mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 1 day ago:
Conservatives are necessary as a counterpoint to progressivism in general.
The fuck they are.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto FiveM Players Quit In Disgust As New Sources Corroborate The Rumors 1 day ago:
What the hell is any of this?
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 1 day ago:
The whole Alt-Right Playbook series is incredible and necessary, but the more relevant video is arguably Always A Bigger Fish. Specifically for one point:
Conservatives are not failed liberals.
They don’t want what liberals want. That’s why they don’t do what liberals do. We keep assuming we must agree on certain topics - often because they say they believe in things we believe in - but if that were true then their actions would make sense. We wouldn’t be constantly baffled by their hypocrisy, asking over and over, ‘how can they say X when they do Y?’
The default approach is to point out these contradictions… as if they haven’t noticed. As if it will force them to reconcile their rhetoric with their behavior (or vice-versa). That never happens. They don’t fucking care. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications.
Everything for conservatives is in service to hierarchy. Words don’t mean anything except to signal loyalty or disloyalty to that hierarchy. They are shibboleths. Ducktalk. They cheer when Their Guy says the sky is blue and boo when Our Guy says the exact same thing. They proclaim themselves “rational” because obviously someone rational would want what they already want, and being smart just means working backwards for clever excuses. This is how reality works, for these people. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications.
And they think we’re the same way.
That’s what really connects us, across the aisle. We think they’re like us, and when they say they support democracy, we think they mean it. It’s why we’d say that. They think we’re like them, and when we say we want fair elections, they think we’re lying. It’s why they’d say that. All of their stated ideals are ad-hoc justifications. They say things we like to hear because it works. It has no predictive value.
- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 1 day ago:
In a very real sense, those people do not have beliefs. They think reasons are things you make up based on what you’ve already concluded. Business snubs their outgroup? ‘Well it’s their right to blah blah blah vote with your wallet yay capitalism.’ Business snubs their ingroup? ‘How dare they violate my right to blah blah blah political correctness gone mad.’ They decide what they want today and pick plausible justifications.
And in their minds, that’s what everyone else is doing.
Nothing they do makes sense without that context. You’re never really arguing with them because they don’t agree on how arguments work. Their conclusions do not follow a chain of logic from factual claims. You can completely dismantle their arguments, and then… they’ll pick new arguments. They’re just working backwards from the answer they want. And they think you are, too. Everyone’s just shuffling cards. No matter the evidence or the rationale, they’re not about to switch sides, because that’s what they think hypocrisy is.
Reminding them of their own arguments has no impact, because they don’t understand the concept. Neither the concept of saying something without meaning it, nor the concept of logical consistency. They think you’re suddenly choosing that argument - because that’s all they did.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 1 week ago:
It’s like we have forgotten - some questions have a right answer.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 1 week ago:
Cheers, thanks for that. Didn’t notice there was a search bar right in the Blocks page. I added a few from modlogs, but the fucker keeps kiting new accounts, all with a smug ‘you can’t get rid of me!’ profile header.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 1 week ago:
Fairly off-topic - is there a point where you block Universal Monk from making new accounts with the same name, on other servers, whilst implicitly bragging about how they dodge everyone telling them to fuck off? Is there some quantity of money I can pay to have that problem solved?
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 1 week ago:
Well, left and left.
- Comment on Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers 2 weeks ago:
Everything still works in Firefox.
You can just leave.
- Comment on Colours 2 weeks ago:
This is octarine erasure.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations. 2 weeks ago:
This is adorably misguided. We tried letting humans write the rules. It didn’t work.
The recent explosion of neural-network stuff is exciting specifically because it doesn’t rely on us understanding how the fuck it works.
- Comment on Unexpected prank outcome 2 weeks ago:
“I have feelings for you.”
“I have feelings for you too!”
Narrator: What they were feeling was friendship, but they’d never experienced it before.
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 3 weeks ago:
You can put B6 in the headline.
- Comment on Cosplay is an expensive hobby 3 weeks ago:
Plot armor.
- Comment on Could you please repeat that? I think I may have misheard. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, a Nazi salute is a form of hand gesture.
- Comment on Team Cherry Finely Provides An Update On Hollow Knight: Silksong 4 weeks ago:
“Finally.”
- Comment on "Rent-A-Girlfriend" Season 4 New Key Visual 5 weeks ago:
“Loser.”
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 5 weeks ago:
People like this might not understand anything besides violence.
- Comment on Thai man serving record royal insult sentence faces new charges 5 weeks ago:
Authoritarians worldwide begging to get got.
Dear powerful assholes: it doesn’t take much to stay on the tolerable side of pissing people off, and still get a boner from exercising control over the little people. Human beings will put up with a lot. But when you start locking people up for life, just for publicly sassing you… all you’re doing is driving that near-universal anger to places you won’t see it building.
- Comment on Rep. Pramila Jayapal Uses LA Wildfires To Attack Corporations, Insulting Those Who Lost Jobs By The Destruction 5 weeks ago:
Welcome to here.
- Comment on What do you consider the saddest anime? 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: originally a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
- Comment on Meloni: Soros is interfering in democracies, not Musk 5 weeks ago:
Don’t believe your lying eyes!
- Comment on Polish president says don't arrest Netanyahu at Auschwitz ceremony 1 month ago:
Never again means never again.
- Comment on Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea 1 month ago:
but it feels too reliant on generative AI.
… how the fuck else was it supposed to happen?
I don’t want to talk to a game.
Then why did you review this title?!
Here is my drive-by reaction to this: if you don’t value the written word enough to have a writer create unique, intentional dialogue, then why make a game based around conversation?
Because a human accounting for all possible inputs is impossible, you dingdong.
The sole screenshot is a brain in a bucket, and this article has absolutely nothing to say about the content of the game. However you feel about LLMs - these devs didn’t prime the NPCs with “You’re in an Agatha Christie story, go.” They’ve got some kind of wacky bullshit going on, and stylish macabre presentation, and (one would fucking hope) an underlying mystery.
This isn’t Shadows Of Doubt, right? Because that game actually does let the machine make up the story.
This kneejerk clickbait crap doesn’t even address the obvious concerns about the one part it’s fixated on. Is the LLM local? Or will this game suddenly stop working, when OpenAI changes their pricing? If it actually runs on your PC, does it require beeftank specs just to show visual-novel presentation? Does it trickle out words like everyone’s on quaaludes, if you use a laptop over wifi?
- Comment on What is this, a crossover episode? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 month ago:
I mean, you’re not wrong. We just fucked up already.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 month ago:
glances at Rupert Murdoch
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 1 month ago:
The sounds are completely different and I’m not sure where they’re sourced from.
- Comment on Doom on a CAPTCHA is the most frustrating though admittedly raddest way to prove your humanity to an algorithm 1 month ago:
Still no idea where they got those sounds.
