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- Comment on Make America Consoom Again 5 days ago:
I’ve been replaying cruelty squad, and the second mission has you take out a CEO addicted to FunkoPops. Anyway, this image reminded me of that. Be nice if someone brought a real “CEO mindset” to a meeting with him.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 6 days ago:
Rich people always threaten this and never do it, because it’s a John Galt problem. Rich people need poor people to trickle money to for services and goods. If they all move to “Rich Asshole Island” where there’s no laws or taxes, they quickly discover there’s also no workers.
Fuck all of them, I dare every millionaire to leave NYC. They almost certainly cannot. All their wealth is actually tied up in business and assets. In NYC. They could sell them, but to whom? All the rich are fleeing right? If the city or collectives of workers buy them, thats more socialism and proof the rich aren’t necessary.
So no, they won’t leave. They’ll whine and cry and then fund police and paramilitaries and lobbiest to try and force their view. They’ll spend millions propping up friendly candidates like Coumo and running smear campaigns.
In other words, they’ll do what they’ve historically always done when threatened.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 6 days ago:
I agree with the analysis of the east coast, and will add that the South (“Silicon Bayou” is such a sad joke) is in basically the same place.
But I don’t think the West coast actually has all those advantages either, not anymore. What passes for “innovation” is all some variation on crypto, ai, or “being the Uber of $NICHE.” Throw in some buzzwords like IoT, quantum, blockchain, or “smart” and you’re all set to race with the other founders to get a piece of that sweet sweet VC dollar.
The financiers have taken over everything and are going to drive the economy off a cliff so they can scavenge and sell the parts. They’ve taken over film, gaming, tech, all traditional media, journalism, and they’re using the banner of “privatization” to finish off healthcare, education, postal services, and anything else they can convince idiots to sell them. The bankers are winning.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 days ago:
SE/SO has been on the decline for a long time now. They pivoted to find more ways to monetize the answers and started enshittifying, trying to appeal to business clients and money-people instead of the users and developers who built the knowledgebase. It was good when it felt like a community helping each other, it fell off when it felt like a company milking you to build out their monetized wiki.
At this point, from their perspective, the biggest fuck up was not locking down SE from scrapers and building their own AI. It is in every way the same situation that Reddit is in, just with a more focused and higher quality data set (and fewer, arguably “higher quality,” users).
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 1 week ago:
A friend and I played the whole campaign in co-op when it came out and both cracked up so bad after that cutscene. I think we had to restart the mission because we were laughing too hard still to actually start playing (plus we got to watch the briefing again!)
- Comment on What happens when chatbots shape your reality? Concerns are growing online 1 week ago:
I don’t necessarily think the MM is intentionality going against AI, they’re just following what drives engagement and the mainstream tide is turning against AI (again, AI winter 3.0, here we go).
However, I did see that “AI causes delusions” article in the NYT together with the very hilarious conflict of interest notice: “The NYT is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.”
So who knows? It is entirely in the MM’s interests to both write about AI (hot topic, much engagement) and also to make the AI companies look incompetent, reckless, and dangerous because that bolsters their cases against them.
- Comment on Deep dish thought 2 weeks ago:
Ooh damn, I think you’re really cooking on this “anti-calzone” idea! Two slices, back to back, bread in the middle surround by toppings on both sides. Basically impossible to eat cleanly or set down once assembled. It’s an open-face-and-ass sandwich. A sloppy ho.
- Comment on Something to think about 3 weeks ago:
Seems I’ve been dup’d
- Comment on Something to think about 3 weeks ago:
Slowly sliding a switch labeled “Dubstep” towards on and checking the crowd reaction at each step like a DJ at a corporate event.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
Alright, so here’s my case for Thief, the Looking Glass Studios game.
Thief, on its own, is a great game and basically shares the claim to originating a lot of ideas behind stealth in games along with MGS, which came out the same year.
What many don’t know is how incredibly innovative what they were doing with their engine tech was. In another timeline, id software were mildly successful action game makers while LGS became the industry defining mega success. The Dark Engine refines a lot of ideas present in Ultima Underworld and marries them to tech that was decades ahead of its time.
Check out the opening and closing of this long talk: youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI
Thief had, probably, the first ECS in gaming. They also had their own rendering technique using “portals” that was a bit slower than id’s BSP trees but allowed for insane geometry. They also had an incredible system for events called stimulus-response that was doing things like Breath of the Wild’s “chemistry engine” again, decades before it would be rediscovered.
