I just realized that conservatives and Ubisoft is a marriage made in capitalism.

Ubisoft TL;DR:

Gamers should get used to not owning games and pay for subscriptions forever.

  • You’ll own nothing and be happy.

“One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That’s a transformation that’s been a bit slower to happen [in games]. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect… you don’t lose your progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That’s not been deleted. You don’t lose what you’ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it’s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.

  • Ubisoft’s Director of Subscriptions: Phillipe Tremblay

Conservatives:

Trust me bro I read the headlines don’t look for any other sources but if you do only look at the ones I tell you, vote for me the left is corrupt and woke, I didn’t get bribes you’re wrong that’s just lies from mainstream media, ok these are friendly gifts but they didn’t influence me.

  • You’ll know nothing and be happy.
    • Ignorance is bliss.

From social movements, to political parties, governments, dissidents, and corporations, many groups engage in active efforts to shape media narratives. Media manipulation tactics include: planting and/or amplifying misinformation and disinformation using humans (troll armies, doxxing, and bounties) or digital tools (bots); targeting journalists or public figures for social engineering (psychological manipulation); gaming trending and ranking algorithms, and coordinating action across multiple user accounts to force topics, keywords, or questions into the public conversation. Because the internet is a tool, a tactic, and a territory – integral to challenging the relations of power.

  • Research from Data & Society

Sources:

This whole showerthought post came to me after I shower decompressed the unpleasant experience of one of my friends accidentally inviting over a conspiracy theorist for new years, again I will state that they didn’t know until yesterday. I don’t even remember what cursed line of conversation that led our nerdy group to have a lenghty and arduous discussion on war, education, and economics.

TL;DR:
Please only invite guests that you’ve known for at least a year.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    That’s the part I don’t get: Chaos is a lot more comforting than believing that there’s a collection of people who can actually make things happen (fast) and yet always seem to cock everything up; even for themselves. At least with chaos there’s always a chance to get things done on your own or slip your own ideals into the mix 🤷

    If there’s a god controlling literally everything like the ultimate micromanager playing pretend with themselves there’s nothing you can do to change your situation. You’re forever stuck; a slave to their will. Why bother even trying to change things? To me that’s just an excuse to be lazy or ignore the problems all around you (or to just be an asshole).

    If someone believes that, “it’s all in God’s hands” that person can never be trusted to solve problems or make things better.