TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Loving Doom The Dark Ages, only one issue I've had so far. 8 hours ago:
Mudvayne’s practice tapes
Wow. That’s the first and only mudvayne reference I may have ever heard. Even when they had that one song I can’t even remember playing on the radio. Crazy ref my guy
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 day ago:
She is exactly admitting members barely pay attention. It’s a pretty widely known issue in the screenwriting community. Netflix in particular wants more “second screen scripts.” Meaning they need shows that constantly remind you of what’s happening, have tons of expository dialogue—constantly—and that leans hard into the shallow end of story.
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 2 days ago:
Please don’t punish us for the crimes of our corrupt pissant officials. I don’t want to drink from the East river
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 2 days ago:
Please fucking don’t.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 3 days ago:
Besides the internet?
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
I think it’s just that they were saying his won’t end up benefitting us. It’s just changing who is holding the binoculars.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
GTA Online still brings in a billion dollars every year. The next GTA will try to capitalize on that, and cannot, then, be perfect.
Ftfy
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I just block those.
- Comment on Man, I really slept on Days Gone (mini review) 2 weeks ago:
I downloaded it on this rec and I’ve been playing the hell out of it the past day. Sweet game that’s filled the last of us void I’ve been in since finishing those games. Def different, but similar genres and themes (so far anyway).
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 3 weeks ago:
They’re bad for now. But the existence of them now is a dire fucking warning and the message is clear: STOP USING FUCKIN SOCIAL MEDIA. How many times do they need to take advantage of you, break your trust, sell you out, and manipulate you before you take all of their power away? We all know they’re evil, everyone knows they fuckin suck. The answer is so painfully clear. But people continue being the engine to their entire existence. Why. Just why.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
Gaydio waves
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 5 weeks ago:
It is
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 5 weeks ago:
Coupon: The movie: The Ride
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 5 weeks ago:
lol what’s not good about the last of us 2? It’s an excellent story, really engaging gameplay, great storytelling, it’s evocative, gorgeous, gruesome, poignant, sad as hell, has tons of depth, great characters, cohesive and interesting themes, great sound, voice acting…you really can’t ask for much more from a game.
- Comment on Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow 5 weeks ago:
That’s a relatively new phenomenon. All tech media was positive and the stuff of dreams until around the 2010s. Because we were seeing a steady and noticeable shift in the power dynamics. We were being pulled deeper under a capitalist nightmare instead of flying in a techno futuristic dreamscape. We couldn’t see anything but the piling negative aspects of our technology: it’s killing us, it’s enslaving us, its being used to spy on us, we’re being told it’s a wonder but we keep finding out it’s a horror. This isn’t on us for not being enlightened enough to see asimov’s words. We’re too aware of the active manipulation and torture. They made us the product, and they made the things we bought spy machines and tools of manipulation and deception.
We need to create better, freer tech, free from the oligarchs currently wringing us all dry while they build their multimillion dollar doomsday bunkers with the money they’re stealing from us if we are going to build the better world in which the better half of humanity succeeds.
- Comment on The White House orders federal agencies to name chief AI officers and expand the use of AI, rescinding Biden-era orders intended to place AI safeguards. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 month ago:
Look at how much conspiracy content especially after 2016 focused on pedophilia. A lot of it. That carried over into this
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 1 month ago:
If you don’t mind my asking, how do you not have a moral objection to using AI? With everything we know about it, the theft, the benefit to the technocrats, the environmental toll, I could not bring myself to wave away those issues. Not to mention the power imbalance of this tech being controlled by the ruling class, looking to eliminate people’s livelihoods for the sake of profit. What do you use it for? I feel like we should be boycotting them en masse.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 1 month ago:
K
- Comment on How Tesla blew its lead. 1 month ago:
Maybe more ketamine will help
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 month ago:
I mean, how many times have they recalled these same, like, 5,000 trucks? This is at least the third massive recall.
- Comment on Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop” 1 month ago:
lol k
Knock yourselves out
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 2 months ago:
Right? One week of not buying things from Amazon is fucking nothing. They’ve proven over and over that they’re evil and should be boycotted. Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit.
Just stop buying from Amazon. I reached that tipping point like twelve horrific things ago. If you’re still using it, you’re just kind of a bad person with zero self control.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 months ago:
Well I will say, their brand is definitely working class disillusionment, mixed with humor and some anger
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 2 months ago:
It’s a big ass drone with a car shape 3D printed over top of it
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 months ago:
Nah that’s amazing. But yes, definitely check out more of their stuff if you like jobseeker. Another in a similar vein is Till Dipper. Not just because of the similar sounding names. But you really can’t go wrong. Their newer album is a little more accessible I think. UK Grim the song gets stuck in my head constantly.
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 2 months ago:
Sickusername btw. Ever seen them live? One of the best shows I saw in the few surrounding years (of the year I saw them)
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 2 months ago:
Ooh yeah let’s hope that’s the case.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide 2 months ago:
And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.