Okay but that was very useful and generally beneficial

this game is actually fantastic,

Without a doubt. It’s on my list.

I can’t think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

Silksong, Outer Worlds 2, and Eldin Ring: Nightsong leap to mind.

You wouldn’t believe it, but some people still think the solution is to install windows

I mean, good for them and all. But… I hate when these award shows do this shit. Narrowing the universe of “award winning” games down to “One Title Wins Everything” feels so hack.

It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.

Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure

I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.

A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale

LeCun says current AI models are a dead end for progress.

Sure. That’s easily proven, as the Pacific Rim tech companies are all running laps around the American models in terms of efficiency and output.

It looks like two guys arguing about which dead end to pursue

They’re both Snipe Hunting for the mythological AGI, because they’re each invested in the idea of a Singularity solving all their problems.

LLMs have a set of niche useful applications, but these dudes are chucking that advancement aside in pursuit of Digital God.

With Roko’s Basilisk bumping around in their heads, I can’t help but detect a certain religious fervor, either. We really might have folks who believe they’ll be tortured for eternity if they don’t build AI Hellraiser first.

Sounds reasonable.

Does it, though? Feels like we’re just rewriting the sales manual without thinking about what “learning from video” would actually entail.

Doesn’t make sense to build a lot of compute capacity, then spend fifteen years banging on research before you have something to utilize that capacity.

There’s an old book from back in 2008 - Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity - that a lot of the modern Techbros took perhaps too closely to heart. It posited that chasing the next generation of technological advancement was more important than keeping your existing revenue streams functional. And you really should kill the golden goose if it means you’ve got a shot at new one in the near future.

What these Tech Companies are chasing is the Next Big Thing, even when they don’t really understand what that is. And they’re so blindly devoted to advancing the technological curve that they really will blow a trillion dollars (mostly of other people’s money) on whatever it is they think that might be.

The real problem is that these guys are, largely, uncreative and incurious and not particularly intelligent. So they leap on fads rather than pursuing meaningful Blue Sky Research. And that gives us this endless recycling of Sci-Fi tropes as a stand in for material investments in productive next generation infrastructure.

Well, he’s got a bowtie and Zuck wears an oversized t-shirt with Bugs Bunny dressed as a 90s rapper.

They certainly can’t both be wrong, can they?

Reddit in 2016: “Facebook has ruined the country. They accepted $25k in ads from Vladimir Putin and totally upended the election.”

Reddit in 2025:

I hope your 401K is diversified

When the MAG7 makes up half the S&P 500, its hard to get away from. Even if you somehow manage to avoid holding a big tech company (or a company that’s predicated on the spending of a Big Tech company), a downturn will force cascading sell-offs.

Thriving. The Trump Era has been gangbusters for crypto, as he’s made all sorts of crazy promises about building a federally financed coin reserve and stuffing it with digital crap.

Even if Nvidia stocks crash, they will recover.

NVIDIA is up 1500% in two years, with a p/e ratio of 56 in a market that’s absolutely ravenous for semiconductors. The idea that the demand for semiconductors can flatline as data center production stales and NVIDIA’s valuation will just rebound to its current high is… well, it’s highly speculative what NVIDIA is going to do, but I wouldn’t bank on the current status quo.

If nothing else, it’s a stock that can safely be described as “overvalued”. Selling now isn’t a bad idea.

• Peter Thiel sells his Tesla stake

• Telsa price goes up

Lolz. Lmao even.

Can’t wait to see how Congressional apportionment plays out in the next five years.

Gratzi

The Rock as Ganondorf doing the eyebrow raise, and saying, “can you smell what the 'dorf is cooking?”

You say this as a joke, but Dwayne Johnson would be a fantastic Ganondorf.

He’s less of a talker and more of a “Hey, Listen!” er.

Little known fact: You can determine the quality of an entire movie franchise from untouched principle photography. See how Mr. Zelda sort of looks like if a young Hayden Christensen and Leonardo Dicaprio had a baby? That’s all you need to know.

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Neither of these people are ethnically elfish. Immersion absolutely ruined. FFS, Mr. Zelda looks downright Norwegian. Not a drop of Hyrulean blood in his veins. I’m boycotting this movie. I’m boycotting it!