Notices by Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website), page 2

@packbat @halcy The Only Way To Win Is Not To Play.

(But actually, like all Tycoon games, there might be scenarios with specific win states but in the general model it's just "keep going and keeping it running well".)

*1997 fed voice* ~"Yes there are some people who want to keep using the web to communicate and share ideas with likeminded people.

But then you have commerce trying to use the net for commercial applications, and you can't have it both ways. And there will be these demands that the government step in and maintain a policing role there."~

~whelp free speech and free assembly and all that, but sometimes that needs to be sacrificed so people can make MONEY~

(And like actually. This is a legit suited FBI fed saying this, straight-faced, with minimal apologetic tone, on camera.)

@rtwx Another thing that's missing here is that, even if "average users" WERE aware of their rights being whittled away -- and honestly, they might have been -- was that as that was happening, more and more people were coming on the web, and the "average user" was shifting in response to that.

And the educational outreach was DEFINITELY being pushed/run by people who didn't have "rights" in mind.

Meanwhile, *1997 fed voice* "Narcoterrorism" holy FRICK.

"""
However we manage it, money and big business will change the web. Once the web becomes a place to do business, those businesses will demand that the traditional anarchy be cleaned away, and replaced by a web that better protects their interests.
"""

O U C H .

"""
I think that the emergence of cyberspace and the related technological developments with chip cards and so forth,
is really bringing to a head the question of which of two roads we're going to go down, because I don't believe there is any significant middle ground.

Either we're going to be moving towards a world in which people are data subjects, that all information about them and their activities is known to others,
or, alternatively, people have control over their own information.
"""

.... oUCH.

(Watching a 1997 BBC documentary about The Internet.)

(And.. the last section is about advertising and user tracking, which was pretty perceptive of them and not at all what I expected to come right after the brief section ending "... end then the NEXT steps in user interfaces will be THREE dimensional!".)

... Doubleclick already existed in 1997? .... hUH.

@HTHR Asking for the Grand Canyon's autograph.

@HTHR Supplexing a creeping jerk over the edge and getting into a mech fight when the cops come to question you.

@halcy I don' kno how make game, tho.?.

Mastodon Tycoon™

@riking (What's BLEU?)

^ It's traditional in Rustacean cultures that, during the wedding ceremony, all the spouses collectively have Wearables containing each of the above list.

Something old
Something GNU
Something &borrowed
Something blew

@SuricrasiaOnline Also though throwback to the time I and a friend were both having trouble getting up and doing things so we agreed to swap leaf pictures to have something we were responsible for for them.

@SuricrasiaOnline
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@pup_hime Mice.