araneae

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The scariest thing about Nazis is that they’re human and even pretty smart sometimes. To reiterate what others are saying: dehumanization leaves you in a blind spot for the humans around you who can silently undergo vast transformations from people you thought you loved into Nazis. They throw away their humanity yes, but they had to be human to throw it away. Dehumanization is also how the process of becoming a Nazi starts. Don’t even mirror it in jest, try on radical empathy and face the truth: humans are horrifically complex. Nazis are unfortunately humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Nazis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this os Facebook grandma stuff. What the hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Godot is WOKE and queerdo indie devs are using it to make WOKE games because they are UNCREATIVE HACKS who can’t into game engine thats why WE FORKED GODOT AND CHANGED ONE LETTER

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh so its now completely impossible to stop a brigade by shuttering a subreddit fot a day or two. That won’t lead to anything putrid happening on a regular basis I hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dead father is “writing” me notes again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI bros were serious about existential risk and problems of alignment instead of attempting to form a cult of technobabble to make themselves superior and scrounge for venture capital… They’d pull the plug.

  Altman is selling what he alledges he dreads more than anything: AI that would lie to you without a second (or even first) literal thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me irl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saaaame!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me irl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this SCP:

  SCP-3125 is adapted for survival in an ideatic ecology considerably more violent and hostile than our own. (Here, “our own” refers to human head space: the set of all ideas which humans have or are biologically capable of having.) Because humans have no natural exposure to ideas as aggressive as SCP-3125, human minds have no protective evolutionary adaptations against it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Deus Ex⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But for Deus Ex, we’ve got… I don’t know, Cyberpunk 2077, maybe? But the whole open world thing doesn’t really fit in with the usual gameplay loop of Deus Ex. There are a fair amount of great cyberpunk games, but none seem to really scratch that immersive sim itch. I guess Prey is pretty close as well (in addition to its System Shock influences), if you consider some of the body/power upgrades, but it’s not all that similar thematically.

  Check out Cruelty Squad by Ville Kallio on Steam. Aesthetically and spiritually it scrys into the future on the same level Deus Ex did and delivers an even more dire prophecy that feels as disturbingly prescient. It takes the open ended levels of DX and adds insane verticality and mind bending traversal. It plays more tactically than Deus Ex but the augment system is really rewarding and enables the player to munchkin their way to their target.

  You may notice it looks artistically like a 13th century Christian piece with a Jackson Pollock splotch of New Years Eve stomach soup all over the canvass. I say that so did DX1 most of the time. The CS playerbase refers to our ability to parse and navigats this style of level design and eclectic color composition as immersion into the ‘CEO mindset.’

  But seriously I am a big Deus Ex enjoyer other than Thief nothing has come as close to the full breadth of experience that world evokes in me. It is both terrible and beautiful to behold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: My sibling had their fucking desktop ransomewared by this thing when they dared to uninstall it. It isn’t privacy nerd sensabilities, Windows now behaves like malware under certain opaque conditions and at unpredictable intervals. This was four years ago on Win 10. How great do you think non savvy people are about clicking things they don’t understand anyway and essentially springing a trap?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this controversial?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are rocks my friend. Rocks. Birds shit on them daily and have for thoudands of years. But go ahead and be mad about the rocks getting cornflower on them. Very good little reactionary Brit.

  Ever play a Civilization game where Stone Henge ends up underwater because of the sea rising? Yeah. Thats all our art. All our society.

  One thousand shits on Mona Lisa for one saved human life. But we will choose to protect the symbols of capital and status quo.

  Enjoying the Gulf Stream collapsing further this summer?