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Comment by tekromancr | Hacker News Reader

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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>>>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."

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.

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

> "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...?

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.

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

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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