I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it’s widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.

Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was

If anyone ever did this with my likeness after death, even with good intentions, i would haunt the fuck out of them.

marketing hype is pushing anything with AI in the name, but it will all settle out eventually

Agreed. “use it or be left behind” itself sounds like a phrase straight out of a marketing pitch from every single “AI-centric” company that pushes their “revolutionary” product. It’s a phrase that i hear daily from c-suite executives that know very little of what they’re talking about. AI (specifically generative) has its usecases, but it’s nowhere near where the marketing says it is. And when it finally does get there, i think people are going to be surprised when they don’t find themselves in the utopia that they’ve been promised.

If fake experts on the internet get their jobs taken by the ai, it would be tragic indeed.

These two groups are not mutually exclusive

Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal are both detailed games that are optimized really well.

And to what end? Just to have a misinformed populace over literally every subject!

This is a feature; not a bug. We’re entering a new dark age, and generative AI is the tool that will usher it in. The only “problem” generative AI is efficiently solving is a populace with too much access to direct and accurate information. We’re watching as perfectly functional tools and services are being rapidly replaced by a something with inherent issues with reliability, ethics and accountability.

Yeah he’s a huge loser. He’s somehow even dumber than most right wing influencers.

It’s honestly been a while since I’ve logged on, because my friends don’t play anymore. But some of the changes (which may be different than when I played last) that seemed like a departure in my eyes were:

• Faster burn speed – this, in my eyes, was the turning point
• Necromancer solo trait (though I’ve heard that’s been reworked since I last played)
• Adding silencers to tons of guns (on one hand I like this, but on the other hand part of Hunt Showdown was always balancing clear speed with loudness, at least in lower ranked lobbies). I understand that they have subsonic ammo now, which I imagine balances it out.
• Multiple ways to restore health chunks – it used to be that you could only restore them by killing the boss, which made it easier to make mid-match decisions on whether to push people or not
• Fast Fingers trait, while cool in its own right, homogenizes guns like the Martini Henry, Springfield, and Sparks. It used to be that when someone missed me with a sparks, I knew I had 4 seconds to push.
• Surefoot trait allows you to sprint while healing and crouchwalk faster, thus speeding up gameplay and reducing the punishment of poor positioning
• Firebeetles allow people to not only scout from a higher position, but also force enemies to go loud with guns or have one of their healthchunks torched
• Levering was made faster and more accurate for some reason

Also Bounty Clash mode, while fun, seemed like an odd decision. It sped up the gameplay quite a bit and shook up the meta in ways that made it feel like an afterthought or an experiment. Though I didn’t give it too much of a chance.

All of that being said, I still had a ton of fun with the game the last time I played it. I know others have a propensity to shit on all of the decisions that the devs make, and that’s dumb. I’m glad it’s still around and people still play it, but it’s becoming less of my cup of tea. I also put like 1200 hours into it, so maybe I’m just a little burned out.

Yeah, Hunt Showdown was peak multiplayer for my friends and I about 2 years ago, but it’s continually gone in a direction that has erased its identity. It used to be about map knowledge and patiently waiting for opportunities to punish opponent’s mistakes. Now they’re trying to make everything more fast paced. On one hand, I get it, because it was never going to break out of its core audience of veteran players. On the other hand, that core audience was what was keeping the game alive.

Manufacturing use-cases to justify spyware.

Anyone who opposes mass surveillance should.

I personally use Obsidian, but I know that other have suggested logseq. Might be useful to have in your table. Also, Obsidian does have an Android app.

What is this about?

A statement Dutil made to deputies was redacted from the arrest report.

From the linked article

But VRT NWS said that 153 of the 1,000 recordings it listened to “were conversations that should never have been recorded and during which the command ‘OK Google’ was clearly not given.”

15% of the recordings these reporters listened to were “inadvertant.” I’d say that’s pretty high.

I dont think he actually cares about the difference. I think he sees this as an opportunity to dismantle the fundraising apparatus that would challenge him.

I had to switch away from Jerboa because it would crash any time I’d create a link with custom text in my comments. I switched to Voyager and it’s on lot more stable.

You seem to be operating under the assumption that Trump isn’t an over confident idiot with terrible ideas. Unfortunately for your narrative, he’s straight-up said that he wants to annex these places. So, Trump seriously believes that the USA can colonize Canada.

If we’re going by Columbus logic, probably “Jupiter”

You said:

“leftists” are as hell- bent on division as rightists

and then cited an example where we cooperated with communists (leftists) to defeat Nazis (right-wing fascists). Seems to me that we should always cooperate with leftists and never cooperate with Nazis. Again, what is your point?

My point is that being saying,

“leftists” are as hell- bent on division as rightists

You are watering down history and making a dangerous false equivalence. We are dealing with Nazis right now, and it seems to me that your point is that we should “settle our differences” and try to work with them. If that is your point of view (I’m hoping it’s not), that is really short-sighted. Nazi ideology does not involve compromise. It involves systematically killing anyone who does not look/think/act like you.

Nothing you’re saying makes sense actually. What are you talking about?