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Comment on Not Solitaire in ~games
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Comment on Dispatch and choosing your own mess in ~games
Grzmot LinkTagline: Why write one good story when you can write ten good ones? Hi! I made another video essay. It examines the video game Dispatch, what I like about it, what I hate about it and also the my...Tagline: Why write one good story when you can write ten good ones?
Hi! I made another video essay. It examines the video game Dispatch, what I like about it, what I hate about it and also the my general problems with the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) style of writing. In my opinion, Dispatch is a great example of how CYOA holds a plot back in mediocrity when it could've been great. What remains is a cast made endearing by the character interactions, and some genuinely funny writing.
Not when it's trying to make sexual assault funny, though.
I hope you enjoy! :]
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Dispatch and choosing your own mess
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentHurried is a great word for it. I pay for Proton and the amount of shit they come up with and release finally makes sense when their CEO and CTO are both tech dipshits that can't stay still, can't...Hurried is a great word for it. I pay for Proton and the amount of shit they come up with and release finally makes sense when their CEO and CTO are both tech dipshits that can't stay still, can't stay on one project to make it good and have to "keep winning".
Except for Mail, all their services are so damn barebones it's laughable. Of course it would be, when the CEO wants to release more and more products instead of nurturing the ones they already have. Their Google Docs competitor was released and I don't think it's seen an update since. They managed to add a file browser to it which is weird because all the files are hosted inside Proton Drive (cloud storage) which already has a web UI...
Then they opened a whole new can of worms by releasing an Excel competitor which is a wild thing to do given how famously ingrained Excel is to the business world, and I don't think they have done anything since with it but hey they released a Zoom competitor! Still no Linux client for Proton Drive though. That thing got announced over 2 years ago it feels like.
I'm sorry for the employees that have to follow these constantly moving goal posts and produce half-baked results to meet them just before they shift again.
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentHahahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah good luck I've seen the code our PMs generate and it's always a mess. AI is an occasionally functional accelerant but if you have no knowledge to work off then it'll..."[...]This will be the last year that we hire engineers, and starting next year we hire what we used to call product managers, to build things with AI.”
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah good luck I've seen the code our PMs generate and it's always a mess. AI is an occasionally functional accelerant but if you have no knowledge to work off then it'll accelerate you straight into a ditch.
I'm gonna start shopping for alternatives.
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Comment on Proton to ‘re-interview’ staff about AI to see who gets to keep their job in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI work at an international US-based tech company in the B2B business with thousands of employees. Recently we had a meeting with the current boss of my boss of my boss meeting the new team after a...I work at an international US-based tech company in the B2B business with thousands of employees.
Recently we had a meeting with the current boss of my boss of my boss meeting the new team after a re-org that had nothing to do with AI. It was revealing how he said that programmers told him how AI is great and how it's making them more productive but then with that same uncertain smile said that he isn't seeing this reflected at the VI and epic level.
This is months after the company face-planted completely into AI, giving every engineer Copilot at the start, then pivoting into Claude, giving engineers up to 500 USD per month if requested and finding out that you in fact run out of money if you do that and limiting us to around 200 USD again. I talked a lot with office management and from them I found out that their bosses were telling them to just "find any use case for AI" but like, obviously they were "just" office workers and not tech experts flailing to find a usecase, which is difficult because you can't reliably rely on AI to teach you about AI because it lies all the fucking time. In the end my colleague in office management found some excel sheet to reformat.
I use it daily, I have access up to Opus 5.5, yes it's useful for some workflows, especially on the web front-end side where the training data is clearly the best, but I tried using Sonnet for a month due to the budget constraints and it is absolutely not cutting it for code quality. You need the frontier models to get anything done at all.
All this to say that the people writing these e-mails have nothing more concrete than "AI is fundamentally changing the way we work", because there is nothing more concrete. Our CTO was amazed by Claude and mandated a push into AI because it was helping him with his weekend projects. That's it. No real analysis about functionality in a big corporation and big code-bases, just being impressed that his "agent swarm" was helping him code his drones.
The 80 billion thing is not as bad as it looks, it was mostly a "headline writes itself" type deal, but while AI can work when it comes to scaffolding, UI work and we've clearly seen it work when it comes to coding apps like QBZ (rest in pieces), but the last few months have been insane because it feels like everything accelerated right into a mess. Other, bigger companies like Uber learned that you will just burn through your token budget at 5 times the rate as expected, and this was long before we made our org changes. Like I'm trying to do my job here, is the manager making these decisions doing that too?
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Comment on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 in ~tech
Grzmot LinkOct 20 (Reuters) - Anthropic's net loss widened sharply to $80.7 billion in the first half of this year, in large part due to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of the AI startup, according to a draft prospectus for a planned initial public offering that was reviewed by Reuters.
Its first-half loss, widening from a loss of $13 billion a year earlier, included a $72 billion accounting charge reflecting an increase in the estimated value of bonds that could eventually convert into Anthropic shares, rather than cash costs tied to its operations, the document said.
While the figures eased some concerns about the enormous costs of developing AI systems, some investors were disappointed by the slowing sequential growth rate. Revenue had more than doubled from the first quarter to $11.6 billion in the second quarter.
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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026
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Comment on Three children and a teacher were killed in Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting, police say in ~news
Grzmot LinkSucks that it had to happen, and will happen again unless legal changes are made, but at least a hero cut it short. It sucks even more that he can't think of the lives he saved by acting and...Sucks that it had to happen, and will happen again unless legal changes are made, but at least a hero cut it short.
