Jesus_666

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Foster is portrayed as heroic.

  Sure, he picks fights with people/things many viewers would like to be fought, from street gangs to Nazis, from corporate bullshit to inflating prices. But he’s also shown to be unstable and dangerous even when he doesn’t want to be.

  His very reason for being in the traffic jam that makes him start off on his rampage is that he can’t face the fact that neither his company nor his family want to deal with him.

  The more the movie goes on the more it drives home the fact that Foster is not someone to look up to. He’s always been unstable and entitled and now he’s finally snapped.

  The cop is shown as more heroic but is really just used as a vehicle for suicide by cop. A suicide that is clearly Foster telling the easy way out of a life he can’t handle anymore.

  I take Falling Down as a deconstruction of the kind of power fantasy we get when things piss us off. Sure, we think it’d be great to just blow up what we don’t like but the movie shows what kind of person we’d have to be to actually do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium Lite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube Premium Lite Professional RTX Turbo for Workgroups & Knuckles – Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry™ series

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been a while since I was fired from my job, so here's a picture of Windows updating at the wrong time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My company uses a third-party deployment platform that gives you dialog with a 60 minute countdown and a button to start immediately. And I think the deployment dialog can’t pop up if you’re not on the computer. Because nobody likes nonsense like five minute countdowns that can start while the screen is locked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Houston, what is ‘New Teams Classic’ and why is it asking me to log in three times in a row?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to watch video about old GPU, why youtube like that?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d certainly like to assnuke all those slop videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Expected, though. The EC is not exactly known for having sensible opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just me and my cement truck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s this? A bunker full of billionaires unbothered by bees? My dump truck full of bees ought to put a stop to that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hail math!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let me do a check to see if I give you the right blood… Nope, not with a 5. Here’s your blood orange juice.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads horror⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not necessarily why you take drugs.

  Uppers like cocaine (which he was very fond of at the time) are often consumed to be more productive or to “enhance” an otherwise already positive time. From what I’ve heard, he was introduced to coke at a party, which makes perfect sense. Cocaine abuse starts with making a party exhilarating, then it continues with giving you so much energy while working, finally you simply take the stuff because your brain doesn’t know how to work with natural levels or serotonin/dopamine/noradrenaline anymore.

  To name another class of drugs, taking psychedelics (which I haven’t heard of King having much business with) to hide from your inner demons would be a profoundly bad move since those tend to forcibly confront you with yourself. Great if you have the feeling that deep down there’s something you need to address but you don’t know what. Terrible if you know there’s something but you can’t handle dealing with it.

  Downers like cannabis (which King apparently did at least occasionally use) can be used to silence the bad thoughts. Putting up a smokescreen between your conscious and your subconscious isn’t exactly the best way of handling things but at least you’re not pouring fuel onto the fire.

  Drugs of all kinds can still take your mind in directions you normally would’ve shied away from, that’s true. And a sustained drug habit of any kind is often indicative of an underlying problem; happy people don’t mess with their brain chemistry as often. The specific underlying problem can vary wildly – unassisted psychological distress, physiological issues like chronic pain, performance anxiety, peer pressure… the list goes on and on.

  Of course, given that King also had a sustained alcohol problem and apparently at one point abused everything he could get his hands on, he definitely seems like someone who couldn’t handle what was going on inside of his head. Thankfully he had the support he needed to overcome his drug problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to hear, although the mere presence of a bullshit lawsuit can do a lot of damage to a smaller company.

  The problem remains, however, that the patents in question were granted in the first place, as were the retroactive addenda (which is a terrible “feature” of Japanese patent law).

  Game mechanics are patentable both in principle and in practice. And that’s a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: Summoning characters by throwing an item and having the character appear at the position of the item has been patented by Nintendo, as has using a summoned character as a hang glider.

  Japanese patent law is pretty terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All in one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Add conditioner for me because I have super hard water. And my soap is body wash. But yeah, same principle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh well actually-⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. hCaptcha is not very reliable in my experience. Sometimes it wants you to select multiple pictures but only shows one that matches the prompt. Sometimes it tells you you passed but then doesn’t bother setting the token correctly so you have to do it again. Of course this can continue until you solve variations of the same damn captcha thirty times in a row.

  hCaptcha is such a horrible buggy mess that my base assumption is that I’ll get trapped in an infinite loop anytime I see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Being insecure is fine. Being insecure and then never shutting up about how great you are and how everyone should be like you is deeply annoying. Lie to yourself if it makes you feel better; everyone does that. But don’t insist I should be part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most could work on anyone really⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course the real trick lies in figuring out which decade is your last one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon was bullied⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They did everything you hate back when you said liked anime. They still have bonkers shit today. There’s variety. It’s not like the entire extremely prolific animation industry of an entire country is moving in lockstep to deliver exactly the same product across the board.

