Talcosis

Seems to me that it’s much easier to create a single cohesive nationalistic identity by destroying every other place where people can find identity. Which often involves groups of people interacting and finding ways to work together.

Bit like how people with few real life social connections are much more likely to fall into parasocial relationships.

Also a bit like the isolation step before the abuse starts.

Great solution!

First, we need to have the systems in place to identify those people. Second, we need to have the manpower to provide those people with one on one socialization.

Third, we can get rid of the AI chat bots.

Yeah, but we’re talking about literally soaking the entire building in concentrated vinegar for months, not throwing a water balloon of regular vinegar at it. This particular case probably didn’t do anything

Pretty minor. If they picked up the whole data center and soaked it in a large jug of 10% acetic acid for about nine months, the concrete would lose about 20% of its strength.

Not sure about the civil engineering side, but I assume there’s enough safety factor in your average construction to account for 20% strength loss.

Just in time for the GPU I bought specifically for this game three years ago to shit the bed…sigh

Investors don’t care about the companies they invest in, they care about return on investment.

If it destroys the company, they simply invest in another company.

And it caused a shitfit in 2012, before people started freaking out about depiction of suicide to the extent they do now.

Disappointing sales iirc, complete change in gameplay from the original syndicate, and not much replayability. Plus, some of the mechanics are maybe a bit spicy for modern sensibilities.

Pretty sure Skrillex wrote an entire soundtrack entirely for the game