It seems very cool at the time. First game I remember spending lots of time on was probably Jet Set Willy, in the mid 80s. But yeah, some kids were playing but mostly only those who's parents had computers. They were expensive and we weren't well off at all, someone at church lent us one because I got into coding. But you're right, it was probably around 10%. I would expect that figure to be higher amongst families with more money though probably not much higher.
I'm almost fifty, started gaming when I was a kid on Sinclair spectrum and BBC computers. Some of the figure is probably people who got into gaming later in life but some is just people who started early and kept going.
Yeah, it feels like a much improved version of an Eliza. Much improved, but still software. It doesn't understand what it's saying. TBF though I know a few humans like that.
Exercise gets harder to keep up when you get older and everything starts hurting.
I've been playing through the first two games again for the first time in many years to get set for this. They hold up pretty well. Haven't tried Deserts of Kharak but might play that too. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them.
We don't know the breed involved yet but we're mostly assuming it's pitbulls. They're illegal to own here in the UK because they keep killing people.
It took longer for Darwin's theories to be generally accepted, though, and somehow some people still won't acknowledge them.
I'm wondering if they are also less likely to speak English at the sort of standard employers seek.
Yeah, it's really messed up. And getting worse. I'm just not sure how we change it without violence though. Voting doesn't fucking help. And, like me, most of the people who are hurting don't want violent change. Rightly, because like capitalism, revolution hurts a lot of people. But it feels like society is a balloon and the rich are squeezing it and wondering when it'll pop. It's hard to predict what's gonna happen but based on the way things have been I'd say worse.
Yeah, a whole lot of working folks are one missed paycheck from homelessness. I'm old enough to remember that it wasn't always like this, if you were working you didn't have nearly so much anxiety and exhaustion, you could afford to look after a kid or have the occasional holiday, maybe own a home. Not anymore. The rich are getting richer though.
We've never really needed to use photo ID in England and never had problems with fraud. You can only visit one polling station one time, the system worked fine. The Tories changed it to deliberately disenfranchise the poor who are less likely to have these types of ID, and they did this because they're scum.
What about just one really big wasp?
Yeah I've been thinking that too. Not sure I have time to learn it though so I keep sticking with windows. But I really have to make the effort to switch.
Thanks I'll check it out
Isn't it invite only?
Yeah fair point. I'm just thinking I'd call it a mental health issue more than an actual addiction. Extreme phobias are psychological and this stuff sounds kinda like the opposite of a porn phobia.
I suppose the feeling is that no actual children are harmed in making AI porn. It's still something that sexualises kids though so I'm not sure how valid that argument is.
I kind of feel that the term 'addiction' is being used a bit freely these days. If you're addicted to heroin, for example, and you're unable to access the drug you are sick as fuck for a week. That's not just a psychological phenomenon, it's physical too. If a porn addict is unable to access porn I find it hard to believe that they suffer similarly. That said, people manage to mess up their lives pretty profoundly with gambling so perhaps it's better to define addiction based on the harm done to someone life rather than the consequences of withdrawal.
The problem with democracy is that to really work it requires an informed electorate, and a lot of the information the electorate get is propaganda. But like you say, I don't have a better alternative to offer.
