The automation is because it’s always been a felony not to register, same as it is in virtually every country with mandatory service, so to avoid the horrifically needless societal effects that come from giving someone a felony for a random crime, they simply automated it.

Basically what they did with social security years ago. Used to also be a crime to not sign up by a certain age, so they just started immediately registering all children at birth.

I’m guessing you saw Episode 1 during its May release for the 25th anniversary?

Sorry dong, I’ve only played the more popular spin off, Animal Neutral.

I forgot to mention them, but hilariously Denmark had human zoos of people from their overseas territories, but the Icelandic people were unhappy with being displayed not because it was inhuman or degrading, but because they considered themselves more civilized then the people of the Faroe Islands and Greenland lmao

Koreans, Chinese, Taiwanese natives, and Okinawans made to perform like backwards savages for entertainment.

Apparently according to the source of the map, they aren’t counting zoos put on by Imperialist nations in their colonial holdings since those nations didn’t have sovereignty in making those decisions.

They marked India because of the Andaman Islands incident where the local government and police forced the indigenous population to perform as savage native peoples for tourists that they would take on human safaris. The police would torture, beat, kidnap, and sexually assault tribe members if they refused or didn’t perform to their liking. There is a famous video of a police officer throwing food at some native peoples before holding them at gunpoint and yelling for them to dance for the tourists because he has given them food.

This went on from the early 2000’s to 2015, when the scheme was revealed; which created massive outrage in the Indian government and UN. Thankfully everyone associated was imprisoned and the native populations hold more autonomy over the islands.

This map is extremely poorly made and missed quite literally half the world.

The Swiss and Norwegians had human zoos where they paid black peoples to perform racist stereotypes. Norwegians and Swedes also forced the Sami minority to preform in human exhibits.

The Russian Empire had multiple human zoos that ran for short periods of time between 1800-1914. They were a rare form of entertainment for the Tsars and nobility.

The Dutch aren’t marked on this man but they literally hired and kidnapped several black people to preform in a human zoo called “N-word village”. Along with a village dedicated to native people from Suriname.

Thailand held hundreds of refugee women from Myanmar in a human zoo that was operating as late as 2008. They were not allowed to leave the country and were essentially slaves until the UN stepped in.

Czechoslovakia operated a human zoo with Pygmy individuals.

Ireland operated a human zoo in Dublin with Senegalese “performers” in 1904.

The Austrian-Hungarian Empire operated multiple human zoos.

Australia had human zoos of aboriginal peoples.

Warsaw had a human zoo that attracted 200,000-300,000 attendees.

Portugal operated a human zoo with kidnapped Africans from its colonies in 1940.

Argentina forced indigenous tribe leaders to perform in natural history museums.

The Aztec Empire operated a human zoo in their capital city with hundreds of enslaved performers that were considered “odd”; note that this means disabled. It was recently unearthed by archeologists a few years ago after being considered a myth, since it was only documented by the Conquistadors as the zoo was part of the personal collection of the Emperor.

The poopdeck

You can capture full fledged NPC humans and make them your “Pals”.

Yes you can enslave actual humans.

Yes?

I’m not saying that China is doing that, but if an entity were to want to perform successful mass marketing or propaganda; then demographic, psychographic, and geographic data is vital to that. The more you have, the better you can tailor your messages and efforts to a target population. That is basic marketing, and why companies ceaselessly collect as much data as humanly possible as quickly as possible.

If we’re honest, it’s because they are a morally bankrupt mega corporation as many others across the globe are. They are absolutely harvesting data, selling user information, essentially injecting spyware into peoples systems, relying on predatory gaming systems such as gambling and gatcha, among many other ethically corrupt capitalistic practices.

However, the unbridled hate is mostly projection, because nothing Tencent is doing is not what Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, etc, have been doing already for years; and will continue to do.

What? How is removing micro transactions, and other predatory content “western centric”? That is a benefit to humanity.

Do you think that only Chinese people play Chinese games?

He never said it, and it is disregarded as a myth.

The quote actually comes from a 1955 periodical where an anti communist army officer attributed the quote the Lenin.

They hire literal teams of psychologists to make the games as addicting as possible.

Makes sense, though at the same time it allows for a more multifaceted story like in a book that follow different characters in different chapters. Plus it gave people different choices for which main character they wanted to be.

Why not?

There will probably be multiple protagonists like in 5. It wouldn’t make sense for them to go backwards.

Half-Life was absurdly revolutionary when it was released. The gunplay, physics, graphics, enemy interactions, weapons and so on blew everything else out of the water by a mile. Valve was definitely an industry leader in its early days.

It’s because you just say “finger” and the context is understood.