wizardbeard

Same sort of thing. Sure, my entire existence could be the product of a delusion of some higher order being merely keeping the results of my senses consistent with what I consider "real life". All my previous experiences could be complete fabrications done convincingly enough, including previous musings on this.

So fucking what?

Until any of that becomes provable or has direct impact on the experience I have as "real life", it's nothing more than extremely boring navel gazing.

Non-falsifiable philosophical wankery dead-ends and a waste of energy to seriously consider. Better ways to spend what I pErCeIvE as time.

Matches my thoughts on the whole "what if this is all just a simulation?" thing too. Until that has some tangible effect on us, or we find a way out, so what?

And free will. We feel like we have it. That's all that really matters as far as that debate goes unless you're the kind of jackass trying to rob someone of their accomplishment or absolve yourself of terrible behavior.

It's a manga at least. Densha De D, I believe. Mashup of Densha De Go (train thing) with Initial D.

They already do, and more. Some contracts have significant pay dependent on Metacritic scores. Whether or not the whole team is gutted between projects instead of just most of the team is generally dependent on review metrics, sales, and ROI.

It's openly been an absolutely awful industry to work for at least a decade now.

From my understanding, this sort of thing was also used by Ukraine to identify where Russian soldiers were. Not ad tech specifically, but stuff like cell tower usage spikes from the troop's cell phones.

Yeah, that looks like the terribly burnt in nearly decade old screens at my local bar. I don't know how anyone could possibly stand that as a main screen in their own home.

More importantly, to link multiple device fingerprints to a single identity.

Holy shit that makes this even more pathetic.

Decade

I love how "accepted by a marquee film festival" is being thrown around like some kind of fucking accomplishment. So you had the right connections and bribed the right people, big fucking deal.

Mmmm, delicious crab bucket

Yeah, like what is this even about? You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker with pause/play, volume, and sometimes even forward and back skip buttons for pretty cheap.