Isn't the point of a trade secret that it can't be legally protected? It's secret because there is no consequence for another company using it if they find out
The corpo media doesn't want you writing about real solutions, it's easier to get away with here! And i doubt the alphabet agencies will care as much as they used to now that they're being directly attacked.
Tbh I'd wait for player reviews anyway if you want reviews, they are generally more reliable. Although i suppose that's changing these days with people jumping on any little thing to feed their outrage addictions.
I'd like to point out you are legally allowed to follow your state's stand your ground laws against police and federal agents. My favorite example of that in action is a case from Texas where a man killed a bunch of cops illegally entering his home and got off a free man, mainly because it's hilarious that Texas has to choose between licking boot and snorting gunpowder.
Demons. Sub human beasts. I have no idea how these cretins live with themselves. I'm certainly no good person, but i have never gone out of my way to hurt kids like this.
If you have the authority to try to make a good company culture; hell yes you should. Even if they don't often read novels, or they read something other than sci-fi, it'll help you understand their personality and weed out people who suck. If someone says they prefer reading sci-fi manga or playing fantasy ttrpgs or any other possible nerdy thing they are probably leagues better than a ladder climbing type.There are plenty of places for a soulless corpo to go work for, if you can keep them away from you and yours you'll have a much better and healthier company and (more importantly) life in the long run.
No, companies should cut ties with stock markets (because they literally don't help the company) and foster a relaxed, human culture. Even if we remain under the yoke of capitalism that type of investment hurts companies and society in the long run and developing a culture that doesn't make the world worse helps even the uber wealthy.
Does losing investors actually mean anything? They wouldn't be there to begin with if the company didn't already make money, and it's only specific types of investors that literally don't help a company at all that care about the company growing forever. A real investor just wants their money back plus however much they negotiated for over time.
What the other guy said. But also, while implants do have negative affects on your humanity on their own they are not that big of a deal. I specifically remember befriending a therapist on the last RED character i made because i could practically borg myself without using borgware (which would make it cost way less humanity) and stay sane as long as i spaced the process out and got help in between. It would have made me a bit of a cocky asshole, but it wouldn't have sent me flying over the edge in their own. You can also lose humanity through bad experiences, like seeing kids die, so it's clearly not (just) a cyber stat, it's just mental health.
the game does sorta cover it, at least RED does. Implants usually have a relatively small impact on your humanity by themselves (that's the permanent humanity loss), the procedure of getting them and the purpose that fucks you up. Iirc medical grade and affirming implants do nothing to hurt your humanity either, it's not the chrome it's turning yourself into a tool that hurts. Humanity is also higher among people with a decent life (as in, loving family, supportive friends, etc) and can be lost through bad experiences, which implies it's just a mental health thing.
Edit: i might be thinking shadowrun on the medical implants, but shadowing isn't trying to be philosophical about humanity so i doubt it's that.
I'd just like to point out; cyberpsychosis is a cover in world, a smokescreen, a convenient half truth. It's just normal psychotic breaks that happens to everyone when they are subjected to the corporate hellscape. The reason it's more obvious when a walking tank has their inevitable meltdown should be, well, obvious. There's allusions to it in every piece of cyberpunk media, but the biggest sticking point is that mechanically the impacts do very little to your humanity themselves (it's mostly the surgery and the damage can be fixed with therapy) and affirming implants don't have any negative impact on humanity (iirc).
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You should probably start caring about video games before you talk about them