ICastFist
@ICastFist@programming.dev
Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor
- Comment on Get Maced 3 hours ago:
Seems like the type of woman that sounds best gagged
- Comment on NOOOOO 2 days ago:
Quite a lifespan for a mobile game
- Comment on Would make a great gift for Christmas 4 days ago:
I thought it was a grenade at first glance
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They didn’t get swept up in the live-service trend
I guess by “didn’t get swept up” the author meant these companies didn’t go all-in like western studios, because all 3 have their portion of f2p mobile crap, with Konami being the worst offender with, PES Mobile, eFootball and others.
I suppose another big difference is shareholder expectation. In the US, if you don’t grow every quarter, you’re dead.
- Comment on hmmmm 1 week ago:
OwO what’s this
- Comment on Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants are forced into debt 1 week ago:
Many years ago, ~2015, I applied for a Canadian work visa. I probably used a company site without knowing, as I got a phone call 2 weeks later with a dude trying to talk me into paying the company he represented to ensure i’d get the visa and everything would be fine, trust me bro. Immigration with a 3rd party like this feels shady as fuck, like, what are you even supposed to do if they don’t fulfill their end?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Unlike any of those things, you can work quit anytime, but you sure as hell cannot get back after quitting whenever you feel like.
- Comment on Dating Apps Are Dying 1 week ago:
GEE, I WONDER FUCKING WHY??? CLEARLY NOT BECAUSE OF ENSHITTIFICATION!!!
It’s somewhat ironic that dating apps today are worse for their stated purpose than pre-2010 dating sites, which is a really low bar, mind you.
- Comment on We're thinking Urethra or Diphteria if it's a girl 2 weeks ago:
Dranon Dyson sounds like a weirdly cool fantasy/scifi name
- Comment on Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit 2 weeks ago:
Correct headline and conclusion, wrong rationale. The article’s paywalled, but it links to his personal post on the matter, which I’ll quote later.
He said he was motivated to speak now because recent improvements in A.I. had far surpassed his expectations and because the industry had ignored technology milestones — like A.I.’s escaping the control of its creators or making recipes for bioweapons — that it once said would warrant more caution.
“OMG AI is getting too powerful!” Is the kind of bullshit the media loves to display because it keeps the AI bubble going. It’s totally not a trillion dollar grift, you guys!
If the world takes the right steps AI will be a force for good and leave everyone better off.
[AI] can watch the same training video that is used to train human workers and learn from existing data.
The people who need the most time [to prepare for the upheaval] are the ones who have the least—the accounting worker who’s replaced by a bot or the $20-an-hour worker who loses their job to a $10-an-hour robot.
Many Americans I talk to don’t realize how fast dexterous robots are advancing because much of the advanced work is being done in other countries, primarily China.
I’m especially worried about young people, who will enter a workforce with fewer entry-level openings. They understand the challenge because they are the most active users of AI and see both the capabilities and the rate of improvement.
As expected, Bill isn’t worried about excessive energy and water usage of the datacenters, the uselessness of the GPUs once there’s no demand for the compute, the circular economy of nvidia selling its GPUs to companies it is financing directly, the actual cost of tokens and how any AI company can ever be profitable, kids literally destroying their capacity for planning and thought, people falling prey to the sycophant bullshit to the point they can lose grasp on reality.
No, for Bill, the problem is that AI will totally do everything it promises and more, but it’ll happen too fast. He’s selling AI, he’s inflating the AI fear because it also inflates the possibilities, bosses read “job loss” and immediately reach an orgasm. This is the kind of shit that Ed Zitron called out a number of times in his posts
Perhaps ironically, this is one of the few things Bill got right:
AI-enabled fraud, disinformation, deepfakes, and surveillance are the harms that many people will feel most keenly in their everyday lives.
Those are already very real and very present today, thanks to the power of AI.
- Comment on Take the pledge! 3 weeks ago:
I’m afraid someone might take this shit seriously
- Comment on is there a name for when you stop preventing a problem thinking it's solved and it comes back? 3 weeks ago:
Complacency gets close, though I think it’s more for things where you don’t act when you should, and what OP described could almost count as sabotage - the difference between not increasing the range of an alert system (complacency) and taking it down, in both cases because “we haven’t had an alert in X time”
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 3 weeks ago:
It’s even funnier when you consider that this has been the case for millenia
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 3 weeks ago:
The price of MURICAN Freedom^TM^
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Never, I’m in permanent mode
- Comment on why just "now and then" isn't enough 3 weeks ago:
No lead acetate? How is your partner going to savor a sweet taste?
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 3 weeks ago:
That’s going for the jugular
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 3 weeks ago:
It’s all the hyperprocessed fat and sugar in their eyes, they can’t see straight.
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 4 weeks ago:
“Netanyahu? More like Genocidetoyou, amirite?”
“wtf bro that’s antisemitic!!!”
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 4 weeks ago:
No no, they’re not considering suicide, they’re just applying to pilot those F-18 submarines!
- Comment on If only I could power them with my disappointment 4 weeks ago:
The phones are sooooooooooooo thick and unwieldy because of that hole!!!
- Comment on Pie in the face. 4 weeks ago:
Terminal velocity pie
- Comment on Is this true? 4 weeks ago:
Being able to fuck around can be fun. A linear Elder Scrolls (morrowind, oblivion, skyrim) would be boring
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 4 weeks ago:
Moral smoke screens are one of the best weapons for those in power
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 4 weeks ago:
Way are you telling me that Japan has worse worker rights than USA
I did not say nor implied that. I said that people should not expect worker rights, or any rights, to be universal among countries, much less the whole judicial process and its consequences.
Whether Japanese worker rights are better or worse than USA/EU, I do not know.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 4 weeks ago:
People gotta remember that Japan isn’t USA or Europe when it comes to worker rights, or most rights, really, and that justice in each country can vary wildly
- Comment on What is my purpose? 4 weeks ago:
That’s Secretary of Tunnel Affairs Cyclocosmia, you peasant! You’re getting stamped for that!
- Comment on Court Rejects Fair Use Claim, Orders YouTube to Unmask Anime Recap Channels * TorrentFreak 4 weeks ago:
I was expecting One Piece to one of the animes in those channels, since its last 200 episodes are whole ass recaps in the first place
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 5 weeks ago:
The land of Ivalice, on the other hand…
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 5 weeks ago:
I’m a mech pilot in the middle of a weird apocalypse (Mech Knight Nightmare). Could be worse.