supersquirrel
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Ubisoft Canceled Civil War-Based Assassin's Creed Over Controversy Concerns - Report 8 hours ago:
Ok but part of me is morbidly curious what a super corporate “both sides” perspective Civil War Assassin’s Creed would be like.
Although Assassin’s Creed : The General would be kickass.
archive.org/details/TheGeneral_201312
Wait Buster Keaton wasn’t a Templar… right?!
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 8 hours ago:
Fuck Discord
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 11 hours ago:
I love how everyone is so willing to hate on their weight here as if that matters, what matters is if they will uphold their duty to serve this country or be cowards and do whatever Trump says. Who cares if they don’t have the body type you associate with a marvel superhero character? Even if they are infantry we aren’t talking about frontline troops we are talking about The National Guard. This just seems like such an easy way to try to start flinging mud, when the issue is existential and directly related to whether we are under authoritarian military rule or not.
- Comment on Cozy card game where you can craft your own cards. 2 days ago:
This looks interesting
- Comment on What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 3 days ago:
Will the Ferengi Alliance allow this?
- Comment on TIL science has its own swifties 3 days ago:
Think of The Taylor Series as a way of systematically approaching the estimation other more difficult functions starting from a particular point and reconstructing a graph function by stacking polynomials/exponents.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 4 days ago:
This isn’t about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.
No, actually it is inseperable from those things.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 4 days ago:
Probably because you are still refusing to look at this any way other than a naive techy who sees everything as a series of individual technical problems and cannot grasp the systematic, social forces shaping the technology and systems around them to violent ends.
This article laments about a number of things that have systematic, definable origins that society has warned tech industry workers as if they were simply expressions of a chaotic universe full of people who aren’t as smart as them that always for some reason desperately need their help to accomplish basic things with the tools from the industry they work in.
There is a crisis of individuality in the politics of US tech workers, and it is far past nauseating, it is offensive to all the people being hurt right now by the tools these people are involved with building.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 4 days ago:
They aren’t? The whole point of AI is to use technology to rationalize severing the social contract at a basic level in order to normalize hurting people for being out of the loop. Techies in their naive smugness refused a leftist analysis of their industry, failed to unionize and now the rest of us are paying the price.
Whether it is using AI to aid in the Palestinian genocide with Microsoft, using AI to mass deny life saving healthcare and murder people with United Healthcare, preying upon tech illiterate people with the ads industry or any number of things, trust us, we aren’t thankful for techies.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 days ago:
The problem is not and has not been science. The problem is messaging.
Yes, but the actual factor driving this is the meteoric rise of the top 1% richest, it is *wealth inequality that creates a coherence to misinformation by establishing systematic incentives.
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 6 days ago:
I don’t know if it is a perfect term, but it doesn’t literally refer to any specific “South”, rather I think it is a reference to the coincidence that many of the heavily industrialized empires of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries have been in the northern hemisphere, and the general colonial power dynamic therein set up has lead to the term “Global South” meaning pretty much anywhere that has gotten the short end of the colonialism stick, vs the long end.
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 1 week ago:
So let me fast forward a bit, ->underpaid stressed out techworkers in the global south pretending to be AI for incompetent upper management in wealthy countries?
- Comment on Fediverse blogging? 1 week ago:
Write Freely instance maybe?
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 1 week ago:
Fucking idiots
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
I will literally go without a smartphone if Google does this, this is insane I would have bought an iphone if I wanted a junk device I don’t actually own.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment… I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 9-9000 range.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard in my life.
In particular if I am online and people are thrown off by my ADHD the VERY FIRST THING they do is assume I am a kid.
The idea that this isn’t considered an explicit oppression of neurodivergent adults is laughable to me.
- Comment on How do I shoot my gun in factorio for the steam deck? 1 week ago:
so check the steam controls by pressing the bottom left … button. Examine the controls for Factorio, are the steam deck controls mapped to mouse and keyboard or is Factorio receiving the actual gamepad inputs without them being translated?
