They just aren’t that hard to use.

As Thelma says, “can’t be that hard, idiots use them all of the time”.

No

Sucker game made for sucker gamers.

Are you inclined to blame yourself for the obvious failings of a gaming corporation? Smash that buy button now!

I think the same about the story of seasons games.

It’s pretty cool, reminds me of Kid A era Radiohead art.

They didn’t become conservatives to understand things…

Did it not at some point?

Yup, just like how wage theft is an order of magnitude or two bigger problem than petty theft and shoplifting, but they just ignore it or even worse legalize / normalize it.

I use https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ and I subscribe to pitchfork and the rolling stone in my RSS feed.

I also Shazam when I’m out and hear something I like.

Same but I have a huge collection of digital media.

Eh, I switched back to running my own server like five years ago. Sure, technically I’m not giving individual artists their $0.0005 a stream, but nowadays I discover more music, attend more shows, and buy more merch.

During the couple of years I spent streaming, I discovered like Alvvays and Yumi Zouma. Nowadays, I discover new bands monthly if not weekly.

Like AI, streaming recommendation engines are mediocrity machines. All they can do is find you things that sound like the things you already listen to. Sometimes, if you’re adventurous, you find things you love that sound unlike anything else you listen to. If you find a great thing like that, it can change you. Unlike recommendation engine music, which will try to keep you the same forever.

Shit provided me a social life in my teens. I still think of those guys sometimes.

I think this whole genre is wack, TBH.

Agreed. I’m not sure why I would waste my time with shit like this when it’s just objectively not fun for me to play.

Different strokes for different folks, so if you like it more power to you, but I’d rather play games that are fun to play for me.

I only have a certain amount of time to play video games, and if I can’t make any progress at all in an hour or two, why would I bother continuing when an hour or two is usually all I have in a day to play your game?

I’ve decided not to bother picking up silksong because I found HK tedious, frustrating, and unrewarding.

The concept of the white “race” was created by the acceptance of new nationalities into the fold in America and then dividing “us vs them” in a new way.

It bears some similarity to “Judeo-Christianity” so that we can draw the line between white people religion and everyone else.

Yeah, but they have tied AI to LLMs. If the investors that inflated this bubble sour on LLMs, the investments for AI more broadly speaking will probably dry up with it.

That all depends upon if they keep throwing dollars into the furnace to run the models.

“Useful” stuff will have to do an evaluation once they’re paying the true cost for these things as well, because most people are not running their own models…this shit is more centralized then even regular cloud computing.

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Yes but that would require them to regard all children as being worthy of protection by the law.

They don’t.

Everyone was kind of dumb, they only talked about other people they knew, and told drunken stories about being drunk before- it was boring.

Yeah, somehow that’s a thing, “…and we got so wasted!”. Being somewhat of a lush myself, I am sitting there drinking heavily listening to these stories and want to blurt out, “I’m getting wasted right now just to deal with having to listen to this.”

I’ve found that nonsexual friendships between the sexes aren’t usually possible in practice. It’s not because it’s necessarily the case that all friendships are based upon sex, but instead because someone somewhere (most often outside the relationship) will eventually believe that, and it will lead to drama that degrades or ends the underlying friendship.

It’s really been strange to me that my whole life people have insisted that it isn’t possible for men and women to be friends and that every relationship there has to be either sexual or sexually motivated.

I’m a bit of an odd ball in that I am straight, male, cisgendered and have basically always felt better hanging around girls since I was a child. However, I never felt like I could just have girls and women friends though because inevitably it would be implied from some direction that I actually just wanted them sexually.

I’ve also met very few guys that weren’t into talking about sex and women as soon as there were no women around, and I’m just plain uninterested in talking about sex with other guys.

So, instead now I’m married and I basically talk to no one.