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Americans, especially the Government, all have a collective delusion that the United States place in the world is just the way it was right after WW2 and nothing will ever change it. Over the next decade or so, reality will continue setting in...

Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling.

These were all created after the original PUBG, which was an Arma mod created similar to DayZ. This existed as what we know of battle royale before any other clone, and it was also created by PlayerUnknown.

What was unique about the PUBG / Unreal Engine situation is that Epic had only used the Unreal Engine for things like Unreal Tournament. They have a large set of customers who license their engine. When PUBG, which was originally created as an Arma mod (like DayZ), was moved to a standalone company by PlayerUnknown, they began looking for engines to rapidly rebuild what made Arma special. The bullet physics, look of the engine, environment and so on. They chose the Unreal engine.

PUBG took off as soon as the demo was released. There was an ongoing business relationship where PUBG developers worked with the Unreal engine developers to add features to the developer tools, and changes to the engine, to support features that PUBG needed. These changes of course were merged back into the main Unreal engine branch, and this allowed Epic to take the work for a battle royale game from the business association with PUBG, and rapidly cash in on the battle royale craze with Fortnite. It probably only took them 14 days to create it with all the work that PUBG had funded with modfying the engine too.

That's what is different about this, versus just a company creating a clone. It was a dangerous thing to do from Epic's point of view too because I'm sure there could be cases where other customers could see the engine company help them create an initial product, and then use that work to rip them off with a clone.

From a business practice standpoint, this is similar to what Amazon did with Amazon Basics. Where Amazon became the main, or only, online marketplace for many products. They ran reports and data to find which third party products were selling well on their site... And then they set up stuff like Amazon Basics to essentially copy them. Eventually due to the price and shipping advantage, and the Amazon name, the original products get replaced. And it feeds into Amazons profits.

Now with AI, all someone has to do is find out which games are popular and then drop some money on tokens to try to vibe code a competing game.

The fact is that they all worked together to give Trump both his first and second terms. The Clintons and Trumps are still very close behind the scenes. A lot of 2016 was just theater. The Comey stuff, on and on. Then 2024, no Democratic Primary, keeping Bidens condition hidden as late as possible. Trump could've jut as easily run as a Democrat at one point in time. This is a symptom of money corrupting politics too. All of these people have similar financial backing and interests.

Google realized how much money they were losing by supporting adblock in the first place. They also had way too many extensions with MV2 that requested full site access...

At the end of the day, they want to force feed everyone advertisements. Often meant to make people angry or buy shit they don't need.

It's also why apps like NewPipe are in an arms race with the recent sideloading app changes for Android.

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If you tax all billionaires at 100%, it would cover the cost of the government for a few months.

In many places, there is no legal obligation for police to collect evidence in your favor, even if they know it exists.

Also, and this is very difficult to accept for a lot of people, but the truth doesn't really matter in many cases like this. It's always malicious prosecution because like all of our politicians, the justice system is made up of people who are backed by various financial and political interests. The system makes up its mind for what it is going to determine the truth to be as well as the legal process necessary to get the pre-determined end result. The police, DA, Judges, etc, all work together every day.

You basically have no rights and if you ever call the powers that be out for violating them, they will just throw various forms of immunity back at you... From qualified immunity to sovereign immunity, 11th amendment protections and so on.

The shit you see on TV is just copaganda.

The political class and their corporate partners in crime are just blatantly looting the Govt and taxpayers for anything that is left. This is after running up $40 trillion in debt. Which let's be honest. A large amount of that also made it to this same corrupt group. It's just that back in the day, they had to scheme and play games to steal and ultimately bankrupt the Govt. Already going after Social Security too. At some point they will have run up so much debt and stolen so much money that there will be nothing left to take... Other than the ongoing corruption to maintain power and all the regulatory capture that keeps the fraud and corruption machine going... Which itself is being fed by all this imaginary money from the Federal Reserve. And the rest of us just pay for it while being increasingly unable to afford the cost of all the corruption and theft. Then due to these same assholes building systems and robots to replace labor, you're going to have fewer jobs and the ones that exist will be increasingly shitty as different roles are replaced as AI and robotics advances. All of those people will be looking to a welfare safety net to literally stay alive. And the response from social security, and all the other programs will be that there is no money for it. Where did it all go again?

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What's the explanation for the shape of the Moon, Sun, all other planets, etc... in the flat earth mindset?

Yeah but what are you gonna do about it?

All fired workers will get a pair of Levi jeans, so it's not all bad