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- Comment on Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator 2 hours ago:
LOL, since when does AI respect copyright?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 days ago:
Yet!
- Comment on I just beat Bloodborne for the first today, and it's probably one of the best playthroughs of a video game that i have ever had and stories of one as well. 5 days ago:
Paleblood Hunt intensifies
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 1 week ago:
Yeah, Activision was my first thought as well.
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t it be trivially easy to demonstrate “prior art” in this case, making the patent invalid? I guess that requires someone to get into a legal battle with Nintendo… but it’s not like this is some niche mechanic. Surely there are other entertainment megacorps who are currently in violation of this “patent” and do have the resources to fight it in court.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 2 weeks ago:
Probably sarcoidosis
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be pedantic. Anyone with half a brain knows that when someone brings up “climate change” they’re referring to “human-made climate change” — and it’s completely uncontroversial that the changes we’ve made since the industrial revolution have greatly outweighed the changes of the Earth’s natural climate cycles.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?
Let’s not forget that the first ‘L’ stands for “large”. These things do not exist without massive, power and resource hungry data centers. You can’t just say “Blame government mismanagement! Blame corporate greed!” without acknowledging that LLMs cease to exist without those things.
And even with all of those resources behind it, the technology is still only marginally useful at best. LLMs still hallucinate, they still confidently distribute misinformation, they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.
What tangible benefit is there to LLMs that justifies their absurd cost? Honestly?
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
AI would be fine if we just changed everything about it
lol
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 weeks ago:
I’d happily chat with Marie Curie for 3 hours while Einstein and Bohr argue with each other in the background.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 4 weeks ago:
People are buying entire consoles for one or two games. If folk can afford a 450 USD switch 2 for mario kart they can afford a facebook (ugh) quest for 300 bucks that regularly goes on sale.
The difference is that you don’t need an entire room to play the Switch 2 (hell, you even need a TV). It’s easier to scrape together the $500+ required for a console than it is to afford a down payment and a mortgage, or the extra rent for a two-bedroom instead of a one-bedroom apartment.
Consoles and VR are both luxury goods, but the barrier for entry with the former is much lower than with the latter.
Space will always be the most expensive peripheral of all.
- Comment on Graham Hancock interviews Bible translator, Ancient Hebrew expert 4 weeks ago:
Bible translation is a fascinating subject, but Graham Hancock is one of the biggest crackpots working today (and even if we were not, biblical scholarship is not his field of study). If you’re interested in this stuff, there are much better sources of information out there.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
For some reason all I can see when I look at this is this guy
- Comment on Best World-Building Game Coffee Table Books? 4 weeks ago:
This is slightly outside the bounds of what you asked for, but I think you might appreciate Vermis.
It’s an art book/game guide for a dark fantasy action adventure game, except the game doesn’t actually exists. The whole thing is entirely fake — basically all of the world building of a video game but without the actual game. The art is fantastic and there’s really nothing else quite like it.
I think originally it was only available in paperback, but a hardcover edition is available now as well for more of that “coffee table book” vibe.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Pre-order bonuses are a garbage anti-customer practice anyway.
- Comment on Help. 5 weeks ago:
It’s literally that.
- Comment on Upset about progress 1 month ago:
That’s like saying that advertising has become a “pillar” of society.
Like… yeah, I guess… but that doesn’t change the fact that anyone with a functioning brain fucking hates it.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 1 month ago:
What the actual fuck
- Comment on *must tap* 1 month ago:
We’re not exactly sure, but we do know they’re not from impacts.
They occur in a region of the planet called Tombaugh Regio, which has some of the youngest surface features on all of Pluto. The leading theory seems to be that the pits are caused by ice fracturing as the ‘crust’ of the planet is stressed by internal forces.
We still don’t know for sure what’s heating Pluto’s interior, but one of the great discoveries from New Horizons is that Pluto is a very active world — possibly even as active as Earth’s surface. Warm(ish) water in the interior likely behaves similarly to how magma behaves on Earth, leading to activity analogous to plate tectonics and volcanism.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 2 months ago:
Evrart may be corrupt, but he’s still a better boss than Corpo trash
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 2 months ago:
Mario and Luigi’s lesser known cousin, Pagliacci.
- Comment on Planck units 2 months ago:
10^9 Joules is roughly the chemical energy of a full tank of gasoline. The mass-energy of the car (or even just gas itself) would be many, many orders of magnitude higher.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 2 months ago:
No, we’d rather be lost at sea than have to participate in the broken society that makes people need therapy.
- Comment on Nightmare fuel 2 months ago:
For anyone else who was as curious as I was: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/butterflies-parasitic-wasps-finland
- Comment on first person shooter 2 months ago:
Kinda wild that Halo didn’t make the cut… I guess it was only PC shooters?
- Comment on Running monkey 3 months ago:
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers will no longer be playable with others when the company shuts down the servers? 4 months ago:
And it still has a thriving competitive scene more than 25 years later.
In fact, ASL (the biggest SC tournament) is going on right now!
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 months ago:
What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn’t drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.
- Comment on one you pop you can't stop 4 months ago:
My scientific hypothesis is that you can caption this image when literally anything and it will still be funny enough to upvote.
- Comment on Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman [1:17:57] 4 months ago:
I watched about half of it (which is all I could make time for since I have a ‘useless’ job of my own that limits my time). Maybe that wasn’t enough to understand the point, and if that’s true then my bad for posting a reactionary reply. Oops.
But, if the first half is a representative slice of the whole video, then I don’t think my response is unreasonable. To summarize, the guest runs a non-profit that aims to pay Ivy League grads who have high-prestige “bullshit” jobs to switch careers and go work for NGOs, charitable organizations, etc. (I’m actually a bit confused about this point because he says he wants to pay them, but also acknowledges multiple times that they’ll be taking a pay cut? Maybe he clears that up in the last half, I didn’t know.)
I didn’t go to an Ivy League college. I do have a soul-sucking bullshit job that I only keep because it pays my bills and allows me to support the people who depend on me. I suspect the vast, vast majority of people who interact with this content will either be in the same boat as me, or will be people of even less privilege. In either case, we’re the ones who are gonna be served this video, but we’re not the ones who would ever benefit from this plan. Do you wanna bribe Harvard grads to quit their job at McKinsey and go work for Habitat for Humanity instead? Cool. Great. But the millions of us who don’t have fancy diplomas and six-figure jobs — the people this content is served to — get to continue slaving away and dying inside a little more each day while the most privileged people in our society get to be taken care of while also being given the moral highground? Forgive me, but I don’t really see what problem this is solving. This feels like a vanity project to make rich tech bros and layers feel better about themselves while the system remains fundamentally broken and the same toxic incentives that created this corporate hellscape remain just as toxic and just as incentivizing as ever.