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- Comment on Sense of Urgency About Climate Change Is Declining Among Youth, Poll Finds 6 months ago:
Couldn't say it better myself. People here say that people have no stomach for revolution, but they'll have plenty of stomach for it when they haven't eaten two meals during the inevitable famines.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 8 months ago:
Yup Kojima 1000 years ahead of his time.
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 8 months ago:
After the SORA AI reveal today I'm starting to see that luddites have a point. I don't think we'll ever have terminator-style scenarios but the amount of damage misinformation and disinformation is doing to our society and now WILL do to our society is proof enough we need to start stepping back. I've seen the amazing benefits of AI first hand - new drugs, new treatments, more medical knowledge than ever before, gene sequencing of never before seen organisms. I've seen AI help with all those amazing beneficial things.
But I feel like the bad actors are wining, and winning very hard. Basically everything is unregulated and corporations refuse to take even a modicum of responsibility for anything. The worst thing is knowing that our octogenerian overlords don't even know how to use a phone.
- Comment on The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans 11 months ago:
Self-driving cars lose their shit and stop working if a kangaroo gets in their way, one day some poor people are going to be carpet bombed because of another strange creature no one every really thinks about except locals.
- Comment on Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s leveling journey shows how much retail has lost its way 1 year ago:
You are right but classic WoW hardcore has really fixed most of those issues because if you rush things you will probably die. Anyway I really agree with this headline because I logged into retail WoW during a thunderstorm because if you DC while you are playing it's basically an automatic game over, anyway I was bored as hell immediately. Retail is all about doing raids and dungeons, which is fun if you like that but I actually enjoy simply leveling in classic hardcore way more, and the best part is I don't have to be logged in for hours at a time leveling unlike in raids.
- Comment on Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect 1 year ago:
There are a few great Chinese single player games out there like amazing cultivation simulator, but they are all indie games. The Chinese government restricted how Steam works in China so I have no idea how indie Chinese games are getting out there, if at all.
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-china-launch/
I played a little Genshin after it first released but was put off by the underage characters being portrayed sexually. The sad fact of the matter is that its a great game made with passion, and many Chinese games have a """lolicon""" issue. I tried the game Mahjong soul after getting into Mahjong from Final Fantasy, and it has the same issue.
And when I say """lolicon"", I mean kids as young as 11-13, maybe even younger. it's disgusting. Otakus seems to run the industry there as far as I can tell, or at least what makes it to the west because to know real stuff about Chinese culture you have to be at least kinda a weeb for Chinese stuff. I got into Xianxia from my love of manga which lead to Manhua. The Xianxia scene has a lot of problems but """lolicon""" hasn't been one of them.
TL;DR The chinese video game industry is run by otakus, at least for whats made it into the west. - Comment on Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect 1 year ago:
Genshin actually has a surprising amount of horny teenage girls who play it, too. One article says its 55% male to 45% which is honestly very impressive.
- Comment on It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not Up 1 year ago:
Fucking love these looney tunes physics headlines
- Comment on Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat 1 year ago:
In biology we've been using machine learning for a long time now so the AI super hype out there is pretty funny to me. It's for sure useful with stuff like predicting protein folding and analyzing genes and stuff, but it's all hyper-specific stuff just like it has its always been. Good for removing tedium for sure as its the reason we can even know the human genome because it would take literally forever to sequence it without modern tech, which we did in the in the 90s and finished in 2003.
- Comment on Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat 1 year ago:
You're totally right, everyone knows that blue has been one of the best flavors for a long time, yet most companies are scared because blue "isn't real".
- Comment on Horseshoe Theory of Breakfast Meals 1 year ago:
Death to processed food! Liberate the world from simple carbohydrates!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Kbin has been working great for me too.
- Comment on Remember your training and you will survive 1 year ago:
I thought that when I read it too, but I asked my folks and they were big scifi fans at the time, and it's unironic.
wikipedia also says its unironic, for what its worth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Criticism_of_militarism
If you read Heinlein's wikipedia page it also checks out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein#Views - Comment on Remember your training and you will survive 1 year ago:
"satrship troopers" the book is blatantly fascist, Heinlein became a fascist in his later years.
"Starship Troopers" the movie IS a parody of fascism, Verhoeven literally based the Starship Trooper's symbols on Nazi iconography.
"Although some contemporary critics and audiences considered Starship Troopers to be an endorsement of fascism, Verhoeven said, "whenever you see something that you think is fascist, you should know that the filmmakers agree with your opinion."Also Sargon is just a fascist puppet.
- Comment on if only 1 year ago:
Hopennheimer
- Comment on Anyone a fan of Good Omens? 1 year ago:
Yeah I agree, the thing that makes the book so good is the tag-team between Pratchett and Gaiman, Pratchett was amazing at mixing humor and seriousness like a true comedian. No offense towards Gaiman of course, but even if it's good it'll probably feel like something is missing, because it is.