And narratively, the second game felt a bit like a holding pattern, a mere waystation between discovering the big, bad threat in the first game and the promised opportunity to destroy it in the third.
That disastrously bad threat modeling is, in a nutshell, why Apple and, by extension, the tech industry will ultimately lose its / our battle against government intrusion, surveillance, and compromised security.
Cindy Southworth, a vice president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, points out that when a relationship goes bad, threats become both a tool of manipulation and a reliable predictor of physical assault.
But some scientists are arguing that man-made climate change is not quite so bad a threat as it appeared to be a few years ago.
An absolute government, preferably a monarchy, is the only way to keep people alive by ensuring that no matter how big and bad the threat, the government is even bigger and badder.
This is particularly the case when the burden of work is increasing for reasons both good and bad: the threat of terrorism on one hand; a more serious commitment to tackling domestic abuse and sexual violence on the other.
The bad bot threat landscape will continue to grow in 2016 for a simple reason --bots areffectivective means to an end for Internet evil-doers.
More recently, a subset of viewers cheered for Walter White on "Breaking Bad," growling threats at anyone who nagged him to stop selling meth.
They are seen as a threat, bad dudes are after them, darting them, bundling them into vans, taking them away to be wiped clean, rebooted, decommissioned, or abused.
Here too it seems that social knowledge leads to bad outcomes; stereotype threat leads members of stigmatized groups to lose access to, or confidence in, their own knowledge in high-stakes situations (Gendler 2011: 49 50).
Humans like to feel in control of their fate, even in cases where they are not so at all, and making light of a bad situation or threat at least conceptually takes away some of its power.
