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- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 days ago:
Contestants must run through these brick walls, swim through the magma pool, climb the 50’ smooth steel wall, and jump the chasm before smashing the watermelon at the end! Only the top 8 killbots will move on to the next round.
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 2 weeks ago:
I just want to play missions where I drive slowly behind a car. Or missions where I fail for breathing too hard. I’m tired of playing games with open ended objectives. I hate games where I have a bunch of guns, cars, and helicopters and then I’m able to use that stuff in the story.
Rockstar are the best at making cinematic experiences play out like Dance Dance Revolution. I just want to be told what buttons to push, where to stand, what tools to use, so I can see the funny people do funny things.
Fuck these delays I need my gigaslop polished and squeezed out now!
- Comment on The PP Police 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget when you were 5 years old and adults would tease you about marrying the girl you were playing with. It’s perfectly normal when they bring up heterosexual relationships with a child. They see two tiny children playing and they say, paraphrased, “you gonna bang her when you grow up? Teehee”
But telling children they can be gay or the gender they identify as is wrong, grooming, sexualizing children, etc.
You’re just supposed to enforce traditional roles I guess. If you want to teach kids who to fuck you do it with traditional heckles like “are you two getting married when you grow up?”
- Comment on The Tech Company Bringing Surveillance Dystopia to Your Town 2 weeks ago:
Police get caught running searches on their ex girlfriends. Police are barely better than gangs and they’re using sophisticated tech to fuck with their local communities. Brilliant. Add the CEO of Flock to the list of persona non grata.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 3 weeks ago:
“If we assume X theorem is true, Y theorem is true, and lemma Z is true, then …”
This is actually about our models and seeing their incompleteness in a new light, right? I don’t think starting from arbitrary axioms and then trying to build reality was about proving qualities about reality. Or am I wrong? Just seems like they’re using “simulated reality” as a way to talk about our models for reality.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 3 weeks ago:
Assume I read the article and then made a post.
- Comment on How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky? 3 weeks ago:
It was a reddit post and a bunch of corpo news talking about the reddit post. Samsung didn’t trick anyone, the ML algorithms were always in the open, people just had to turn off the “scene optimizer” mode.
It definitely seems like it was a big thing but it’s hard to see if literally anything happened as a result or if anyone actually cared.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what it means. If you search for music by Suicidal Tendencies then YouTube shows you a suicide hotline. What does it mean for OpenAI to say people are talking about suicide? They didn’t open up and read a million chats… they have automated detection and that is being triggered, which is not necessarily the same as people meaningfully discussing suicide.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny when you’re playing soccer and you’re locked in and then out of nowhere a player gets domed by the ball. Especially when you smoothly recover like you meant to rocket the ball off the defenders head.
- Comment on Black widow life 4 weeks ago:
Male wolf spiders may hang back and watch mating pairs from the shadows, learning how to successfully attract a mate. Just like us fr
- Comment on $1,000 richer 4 weeks ago:
I’d take the $1000 and then pay someone $100 to tell me I’m beautiful.
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 5 weeks ago:
Even though corporations play with labels, I still think of it as “this single food item is not a substitute for a meal.”
But it’s silly to assume people will split most of this crap. It’s not like a bag of chips you can roll up for later, it’s molten-frozen astronaut food.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 weeks ago:
That’s a great question!
I do indeed read my posts back—how else would I proofread them? 🤖
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 5 weeks ago:
Haskell
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 5 weeks ago:
Need jammers to confuse and break Teslas. They’re weapons designed to break laws and protect occupants at the expense of bystanders. Can’t be mad if a bystander redirects your Tesla into a ditch.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 5 weeks ago:
Data brokers are allowed to buy data from the dark web after our data is hacked. I saw a 1 million fine I think?
App store owners will use this or that, which will get hacked, then our data will be bought up, and then it will be endlessly repackaged and moved around. That’s why you can’t remove your data using those scam services; the moment it’s moved to another broker it’s fair game again. You’ll never scrub your data.
Your insurance will know what apps you installed. Walmart will know what apps you installed. Police bypass warrants by leasing this data from corporations like Flock. Just add it to the pile.
- Comment on A roundabout 1 month ago:
They never show the full version of this gif, where you can see the elevated section of road the driver is aiming for. Have people seriously never seen a highway overpass? Do you guys just assume that every highway uses offramps instead of jumps?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”
They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 1 month ago:
This is kinda funny. It’s like “Jesus was a white guy” mixed with “cis whites need to check their privilege”
The idea that you could go back in time as a nutritionally giant white guy speaking gibberish and fit in because white is a bit anti history.
If we’re sending people back in time it’s going to be Dwayne Johnson.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
I don’t get it. Little “drivers” that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?
Where is the “requirement” for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?
I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You’re supposed to pretend it’s necessary! Did they skip that step?
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 1 month ago:
Because maga are human and they have similar capabilities to us.
For example, I know you know that they are often draped in Christianity, patriotism, etc. Does that mean we’re all anti-christian and anti-american?
They learn to associate us with certain labels. And then they learn new labels in the context of labels they’ve internalized. Antifa means a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 1 month ago:
Needs to be injective and surjective
- Comment on Fortnite devs Epic modifying Peacemaker emote after establishing Warner didn't mean it to look like a Nazi swastika 1 month ago:
“There was an emote. But then the show had a plot twist. So now the emote kinda looks like a swastika. We’ve removed it after making sure it wasn’t on purpose.”
They’re on drugs
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 month ago:
It’s EA. They could make gay stuff in games without them. But instead they make a deal with the devil and hope they come out on top? They want all the resources of a soulless giant but then they think they’re somehow escaping the taint?
It’s like musicians making deals that (unfairly, almost amorally) guarantee their songs play across the country… but then they think they’re still a normal artist.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 month ago:
Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.
After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 month ago:
My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.
Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.
Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn’t fair but it’s objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That’s like 6 Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.
- Comment on Mars First Logistics, an open world Mars colonization game where you can develop and control vehicles (rovers, flying vehicles) to make money completing construction projects, released on Steam. 1 month ago:
Reminds me a bit of Colobots
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 month ago:
John Carmack: We couldn’t figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I’d walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It was just a problem with the implementation.
Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 2 months ago:
I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I’m willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It’s magic to me to think of “free” “emotion hours”.
Everything else is so… crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.
But art? Games? Puzzles? It’s magic how there’s basically infinite energy inside.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 2 months ago:
Billionaires own the world. Of course we should care about their investment. I believe that’s what good serfs would do.