I don’t see anything functionally different between what Star Citizen does, and what the most popular titles of the day do. At least Star Citizen is targeting middle aged space sim fans and not literal children.

AI is really good at hallucinating a series of words until it falls into the places it expects the user wants it to, so while AI slop will never be more than AI slop, you can still make it write absolute bangers.

I remember when just ‘browsing’ the internet (google) was a pass time. Like you could just search random things into google and find something interesting or novel. The earliest iterations of google basically functioned exactly how you’d want a search engine to and needed zero improvement. we really do live in a fucked world where a technology or service can be perfected but inevitably made worse over time to the benefit of no one but the top

there are some construction projects that instill awe, make you reflect on the hard work it takes to build and the defiance to the natural world it represents. like it really makes you reflect on how the pyramids must have been built versus how we can build things now, and the inherent majesty with our collective talents

anyway those sorts of construction projects are just on every other corner of china lol they really do not give a fuck, if they want a road there by god the road is going there

nah, if you’re weird enough to be you, someone else is weird enough to be for you.

I find myself on Quora more than I would think based off its layout. I think the website is very messy and sometimes makes the information hard to parse. But I do agree in general that I think it has a bad reputation for what it is.

I love BE, I’m in that sweet spot of having never engaged with his online presence but occasionally watched his scripted videos. It makes everyone seem absolutely unhinged when they auto-nope out of any conversation involving him, when the takes usually in question is something like ‘genocide bad’

you do automatically assume countries that aren’t capitalist are authoritarian, though. democracy isn’t just voting between two major parties at election time.

Its a bit bleak-sounding for my personal tastes, but definitely invites my curiosity. I think it’s pretty good!

I think this view only slides if you do actually already have inherent misogynistic or misanthropic tendencies, and those tendencies mix with the natural jealousy feeling that cheating invokes. I think of asexual people who also don’t love being cheated on.

yes but unironically

re-releaseing bethesda games is tricky because for at least a few months the original + mods is a far far better experience, at least when it happens with skyrim it only takes the modding community a few months to catch up

remaking bethesda games with a graphical layer on an entirely different engine is a recipe for disaster. from what i’m hearing the game is still moddable with the original modkit but several elements don’t work as they should. it’s going to take years to port over oblivion modded content to the new version, and you better hope those original modders are still even around.

essentially fracturing an ancient modding community for a smeary UE5 re-release of a beloved game. not the worst thing you can do but just mod the original release christ. do you know how well modded oblivion runs on anything?

Just imagining that clap some teachers do in the morning to get their class doing the morning salutations.

"Good morning honorable judge presiding…’

Hypersexuality can be destructive for the self and online spaces see high rates of hypersexuality that are seen as sex-positivity instead. This leaks out into the real world eventually.

I think it’s direly important to understand where sexuality ends and the real world begins. lots of functional adults cannot do this and it leads to things like bioessessentialist thinking (women just want to get RAILED by HARD STRONG ALPHA MEN WHO ARE BLACK) or obsessive shipping (x and y would be so good together! imagine how they would have sex?!). It makes conversations uncomfortable and makes whatever space they are inhabiting inherently adult-only.

There is so much to this world other than sex. There’s so much to just human relations other than sex. Really, sex takes up such a small part of our lives but disproportionately motivates much of it for most people. It’s a sad state of affairs and I can definitely see where you’re coming from, OP.

Downsizing the roo was a mistake. Now instead of chilling at home they’re diving in front of my car at night.

I think my dog is reactiveary. he barks too much.

did you post on lemmygrad and get upset over tankies replying to you

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can’t support them. you’ll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

Common misconception. Karl Marx was actually inspired by Quentin Tarantino because they both liked feet. Follow me for more facts

Now that Minecraft has received an update that allows leashing villagers together in train-like formations, how does this analysis change?

K-HOLE EXECUTIVE!!