With digital platforms like steam where there are zero chances of a game not being in stock prepurchasing benefits are limited to the few bonuses they give out like exclusive skins and crap.
I have bought a game at full price over $40 maybe once a year but not a prepurchase unless they had a free beta before the game was released. Nearly all of them were multiplayer games where I had played the beta with friends and we ended up putting in hundreds of hours.
Sadly, not enough games have free versions to try out so most games I purchase for $40 or less.
I like the AI that existed prior to the LLM and genAI slop fest. AI used to mean the tools that were used to discover planets, a lot of complex matching systems, and even tools for making music! Pattern matching using neural networks and other methids is awesome and has a huge number of positive uses.
So when I say I hate AI I am referring to those for profit companies who jam this slop into everything, increase pollution, give companies reasons to fire everyone, and drive up prices by buying up all the hardware even harder than scalpers ever did. The companies that have coopted the term AI are who I am referring to.
They are speed running culture into a shithole while bending us over and telling us to thank them for it. No, I do not want a fucking summary of a three word text message. No, I don't want a summary of what I am reading. No, I don't want someone else to read your inaccurate summary of the email I wrote. No, I don't want your made up bullshit spewed to people I know so that I have to constantly ask where they got some fabricated information and explain that your shit shoved into everything is not reliable. No, putting a fucking warning to double check results is not a solution, especially when you drown out the right information.
AI was better back before fascists decided to use it to try and take over the world.
I didn't live in a house with 'people who worked there' and it was small enough that I wanted to be in a different space with friends.instead of hearing everything family members were doing. Might have been different if I grew up in a large house with staff.
This specific email from Brenda is most likely a fictional version of something that does actually happen fairly regularly. There are laws in many countries and even in some US states mandating breaks because of companies or leadership or HR encouraging them to never stop working.
People who have had friends, family, or their own personal interactions with ICE just because they have brown skin don't need to look at a screen to be fearful.
Suspension of disbelief refers to fictional stories where you have to go with something that doesn't seem realistic. That is a bit different than ignoring things that contradict reality, possibly due to confirmation bias, or cognitive dissonance where someone believes two or more contradictory things.
Yes, they should get jail time for being in contempt of court because they are professionals and should be held to a higher standard than people off the street.
A person off the street should get a warning. Professionals should be expected to follow a judge's orders.
The judge said not to bring something in and they clearly ignored the judge's directions and it is their job to comply with the judge's directions. They are not some random person off the street.
If someone is giving Google their home address and work address, and planning the route to get traffic data, they’re not going to be concerned when Google Maps suggests their work address as a destination through the week.
It isn't that they aren't concerned, that is actually something many people see as a benefit. Yes, I still use google maps because it remembers destinations and has traffic density alerts and a bunch of other stuff that require tracking but those are a separate thing from google selling that tracking data to third parties. The former is a benefit and the latter is a problem.
My dwindling interest in the the new hotness for tech is due to diminishing returns and how frequently it is change for the sake of change with zero additional benefit. I still learn new stuff, but only after it has been out long enough to find out if there is an actual benefit involved.
Seriously, the amount of things that are just repackaged stuff that already existed but now it is cheaply produced and unreliable is overwhelming. Brands don't even stick to their purpose for a decade before selling out and letting quality slip.
Something something mysterious ways.