paddirn
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- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 6 days ago:
If there’s anything the incoming administration is unconcerned about, it’s the optics of any decisions they make.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Expect those investigations to quietly go away or turn up nothing in about two months from now.
- Comment on If you owned your own nail salon, what would you name it ? 2 weeks ago:
Nailed It
- Comment on Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it? 2 weeks ago:
I just played it and beat it. It was good snd has a great soundtrack, it’s just a shame that you can really only play the game once. I kind of wish there had been some sort of randomization mechanic added to it do that you didn’t play the same story twice and had a different crew each time. Otherwise though, an interesting little game that had me hooked.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 2 weeks ago:
Hyper Light Drifter and Return of the Obra Dinn for different reasons.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit nipply in here, huh?
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 weeks ago:
If I ever get a robot with titties, I’m just going to be playing with those all day long, don’t even care about how good the AI is.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
We’ll have a big environmental 9/11 moment where a major American city becomes permanently uninhabitable and then there will alot of handwringing about “What could we have done!?” Then we’ll start getting lukewarm serious about it, but by that point it’s way too late.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
I really want to like AI, I’d love to have an intelligent AI assistant or something, but I just struggle to find any uses for it outside of some really niche cases or for basic brainstorming tasks. Otherwise, it just feels like alot of work for very little benefit or results that I can’t even trust or use.
- Comment on The Video Game History Foundation is “not done fighting” after US Copyright Office refuses exemption to aid preservation 3 weeks ago:
“Pirates” are Digital Archivists, preserving history for all of humanity. Just in the TTRPG space alone, there are so many out of print publications that would’ve been lost forever were it not for them, same with videogames as well.
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 3 weeks ago:
Everytime I get sick I think about this. “I am going to appreciate my life so much more when I’m not sick.” I appreciate not being sick for about five minutes before it just goes back to being whatever.
- Comment on Pee posting? 3 weeks ago:
I’d probably try outside if I was going to let a woman try to hold it and aim, otherwise they’re gonna miss from just piss-poor aim or I’d start getting hard and that would make it even harder to aim.
- Comment on "You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence." 3 weeks ago:
Kind of at that point right now. Everything seemed to be looking up in life, right on the cusp of everything going great, debt coming under control, future looking bright. Then just as my gf was finishing up nursing school, she breaks up with me, essentially says she’d been using me for the last year or two to make ends meet until she graduated. Everything I’d been thinking about was our future together, now none of that means anything. We have a kid together, so we still have to interact, but she treats me like a stranger now. Life just feels meaningless, it’s made the election easier because I honestly don’t care if everything burns down now.
- Comment on 2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online. 4 weeks ago:
And that last 1/3rd person is the one actually spewing it.
- Comment on An old Xbox advertisement 4 weeks ago:
Oh shit, were we supposed to be fucking our Xboxes this whole time? Is that how you get more games? <unziiiips>
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve warmed up to her and think she’ll make a good president, but I honestly haven’t liked Kamala for the past 4 or so years. I had actually hoped she would’ve disappeared off the face of the earth when she lost the democratic primaries, then Biden picked her up as VP and she’s been one of the most inconsequential VPs in modern US history. Considering how important/influential the VP has been since Dick Cheney seemingly redefined the role, Harris just hasn’t brought much, which is in keeping with how the role has been traditionally seen.
As for Harris’ qualifications/positions, they seem like average middle of the road Democrat positions, nothing too exciting, but it would be nice to get a younger face in there who had some understanding of some modern technology.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
No, we’re seeing the same thing on the inside too. The fact that Trump actually has another chance in hell, or that he likely would’ve beat Biden, is a sign of how far gone this country already is. Do people not remember the absolute shitshow that was Trump’s 1st term?
Weekly, sometimes daily, WTF moments where I was just wondering where any of the adults were. Constant, blatant corruption and incompetence on full display. And we had to hear everything he fucking said over and over because everybody had to repeat the same news over and over again.