They weren’t just making games, these were really simulations of a limited world with complex interactions. If the rest of the industry had caught onto their good practices, who knows what the landscape would look like today!
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
Doom
I could write an essay significantly larger than the game itself and it wouldn’t be as powerful of an argument as just saying the name with the weight of legacy it commands.
- Comment on Hot birds in your area ifykyk 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Polonium 4 weeks ago:
Meh! Call me a wet blanket but I’ve been on the internet since before 4chan, so I’m pretty familiar with the Nazi bar problem and I’m long past accepting “just jokes.”
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 4 weeks ago:
There are other privacy issues with having an indelible marker as to the origin and chain of custody of every digital artifact. And other non-privacy issues.
So the idea here is that my phone camera attaches a crypro token to the metadata of every photo it takes? (Or worse, embeds it into the image steganographically like printer dots.) Then if I send that photo to a friend in signal, that app attaches a token indicating the transfer? And so on?
If that’s a video of say, police murdering someone, maybe I don’t want a perfect trail pointing back to me just to prove I didnt deep fake it. And if that’s where we are, then every video of power being abused is going to “be fake” because no sane person would sacrifice their privacy, possibly their life, to “prove” a video isnt AI generated.
And those in power, the mainstream media say, aren’t going to demonstrate the crypto chain of custody on every video they show on the news. They’re going to show whatever they want, then say “its legit, trust us!” and most people will.
These are the fundamental issues with crypto that people actually don’t understand: too much of it is actually opt-in, it’s unclear to most people what’s actually proved or protected, and it doesn’t actually address or understsnd where trust, authority, and power actually come from.
- Comment on How it started... 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Actually I see something completely different 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Its like losing your identity 5 weeks ago:
Voyager for Android doesn’t show them, so I have no idea what any of you look like anyway!
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like this guy was also relying on the AI to self-report status. Did any of this happen? Like is the replit AI really hooked up to a CLI, did it even make a DB to start with, was there anything useful in it, and did it actually delete it!
Or is this all just a long roleplaying session where this guy pretends to run a business and the AI pretends to do employee stuff for him?
Because 90% of this article is “I asked the AI and it said:” which is not a reliable source for information.
- Comment on It's the truth 5 weeks ago:
Stern Asian Grandma is most displeased with how spicy my dish was yet again, and demands i add a heaping spoonful of chilli crunch to fix it!
- Comment on Some stephen king type shit 5 weeks ago:
There’s a few actual versions of the pin pulling games now. I liked this one for Android called “How to Loot”, pretty fun little time waster.
- Comment on Deserved honestly 5 weeks ago:
I love 😬 that we’re now at the point where “is this real?” is ambiguous between:
- did the story factually occur in our shared reality?
- was this story actually posted to 4chan?
- did a human even make this image?
And at this juncture with the common addition of “chat, is this real?” we can further add:
- does the audience exist?
- does the person sharing the image exist?
- do I exist?
- Comment on Gourmet chocolate 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on how did he do that? 1 month ago:
Is this gain?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The spoken language of the native people of the Philippines; still one of the country’s official languages and spoken by a majority of the population.
- Comment on [DJ Khaled voice] Anotha one 1 month ago:
Ive never seen these before and I’m enthralled! The music and visual style reminds me a lot of Cruelty Squad. Is there an accepted name for this “genre”? It’s almost like pre-AI slop but with a pedal-to-the-floor surrealism that elevates it tremendously.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 1 month ago:
It gets worse actually. You can define a number system using any power of 2 amount of i-like units in a similar relationship to quaternions using the Cayley-Dickson construction
Fascinatingly, you lose some property of the algebra at each step. Quaternions aren’t commutative: ABC != CBA. Octonians aren’t associative: (AB)C != A(BC). Once you get into 16 i’s with subscripts, it really gets crazy.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 month ago:
The GBA SP really was a great portable. I carried my black\silver “executive” model everywhere and felt cool as shit at the time.
Those PS2 ads though, holy shit, what was Sony smoking back then?
- Comment on M'ananas 1 month ago:
Tangerdarin’
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 month ago:
People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.
Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.
And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.
- Comment on Krafton suddenly replace three Subnautica 2 leads with one of the execs behind Callisto Protocol 1 month ago:
Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World’s and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won’t be announced any time soon.
