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Comment on Fallout first look: This is how the world ends—With a smiling thumbs-up in ~tv
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Comment on GTA 6 trailer 1 to be released December 5 at 9AM EST in ~games
Pioneer Link ParentExactly how I feel about the game. When you load into GTA5 Singleplayer, it's absolutely sterile of a world once you've done "everything."But after the rumors surrounding all the cut single-player content for GTA 5, I’m not optimistic…
Exactly how I feel about the game.
When you load into GTA5 Singleplayer, it's absolutely sterile of a world once you've done "everything."
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Comment on You can’t even pay people to have more kids in ~health
Pioneer Link ParentFor you? Probably not. For the Capitalist-class, you better believe it. Automation means they don't have to pay you for your job, they continuie to make huge sums of cash based on it. It's less...Is this really a big problem?
For you? Probably not.
For the Capitalist-class, you better believe it. Automation means they don't have to pay you for your job, they continuie to make huge sums of cash based on it. It's less control.
But also, much of the effects of substantial population decline aren't going to be happening for quite some time. So by then, there's a lot of harm going on.
My wife and I have decided not to have children because we don't really want that path for us, but also don't feel any obligation to society to have them.
We're the same. Just never been inclined that way and I'm staring into retirement at the ripe old age of 50-53 at this rate. I don't really want to jepodise that when I've got a decent job, that I don't get burnt to death by and I can just think for the future and live now as well.
Kids would cause too many compromises for my life.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentThat's pretty much how I feel. He's getting it all wrong, can't admit it and then he's going "FUCK IT, IT WASN'T WORTH IT ANYWAY! LOLOLOLOL!" When realistically... the rest of us can see how much...That's pretty much how I feel. He's getting it all wrong, can't admit it and then he's going "FUCK IT, IT WASN'T WORTH IT ANYWAY! LOLOLOLOL!" When realistically... the rest of us can see how much Twitter actually meant to his ego.
He's not being destructive on purpose, he's just delusional and stubborn to a fault.
Every CEO really.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentYou're pretty much spot on, that's my 'smart arse remarks' essentially. Once he realised "Oh fuck, I've got to do this" then he went into hairbrained mode and here we are. I personally don't like...You're pretty much spot on, that's my 'smart arse remarks' essentially. Once he realised "Oh fuck, I've got to do this" then he went into hairbrained mode and here we are.
I personally don't like Twitter or Tesla as organisations. I don't care for Social Media or overpriced vehicles. SpaceX is cool, but I've spoken to engineers who've worked in their data space and it's not a great place to work. Ho-hum.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentI genuinely don't think he knows what he's doing. I think he made some smartarse responses to buying Twitter, the realised that he has to do it and hates having it. So he's burning everything...I would LOVE to hear what you guys think, or even try and defend maybe to see if we can even try to reason his insane actions from the past year into a place where we could perhaps understand it?
I genuinely don't think he knows what he's doing. I think he made some smartarse responses to buying Twitter, the realised that he has to do it and hates having it. So he's burning everything around him and it for the sheer "Well fuck it, it never meant that much in the first place" type of attitude that betrays how much it actually meant to him.
I don't think Elon is some great genuis or a total plank, he's just got the money behind him that he doesn't have to worry too much about his projects flunking or flying, so he's mostly just a regular dude with anger issues screaming into the void he created.
Don't get me wrong, he's a tosser who needs a kick in the nuts for the way he's supporting far-right types. But I don't think he's part of some global plan, or even a bigger plan than "What's up for the next 12 weeks?" apparoach that all capitalists have.
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Comment on Fallout first look: This is how the world ends—With a smiling thumbs-up in ~tv
Pioneer LinkQuick, break out the Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 crib-notes we're going on a rescue/fetch-quest! But there is a gigantic difference here. TLOU is a single, confined story about two people raging...- Exemplary
When a crisis forces Lucy to venture above on a rescue mission
Quick, break out the Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 crib-notes we're going on a rescue/fetch-quest!
Like HBO’s hit The Last of Us, which was also adapted from a blockbuster video game, the end of the world offers a rich opportunity to comment on the real one.
But there is a gigantic difference here. TLOU is a single, confined story about two people raging against a dying/dead/fungi world. Fallout has always been about the decisions of the player and the effects that leaves on the world once you've moved on (Sans 3 & 4 which are endless monotomy simulators)
Nolan and Joy’s determination to maintain that mordant comedy was the key to making the world work as a series, says game-maker Todd Howard, the director of 2008’s Fallout 3 and 2015’s Fallout 4 and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, which developed the franchise.
Of which it was scaled back and corporatised in both 3 and 4. 1, 2 and New Vegas has endlessly funny dialogue and remarks that your character and others make throughout the wasteland. 3 always gave me uncanny valley humour levels and 4 felt "HAHA, ISN'T THAT WEIRD!" - Get the guys who wrote the characters and environmental storytelling in, they'll take you on a dark humoured journey happily.
Fallout’s world is filled by a sprawling ensemble, including Kyle MacLachlan as Lucy’s father, the “overseer” of Vault 33, which essentially makes him the mayor of their hometown, while Homeland's Sarita Choudhury is a different kind of leader in this world, willing to sacrifice anything for her band of people. Moisés Arias (who as a child played Rico on Hannah Montana) costars as Lucy’s inquisitive brother. Michael Emerson, who starred in Nolan’s Person of Interest and is best known as hatch-inhabitant Benjamin Linus on Lost, stays aboveground this time, playing an enigmatic researcher named Wilzig. Most of the disparate parties are “chasing an artifact that has the potential to radically change the power dynamic in this world,” as Nolan puts it.
