It's the most common form of layout in this country.
[Oh dear, smarter and smarter. David nods at Balthier's conclusions about studying people.]
Back home there are whole ad campaigns based around this sort of understanding of human behavior. An app on your phone might show a few thousand people the same ad multiple times, with the tiniest tweaks, to determine which gets the most response. ANd guess what? Now ads from that company are more likely to follow that format, no matter what it's selling. It's horrible and manipulative. You already see the scary things about the computer age. I think you'll adapt well with practice.
[And damn if Balthier doesn't earn a wider smile and a kiss on the cheek for the whole 'fool the clawing hands of those in power' comment. What a man.]
Modern piracy has many forms, and the whole clawing hands thing, that's more hacktivists. People who are activists and their main tool for it is hacking, which is breaking into other people's systems, or organizations' systems to get at their data to either stop them or reveal what they're hiding. Media piracy, which is mostly just called 'pirating' is basically getting media content without paying for it. I feel like it's a complex crime that is, in some cases, rather victimless. And most of those cases are against major media moguls, or frankly television companies because of how shitty they are these days. Though you're not wrong about language. Hold on.
[He directs Balthier through opening another tab to search for this world's equivalent of Urban Dictionary.]
This here? This is a dictionary for phrases, online and in social situations, that may help you understand different terms. The other place to check is Wikipedia. Between those two, you can get general understanding of a lot of language that makes less sense. So plenty of resources to learn with. But we can come back to that. Menu first.
I think what I want to do with the dinner is ordering a lot of small things. What we don't eat that you like or neither of us care about as much I can live here. If you're living with a young man, he'll be a bottomless pit, and free food never hurt anyone. If not, I can pass it off to Bart.
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[Oh dear, smarter and smarter. David nods at Balthier's conclusions about studying people.]
Back home there are whole ad campaigns based around this sort of understanding of human behavior. An app on your phone might show a few thousand people the same ad multiple times, with the tiniest tweaks, to determine which gets the most response. ANd guess what? Now ads from that company are more likely to follow that format, no matter what it's selling. It's horrible and manipulative. You already see the scary things about the computer age. I think you'll adapt well with practice.
[And damn if Balthier doesn't earn a wider smile and a kiss on the cheek for the whole 'fool the clawing hands of those in power' comment. What a man.]
Modern piracy has many forms, and the whole clawing hands thing, that's more hacktivists. People who are activists and their main tool for it is hacking, which is breaking into other people's systems, or organizations' systems to get at their data to either stop them or reveal what they're hiding. Media piracy, which is mostly just called 'pirating' is basically getting media content without paying for it. I feel like it's a complex crime that is, in some cases, rather victimless. And most of those cases are against major media moguls, or frankly television companies because of how shitty they are these days. Though you're not wrong about language. Hold on.
[He directs Balthier through opening another tab to search for this world's equivalent of Urban Dictionary.]
This here? This is a dictionary for phrases, online and in social situations, that may help you understand different terms. The other place to check is Wikipedia. Between those two, you can get general understanding of a lot of language that makes less sense. So plenty of resources to learn with. But we can come back to that. Menu first.
I think what I want to do with the dinner is ordering a lot of small things. What we don't eat that you like or neither of us care about as much I can live here. If you're living with a young man, he'll be a bottomless pit, and free food never hurt anyone. If not, I can pass it off to Bart.