Hey, what’s the relevance with your username? Most real people with accounts they care about put some thought and creativity into their handles in a way that’s relevant/funny/interesting to them. Your username sounds more like the automatically generated ones that use a random adjective and random noun. It’s popular with bots, or people who want to make a bunch of alt accounts without putting any thought into them.

It’s almost like your account ticks every possible box for being an alt account. Isn’t that funny? Isn’t that just hilarious? Good thing it’s just a coincidence and you’re just a regular dude with an outside opinion of this whole situation. I mean, can you imagine if you were actually an alt account of an embarrassed, pencil-necked little shit stain who got his fee-fees hurt because he got caught trying to play secret dictator in a corner of the internet? How absolutely pathetic would that be? Good thing that’s not you though. Right?

Literally any open world survival game.

ARK

Valheim

Rust

No Man’s Sky

Grounded

The entire fucking genre is tired and tedious. Exploration is the best part of the game, but you spend 90% of the time base building, researching upgrades to your base, gathering more stone/wood/BS to improve your base, optimising the layout of your base, crafting automation to produce MORE stone/wood/BS to further improve your base. And all this with a cumbersome inventory or weight management system.

And they always look like absolute crap. It’s either clean sci-fi structures that stick out like a sore thumb, or shoddy ramshackle buildings that look like they were slapped together by an ambitious crack head. So you spend hours placing decorations (that you also have to research and gather materials for) just for it to look kind of ok.

I fucking hate base building.

Welcome to the Age of Grift.

Alright, since you didn’t like my last explanation for some reason, let me try again.

You know how when you stick your hand out of a moving car, you feel a massive rush of wind, even if it’s not windy out? Ok, so imagine sticking a portal out of a moving car, what do you think happens to the air? Does it come to a dead stop after it exits the portal? Why not? The air itself wasn’t moving, only the car with the portal was.

Solids in this case will work the same way. It doesn’t matter if a solid is moving toward the portal, or the portal is moving toward it, what matters is the relative velocity.

From the orange portals frame of reference, the cube, and everything else in the world, is rushing toward it. So the cube (as well as the entire world around it) has a velocity relative to the orange portal.

But only the cube goes through the portal, the rest of the world does not come with it. At that point, the frame of reference changes. You can think of it like this: The cube has an velocity of X with respect to reference frame Y; once it leaves the portal, it keeps that velocity X but the reference frame changes from Y to Z. The velocity doesn’t disappear.

Frame of reference. If a person is hit by a train, from their perspective, they were standing still and the train was moving. But a person in the train can stand up and walk around without difficulty, they can stand on one foot and balance, they can jump up and down and not go flying away; so they are standing still from the trains perspective, it’s everyone and everything outside the train that’s moving.

What happens isn’t a transfer of momentum or energy or velocity; it’s a change in the frame of reference. That can’t happen in real life and breaks a lot of different laws of physics, so people are having trouble wrapping their brain around it.

The portals are a frame of reference. Both the IN and OUT portals have their own, separate frame of reference. The player’s reference doesn’t actually factor into it. When you go through a portal, you are switching from the IN frame of reference, to the OUT frame of reference. And in this situation, the IN frame of reference has you flying toward the portal at whatever speed it’s approaching you.

In that situation both portals (the inside and the outside window frame) have equal, but opposite velocities and therefore cancel out any momentum from the person.

When dealing with OP’s scenario, only one portal is moving.

You don’t even have to recognize AI faces. If it’s a mugshot with a wacky title, it’s fake.

I always considered myself centrist, which by today’s standards makes me a radical leftist. At some point the Overton Window flew past me and is now a far off speck in the distance. I’m surprised I was included to be honest. I often post things that have nuance, which always seems to piss actual radical leftists.

I’m surprised no one has said AllTrails since it’s one of the biggest. Is there something bad about that app I’m unaware of?

I always think they’re gone, but every time there’s a community pixel art thing like /r/place, there are always tons of ponys, so I guess they’re still around somewhere.

I hate saying this, I feel gross saying this, but the internet needs restrictions. I don’t know what the solution is. I hate all the ones that are being tried right now like age verification or needing an ID, because they really seem more focused on surveillance than anything else… But… God damn.

The general public should not have unfettered access to the internet. I think we have shown that this technology is too dangerous for humanity as a whole. There’s just too many idiots and bad actors. Again, I don’t know what the solution is. How do you balance privacy and personal freedom with the dangers that come with giving everyone access to everything? Unfortunately, I don’t see a solution that doesn’t come off as draconian or controlling in some way, shape, or form.

Maybe it’s something like a multi-layer internet, where the first layer anyone can access but is mostly read-only with a few exceptions. If you want to access the second layer which allows you to post, comment, upload, etc., you need a license. The barrier to entry should be small, something on the level of a HAM radio license. A simple class, an easy test, and a small one-time fee and you’re good for 10 years. You can even allow access for anyone at a library, university, or business.

It wouldn’t fix everything, and deep down I know that if anything like this were tried it would be twisted and warped by the powers that be to become just another form of control, but holy shit we need something or society is going to tear itself apart.

At that point, just have spray paint on a stick. Or better, just a long paint roller.

Ok, sure. But I want you to answer that question. At what age will you start being suspicious? I want you to have a number in your head, so that when that time comes, you don’t ignore it.

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but it was often stated that Nintendo had enough cash reserves to operate at a loss for 50 years and still be fine.

Maybe if you’re mentally ill.

The man who killed John Lennon did so because he was convinced that The Catcher in the Rye was telling him to do so. Do we blame The Catcher in the Rye? Or do we recognize that the guy had underlying mental issues and anything could have set him off?

Sure, I suppose one could come to that conclusion if they were an idiot.

Deserve? No. It seems like you are unaware that there is a difference between Darwinism and the Darwin Awards, because that’s a wild jump to conclusions otherwise.

A toddler doesn’t deserve to get burned because it sticks its hand in a campfire. But the solution isn’t to ban campfires in some misguided attempt to stop all toddlers everywhere from getting burned. It’s not the campfire’s fault that a toddler lacks the mental capacity to understand that sticking a limb in an open fire is bad.

You could force everyone to put toddler proof gates around their fires, or ban toddlers from camping trips, or force people to make smaller fires that toddlers won’t get as hurt by if they stick their hand in it… Or, you could recognize that it’s up to the parents to prevent things like that; that the vast majority of toddlers won’t stick their hand in fire.

Maybe you don’t agree. Maybe you feel banning campfires is justified to prevent mentally deficient toddlers from hurting themselves. Just know that even if you succeed, toddlers will still find ways to hurt themselves, so you’re not really preventing much of anything by banning the fires.

Sure, sure AI bad and all that, but the cold hard truth is there will always be dumbasses that kill themselves or get themselves killed because they do not have the capacity to survive in this world.

You can try to put in safeguards, you can try to make warnings, you can try to make regulations, but no matter how many improvements you make, they’ll always make a better idiot.