It sucks even more that he can't think of the lives he saved by acting and instead considers himself responsible for those lost. I don't know if survivor's guilt is the word for it here but it's what it feels like to me.
Tragedy. Unnecessary tragedy, every single fucking time. :(
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentDidn't Linus just say that he doesn't care if a commit is made by AI as long as it's good code? It was a fairly milquetoast statement. The right wing dog whistles is a specific repo that's being...Didn't Linus just say that he doesn't care if a commit is made by AI as long as it's good code? It was a fairly milquetoast statement.
The right wing dog whistles is a specific repo that's being funded/made by one specific dipshit. There's nothing that Linux can do against that, and frankly speaking it shouldn't try. It would be a huge blow against GPL.
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Comment on I deliberately bet like a problem gambler. DraftKings made me a VIP. in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentThe mafia romanticized as these local patrons of community no longer exist. Capitalism got to them as well and they became international conglomerates that operate in the shadows. Those that did...The mafia romanticized as these local patrons of community no longer exist. Capitalism got to them as well and they became international conglomerates that operate in the shadows. Those that did not got devoured brutally. Nowadays there's very little about them that supports local communities.
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Comment on Epic Games reportedly pivoting to “AI first” game development model in ~tech
Grzmot LinkAnd I'm sure in a quarter Epic will realize what every other single tech company has realized: you can't give your engineers unlimited tokens because you will burn through your war chest at an...And I'm sure in a quarter Epic will realize what every other single tech company has realized: you can't give your engineers unlimited tokens because you will burn through your war chest at an astounding rate all for questionable results at best. I mean, "games with immense amounts of characters and immense and interactive worlds"?
Really? I thought we dispelled the notion of size equaling quality.
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
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Comment on The imperial dilemma of Civilization V in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentThis is the first video I've seen of his and I'll give the others a watch for sure!This is the first video I've seen of his and I'll give the others a watch for sure!
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Comment on The imperial dilemma of Civilization V in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentI think that's why he put the disclaimer at the front of the video about how he actually enjoys the game. A lot of people view this sort of content as an attack on what they're allowed to enjoy...I think that's why he put the disclaimer at the front of the video about how he actually enjoys the game. A lot of people view this sort of content as an attack on what they're allowed to enjoy because the world has gotten pretty reactionary nowadays, especially if they get to code the person making the argument as an outsider. It's pretty funny how a major component of this video is the Othering that is the foundation of Imperialism is commited by gamers who feel attacked.
There is no way for Civ not to be imperialistic, I think everyone should be mildly aware of that. Nevertheless, I enjoyed a detailed breakdown of why it is so. That doesn't mean you're not allowed to enjoy it, it doesn't mean you're a bad person for enjoying it, it just means that the game is imperialistic. That's it.
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Comment on The imperial dilemma of Civilization V in ~games
Grzmot LinkAn excellent, very long video essay that breaks down both the narrative and the gameplay mechanics of Civ V and how they reinforce and represent Imperialism. Mind you this is someone turning their...An excellent, very long video essay that breaks down both the narrative and the gameplay mechanics of Civ V and how they reinforce and represent Imperialism.
Mind you this is someone turning their PhD thesis into a video essay. It's very good, but pretty technical from the POV of the humanities.
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The imperial dilemma of Civilization V
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI was specifically confused what you were trying to say.I was specifically confused what you were trying to say.
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Comment on US Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentI've always summarized my stance on the death penalty as "I believe you can commit acts so heinous you deserve to die for them but no state should have the right to execute people" due to a lot of...I've always summarized my stance on the death penalty as "I believe you can commit acts so heinous you deserve to die for them but no state should have the right to execute people" due to a lot of the reasons you laid out in this thread.
There is no way to make it foolproof. If you leave it as a mere court decision, the long tail that a death penalty conviction requires to get close to 100% certainty makes it stupid to support. If it's cheaper to lock up a guy for the rest of his life than it is to execute him then we should lock him up for life, especially since the death penalty usually comes decades later anyhow. Pike was convicted in like 1996 for fuck's sake. Like, she's been basically locked up for life already. In a way, executing people in this way is a double sentence. First you serve life, then you get killed.
Like you say, it would have to be reserved to cases where it's bleakly obvious who did it. Not even confessions are foolproof. That basically removes nearly every single crime except the mostly American case of the mass shooting, a crime preventable mostly with sensible gun laws. Serial killers like Dahmer are so fucking rare that keeping it around just for them begs for it to be misused by someone to murder a person that shouldn't have been murdered by the state, especially since serial killers are usually products of a broken childhood, so a better social safety net reduces the rate they pop up massively.
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Comment on SpaceXAI joins Omacom and gives $1.5m Grok tokens for Omarchy in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more...Yes, at the start of the project, but no, not at this point. As it stands, omarchy has almost 7000 commits from over 560 contributors. That's an amount of polish you cannot just do yourself, even with heavy LLM usage.
I don't understand this statement. Assuming that all those commits are exclusively about polish, it would need to put Omarchy ahead of any other distro and desktop environment. What makes it more polished than for example Fedora and Gnome, both rock-solid foundations, especially since Gnome is fairly polished as far as open DEs go?
Last time I saw Solitaire it was on Windows XP and child me loved to see the cards go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This is a delight and it's fun to finally learn how this game works lol. Thank you for posting!