Skeptic Project

I dont think its true or ever likely to be true but my favourites so far are some of david ickes because they're batshit insane.

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favorite: secret CIA missions - the ones you never hear about are the ones that work

most possible: companies disposing of chemicals and products via our water supply

"I dont think its true or ever likely to be true but my favourites so far are some of david ickes because they're batshit insane. "

I agree. Even though I'm not a CT'er anymore, for some reason I can still sit through a two hour David Icke video.

On topic for me though, I'd say the most believable CT if the Freemason one........
Probably because its the first one I'd heard of, and for its a little hard to understand what goes on in a group you are not a part of. Mind you, I've grown up and find find it less and less believable, especially when most of the so called evidence CT's present is that Freemasonry exists, not that they actually do anything.

"Industry conspiring to lower product longevity - don't believe it, but it might be possible"

You referring to planned obsolescence? Cause if so, that's not at all a conspiracy theory, and is true in multiple cases. Not industry-wide, but specific companies/markets; mostly in consumer electronics. There's also postponement obsolescence.

I studied it a little bit in an economics and labour class last year along with, but I'm not on my laptop to give you the more "scholarly" articles discussing it. If I remember I'll post it up.

But wiki has a good enough summary (I know, lol wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence. Another article that talks about it https://www.adbusters.org/category/tags/obsolescence. (Is anti-corporate/anti-consumerist biased though, but the article still stands without it)

I can give you a direct example of postponement obsolescence though; where features are deliberately not included or technical improvements not made. Besides cars, where its done to ensure you buy more expensive models, videogames is one I have a lot of experience with, especially sports games (EA sports).

Note: I'm not necessarily saying its a bad thing (even though in the videogames industry it annoys me), but that it does happen and is inevitable in a mass production-consumption, capitalist economy.

I think the same thing about Madden and sports games in general, it reminds me of the hey-day of video games when the ET game came out.

The problem with Madden is that it's now the only NFL video game. If you thought Madden ignored improvements when there were multiple competitors the past decade, imagine how it's going to be now.

you should check out the fan hacked temco super bowl for nes..........
http://knobbe.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=12149

They take Temco Super Bowl and hack it every year with updated stats and plays.

It really annoys me how gaming does that and the major reason for madden is no joke the day after EA is finished making a game they are working on next years, their is a whole department that decides whats gonna be in the next game while the development team is making the current game. Its a constant never ending cycle.

I think what you said about rock music (minus the conspiracy) could be applied to almost all types of media....
For example look at the latest Die Hard movie, the original was rated R but the new one was rated PG-13, I even read that the movie studio went so far as to digitally remove blood from the movie to get the rating down, they also removed Bruce Willis's catch phrase
"Yippy-Ki-Yay Mother Fucker" from the theatrical version.

Obviously this was so that more people would be able to see the movie, therefore more money. You see this lots and it would not surprise me if it was happening to the music industry in the 60's.

VR glasses IMO were just hype, I got a chance many years ago to try them at a fair, I played Duke Nukem 3d on them, it sucked, you would get a head ache and your eyes would hurt after a while, some even got motion sickness. I think it was one of those things that seemed cool in the movies but wasn't nearly the same in real life.