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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by tekromancr on Sunday April 21, 2013 @07:34AM (#5584563)
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.
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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by mikecane on Sunday April 21, 2013 @09:53AM (#5584819)
>>>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."

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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by tekromancr on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @06:20PM (#5641195)
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.
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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by gordaco on Monday April 22, 2013 @03:43AM (#5588297)
That's why I think those are pure evil. I know I'm not alone...
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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by JackWebbHeller on Sunday April 21, 2013 @08:01AM (#5584597)
> "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...?

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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by wnight on Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:16AM (#5585089)
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.
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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by tekromancr on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @06:05PM (#5641117)
That's what I was getting at. You said it better. Thank you.
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Re:Peter Molyneux may have just monetized trolling by PavlovsCat on Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:48AM (#5585194)
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.
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