aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 days ago:
I remember ratio FTP sites
- Comment on the world 2 days ago:
It makes more sense to me conceptually if I just imagine that most people in this country in the last decade had the tops of their skulls removed, had someone take a dump in there, and then seal it back up.
Seems like there are a lot of 💩🧠s floating around nowadays.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 5 days ago:
I wondered what Nathan Fielder was up to lately.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 2 weeks ago:
What even are these platforms? Why would anyone use them?
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
Never seen more definitive proof that there’s “no there there” then when this fucking asshole acts like this it’s a big deal.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 2 weeks ago:
I want eat the rich the game
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Love how we’re setting a low bar for 2028 two years ahead of time and without having a candidate first. 👍
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 weeks ago:
It’s kinda sorta not a game in many ways but dispatch did a decent job I thought.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
The Republican party is not a monolith guys, it’s made up of several distinct groups such as child rapists and child rapist enablers.
- Comment on Why limit yourself? 4 weeks ago:
The little plastic gnomes of coloration
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, in the same way must Germans didn’t seem to know that the SS camps were death camps, it’s very possible – if not probable – that these places are either death camps already, or going to become death camps very soon.
There’s a reason that the administration is so cagey about allowing Democratic politicians in to see the facilities. The other thing is that concentration camps never start as explicit death camps, and the first casualties are always from things like lack of food and disease. Nothing about this suggests any differently.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 4 weeks ago:
Adding $3 trillion in GDP would not remove the debt anyway. Assholes like this one don’t even understand how GDP is calculated.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Celsius is percentage boiling.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 month ago:
Tell them elections are cancelled
- Comment on Jon Stewart on presidential runs and why there's hope for America 1 month ago:
Actually… celebrity worship of this type is why America is in the hole it is in.
Actually, it isn’t. Sure, Trump is from reality TV but without the four decades of neoliberal rot hollowing out the country people aren’t desperate enough to think this fool can fix everything alone.
Trump is a product of decades of austerity, lax antitrust enforcement, and reverse welfare.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The paradox of tolerance in a single frame cartoon
- Comment on Lose yourself 1 month ago:
Fresh off of reading Either/Or and it’s clear to me that all Nazis and Nazi adjacent dumb fucks are aesthetes. Enjoy the ironic handle.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 1 month ago:
I wonder if the name Ecco has to do with John C. Lilly.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
I have no idea. I didn’t say I had a friend that was a plumber. I said I had a plumber. This is the states man, people don’t usually get all up in each others’ business like this. We’re a transactional, individualistic, and now fascistic people.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
I don’t want an endless thread about this issue, because I don’t really care anyway. I have a plumber and the dude’s house is worth twice as much as mine.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
There’s a large amount of trade work to be done for individual homeowners. That’s my point. Of course you can have slaves clean the factory boilers, and in a cruel and unjust enough society it’s practically guaranteed that you will do so. But the idea of replacing plumbers with ICE prisoners is ridiculous. It’s much more likely that the plumbers would become ICE prisoners.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
I’m sorry but the idea that they’re going to use ICE captives to replace your plumber remains ridiculous. I see very few people using such a service if it were even offered, and certainly not enough people would use it to make getting into the trades not worth it.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
With all due respect, which I have no idea what amount that is, this is completely absurd. Most trade work is just not being outsourced because it has to be done locally and that they have a vocational program in a jail somewhere doesn’t mean anything.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
I dunno I don’t really foresee armies of ICE laborers coming to fix your HVAC…to arrive more back at the point.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
Seems unlikely in my country given the current political climate.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
A place near me has this too, and it’s usually very empty. The thing is that it is not that serving beers and mixed liquids isn’t automatable. It’s that nobody is going to sit on a bar stool and talk to a kegerator.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 1 month ago:
Only so much outsourcing you can do for trade work. Indians living in India can’t exactly fix your pipes remotely.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
That’s part of what Sarah Kendzior has argued for a decade or more. US companies and klepocrats (though I repeat myself) know that the only thing that can match their weight is a powerful federal government. Turning the US into 50 warring little nations will make it easier to carve up. It is undoubtedly the same case for a strong European Union, which is why the right’s other “big project” is to destabilize the EU and attempt to get it to disband.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Yeah and having an expansive universe with like three languages and three races of intelligent creatures, none of which seem to have any personalities just left it feeling shallow.
There’s no storyline in even the main story. It feels like a vast and lonely universe. I think procedural world generation has largely the same problem as generative AI: infinite slight varieties of responses, all of which are as bland as a HR seminar.
I’ve come to realize over time that I would prefer a completely linear story to games on the other extreme end.
What you’re suggesting sounds very interesting though, linear and more handcrafted content paired with procedural content to pad in the margins. Keep playing forever if you want to, but feel a sense of story and accomplishment in the main storyline.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
OP is from a country full of models.