Because the internet is full of weird things. Anyway, the game is a series of still digital pictures and the point is to seduce the female avatar. There's various items in each picture you can click on and each leads to different pictures and scenarios. It's weirdly addictive. Anyway, I've found about 60 new ways to make a date go down in flames. Last time, she ditched me for another woman. Apparently I'm bad at seducing people in virtual point and click games...
Can you steal from her purse when she's not looking? lol I remember a news story a few weeks back where someone on a Tinder date took off with the lady's purse when she went to the restroom. Heh.
Oh, I might have to try that. Not really, not in real life. I did not just plan a petty crime online in writing with actual like historical evidence.
The decline of Western Media started after Watergate... tons of young kids wanted to be "famous" journalists like Woodward and Bernstein. Media professor told me that once, and it stuck with me.
Viddy people aren't real journalists. Most of them could be replaced by Hatsune Miku style vocaloids and no one would notice a change. Hell, at that point the viewer could probably choose their own custom skins and vocals and their ratings would jump.
In my satire book, I had people registered as Democrats getting one version of the news and people registered as Republicans getting a separate one. Keep 'em happy. Heh. But yeah. Sadly, I agree. Maybe one or two percent true journalists left out there in the wide world?
I really doubt there's ever been much of a "true" journalist. There's always been a shaping of the news to fit narratives, they're just not really as slick about it as they used to be. It had been mostly real, with just a bit of a sprinkling of BS. Now it's a giant steaming pile of BS with the supposed verification folks adding their own spins. This whole grand circus just makes me laugh and laugh! It's the wizard of oz on meth out there! That's not even satire! It's just called changing the channel. If George Carlin were still alive he'd be bitching, "How can I be funnier than them?!?"
It was all one channel / brand but delivered different content to different houses - even more nefarious than today. So, for example, you could have a story on XXX issue and the next day at the water-cooler, both people can say, "Hey, you see that story last night on USA News?" "Yeah, buddy, I so agreed." "Me too!" "See you at lunch, Bob." "You know it, Terrance."
Anyone else notice that the news has the habit of doing a chicken little routine over isolated events? Guy swipes a womens purse...OMG its the END OF THE WORLD!! we must WARN PEOPLE! Must have been a slow news day or something A person has a better chance of being struck by lightning...And yet.. No common sense...
In Britain, lately, we tend to get stories like this on the days political things that really, really should be reported happen.
The older i get the more i have come to realize that the world is full of people who have no clue and don't want to have a clue as long as whatever that clue is doesn't effect them. I call it ..Willful ignorance. As apposed to normal ignorance that can be fixed by picking up a book etc. Here in the states you see it in media on a daily basis. People more interested in (insert politician/movie star) is doing with their sexual organs or who they are dating than the fact that the Government just passed a law/did something etc.. that will negatively effect life for everyone.
There r a couple LitRPG's out there that have this somewhere in the novel, I believe they are Avarice and Gank: The Crucible Shard #4
I'm doing it. The whole idea just came to me. I'm calling it Date Night, and the idea is to score a date with the avatar of the supermodel who sponsors the game. But I'm gonna throw in as many off-the-wall things as I can, like alien abductions, succubi, time travelling cyborgs, killer clowns, a zombie invasion, a plague of monkeys, and every other weird idea I have. I need something fun and zany to think about because my serious LitRPG has a beginning that doesn't work and obsessing over it isn't fixing it. I'm gonna write this until I clear my head and can think of a way to begin that other one properly.
