So now they act like the shitty video game store in the mall is actually cool and innovative and soon some management changes and NFT nonsense will turn the company around.
Outside of people clearly being facetious on WSB, I literally never see anybody genuinely have this attitude toward GameStop.
Some biometric data can be used for IDing, but unless you have a particularly unique sinus rhythm, I don't think heart rate can really be used to identify anybody.
The only exception, unfortunately, was with kbin communities. All the kbin.social ones still showed subscribe pending for me even after following the same procedure. Still, this is a big improvement over having a bunch of half-subscribed communities.
This may be due to Kbin development slowing down recently. Ernest has had some life issues pop up recently, which has taken up a lot of his attention away from development. Hopefully we see some progress on the Kbin side soon, too!
That's not what the other person said, and misusing quotes like that on a serious topic like this is egregiously disingenuous. If that was your takeaway, then you really ought to take a step back, take a deep breath, and recollect yourself before commenting again, because you're really missing the mark here.
Look, if you're upset that a pretty white girl is getting a disproportionate amount of media attention, then just say that. That's a valid criticism of the news cycle. Maybe you could make a commentary about "Missing white woman syndrome" or something. But to make comparisons over which terrorist organization is a worse terrorist organization than the other is just asinine. The IDF and Hamas are both terrorist groups, it doesn't matter which one has killed more children; they're both killing children. Neither side is worth defending, they're both inhumane groups killing each other's and their own innocents.
They redid the entire skill tree. Not only does it look and work differently, but many old skills were reworked, and some were removed completely and replaced with new skills. It's also a lot easier to tell what the level requirements for each skill are since they're unlocked in tiers based on your attribute levels.
No, the difference is that you're expected to return it. You're not supposed to keep it forever. That's why there's a "due by" date on checked-out materials.
If intellectual property is not real, then why do you support the idea of paying small developers instead of large developers? Their intellectual property is just as fake as large studios, right?
I really wish pirates were more honest with themselves. Just admit that you're taking something that doesn't belong to you and own it. I pirate content all the time, but I don't do the mental gymnastics to justify it. Just admit that you stole something and that you don't care, it's not that hard. I have an old PC in my closet that has about 200 movies and a bunch of cracked games on it that I've pirated over the years, and I don't care that I stole them. The Robin Hood complex some pirates have is just weird, imo. You're not sticking it to The Man; The Man is still bankrolling more per week than the team who made the content you stole is making in a year, regardless of your seed ratio.
By the way, large studios also have developers who rely on their jobs to put food on the table, just like the small studios. If you think anybody at EA aside from the C-Suite execs are significantly richer than the average indie dev, you'd be mistaken. Next time you're playing a pirated AAA game, look at your character; the guy who spent several weeks of his life sculpting and rigging that model is probably just as concerned about paying his rent on time as you are.
By the way, this isn't entirely directed at you, specifically. Just my thoughts on the general attitude I see in a lot of piracy communities lately.
Or just stop playing games from shit studios with shit ethics in the first place. If they're that bad, you shouldn't be playing their games at all, pirated or not.
Yes, 100%. For instance, my Pixel Watch measures and logs my heart rate every second. Though I doubt that something as volatile as a user's heart rate has any significant value to advertisers, over the treasure trove of other, more reliable data points they already have collected on any given user.
People act like every single facet of their lives has some intrinsic advertising value, when really it's only specific things that advertisers are interested in. They want to know your habits; what sites you go to, what physical spaces you frequently visit, what sort of content you consume, what you spend your money on, etc. Those are metrics that advertisers can capitalize on to make sure that they're serving you ads that you're more likely to engage with.
Biometric data, on the other hand, is basically worthless. Even if we pretend that Google is using my heart rate data from my Fitbit profile for advertisements, that data gives Google basically nothing to work with. Did my heart rate fluctuate because of an ad I saw? Or did it fluctuate because I stood up and walked to the kitchen while a YouTube ad was playing? There's no easy way to discern this sort of nuance, making it effectively useless for advertising purposes.
Maybe if we lived in a more cyberpunk world where advertisers could access things like our serotonin or dopamine levels, and could link that directly to things we're actively seeing/hearing, that would be worthwhile to advertisers, because then they could actually know how something you interacted with affected your brain chemistry. But as it stands right now, heart rate by itself is little more than junk data.
Let's bring it down to $19.00.