  Sure, there trends like the onslaught of bland isekai shit we had for a while but even the worst seasons of that had their gems. Heck, even that genre has gems; there a reason KonoSuba is well-regarded (and it’s full of people who would be utterly unacceptable in Japanese society).

  You probably have the same problem that gets people to think that all music became shit approximately 20-30 years after they were born: They mainly remember the hits of their youth and forget that 80% of airtime went to shitty music back then as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An LLM trained on the PoE ingame chat would try to solve all my problems by asking to buy my Kaom’s Sign Coral Ring for 1ex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨irony is pressing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.

  Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.

  Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how things become science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s known that AI companies will harvest content without care for its veracity and train LLMs on it. These LLMs will then regurgitate that content as fact.

  This isn’t a particularly novel finding but the experiment illustrates it rather well.

  The researchers you consider to have acted so immorally did add useless information to the knowledge pool – but it was unadvertised, immediately recognizable useless information that any sane reviewer would’ve flagged. They included subtle clues like thanking someone at Starfleet Academy for letting them use a lab aboard the USS Enterprise. They claimed to have gotten funding from the Sideshow Bob Foundation. Subtle.

  By providing this easily traceable nonsense, they were able to turn the generally-but-informally known understanding that LLMs will repeat bullshit into a hard scientific data point that others can build on. Nothing world-changing but still valuable. They basically did what Alan Sokal did.

  Instead of worrying about this experiment you should worry about all the misinformation in LLMs that wasn’t provided (and diligently documented) by well-meaning researchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Your Freak On⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.

  By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls… Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traffic Lights⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Traffic circles are. Roundabouts are okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps they were thinking of an American doctor.

  The bowling pins are for hitting the patient on the head because that’s the only anesthesia they can afford. The ducks are the little birdies circling the patient’s head after the anesthetic bludgeoning has been administered.

  The first gun is there because America and the second gun is so you can double-tap the patient in case you suspect they might be an immigrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're going to accept art this horny please pay someone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RoboCop did. So this is just like RoboCop; a pro-constitutional reform spokesperson was killed by a counterreformist gang and got most of their body replaced by a soulless megacorporation to help them privatize proreformist publicity work. The difference is that this one didn’t have any robot parts so they used a snow leopard instead.

  Obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes a wish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got it as soon as I got a GPU that could comfortably run it… because it was bundled with said GPU. I did activate the key but never bothered to actually install it. Maybe later in case the handful of modders actually make something cool in there.

  I was kinda interested before launch, hoping that this would be the game to finally force them to meaningfully overhaul the engine they’ve been carrying around since Morrowind (with some bugs dating back to then). Of course it wasn’t and of course they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called group exercise. You’re welcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember: If you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the precipitate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend got herself a pair and taped them to corners of her desk. She doesn’t want to turn on the light when she gets up at night but she also doesn’t want to bump into the desk. Tritium vials fit that use case well.

  Could we have gone with dimmable lights or something homebrewed with low-power LEDs? Sure, but tritium vials are affordable and don’t need a power supply or much in the way of setup; they’ll just keep doing their thing for about a decade before you have to even think about their light output.

  They’re a solid choice if you have the specific use case of wanting something to be easily located in (near-)complete darkness but you don’t want to use electricity for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happens when you always think the worst of people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that dog driving a car?

  Nope, Chuck Testa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size of Portugal compared to Spain⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they’re trying. Not very successfully as of late but they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. They had options. With something as crazy as the Saints Row franchise they dissolve basically done anything.

  For example, have the Saints go back in time to prevent the destruction of Earth, overshoot and end up preventing their own founding. The test of the game consists of them trying to prevent themselves from being erased from existence a la Back to the Future.

  Or, if you want to dial back the craziness, declare the plot of IV to be a movie the Saints produced, which flopped and somehow ended up bankrupting Ultor.

  They had options.