TheObviousSolution

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing about them is that they are loud, directed, and often affect the first impression a game gets. If this wasn’t with The Witcher fame, the effect would be more notable, and oftentimes they don’t admit why they really have a problem with the game directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seemed to tangent off so I had to circle back around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If people need to be warned that they might be scammed by someone with an indian voice asking them for gift cards, I think that they should be reclassified as AI mounts instead of people at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason the American revolution wasn’t just a group of people known for just peacefully protesting and criticizing until a new king rolled over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bigger problem is that politics today isn’t BS association to what “left” is versus BS association to what “right” is, it’s becoming those that are willing to work within a system versus those that are just willing to exploit it. Of course reasonable people that disagree are going to have more disagreements than an echo chamber masking a defrauding scheme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, I once alluded to this on reddit’s worldnews and they associated me with Hitler because apparently trying to say there is more than one dimension is trying to whitewash Nazism.

  Troll factories can get defensive, don’t touch what they work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am used to listening to streams while walking, but I’ve been noticing the most annoying ads pop-up when I’m interested in something they are saying. This isn’t going to make me pay attention to those ads, it’s going to drive me to the plethora of other services I can use. The worst thing about it is that it doesn’t even pause and cache the stream, meaning that if I was listening to something interesting, the ad just causes me to miss it. Google just keeps eating its own tail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you see Netflix as part of a bundle, get the bundle without it. You having no choice to get out of the subscription is feeding into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I can’t get around with is people expecting AI that was developed by not respect IP rights to suddenly begin respecting their presumed IP rights (not that most are not just accepting them away through the associated EULAs) with what they generate using them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because something isn’t going the way you want it to go doesn’t excuse any and all behavior. Most parents are able to teach their children this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was stuck in traffic the other day, and waiting for the traffic to move wasn’t doing anything so I just took my rocket launcher out and started blasting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Futurama predicted this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason this is “The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation” is because it has exposed what Cambridge Analytica’s successors already realized and are actively exploiting. Just a few months ago it was literally Meta itself running AI accounts trying to pass off as normal users, and not an f-ing peep - why do people think they, the ones who enabled Cambridge Analytica, were trying this shit to begin with. The only difference now is that everyone doing it knows to do it as a “unaffiliated” anonymous third party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religions have some of the wackiest rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tell when a tradition was set in by the hidden undertone it allowed to play for it. “Time for your circumcision… Whoops! Guess you are my eunuch surrogate now, totally didn’t mean to eliminate the competition / your genes from my gene pool of surrogates!” Yeah, probably looking too much into it, it’s not like it’s a practice associated with a culture heavily associated with a god’s chosen master race ideology or anything. Totes just a coincidence that it was fabulously sported by the slave loving Egyptians and cultures famous for their obsession with slave land owners of the times as a “rite of passage”. ^/actualshitcomment^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Game companies can get my sympathy when wages begin to keep up with inflation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing you’ve argued is that you are choosing one particular definition of smart, ignoring the one I was using, and going all Grammar Nazi into how that’s the only possible definition. As I’ve said, if am grateful for one thing, it is that I am not one of those people whose ego has to be jizzing everywhere, including their perception of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are. Unless you can translate what I’m saying to any language I tell you to on the fly, I’m going to assume that anyone that tells me they are smarter than LLMs are lower on the spectrum than usual. Wikipedia and a lot of libraries are also more knowledgeable than me, who knew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they aren’t “conservatives”, that’s just a label they slap onto themselves and their changes are more radical than those they label “liberals”. What they really are is what you’ve said, voters more susceptible to believing lies, the psychotypes that have been identified through social network big data profiling that are particularly susceptible or within a network susceptible to manipulation. That’s also why a lot of these social network are pretty shameless about how they want to stimulate fake AI users. It is the cattle-lification of social network for those with the wealth and the power to do it, to such an extent that you terms like 1984’s “doublethink” apply quite aptly well beyond the theoretical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it? What will eventually happen if this gains any sort of popularity is that those people you think it will piss off will simply set up their own “grass roots” alternative the directly competes with them by gaslighting them about their “horrible practices they don’t want you to know”, along with funding “white farmers against bullshit affirmative action racist against whites” types of movements as the cherry on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does, as long as those farmers are giving back and trickling it down, sort to speak. It isn’t the case for everyone, try not to buy from assholes if you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just imagine how much money Microsoft must be investing in this mass surveillance program they are trying to sneak in under the guise of the AI in charge of its indexing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You see us as customers, by your own words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never realized this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People literally change their names because they feel like it, so I’m sure people do care outside the Internet, specially in circumstances of abuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has very little to do with what our actual dystopia will do. I mean, I thought that this was by someone who was probably thinking of the families that lost someone to a coma and had been looking for grandchildren, but no, they are seriously suggesting this simply because of its utility… Even so, all hail the new future tech bro hivemind and all, but still, not very likely. If it is something that is capable of being truly considered by societies, it will also be capable of considering worse things over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is ridiculous and more intended as a warning to the public given that the groups that provide their bodyguards already have these sort of “hotlines” into law enforcement. They are just that afraid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They made it easy for him to plead not guilty, given all the charges they were trying to topple on top of him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing that might predispose women is when they get pregnant. Most forms of hunting don’t require excessive strength. This is not speculation, prehistoric people do not give a shit about your value system or how it imposes itself on science. Animals in animal world be animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are, however, exceptionally adept at political speechwriting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they think that, they may have a problem with what they consider glorified. They may want to avoid recognizing parallels that are far more personal to them.