EightBitBlood
@EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 22 hours ago:
Believe it or not, there used to be a time when companies weren’t invading every part of your life with ads.
Ads were 6 minutes of garbage between TV, and between the pages of magazines and newspapers.
People would talk to each other on the phone. No ads. Mark their calanders to get together if they felt like it. No ads. Then actually meet up. Some ads.
Now, when you talk to anyone you know on Facebook? Ads. Any social media? Ads. Opening Google calander? Ads. Twitter? The person you’re talking to is an bot /ad. I don’t even have to be watching an actual TV show now to be served ads on my TV. Just turning it on gives me an ad.
These ads are from organizations trying to spin you a narrative urging you to give them money. The strategies they use for this are fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Things like: “Don’t miss out on that Lububu!” “Make sure to book your tickets for the movie opening next week!” “Make sure to buy this pillow before liberals take it from you.”
People now believe these narratives simply because they’ve been shoved into every aspect of our lives via social media.
These ads, collectively, are not something that ever existed in any society to the amount they do now. So it’s absolutley no surprise that the “narrative” these ads are telling us is completely warping people’s minds.
People still think Fox News is news. Simply because that’s how it’s advertised.
- Comment on PhDebaters 3 days ago:
I dunno. Sounds like you like discussing things.
- Comment on Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now 4 days ago:
You know it’s going to be a great and memorable platform to play games on when it’s catchy & cool name is 3/4 corpo IP 1/4 name.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 week ago:
The fact that Frank Frazetta is basically the most hetero man you could imagine IS proof that a maximum on the spectrum is nearly attainable.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 1 week ago:
Thank you so much for eloquently destroying the above comment’s pedantry. Reading your response was magical. Please don’t ever stop.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 weeks ago:
Not in law school 😂
But as an American, how is money coming from a political donation legally protected free speech?
Since I’m not a lawyer, and I assume you are, please walk me through how that concept, legally, makes more sense than a bullet coming from a gun being considered free speech in a “Prove me Wrong” tour about gun violence.
Honestly, no antogonization intended, I would earnestly love to hear an actual lawyers take on the differences between these two concepts.
Because from my perspective: both are genuinely poorly reasoned when it comes to the first amendment and free speech, yet one is actually legal.
Would love to know why that is.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 weeks ago:
Better still:
Mr Kirk was on his “Prove me Wrong” tour.
And the assassin chose to prove Mr Kirk wrong in a way words couldn’t.
But - If money can legally be protected as speech, what else should we consider protected under the first amendment?
If Mr Kirk was openly asking to be proven wrong, then couldn’t the assassins bullet be protected under free speech as a clear (but violent) answer to that question?
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 weeks ago:
The blood shooting from Mr. Kirks neck alone was not good enough evidence to determine if the shooter hit what he was targeting. Great work FBI. At this rate, you’ll soon be able to confirm the shooter used a gun.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 3 weeks ago:
The same reason opiod companies paid doctors to promote their opiods: legitamacy.
- Opiods were marketed as a wonder-drug painkiller.
- Then a bunch of doctors got kickbacks for writing prescriptions for opiods.
- This made them seem popular, at least enough that a large majority of the US then started getting prescribed and asking for opiods.
Instead it created the opioid crisis that still has addicts suffering to this day.
- AI is being marketed as a wonder tool for film.
- A bunch of animation studios are getting kickbacks to use AI.
- The goal is to make AI seem legitamate and popular. The animation studios work will be used to hide how terrible the AI is at doing their job. However, their work, and any of it’s results, will likely be credited to the AI, not them. Which is why they’re being paid well. It’s the same as the kickback for the doctors.
Basically, the studio is being paid to pretend that the AI they use is as talented as them. It’s not, but they’re clearly getting paid to animate a movie that AI is already taking credit for.
At the end, Sam Altman will use the movie to promote the abilities of AI, when in reality AI can’t make that kind of movie without 30 million and an actual animation studio to do the work.
AI will seem more legitimate. People will use it more despite never getting the results advertised. Mission accomplished.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 3 weeks ago:
AHahahahaha 30 MILLION?!? AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Holy shit they’re about to prove why it’s better and cheaper to pay humans to animate something than it is to pocket 30 mil while asking a computer to do it.
It is genuinely disgusting to read the budget of this AI movie is going to be 30 million.
With that much money and time, you can also just make a real animated movie with humans doing the drawing.
15 million alone is enough to employ a team of nearly 200 animators at a rate of 75k a year. Which leaves 15 million for marketing.
Let’s see what a team of 200 animators and the same budget can do in the same amount of time.
Fuck AI in its entirety if all it’s doing is taking jobs away from the skilled. All I see here is a grift to pay a team of C-suites the wages of hundreds of artists to find out they don’t know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground, even after asking Chat GPT.
