they get to feel special and like they have exclusive rights to speak on an issue, they’re also generally uneducated westerners who have nothing to say but bloodlust and star wars plots

THAT BEING SAID THIS IS REALLY COOL.

I don’t want to fear monger in general because this is neat as hell and I love to see big copy protection schemes fall.

With you 100%, I’m not sure I’ll ever be bothered enough to fuck around with this hypervisor stuff to play like, NBA 2K26, but it’s extremely exciting to me that Denuvo is getting more holes poked into it. I felt a sort of impotent anger over fellow pirates singing the ‘age of piracy is over!!’ because Denuvo came out on like, 2% of released games that year.

Importantly, for me, it represents a return to a baseline in piracy. The ability to access art regardless of your disposable income. That baseline is coming back, baby!

to be fair, so is earning a wage, waiting for that wage to be deposited in your bank account and using that money to purchase games

I’ll just wait for emulation tbh. I know that’ll be a tall order compared to the first Switch, but I just…don’t buy games.

Dragons are easy. They’re just animals in this world. That isn’t even divorced from the actual, textual origin of dragons in ASOIAF. GRRM put a lot of effort into making sure his designs resembled ‘real animals’ and the world is also inhabited by non fire breathing dragons that seem entirely naturalistic and could’ve been a base species bred into modern dragons.

The ice wall or shadow babies or resurrections all have their associated sci fi explanations, from self-servicing forgotten technology to telekinesis, an important piece of context to this theory is that GRRM has previously written about all of these things under a sci-fi lens. GOTs time travel plot is almost 1:1 copied from a sci-fi work of his dealing with hive minds and sending memories through time via trees.

The story is fantasy, to be sure, but I think its a damn good one to inspire these sorts of ideas.

Personal opinion of/c but GOTs identity kinda strives on being the grounded ‘realistic’ & edgy fantasy.

The novel series plays with unreliable narrators and historical distortion under medieval level historians a lot more, leading some fans to theorize that the world isn’t magical, but rather a sort of regressed sci-fi world, with observed magical abilities plausibly being sci-fi concepts related to genetics instead of prophecy.

IMO, it does take a brilliant writer to create a world textured enough that people can dispute the nature of it all, within its own genre conventions.

why do people seem allergic to considering the differences in culture and material realities

good chance if you hear someone complaining about China’s LGBT scene that they probably have never even spoken to a LGBT Chinese person. Or more broadly, a Chinese person.

I feel like a locally run AI model dedicated to accessing your own pirated content is the one use case where AI doesn’t earn an eyeroll

I hate ‘socialism but not like that’ mfers so bad. what do you MEAN there’s no such thing as socialism in transition idiot. how do you get to socialism

I use local models. To me the entire point of AI falls apart unless you can run it independently.

I just think generating videos and stuff is more exciting and sensational. But if you get any use out of LLMs its a no brained to set one up instead of paying a subscription.

I hate the ‘You just think America is bad, so you can’t possible see how [insert America’s enemies here] could be bad, too!’ response you can get from pretty much everyone. It’s not a belief they had previously scrutinized but one they usually come up with in the moment, literal confabulation because you’ve raised too many points about the true evils of imperialism.

And I’m talking really hate it, bros. You will receive this response if you’re being a glib asshole making hot memes, or if you’ve delivered a painful dissertation on your extremely niche area of special interest in which they’ve never even read a wiki article on. It is, from the school of thought that defaults to Harry Potter and Star Wars to understand the world, a tacit attempt to pass their refusal to engage as an enlightened wisdom, as them truly understanding the greys of the world and yourself, simply a stooge for having read more than a CNN article about the topic.

It’s probably my biggest challenge in educating potential comrades because it’s a cognitive hurdle for me. I’m already fighting against my brain shutting down from rage when they bring up this halfhearted debate pervert logic, how am I meant to engineer the conversation back to somewhere productive? Nine times out of ten I can’t.

The bastard is alive.

This is my reaction to any and all Netanyahu stories regardless of prior context

Oh my b, you were actually, in fact, being a bit based.

I just wanted a regime change in a land I’ve never visited and know nothing about. I wanted this achieved WITHOUT BOMBS as historic regime changes have been done! How could this go so wrong?!

jesus christ natalie people are dying

Personally, I just want to know if IDidAThing is on that boat.

I know you’re trying to reference some established criticism of building socialist projects but what you produced was confused. I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.

Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves in the sea from cliffs… It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.

fascism heckler when he has to heckle fascism:

I’m very sorry to tell you, that this frame appears to be real, as fact checked by Ethan’s catty anti-fandom.

This is owing to a few things, of course, but most recently there seems to be a skill issue with his posture correction devices.

Anyway, anyone else feel like getting up and doing some stretches?