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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

and are quick to remind you of your sins

On the other hand, it's totally cool and good to drag around a big cross of contrarianism in a totally-not-self-righteous way because your treat printers were criticized, amirite? smuglord

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

LLMs, in their primary and most common uses, are planet-burning trash, but the important thing is the contrarian in this thread found a way to feel superior to those that don't like when material conditions get worse.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think the bigger problem is that each answer it gives basically destroys a forest

That, and it's filling once-useful search engines with useless and even dangerous gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

bait

This sounds a lot like "I need to catch up; what is contrarian and edgy right now?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Best avatar ralsei-blush

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You seem to be conjuring an imaginary psych degree so you can concern troll. Fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

speech-r Drej words for "I think I'll just sit back and watch these ignorant humans burn their own planet down while fantasizing about escaping it for now.'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

😄

You right now, because you're totally not mad about your hopium escapist fantasies getting challenged:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

You can ignore catastrophic global warming and actual fucking wildfires of unprecedented frequency and scale if you think being a Reddit-tier pedant will protect you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hopium huffers will smugly chant "asteroid mining!" as the answer to your questions, in much the same way that "monorail!" was chanted during that one Simpsons episode.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (31 children)

All these answers are so killjoy and boring.

Yes, fantasizing about billionaires fixing everything by making good on their bullshit marketing pitches is very exciting to credulous people.

Building habitats on other worlds doesn't prevent us from caring for this one.

If you believe that there's some magic means to have zero emissions launches into space that are in any way self-sustained without further launches to keep throwing resources after spent resources from an increasingly polluted, depleted, and warming Earth, sure, you can huff that hopium deep and hard and ignore the worsening material reality all around you.

Plus maybe trying to make a liveable environment in space can give us new insights in preserving the one at home.

You've bought deeply into billionaire bullshit and their bogus promises, especially as privatized space travel in the west becomes increasingly vanity tourism and marketing stunts. The accomplishments that such companies' underpaid and overworked workers achieve are not for the common good, nor can they be because they are publicly subsidized private companies seeking to maximize profits and expand their own venture capital appeal, and nothing more.

 

Title says it all. Great, the treat printer made a video that fooled people convincingly at the low low price of a few more burned acres and a few more dried up lakes and a few more tons of carbon dumped into the sky.

Must we repeat that trick until it kills us all? elmofire

 

Shadowrun is the exception because of the Awakening and all the fun escapist magic and spirituality flowing through the setting. Magic-less cyberpunkerinos are both uncomfortably close to contemporary society and contemporary society's ruling class is in a sprint to enshittify the world with more and more layers of shit with a thin gaudy speckling of the aesthetic without anything subversively dangerous in the shitted out substance.

The "punk" is thoroughly stomped on. The corpos sell it like Che shirts. The genre used to be my very favorite and now it's... this. doomer

 

News going over California's new bill to require lack of ownership of digital media (including video games) to be labeled that's kind of a mess + a small victory of the stop killing games campaign.

 

I haven't seen this kind of scratched liberalism since the outrage against account pronoun preferences years back.

Maybe "struggle session" is the wrong term because there's a clear and obvious side for comrades and another for scratched liberals.

Maybe Hexbear needs occasional flypaper sessions for the community's health.

 

There's often exclusive sales at CitizenCON kelly so those same 50something divorced bleach demons are paying money to pay more money.

Also, regular reminder that Chris Roberts, head grifter of this project and ego-inserter of himself in his own fucking game as its savior of humanity ( https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore) ) promised some years back that you'd never see him on a yacht because he'd work so hard to make Store Citizen launch in 2014. I mean 2016. I mean 2018. I mean 2020. I mean 2022. I mean 2024. I mean 2026...

Maybe in some ways he is the E~L~O~N of Roman LARPing fascist space fantasy!

 

Of fucking course one of the most recent ones is about the "humanity's last invention" and it's implied to be a treat printer of sufficient size (which may wind up true in an unintentional way if the magic mirror on the wall requires that much electricity and that much water), but there were other bazinga whoppers, each with that obnoxious corporate-art thumbnail clickbait.

I was able to de-MAGA Youtube. I'm not sure how to de-bazinga it now. debord-tired

 

For reference, here's the video even if it isn't directly the topic of this post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVj5ID9K88

People work, in many cases harder than they've ever worked, yet what little they get out of it buys less than it did before.

Just about everything is more expensive, from groceries to housing to medicine.

But here comes "Gala Games" offering pretend internet real estate in often-never-completed "Web3" garbage games and credulous bazingas with money repeatedly give them tens of millions of dollars, per promised game, and after years of this same business model of lying and laying off the developers or getting into lawsuit slapfights, the bazingas are there hoping to buy their way into being digital landlords, overlords, or space lords (motherfuckers), and they seem to have both the credulity as a demographic and the disposable income to continue buying into this shit while so many other people are struggling to eat, survive illnesses, and just get by.

That's the post. Fuck cryptobros, and fuck techbro speculative investors in general. I want to be mad at "Gala Games" but at least they're just robbing some of the smuggest assholes in the world.

 

I wouldn't have guessed decades ago that the greatest and grandest material promise (setting aside the usual nerd shit about godlike waifu mommy bangmaids that exceed human consciousness but are also somehow unconditionally loving of the nerds and maybe wont kill their nerd masters) of some up and coming hyped up venture capital thirsty technology is that it might somehow someday solve the problems that it is making worse, and that by making them that much worse that surely those worsening problems would get solved. galaxy-brain

The next self-described "leftist" that concern trolls on this site about how everyone needs to stop complaining, stop being "emotional" or "afraid" and come up with (always unspecified by the glazer) "solutions" that align with the expansion and amplification of the problem as desired by terminal stage capitalists will be reminded by me that their belief system aligns with fucking former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that says energy demand for AI is infinite and we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway, so we may as well bet on building AI to solve the problem.

My disgust for that take is vast and maybe infinite.*

spoilerJust like in the cyberpunkerinos! so-true fire

 

That's why Amazon's game division died after the New World failure.

That's why Amazon's P R E S T I G E T V division died after Rings of Power wound up being a long dragged out expensive wet fart.

 

Take off every "Gayroller." gayroller-2000

You know what you doing. Move "Gayroller." gayroller-2000

For great wokeness. gayroller-2000

 

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