I can’t wait to see this movie fail. I’ll bet money it’s not even completed by the end of this year. Fucking WASTE of money.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 3 weeks ago:
If the world taxed them all only half their wealth (keeping them billionaires) and took the results and invested it in a trust, it could be generating 80 billion a year from only a 1% return. That’s enough to solve world hunger every year twice.
The world doesn’t have a resource problem. It has a billionaire problem.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 3 weeks ago:
I spent a lot of time reading the time cube guys rants, and I’m like 90% sure they just never understood that if you rotate a cube enough on both axis it resembles a globe.
He just didn’t understand that the earth has multiple times zones because it’s a big old globe, instead of 4 timecube-zones, because he couldn’t understand how surface area stretches over a globe, just a cube.
Anyway, my two cents. Sometimes ranblinga are just a misunderstanding of basic scientific concepts.
Sorry 2D /3D OP, but you’re a great example too.
You want to claim 2D or 3D aren’t “real” when what you’re simply trying to say is that we, as humans, with limited and dull senses, are incapable of perceiving dimensions / universes that exist outside our own.
No shit.
That doesn’t mean they don’t exist. For that, it requires tools that exist outside our perception, but are universally sound. Aka Math.
So yeah, we can prove other dimensions exist with math, but can’t perceive them because we’re meat.
That doesn’t mean math is bullshit, it means you need to read philosophy enough to understand our existence isn’t centered on human perception.
We’re monkeys that have harnessed self awareness to the point we can prove there’s a reality that exists outside our limited perception. But simply because that’s only doable through math, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
It means your feeble human body is literally only capable of understanding extradimensionality because of the meat in your head, and it’s ability to comprehend math.
You are meat. But math is universal. You are limited in perceiving the universe to what your meat has given you. So doubt your meat, not the math.
It’s what the time cube guy should have done imo.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 4 weeks ago:
Practicing due diligence to make sure Wikipedia’s sources are legit isn’t difficult. You can check the sources listed on ever single Wikipedia entry yourself for bias. It’s not like they hide their sources. That alone is what makes it so valuable. Anyone trying to push a narrative can easily see it sourced as bullshit.
Kind of like how the article you linked is a worthless, factless, opinion piece about Wikipedia becoming “woke” due to the feelings of Larry Sanger being hurt. Nothing that article says is based on anything factual, and the only studies mentioned are wildly taken out of context.
Wikipedia let’s me do that analysis for myself, so I don’t get tricked into thinking an obvious piece of propaganda is real.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 4 weeks ago:
I’m a fan :) Not many multi-millionaires are out there making YouTube videos about wealth concentration being bad. But he is. And he’s very well spoken, highly intelligent, and knows what he’s talking about (at least 99% of the time). It’s refreshing to say the least. Here’s hoping he keeps gaining traction and a wider audience🤞 If anyone can get people to understand how to fix our system, it’s him.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 4 weeks ago:
My favorite paper published last year includes the following, now scientifically proven statements:
The preponderance of the evidence shows that rising income inequality slows economic growth [3], [4], [5], [6]. Recent analyses have shown that once one controls for wealth inequality the negative effect of income inequality on economic growth falls away as statistically insignificant, and that **it has in fact been wealth inequality that has been detrimental to growth, ** either in an inverse linear form or in the form of an inverse u-shape À la Kuznets [7], [8], [9], [10].
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S003801212400003X
So economically speaking, Econ math just proved that we need to eat the rich in order to improve anything.
From the same paper above:
From a policy perspective, the ongoing increase in the concentration of wealth is one of the main socio-economic failures of our time [1]. Not only is it likely to depress economic growth in some countries, as we measure here, it has fueled social unrest, political polarization, and populist nationalism… redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor may well be growth-enhancing in most countries
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 4 weeks ago:
The only thing funny about the Laffer curve is how little it now matters.
It was used to justify Reagnomics, which then immediately proved we weren’t nearly as high on the Laffer curve as we assumed. Because of this, we have concrete evidence that lowering taxes on the rich doesn’t increase government revenues.
Yet we’re still doing that 50 years later. Despite the only vaguely scientific thing behind it proving it doesn’t work decades ago.
Imagine being in a catholic family, reading the Bible, and always walking away thinking that Judas did the right thing (despite everything else the Bible says). That’s US economic policy for the last 50 years.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 5 weeks ago:
As an econ major with a BS, please don’t lump me in with the econ majors who went to business school for a BA. I like cool math, not venture capitalism cancer.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 5 weeks ago:
Interesting strategy! And thank you for describing it in detail as well! If I sounded condescending at all, it was certainly towards Microsoft 😉 But you’re right - that path is worth pursuing for that value proposition. It’s a safer path than others as well.
