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Holy motherfucking shit. This is not a game, this is something else. This is sick. This is abusive... This feels akin to exploiting a mental vulnerability that
by tekromancr 14y ago
Holy motherfucking shit. This is not a game, this is something else. This is sick. This is abusive... This feels akin to exploiting a mental vulnerability that exists in a portion of the population to earn money. Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer.
- JackWebbHeller 14y ago> "Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer" What is illegal to do to a computer, in this case...?
- wnight 14y agoI think he means that if you discovered and exploited a bug in a common OS the way farmville manipulated actual minds, you'd be thrown in jail.
- tekromancr 13y agoThat's what I was getting at. You said it better. Thank you.
- mikecane 14y ago>>>This feels akin to exploiting a mental vulnerability that exists in a portion of the population to earn money Ermmmm, that is what some advertising and marketing are all about, creating insecurities in people and then selling them the "cure."
- gordaco 14y agoThat's why I think those are pure evil. I know I'm not alone...
- tekromancr 13y agoAt least when you are being advertised you actually get something out of the deal. If I convince someone to voluntarily empty their bank account and give me everything in exchange for nothing, that would make me a shitbag. Or a televangelist, I guess.
- PavlovsCat 14y agoYou should hear him talk about it, grinning from ear to ear. I loved his games as a kid, but now I'll forever regard him as a self-absorbed scumbag.