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[Kagus]

In the grimdumb future of best murica, people who have grown up playing fortnite will be politically ostracized for their 'dumb teen phase' when they try to get into public office.

"the shame of that moment has haunted me for decades."

"Forgiveness in instances like these is a complicated process, one that necessarily cannot and should not be decided by anyone but those directly affected by the transgressor, should forgiveness be possible or appropriate at all"

*Flosses apologetically

[Dunamisdeos]

*Flosses apologetically

I fukkin died lol

[Starver]

2050 is only 31 years from now, so that must be a pretty young president.

Old democrat plays Fortnite to appeal to young voters

I could imagine Dubya playing with glee, never mind that it couldn't (currently) be him in the hypothetical.

And Sarah Palin, but for different reasons.

[Starver]

"Make Floating Island¹ Great Again"

¹ Had to look up something to put there. I'm definitely not Down Wid Da Kids.

[Lord Shonus]

We already had that many-named Congresswoman dropping into a Twitch chat.

[Telgin]

Too bad she didn't tell the streamer how to beat Beaver Bother (I assume, didn't watch the whole stream).

Not going to lie, being able to beat Beaver Bother would make me more likely to vote for a candidate.  It shows substantial determination or luck, and both are good criteria.

[EnigmaticHat]

In the grimdumb future of best murica, people who have grown up playing fortnite will be politically ostracized for their 'dumb teen phase' when they try to get into public office.

The real question is what happens when someone runs for office and and its revealed that they wrote weird multi-fetish erotic fanfiction when they were younger.  You know its not a question of if, but rather of when.

[Starver]

In the grimdumb future of best murica, people who have grown up playing fortnite will be politically ostracized for their 'dumb teen phase' when they try to get into public office.

The real question is what happens when someone runs for office and and its revealed that they wrote weird multi-fetish erotic fanfiction when they were younger.  You know its not a question of if, but rather of when.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/28/alastair-campbell-maya-bad-sex
https://junkee.com/a-liberal-mp-has-written-a-weirdly-sexual-novel-about-indonesia-and-australia-going-to-war/75396
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/former-mp-dennis-jensen-fails-in-legal-bid-to-find-out-who-leaked-erotic-novel-to-journalist-20181124-p50i2u.html
(...and many more known examples, found when trying to search for more than the one-paragraph mention of the first's famous first exploits.)

[MrRoboto75]

2050 is only 31 years from now, so that must be a pretty young president.

Old democrat plays Fortnite to appeal to young voters

Pff, not in 31 years. More like 5. I wouldn't be surprised if we get one of the presidential candidates mentioning Fortnite during the 2020 election, even.

If someone does the fortnite default dance at a presidential debate...

[nenjin]

We were so close to the battle royale fad passing. And then Fortnite had to happen. *sigh*

[Kagus]

We were so close to the battle royale fad passing. And then Fortnite had to happen. *sigh*

Just another zombie survival defense game! Of all the things!

[Loud Whispers]

John Barnes on Liam Neeson: 'Liam Neeson deserves a medal.' "People are now going to be afraid to tell the truth."

[PTTG??]

We still haven't gotten a president who knows how to use the internet above "old man rants in all caps" levels.

[Max™]

How many of you feel that the mobile web is a strange alien place? I do, and am currently old enough to be president probably.

People as old as my parents felt the desktop web was new and strange and possibly scary, I always felt the laptop side was just a halfassed imitation of my full monitors/hardware, but the mobile shit is just weird.

[wierd]

The mobile ecosystem is a motley assortment of corporations all hawking walled gardens that are mutually exclusive to each other (for the most part), and which all try to turn the user into a commodity to be bought and sold to advertisers or marketers-- Plastered over the top of a "user experience" program tailored to give the end user just enough of what they are actually trying to get done that they are placated, and accept the above bullshit.

That is to say, it is a vehicle by which to sell the afore mentioned customer exploitation as a service.

This is in stark contrast to the open internet, which was open and free to access (no walled gardens, all ISPs took you to the same internet) from its inception. (but which has been getting more and more locked in as time has passed.)



I personally despise that shit, which is why I avoid the "USE OUR AMAZING APP!" and "INTEGRATE WITH FACEBOOK!" and "OUR NEW EXCLUSIVE STREAMING SERVICE!" that everyone and their fucking dog wants to push all the damn time.   Sadly, My own purchasing/user habits are not sufficient to prevent the avalanche tide of the market's movements in this direction; The mass-complacency of the public at large concerning these antics from corporations and ISPs is allowing those big players to dictate the play-field, and it is quickly becoming a landscape where an informed user just becomes one that is informed about how they *WILL* be screwed, rather than one where said user can avoid getting screwed, simply from lack of such options.