Yes that was a typo thank you.

The individuals exploited by this attack had already been influenced by prior messaging that relied on fear, misinformation, and manipulative tactics. This made them more vulnerable to being targeted again by unrelated scammers who look for the same types of susceptible individuals.

In this situation, the people affected are not directly attempting to deceive anyone themselves — they are victims of two separate schemes that both exploit the same vulnerabilities.

I don’t feel sympathy for them, because the hostility and resentment they embraced played a major role in making them vulnerable to this situation. Their own engagement with harmful narratives set the stage for how they ended up being exploited.

Really they grifted the grifted. They are the suckers buying into the scam, not the beneficiaries.

And here we are, the mad president is the one with the nukes.

He “was only following orders”. But yes this is a class war.

Delusions of grandeur?

There are literally more amazing games than time to play them if you look the manufactured hype of modern games.

I can’t see a reason to upgrade my 9 year old 7600k with 16gb ram. I still play everything I’m interested in playing.

Appreciate I won’t play AAAs, which I am opposed to anyway with their anti consumer practices.

I’ll look into that. I was considering plugging in an old wifi router without a wan connection. Which should effectively be the same outcome.

Mine periodically displays a wi-fi not connected overlay if it’s not connected.

Sony is also a terrible company with a long history of anti-consumer behaviour.

I am not sure what you are implying. There will always be art. Art does not need to be a commercial success to be expressive.