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BasilZero said:

Persona 3 Portable and Persona 5 Royal are confirmed for Steam

(Also P3P and P4G for PS4)

For a (thankfully short) moment, my mind was "wait, why Persona 3 and 5 but not 4?", but then I remembered that Persona 4 is already on Steam.

Chazore said:

So out of randomness, I decided to look a bit further into those shares that were bought from Embracer by a certain Prince dictator, and at that same time, I thought "let's look this up on YT for more info".

I already know of the Prince's history, and briefly spoke about it in that thread about the shares, but what I found on YT kinda shook me.

I learned what Pegasus 2 was, and I lost my shit.

A type of virus that can allow for complete backdoor access, but one that completely masks itself as if it were the user itself accessing everything on any said device. If it was ever semi discovered, it could "self destruct" itself and not leave any sort of trace what so ever, and that blew my mind, because normally certain virus, malware and backdoor exploited uses leave some sort of trace, but this doesn't, and all it takes if you for you to open just about any sort of link, be it playing a video sent to you or opening a text message from a certain person (the one sending it to be precise), and they gain instant access to everything (camera, data, microphones, etc).

I found all of this out, due to the shit that went down with the Washington Post and Jeff's private scandal. I don't really care about his whole deal on cheating his wife, I cared more about the fact that a prince got so riled up and couldn't just kill jeff, that he decided to use other means to ruin his life, and it was via cyber warfare, and just learning what pegsus 2 can do was enough to make me fear for future technological warfare. 

I really shouldn't be looking up this sort of stuff, because I always get a growing sense of paranoia that the world is going to reach a boiling point, and seeing rich ppl just getting away with murder and now cyber warfare on a petty and childish whim really doesn't help the psyche. 

It's certainly worrysome what can be done.

I saw a news piece about it, where one person called the police because he was told by a security company that his laptop could be infected, and it was. And the guy was all like, "imagine what they could do, they could have downloaded child pornography on my machine and then call the police, and how could I prove that it wasn't me?"

Between that and the deepfakes, there are scary times ahead of us.