There was a brief cyber-cafe game place here but it crashed and burned very quickly. It that still a thing in Asia or Europe ? There is an old time arcade with pinball and stuff that seems to keep chugging along though.

I recently started tt-rpg again with the new D&D. Getting back to pen and paper is really refreshing and fun. Check your local game shop, or college for active gaming groups. Oddly all the players are older folks with a even breakdown in men/women. All the younger folks play MtG or some other card based game. I think Pathfinder might be the rpg for that genre.

I agree but user awareness is critical and they have the memory span of Dory the goldfish. If you don't keep the problem in the spotlight they will forget before first coffee break.

Email clients could make this problem MUCH easier to deal with if they would just show the DOMAIN instead of overlaying the address with a title that is wholly made up. If you could see that your MS support email came from iamfuckinghack.com and not microsucks.com it would help. The mobile email clients are TERRIBLE in this manner and almost part of the problem hiding the true email address. Hell your client should point out those discrepancies when the mail is received.

It may just be me but I don't want ANYTHING to do with Elon Musk. Fuck him and his cars and his spaceships all in one fast steroid filled gross mess that looks vaguely human.

you are probably correct, but luckily I don't play sports games and I gave up on battlefield after 1942...

I am not sure I kicked it. I still dream about EQ and the old raids.

Sony jumped the shark long ago. Only fanboi's buy Sony products these days. Overpriced under-performing junk. I remember back in the 80's a Sony Trinitron was the shiznit, now all their stuff is just plain shit.

EA sucks and I will cheer when they go down in flames. Everything they touch they leverage into shit.

SpaceX needs Tesla's revenue to subsidize its AI efforts.

Tesla needs SpaceX for all the AI resources that were diverted from Tesla to SpaceX.

Elon Musk needs the merger in order to circumvent the performance goals in his compensation package.

Yes, but probably illadvised. A drone is a LOT less stealthier than a squad of dudes crawling between bushes. That said, for getting restocked logistics to the front line, it could definitely be a winner idea. If you have a group behind enemy lines running low on ammo and food, then a drone dropping a bunch of ammo and ration packs to a dead drop is probably a lot safer than sending in Oleg the 18yo runner (who has knowledge of where those guys needing the re-up are and would fold under 5 minutes of car batteries attached to the nipples).

When I was a kid, my dad had a friend who was used as a runner in the vietnam war for sending intel back and forth from the front line. He had a nearly photographic memory but was completely illiterate. They liked sending him because they knew he'd never write the information down, and because he was a complete hard case they trusted not to fold under torture. The dude was completely mental though, lots of PTSD but was hilariously illiterate. They ran a chicken farm and would often put up signs advertising "mandurah $5Kg". Mandurah was the town we lived in, we all presumed he was selling mannure.

So they should prefer the Google Monopoly instead of the Microsoft monopoly? WTF?

No. They should prefer to have a choice. They don't because microsoft actively makes it diffiicult for non technical people to have that choice.

Also, I'm tired of hearing about poor old grandma and grandpa and their computer problems.

I don't understand how this is an argument. We aren't discussing your preferences.

Or better yet, fight with a pen instead of a sword.

Unless your proposing they get a guy in close enough to jam a ballpoint between Putin's ribs, I'm not sure angry words are going to be sufficient defence when an enemy is trying to murder your entire country.

From what i gather about the ideological leanings of anthropics founders, I do believe them that they want to do good. The problem is their definition of good is hopelessly entwined with the "Effective Altruism" movement that seems to be more Sam Bankman Fried than mother teresa.

less "Lets donate a billion dollars to distribute aids medicine to central afraica" and more "Lets donate a billion dollars to prevent Rokkos Basilisk" (if you dont know what that is, pour yourself a beer and google it and be prepared for a very funny read)

This, by the way, as an australian, is why I think the teenage social media ban, while poorly implemented, had its heart in the right place. Social media is doing *terrible* things to boys sense of moral judgement and girls sense of self esteem. At least back in the fashion mag days, the teen girl magazines used to at least have articles on why girls should resist the hormonal advances of teenage boys and why they shouldnt judge themselves on unrealistic fashion standards (the slogan was usually some variation of "there are only 10 women in the world that look like supermodels". Theres not a lot on instagram telling them that now.