You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
A lot of people also really need to understand that their shells aren’t just a covering or dead, bony plates. Their shells are actually quite sensitive and I’ve had a few tortoises that love back scratches. Please be kind to turtles and don’t stomp on them, despite what video games have taught you.
Back in the Before Times, there was a lot more freedom in airports, you could wander in and out of the terminals and there was more to do. I remember distinctly the Little Rock airport had a lot of arcade games and Nintendo 64 kiosks through the whole Southwest terminal. This was before 9/11, when our whole country decided all at once that we need to self-immolate ourselves and stop enjoying anything ever again.
It’s called “bait” and it’s what 90% of the internet is now.
I’m happy I don’t take part in gaming “communities.”
Have a few people you know in real life you can game with. Stop reading forums and youtube shorts and streamer takes on gaming. Seriously, just fucking stop. We have to let this attention-baiting, rage-inducing industry of influencers die already. Fuck that $1000 to charity, Jesus christ you could go outside and donate socks and canned food to a community pantry and literally change a family’s life for a week. No need to involve gaming at all.
Play games you like, read reviews if you must, but buy fewer games, play games less, make more friends, socialize, get the fuck out of your gaming chair, you’ll never be a famous twitch streamer. Your life is flying by while you’re lost in Helldivers 2 drama.
Probably right.
I’m half a century old or so, I’ve seen the cycles the US goes through and the world broadly. I know that the pendulum always swings, and sometimes it swings further in one direction than another, but that just means the back-swing is going to go further and harder. But those are generally 20 - 30 year cycles or so, that’s how long it takes for a new generation who forgot everything about their childhood to take the reigns and start the cycle over.
The thing that we need to shake off our species though is the idea of an “end.”
Your laundry never ends. Washing the dishes never ends. You never exercise so much you don’t need to anymore. You will always be moving forward in time and through periods of change. Yes, this too shall pass… to be replaced by new things that will also pass.
If we could get better about managing our present moment we wouldn’t need to keep staring out for some imagined end-of-the-road where everything is fine and we’re suddenly happy again for some reason. While you’re staring out looking for that, your current life and opportunity to find peace is just rapidly slipping past.
I would take this over the obvious rage-bait and bullshit people pump out in vast volumes every day to get people to click on their channel, to see their ads, to buy their health-sludge, or to retweet for “engagement.”
At least this is just a conversation starter and no watermarks to someone’s essential-oil and vaccine-alternative supplements.
They are great. There’s a subtle art to them that I think few people really grasp.
I keep going back to it to try it again and again because I recognize the potential is great, but every time I get in there it’s the same feeling of being in a weird technicolor circus, a universe that has a weird scale and no real sense of vastness because the systems are cramped together cartoon solar systems and there’s no real feeling of consequence, no feeling of “going too far, I need to come back later when I’m stronger” or conversely no feeling of “I need to get to that place over there” and it seems the only real challenge is some dangerous robots and animals so you leave that place and go get your fuel somewhere else.
I think it would have connected a lot better if it was less easy to get around, less teleporters to identical space stations, less fast-travel and less ships flying in the sky, less aliens hopping all over the place on planets, less stuff everywhere. Maybe more of a survival feeling where you really do have to climb down in caves to search for a part to get your life support going, even basic, tired old hunger/thirst type mechanics would have really spiced up the experience and would have made finally being able to fly and explore feel awesome.
Also, the crafting isn’t fun, they lean into a lot of weird space minerals and space chemicals and such that you have no intuitive idea what you need to keep. To say nothing of how boggling the inventory/upgrade system can be, I don’t know why they reinvented the inventory/skill/upgrade system so much.
The Outer Wilds - I get recommended this over and over, I know it’s a huge hit, a cult classic, and beloved to many people. I finally got it and gave it a real solid attempt, several times so far. I understand the gameplay loop I guess, the repeating, the weird ship flying. I mean, I appreciate it and love that people are experimenting with new ways to make games that break old molds. I really like the atmosphere and maybe if I were a lot younger it would feel fresh and interesting.
But I never really started having fun, never really connected with the characters or the world, I never got hooked. Everything felt like a janky obstacle instead of progression and reward.
Maybe I’ll try it again sometime, but maybe it’s possible some games just don’t rub me right.
Also, ITT: lots of people arguing with other people why their feelings are wrong.
Yah, anyone can buy the materials to do the same thing, this isn’t arcane mad science, it’s just using organic chemistry to make simple processors. We’re as far from “growing a conscious brain in a jar” as we are from traveling to Alpha Centauri.
They just made a basic microcontroller out of organic chemistry, relax and learn even basic science before you get murderously bent out of shape by the next sensationalist clickbait headline.
Yah but the visuals of “growing a human brain and trapping it in hell” gets a lot more clicks than “We made a very basic microcontroller out of organic chemistry to interact with an old video game poorly.”
It’s not like we see faces in everything :)
Welcome to the late 2020’s. It’s only going to get weirder.
To be clear, the LLM in this story did not actually “want” a robot body, it doesn’t “want” anything, it’s not a thinking entity like you or I (assuming you’re real.)
The guy fed it a ton of crazy shit and he got a lot of crazy shit amplified back to him by the world’s best associating machine, crafting detailed and fleshed-out narratives based on every inadvertent prompt he sent into it. People are very bad at understanding how these things work in the best circumstances, so if you’re already unbalanced or have deep emotional/mental health problems, an LLM can be incredibly dangerous for you.
We’ve had a long line of animated characters absolutely fucking with all our developing wires when we were exposed at a vulnerable age.
I go way back, Disney’s Robin Hood/Maid Marian was my problematic pubescent mind-worm. Didn’t help that when growing up without school or friends or even a phone, it was one of only a handful of VHS cassettes I owned so I watched it a thousand times.
Later generations had so many others, from the mainstream favorites like Lola Bunny to more obscure ones like Minerva Mink in Animaniacs, to where we are today where I don’t think I can even watch Zootopia around others without feeling uncomfortable because of how much “content” is floating around out there.
I do think it’s healthy though, I think if we allowed more people to realize that their attractions are highly subjective and do not need to follow some homogeneous cultural norm, we would probably have a lot fewer people with crazy hangups and crippling insecurity about their weird kinks and desires.
A lot of this would make a lot more sense to you guys if you saw these plants in their original, non-cultivated states. They don’t look anything like the shit in grocery stores.
I’ve heard great things about flavored sparkling water as a beer-alternative, unsweetened or lightly sweetened. I can’t recommend quitting drinking enough. It gets harder and harder to break the habit and makes you have a great big ol’ belly that won’t go away easily. (Fruit juice and other carbs will do the same thing. Sugar belly sucks.)
Wine was my poison for many years, does the same thing. I now just drink a lot of water at night.
Well, to be more correct, if they see a venture or tactic of theirs isn’t paying off as their delusional AI’s told them it would, we can at least get them to scrap that direction and try something else. We’ll never actually “stop” them, but we can use the thing we have, that they want, to at least direct them away from the places that they are causing harm to things we want to preserve.
I am under no expectation of this happening at all, we have hundreds of millions of families who will throw whatever new, shiny, mainstream tech-toys and “blockbuster” releases at their kids as a babysitter, those are the breadbasket of the tech and entertainment companies.
This was the most comment I’ve read all day.