From there you can just figure out which binding is for fire with the keyboard and map that to a steam deck button that makes sense for you, or you can look up the gamepad bindings in factorio and figure it out that way.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 1 week ago:
Sounds like something Stephen Miller would try to implement.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Mission Accomplished
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Trust is developed through genuine conversations and actions, it is never something you can be totally sure of but on the otherhand when conversation and action is based on mutually shared values, solidarity and empathy you don’t need perfect trust.
The struggle to improve all our lives as best we can isn’t some clandestine bankrobbery that requires secrecy and ultimate commitment.
- Comment on Gomphaceae Consuming A Pinecone. More Examples Inside. 2 weeks ago:
and that is how you Pickle The Pinecone
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, BAR is WAYYYY better than that, BAR represents the idea of Total Annihilation passed around, tweaked and refined for the better part of two decades. Total Annihilation itself is a high water mark of RTS games and Beyond All Reason is the latest in a series of Spring Engine/Recoil Engine projects that elevate the idea to a veryyyy niche e-sport, this family of games just hit on all cylinders consistently in a way that makes most other RTS games except Supcom FAF look flat and boring in my opinion.
The ease of queing up unit actions and such makes it almost impossible to tolerate how barebones the controls are on other RTS games… which isn’t even getting into the depth and variety of units in the game. Tanks drive like tanks, airplanes fly like airplanes, ships move like ships should, this isn’t another game with fiddly units that are meant to be micro’d back and forth identically no matter what kind of unit they are.
When a unit fires at another unit, there is a projectile that launches with some degree of accuracy and it may or may not hit, the battle is actually being simulated in the game in a way that is joyously chaotic and most other RTS games don’t even come close to the pure fun of it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Been having a blast playing Beyond All Reason against AI.
- Comment on Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans being increasingly hired to clean AI slop 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t an irony, this was always the plan. The intended effect was to break the back of labor in the tech industry and it worked beautifully for them.
- Comment on Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally 2 weeks ago:
Ok so if I am a car mechanic and you bring your car into me because you have a weird sound with your car and I tell you “You better get this problem fixed, I am not sure what will happen if you let this part fully break but it isn’t going to be good, it is connected to a bunch of other parts of your car and may break them too.” and then you proceed to say “You are an idiot you can’t even tell me precisely what is going to happen!!!” and leave without getting your car fixed by me… am I really the fool here?
Climate Scientists are interested in predictions so far as they inform how they advise on the details of risk, but Climate Scientists don’t need any specific predictions to point out that pushing fundamental aspects of the Climate System of Earth out of whack will likely break a whole bunch of stuff.
It is like saying that because a windshield designer can’t predict EXACTLY how a windshield will shatter in a particular car crash that they obviously are full of shit otherwise they would be able to tell you perfectly where the crack will start on the windshield and in what pattern it will precisely crack before completely shattering.
The REASON Climate Scientists are drawn to study the climate is because it is beautifully complex, highly interconnected and fascinating. The reason anti-intellectuals like Trump are threatened by Climate Scientists is because at some level they understand this and it scares them that people could live in such an openminded way.
- Comment on Oof 2 weeks ago:
Hey, our future isn’t that bad at least we get treats before the disease kills us. That is what “treatable disease” means right?
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 2 weeks ago:
HECK YES LETS GET RAPTORED AF
reads closer
Wait what?
raptor sauce
- Comment on Reddit Wants 'Deeper Integration' with Google in Exchange for Licensed AI Training Data - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the basic world model people deeply invested in trying to profit off Reddit have, if they think Reddit comments are valuable enough to make Google bargain with them doesn’t that mean they acknowledge that it is the users not the company that creates the value? Do the current owners seriously think that a totally adhoc system of unpaid subreddit moderators moderating communities of content solely provided by users who are NOT employees, communities which sprung up around different topics organically from the contributions of users who are NOT employees can be misconstrued as somehow a product of value created and maintained by the current management of Reddit?
Reddit is valuable because of the things said on it, not because Reddit is a particularly well designed business, nor even a remotely sustainable one longterm at least in terms of the immense magnitudes of profits that larger investors demand.
I suppose Discord killed off so many independent, open niche communities that Reddit thinks they can really get away with it, but the problem for Reddit is that the best parts of Reddit don’t need a corporation to muddle with them, introducing a corporation just makes it worse in every way…
