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In it the player controls a team of stealthy assassins in real time who coordinate to infiltrate heavily guarded Shogunate fortresses. The characters and voice acting are quite well done.

The gameplay is very tricky and fickle but I guess it's fun because yesterday I downloaded the expansion with a bunch of new level to sneak around in.

That's from top comment in this thread. I'm not sure how you got the impression I was defending him.

The Woz was on TV in an interview saying he bought 2 Model 3s, one for himself and one he could put to work after the robotaxi update. Regular everyday suckers too were taking on crippling debt to buy Teslas because their cars were gonna pay for themselves after the magical update.

"I'm not a fan of actually-existing late-stage capitalism, frankly.

What I want is Banksian fully automated luxury gay space communism.

(You can quote me on that. I hate what tech has turned into.)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163649

(Charlie wrote the book on our emerging ai dystopia, prophetically, decades ago)

Another way to think about it: Technology has increased the number of people. There was a human population bottleneck about 900,000 years ago, and the breeding population was reduced to only a few thousand people. So all the world's assets were divided between them. Now all the world's assets are divided between 8 billion people, which means less wealth per person, and more poverty.

As a technologist here's what's especially impoverishing: You don't get to be the guy who came up with the lightbulb or the mass produced automobile, or the theory of relativity. Ford, Edison and Einstein took that from you. They took it from everybody. We have a lot of forgetting to do before before any human being alive can carry with them as much potential as pre-Edison humanity had, and we're lesser for it.

And of course, Artificial light and gasoline powered locomotion have done nothing to alleviate suffering and death, these are dominant and inescapable components of being alive, as true for modern humans as it was for the neolithic ones. All glory is fleeting.