It reads like the darkest Monty Python bit.

...so whenever Israel feels like killing some more Palestinians, the cease fire is on hiatus. When, it's on again, but only until Hamas or another group 'breaks the ceasefire', which then gives Israel a reason to again pause the cease fire. Man, that fire has really been ceased.

this guy became a complete joke

dachte erst an "Jonathan Franzen", dann sah das Gesicht doch etwas zu jung aus :D

right, probably doesn't have anything to do with way more people being tested for autism...

Desperate

I never said that participants are actors. What didn't you agree with? You don't agree that reality TV is an artificial situation, or that producers select the footage you're being shown? What's there to disagree with? Look, I'm not trying to be an asshole here, just curious.

Yes, but, a) every situation is highly artificial, just by the fact that people are there for the sole reason of being filmed (active interventions by the production team go on top of that ofc) and b) every second of footage shown to you is literally selected by production.

This would only work if you blank out that all the social interactions are heavily manipulated by the production team. If your observing reality TV you're not observing a 'social reality' - your observing media reality.

Great read.

I kind of built very similar models already, they just ran under different names, Assault Intercessors, Bladeguard :D etc... but nice to have new options.

Woo!

It's quite flattering actually, what does that man see in the mirror?

You'll always be small in our hearts. Wait, no...