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2026-02-23 Cyber

Even Video Games Can't Top the Real Thing

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Posted by Mercutio 2026-02-23 09:06|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1788 views ] Top

1 Video games were just Space Invaders long ago but they are now a vehicle for biting social satire. This game looks like it lets you fill the shoes of our ruling class and see how they make decisions, and why.
An entire generation is being radicalized and it's just a matter of time before we get another Bondi Beach. Forget the FBI, they haven't arrested anyone in the Epstein Files.
What would really help is some sane people to join the scene and start speaking straight truth about the compromises necessary in politics. But they're too busy enjoying the granite countertops they had installed by Carlos and his cousins for cash, no W-2s.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-23 17:40|| 2026-02-23 17:40|| Front Page Top

2 The sane among your generation are going to have to be the ones to make the tools that give the information the rest need in a format that is most convincing to them, Jairong. Don’t bother trying to convince the older generations to create it for you — they aren’t going to get it right. Look to the example of Charlie Kirk and talk directly to one another. The things you are talking about are exactly the kind of passion projects that should be done by a couple of people with skills working together after work/school and on the weekends, to be only presented to venture capitalists after it has some measure of success, or maybe not even then.

Just like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the PayPal guy and the original Wikipedia team. Figure out what your world doesn’t know it needs, and figure out how to create it. On a very small scale for what I mean: back when trailing daughter #2 was in college, her delightfully nerdy friends wanted to have multiplayer game nights, so she went to a nearby computer supply shop and traded free use of their back room and cables and such (honestly, I have no idea exactly what was involved in such a thing) for the potential to sell all the players new computers, peripherals, and snacks. Possibly the shop owner agreed because she was a reasonably pretty, responsible upper middle class girl instead of an irresponsible-looking nerdy boy, but participation spread well beyond the original friend group, so presumably the shop was pleased with the impact on their bottom line.

Good luck!

Posted by trailing wife 2026-02-23 19:59|| 2026-02-23 19:59|| Front Page Top

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