Agreed it’s almost destiny that the futon will be dueced. But at least this approach could make things interesting 🤘
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 5 weeks ago:
I agree this is clever, and a decent shot at evolving what an “Xbox” is. I just think it’s spreading the brand thin when it’s already been stretched far. While it would be very convenient and cool to have a certified Xbox machine, outside of CoD or Overwatch, there’s not much software that makes the Xbox brand as a recognizable game service valuable.
Basically, If all Microsoft has to offer on our Xbox PC’s are CoD and Overwatch, then that is what the name “Xbox” will be worth. I would not say either of those games have a bright future, let alone one that’s uniquely identifiable as “Xbox.”
So while I agree that Microsoft is making sure everything can be an Xbox, I disagree that will increase its brand value. I think, if anything, it will just further dilute the value of Xbox as a service or name that people relate to for games. If the only games offered are ones that have shrinking crowds, then what else is growing them that Xbox offers?
Imo, more entry points into having an Xbox doesn’t mean there’s more of a reason to enter.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 5 weeks ago:
So in ten years Xbox won’t exist as a brand at all? I agree. No need to take the bet.
I think what you’re describing is exactly what Microsoft is doing. Except I think it’s incredibly short sighted from a business, consumer, and brand perspective.
IMO, It’s basically the brand equivalent of seppuku.
With no functional distinction between Xbox and Windows, you just get the entirety of the Xbox ecosystem silently competing with all of Steam. But even worse: it’s now just the word Xbox on Windows. And everyone really hates Windows at the moment. It’s bleeding OS marketshare to Linux like nothing I’ve ever seen.
So they want to put the entirety of Xbox recognition on a Platform (PC) that their console users won’t be familiar with, and the OS they’re integrating it with is actively losing users. Mostly to Linux. Which Steam has an entire OS built on top of that anyone can use for their games for free.
So the consumer choice for PC users will be between:
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Steam OS based on Linux for free. Runs all steam games and has a desktop mode for all other apps.
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Windows 11 for $hundreds, smaller pool of games + worse performance.
I don’t think people are going to choose option 2 just because the word Xbox is in it somehow. Some might, but this is just HBO becoming MAX all over again, but without the escape plan of returning to HBO.
Destroying a console AND brand just to compete with Steam with an inferior product is incredibly dumb, and incredibly Microsoft.
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- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 1 month ago:
Slapping the Xbox name onto the ass-end of an overpriced and confusingly named steam deck clone is definitley the funniest way to kill the Xbox brand.
I mean Nokia had the NGage which was designed to look like goat-c, so the bar IS high.
- Comment on Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs 1 month ago:
Almost like it takes materials, complex machines, and a fuck load of time to build a factory instead of Tariffs magically creating them.
{I agree with you. But the Tariff debate is an incredibly stupid one that boils down to team Trump literally not understanding basic cause and effect.)
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 1 month ago:
My dude. Robots just conned a man. As you pointed out, that was previously only possible through engagement with actual humans.
Seeing as how just a dozen people on Fox News successfully conned the US into Fascism, it’s not comforting to know that can now be more easily accomplished through robots.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Going to Mars.
If that’s his goal, he’s awful at optimizing it for success. Going to mars is at minimum, a 3 step process:
- Getting to Mars
- Making Mars Survivable
- Building Mars Infrastructure
Musk is focusing on step one. Which is sure as shit profitable. Especially with all those Trump favors like defunding NASA so they wouldn’t compete with Musk.
Which is just so obviously short sighted. NASA funding would do nothing but benefit getting to Mars in the long run, especially with a shared pursuit of scientific discovery and cooperation. Instead Musk and Doge meddled their budget.
That’s profit over goals.
Even worse, with climate change likely decimating all forms of capitalism in the next 30 years, focusing on profit over basic sustainability is going to lead to a guaranteed failure of any money based pursuit. It’s short sighted at best, and incredibly, righteously stupid at worst - because just prioritizing step 2 would likely solve climate change with it.
Getting to Mars requires making Mars habitable, so Musk should be prioritizing making Earth habitable if his goal is Mars. Otherwise, his gaze just exceeds his abilities, as it almost always has cough cybertruck cough Twitter being profitable cough
If Musk took 10% of his worth and dedicated it to terraforming Mars, therefore saving earth, he would be worshipped as a literal god having used his power for the better of the world instead of just his bank account.
Any extremely twisted desire for attention and God like admiration would be immediately filled, permanantly, for the rest of his days if he succeeded in beating climate change in wanting to Terraform Mars.
Instead he’s making money, and being sad when people don’t like him.
Humans love movies about those with great power having great responsibility.
Musk lacks any of that responsibility despite having that power and even comparing himself to those heros. He asks for their respect, while acting with none of their responsibility.
