there was no stuff before our known universe expanded and that our known universe expanded at XYZ to account for the amount of energy and matter we have now.

But we are making a lot of assumptions still.

Currently at this point in time we have the technological capacity to survive the more or less complete destruction of our biosphere. Would it be pretty? No. Would we be prolific, no. Would we easily be wiped out by a failure or disaster affecting our crude makeshift survival, yes.

But we could. There's no reason a technological civilization of our stage cant make it to the next stage given a bit of luck and a solid motivation to make it. I wager, that people surviving the death of our biosphere 1 billion years from now might have NO problem being motivated and cautious and wise enough to live happily ever after.

The elephant in that room is that we most likely wouldn't even recognize ourselves at that point and this most likely has happened in the past and will be proven one day. If we get that far.

Reinventions and creatively redesigning games and activities into a virtual space is like, the thing that made the big devs of the old studios of yor. I don't think people inspired to change paradigms are bad people to design.

It's just a risky business model. But the results can be gr8. Most likely this guy can survive another failure and is more than happy to get the chance to take a risk on this next en devour they dream of.

Honestly I don't know really where the hell FPS's can be taken... that they havn't at some point by a mod... but I guess someone could roll out an fps quite quickly by mashing up mod ideas and just using a stock engine.

Indeed to me it's pretty simple. The group will really has no business influencing an individuals personal and private life. The life that has nothing to do with anyone else. Especially.

Other than that, really for many of us, me, particularly, an idealistic society is one in which every person is individually empowered and completely independent from the moires of society.

Sounds like a bunch of retarded mongoloid nvidia fanbois begrudgingly agree with me as AC's. The idea of a shader model is nothing new boys and girls....... If I stampted it into a peice of metal and used a flywheel with a needle to read the algorithm in. It wouldn't exactly be innovation now would it? Maybe artistic. But hardly innovative.

I'm pretty sure none of this technology is really innovative. Shaders for example have been around since over two decades ago.

And this couldnt be hotwired or bypassed by just replacing the controller unit with some off the shelf parts? Come on...

the whole damn article is flamebait, thx mods

To add kill switches that can easily be bypassed by anyone. And probably would end up being designed to be bypassed in the long run.

The problem is, how did the equipment get in their hands in the first place?

The solution is, stop putting equipment were it can be aquired by our enemies. That includes shipping it over sea, unless it's going to be physically used in active combat.

But we all know these wars are not:
A. fought to win
B. justifiable
C. directly intended for our or anyones benefit other than rich warmongers

After reading the article, seeing the discussion here, being a gamer myself, and also experiencing the effects of this objectification myself.

I would say, regardless of her 'moral character' (tbh what she does in her own time).

She is damn right about the gaming industry.

TBH games are fairly weak and lacking in any substance that adds anything to humanity overall. But it is worse if you take them apart piece by piece out of context.

I would be the first to argue that some as a whole are not all that bad. But her argument is that the overwhelming majority of games suffer from the curse of objectification.

And in that she is absolutely right.