You don’t need to be a billionaire or even own a boat…

People stage accidents on rented boats and even cruise ships fairly often.

Regardless of if it works and they get away with it, a lot of people have seen Dexter.

Billionaires can just outspend the government on lawyers to get away with anything. So there’s probably a higher percentage who assume they can get away with it.

Because DA’s are obsessed with win rate, they give cushy plea deals to people who can pay for good lawyers. Regular people and the government are the opposite, and innocent people are forced to take plea deals because time served and probation is always better than a 1% chance of 25 years in prison.

For a billionaire they just have to keep stalling till the money runs out. Even where Kirk got shot, the local officials were immediately freaking out over how they were going to pay for it all. So it doesn’t even take being a millionaire in some places. There’s a reason the children of lawyers are usually insufferable…

We know from recent excavations in Utah that there was a centipede type and a hydra type.

It’s why we always found so many “partial” skeletons together…

/s

It’s like 1 of 2 days where the whole country shuts down. Even if a person doesn’t celebrate, they shouldn’t have to work

Man, I really didn’t think I had to explicitly point out lots of people have to take Christmas off, but have to burn personal days for their own holidays…

But here we are, me overestimating people again.

…

You realize a shit ton of Americans don’t care about Christmas…

Right?

And for the ones that do care about other religious holidays, the whole country doesn’t shut down to accommodate them.

It’s not innate…

Innately humans are just animals. It takes effort to get people on the same page that cooperating is usually best

But we stopped teaching kids that in school 20 years ago.

That’s the sad truth about it. It’s not that the right corrupted a generation, just that between them an the neoliberals, no one wanted to help them. They both wanted brain dead tribalism because that’s what their mutual donors want

It honestly shouldn’t be that hard for everyone to follow the string back to "no child left behind’ but I remember pointing out this would happen 30 years ago, and I thought it was obvious back then too.

Racing games too, especially single player races.

If conditions are the same every run, it will eventually find the mathematically fastest way. I saw a video about a guy doing it, and after thousands of runs the bot noticed a glitch if the car wasn’t on four wheels allowing it to move insanely fast. Like grinding a rail in Tony Hawk, the bot would immediately do it, and run the entire course on the glitch.

That’s not human intelligence tho, that’s the same as when a slime mold can design a transportation network as effectively as we can.

I can’t believe I’m not really not really flying a spaceship!

Leonard > Amy

Work is hard, modern games are easy.

Shoot this dot, go to that dot, bring “x” to this dot…

Anything requiring critical thinking like a puzzle, the bot just brute forces trying every possible outcome until something works.

It works because games have a finite set of options and at least one progresses. The real world isn’t that clean, and you don’t get infinite chances to get 1 correct solution.

Something people would actually use is a message board.

One of the simple cut and paste forums and pay the $10/month to get it hosted.

Just have people text you to approve registration, something you can verify people are really in the neighborhood

People aren’t going to want to download a bunch of stuff they don’t know about to hang out with the HOA for game nights…

The main problem with HOAs is lonely bored people who want something to do.

Most people would rather pretend the HOA doesn’t exist until it’s needed for an actual issue.

I always thought because the target demo was kids…

You’re biggest villain/rival is still a kid in your class that goes to the same gym class as you.

Thats what the fuck I meant

You should have done that I guess…

I’m gonna follow my instance rules and not respond

They said… In their response…

you want to hurl insults

No one did that, you might have replied to the wrong person

So…

You didn’t learn anything at all, and are gonna stay ignorant and upset.

Weird choice, but you do you I guess.

Idk I kind of wanted a clean slate since its been so long

So you want the new Fallout game…

To not be a fallout game?

How many have you even played? They’ve all referenced each other, and even FO1 referenced Wasteland.

The series has quite literally never in its entire existence been a “clean slate”

Why not?

Seriously, when we want shows/movies to connect to games, why do people get mad when it’s reciprocal?

when the bottom line replaces humanities interest

And there’s room for some capitalism before that point…

Like, UBI with stores where you pay for goods is still capitalism to some degree, if capital is involved at all, that’s capitalism.

Capitalism is like any other vice.

In moderation it’s fine, often even beneficial.

But if it’s the sole focus you’re fucked. We’re not responsible cocaine users who want to stay up dancing every other weekend, we’re full blown crackheads on capitalism.

The AI corps building the datacenters pretty much all have blank checks and want to be the biggest.

So the other corps that make chips, will always focus on what’s most profitable, which is what the AI centers use.

For it to be “worth it” to produce any consumer level tech, they have to raise the price to justify not just making the AI chips

So it’s not a conspiracy that’s raising prices, it’s capitalism working as intended, and to fix it would have to fix the focus on profits and replace it with fulfilling needs of the people. Which is pretty much the opposite of capitalism…

Non-human bots now account for 56.5% of internet traffic

Traffic, not content…

But still, we’re getting there

I mean, cocaine isn’t safe for the body either, but try telling that to a big breasted stripper while she’s punching you in the face with double D’s.

Lots of people make risky decisions…

But in this case it’s pretty safe. Ruptures are so common the filling is just as inert as the membrane.