Tony Stark built suits to stop invading aliens. Musk is just building bunkers for him and his friends, and is defunding NASA to steal their contracts for satellites and launches for the money to do it.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 months ago:
You’ll be able to go through life saying that a lot. Eventually, the only thing you’ll fear is when that might end.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 2 months ago:
Mine calls em shit shades.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 2 months ago:
RIP Xbox.
Did they bother looking at the history of console launches that were above $600?
You know, all those household names like 3DO, Jaguar, and CD-I, that prove how historically there is NOT a big audience for expensive consoles.
Good ol Playstation even learned their lesson with the PS3.
And now in the middle of a global recession, one where people are even turning on Nintendo for price increases - Xbox is releasing their most expensive console ever with no exclusives, and not a single reason to use this new “Xbox” because game pass is available on everything else.
I’m sorry. But whoever is left at Xbox needs to pull their head out of their ass and breath real air.
This move is out of the 90’s with crossbranding that smells of desperation. WHY would you call it so many names? WHY the ROG Xbox Ally? And not the Xbox Ally?
You really just had to slap the corporate partnership with ROG in the name of the product at the front like that? People smell that bullshit ten miles away now, as it basically the equivalent of putting corporate flowers on a devices grave. Like the Verizon Blackberry Storm, or the ATT Nokia NGage.
FFS “XBOX ALLY” is a great name! They could have even called it the “Xbox ALLY by ROG”
Now it’s going to be another “Xbone” situation because Microsoft can’t unincorporated their brain from making terrible decisions.
The ROG Xbox Ally is an overbranded ununique afterthought of a console designed to milk Xbox nostalgia from people that don’t have the budget or desire for an expensive portable PC.
I wish Vegas took odds over the potential failure of this console, because it’s almost certain how much of a failure this thing is going to be at launch.
Just my 2 cents. Haters better tell me how many of these they’re planning to buy at launch to scalp.
- Comment on Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs 2 months ago:
Incredibly well said. And couldn’t agree more!
Especially after working as a game dev for Apple Arcade. We spent months proving to them their saving architecture was faulty and would lead to people losing their save file for each Apple Arcade game they play.
We were ignored, and then told it was a dev problem.
Cut to the launch of Arcade: every single game has several 1 star reviews about players losing their save files.
This cannot be fixed by devs as it’s an Apple problem, so devs have to figure out novel ways to prevent the issue from happening using their own time and resources.
1.5 years later, Apple finishes restructuring the entire backend of Arcade, fixing the problem. They tell all their devs to reimplement the saving architecture of their games to be compliant with Apples new backend or get booted from Arcade. This costs devs months of time to complete for literally zero return (Apple Arcade deals are upfront - little to no revenue is seen after launch).
Apple used their trillions of dollars to ignore a massive backend issue that affected every player and developer on Apple Arcade. They then forced every dev to make an update to their game at their own expense just to keep it listed on Arcade. All while directing user frustration over the issue towards developers instead of taking accountability for launching a faulty product.
Literally, these companies are run by sociopaths that have egos bigger than their paychecks. Issues like this are ignored as it’s easier to place the blame on someone down the line. People like your manager end up getting promoted to the top of an office heirachy of bullshit, and everything the company makes just gets worse until whatever corpse is left is sold for parts to whatever bigger dumb company hasn’t collapsed yet.
It’s really painful to watch, and even more painful to work with these idiots.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yes. We are heading towards a crash. We are very much already in one, and have absolutley no way out.
Trump killed all US international commerce with his TACO tariffs and is currently propping up a failing stock market by converting medicaid dollars into ICE / TECH BRO MILITARY funding. The stock market keeps doing great because our tax dollars are propping up companies like Google, Plantir, and Amazon through government grants instead of providing us a safety net. That money will run out eventually, but likely not before more CEOs are killed over it.
Literally we are living through the gilded 1920’s again but with an American Hitler.
We now have years of uncontrolled inflation well above target rates, a corrupt government, wealth inequality worse than the French revolution, and rampant unintelligent Tariffs hurting all international trade at the cost of every small business in America. These are the same factors that caused the great depression, and if you think it’s not going to happen again, you are wrong.
We are a country being lead into disaster by the least competent people imaginable.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
I made the indie game INK INSIDE, which is based on a lost cartoon pilot I pitched to Nickelodeon in 2015.
Instead, I turned it into a cartoon show action RPG staring Brian David Gilbert.
It has a completely unique combat mechanic that’s a combination of beat-em-ups and bust-a-move. It’s big on narrative, loot, and world building and even has live action segments.
We’re on sale at 50% for only $10.
Would love for you to check it out, as it seems like you might really enjoy it based on the other games in your cart!