On: Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling

[tekromancr]

Holy motherfucking shit. This is not a game, this is something else. This is sick. This is abusive... This feels akin to exploiting a mental vulnerability that exists in a portion of the population to earn money. Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer.

[mikecane → tekromancr]

>>>This feels akin to exploiting a mental vulnerability that exists in a portion of the population to earn money

Ermmmm, that is what some advertising and marketing are all about, creating insecurities in people and then selling them the "cure."

[tekromancr → mikecane]

At least when you are being advertised you actually get something out of the deal. If I convince someone to voluntarily empty their bank account and give me everything in exchange for nothing, that would make me a shitbag. Or a televangelist, I guess.

[gordaco → mikecane]

That's why I think those are pure evil. I know I'm not alone...

[JackWebbHeller → tekromancr]

> "Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer"

What is illegal to do to a computer, in this case...?

[wnight → JackWebbHeller]

I think he means that if you discovered and exploited a bug in a common OS the way farmville manipulated actual minds, you'd be thrown in jail.

[tekromancr → wnight]

That's what I was getting at. You said it better. Thank you.

[PavlovsCat → tekromancr]

You should hear him talk about it, grinning from ear to ear. I loved his games as a kid, but now I'll forever regard him as a self-absorbed scumbag.