It’s been relatively good during Biden’s tenure, I would hear/read about him about as much as a normal president. Like, the president is the president, but I don’t want to hear everything going on with the president unless it’s important. So for us to go from that absolute shit show to relative peace (as peaceful as all this can be considered), I don’t understand how anybody would want to go back.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to start saying that when asked about my birth year. “The late 1900s”
- Comment on The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users 4 weeks ago:
Join the club, that’s about all the internet is anymore anyways. If they really wanted to do something groundbreaking they’d find a way to keep AI off the internet in the first place.
- Comment on No more fucking dooming 4 weeks ago:
If she gets elected she’ll be the first female Vice President AND the first female President, from back to back terms.
- Comment on Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut | Sport 5 weeks ago:
An absolute scandal which has rocked the Conkers World Championship to its core. It will be a long time before it can ever recover from this.
- Comment on Biden 'doesn't know' if Netanyahu is trying to influence US election 1 month ago:
Netanyahu wants Trump to win. Putin wants Trump to win. Kim Jong Un wants Trump to win.
Wow, that’s crazy how the most sadistic, evil people in the world all want Trump to win. I wonder what it could mean? Welp, guess I gotta vote third party cause I literally can’t tell them apart. /s
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
Yeah, in my mind, Sci-fi is more than just space ships or aliens or futuristic tech (those are loosely part of it), it’s more about exploring different questions, under the guise of some sort of new technology. “Hey, we invented this thing that can remove racism from people’s brains, but it also makes people love-obsessed and creates dependency issues in people. Should we use this on the population?” It raises moral/ethical questions about what we could or should do given the chance.
Star Wars is straight-up fantasy with high-tech aesthetics, but it has more in common with Lord of the Rings than it does with anything sci-fi. It’s about a hero’s journey and good vs evil.
I wonder if you couldn’t do a reverse Fantasy/Sci-fi story? Basically a sci-fi sort of story with fantasy trappings. Like a fantasy story that looks at some new magic development and what the implications for humanity are of that new magic process. “We perfected an alchemical process to turn poop into gold! Should we flood the market with poo-gold and crash the medieval economy?”
- Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 1 month ago:
I just saw a video on the show on the youtube channel Secret Galaxy, pretty interesting, as I remembered the show, but never knew what happened to it:
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 1 month ago:
I have thought upon it and am of the mind that he posts about it, then forgets he ever posted it, and posts it again thinking it’s still the first time.
- Comment on If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok? 1 month ago:
I think he could make a compelling argument justifying it if Trump were to win the election, a sort of Julius Caesar part deux. I think you could make the case that American democracy as we know it would end if Trump were elected president and that in order to protect democracy, his assassination was needed. However, in doing so, American democracy as we know it would still end because Biden would be opening the door to domestic political assassination being in president’s tool belt, so it’s kind of a catch-22. We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t. So really, the only thing that will “save” democracy is if people vote for Harris, that’s where we’re at as a country. I’d love to vote third party, I actually didn’t care much for Harris before Biden dropped out, but the stakes are really too high this election to consider anything else.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 1 month ago:
That the person probably won’t stick around for long. I’d still give them a fair chance, but if they up and quit one day out of nowhere I wouldn’t be surprised. I’m not in charge of the hiring though, so I just work with whoever I’m told to work with.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I’ve worked for companies that would leave it up to chance without a second thought. I’ve known people that worked there and Amazon doesn’t seem like it cares about its employees. Does it make sense? No, but there’s alot about corporate America that’s pretty dumb.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
The PS5 in general has just felt like a nebulous console. I don’t know if it’s just me not being as connected to console gaming anymore or what, but there’s no PS5 games that are “must play” or anything that I’ve seen/read/heard hype about that has made me really interested. Partly there was the Covid years where it was apparently facing shortages and during that I just switched my mind off to the idea that I’d ever buy one. It’s been out for years now though, but nothing about it makes me care to move on from our PS4 that’s still chugging along.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
That was probably the intent. It works as a soft layoff. Do something wildly unpopular, knowing that a bunch of employees will quit. The ones left will pick up the slack, because obviously if they had anywhere else to go they would’ve left with the first group.