Well it's older than any game released in the past slightly-less-than-2.5-years, sure.
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Of course it wouldn't really be a fair comment. And calling them "amoral" is just being a dick.
Maybe if you have shitty friends. Obviously limiting photos to being viewed only by friends is exactly as private as your friends are willing to sustain, but that might be a lot more than "not at all".
The same applies to a .JPG file in my documents folder. I think "a photo". That last line ruined the article for me, because it made me realize that files are how we do things in the real world, just with other names. We don't deal with fridges, we deal with food. And you know what? We even have to know where to store the food! Some food, like milk, goes in the fridge. Other food, like pasta, goes in the cupboard. Same with spices. Yet other food, like frozen peas, go in the freezer, Still more food might be found on plants in the garden. There is no single app, just a lot of directories for me to search in.
Honestly the only person I've known to say toople is, uh, me.
It's very enjoyable reading. Except for the tale of Túrin. That one was just depressing.
Even so, this breaks down: this effect is (as you have noted) not just limited to MMOs. It actually applies to all games/services that use some kind of centralized network to connect players/friends. This means everything from Team Fortress 2 to Warcraft 3.
There are private server instances for World of Warcraft, actually.
Which is worse, buying stolen property, or stealing property? If they couldn't be accused of the former, they would be accused of the latter.
You seem to forget the very basis on which this was declared buying stolen property: the theft itself. The theft itself would have occurred no matter whether it was bought or not, and both parties would be guilty if it was just handed over.
from the article:
"Wiggling works for the same reason that a translational pan (or tracking shot) in a movie provides good depth information: the visual cortex is able to infer distance information from motion parallax, the relative speed of the perceived motion of different objects on the screen. Many small animals bob their heads to create motion parallax (wiggling) so they can better estimate distance prior to jumping."
I mean, what's a "foreign" country, anyway? Is it one different than the one you're raised in? Your parents were raised in? One that doesn't harbor the same culture as you? Where am I from? Is it the country I was born in? The country I grew up in? The country I formed my political beliefs in? That's three different answers, and there are more to choose from.
So, I don't buy this "loyalty" thing. Who am I supposed to be loyal to? Why? Why can't I be loyal to an altogether different country that I like more, but have never spent much time in?
Like, we can all agree that a ketchup bottle is red, but what it really looks like to each of us might be totally different. My red might be your blue, but since your blue things are called red, and my red things are called red, we pretend it's just a single color, instead of a potentially infinite number of colors, a different one for each person.
Significantly, this hypothetical becomes real when we talk to, say, a colorblind friend. A ketchup bottle is still red, but it's definitely not the same red-- since it seems "closer" to colors that the non-colorblind would say.