So we've got the daughter-parent dynamic of the Vault from Fallout 3. We've got the overseer being more like the lass from Fallout 4 who is pragmatic are trades with the wasteland where they can and is super communal about the folks in the vault... and an artifact that can change the world, like the GECK maybe, From Fallout 2?
So, What's new? All the images are the stock-standard Brotherhood of Steel wankfest that Bethesda Fallout games have been since 3. I'm sure they'll hamfist them in as Fallout's Ultramarine-types happily again. Oh there's a ghoul! Who doesn't look like a ghoul? Just looks like someone with his nose removed.
It looks really well done (though the BoS power armour looks weird and I can't fathom why), but that storyline seems like they don't know how to tell a compelling story without falling back on tropes already explored and done in the gaming series. Yeah, I know it'll be a "TO BRING MORE PEOPLE TO THE SHOW!" type stuff. But honestly? Give people a compelling story in a really well written environment and they'll love it? This feels like they've played it safe so they have some fan-service AND 'new and improved' stuff.
TLOU worked really well because Pedro & Bella sold their characters as the linchpin to understanding a world that no-one dared describe ("There's worse out west, Raiders and Slavers!"). I can't help but feel like everything is going to be hamfisted, default, corporatised and mundane in a world that is filled with absolutely bonkers and fantastic storytelling.
You know what would have been truly awesome? Tell the story of someone caught up in the BoS/NCR/Legion first battle for Hoover Dam. That would have been incredible to watch if it's done well. You could have had NCR captives talking to Legion Decanus/Centurions arguing about the morals of autocracy / democracy like you do with Caesar. You could have competent, interesting and frankly brutal dialogue between both sides of a 'mythical' conflict. How about Joshua Graham trying to reconcile his religious beliefs with what he's doing like many soldiers of religious creed go through once they hit first combat).
Instead, we're going to get Fallout3.5:The Bastard Child, I guarantee it.
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Comment on "The AI revolution is rotten to the core" in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentBecause you're having to do the job for free generally. Also, the quality of robotic process has meant actual human interaction fucking sucks now. Been to a Maccas lately? You're waiting 10+...Because you're having to do the job for free generally. Also, the quality of robotic process has meant actual human interaction fucking sucks now. Been to a Maccas lately? You're waiting 10+ minutes for anything.
You get it a lot in orgs when you do data modelling. It's really complicated, until you remove the human element and they hate that.
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Comment on "The AI revolution is rotten to the core" in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentI'm aware of RPA. We're not even close to using that in so many businesses. We automate such fucking pointless piece when we do! Most businesses don't even understand their own processes, nor do...I'm aware of RPA. We're not even close to using that in so many businesses. We automate such fucking pointless piece when we do!
Most businesses don't even understand their own processes, nor do they want data and tech teams to decode them. Despite the fact that they could liberate us all from boring nonsense work. Granted said work only profits the top dogs anyway, so we really need some governance that now says RPA/GAI/Automation needs to scale back hours and not jobs. At least until we get sorted.
As for the GAI notion? Nah. If you can run a graphDB against an ontology of terms combined with GenAi, I reckon you could augment some serious prompt engineering against it.
Granted. Much of the AI debate is fictional at the moment. Most organisations are barely in any state to use basic structured data, let alone complex AI/ML products.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Pioneer LinkNothing too technical. Wrapping my head around Azure really. Fundamentally different to AWS, but feels much more like the grown up in the cloud game. Despite its drawbacks.Nothing too technical.
Wrapping my head around Azure really. Fundamentally different to AWS, but feels much more like the grown up in the cloud game. Despite its drawbacks.
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Comment on "The AI revolution is rotten to the core" in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentThat's been my biggest noticeable bone of contention with the "AI revolution". We've automated (or were trying to) the very means of what it actually means to be human. Yeah yeah, we're always...That's been my biggest noticeable bone of contention with the "AI revolution". We've automated (or were trying to) the very means of what it actually means to be human.
Yeah yeah, we're always going to make music... Art... What have you, but so much is actually reliant in making money with that.
We should be automating the inane, boring, pointless jobs we all have and actual exist and live better lives.
But apparently that doesn't fit the needs of the aristocratic/tech bro class who want you to work to the bone.
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Comment on Christopher Luxon sworn in as New Zealand prime minister, says priority is to improve economy in ~news
Pioneer Link ParentLiz Truss did exactly that. It went swimmingly.Liz Truss did exactly that.
It went swimmingly.
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Comment on How did your new traditions get made? in ~life
Pioneer Link ParentNeed to get yourself some Tato crisps kidda. My wife and I do something similar, we have a floor picnic and it's odds and sods we get from various places the week before Christmas. You get a...Need to get yourself some Tato crisps kidda.
My wife and I do something similar, we have a floor picnic and it's odds and sods we get from various places the week before Christmas.
You get a veritable feast as well.
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Comment on How did your new traditions get made? in ~life
Pioneer Link ParentI can imagine you lot arguing with friends over what the best crisps are for Christmas Eve tea. "Quavers are not on the damn list!"I can imagine you lot arguing with friends over what the best crisps are for Christmas Eve tea.
"Quavers are not on the damn list!"
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Comment on Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election in ~society
Pioneer Link ParentThe absolute joy of text conversation, loses the 'way' something is said eh? I don't mind engaging, but often if I can't say it's good or bad faith I just choose not to. Just bloody safer.The absolute joy of text conversation, loses the 'way' something is said eh?
I don't mind engaging, but often if I can't say it's good or bad faith I just choose not to. Just bloody safer.
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Comment on Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election in ~society
Pioneer Link ParentThank you bud. I did choose not to rise to the initial comment as it's also a phrase used to silence voices.Thank you bud. I did choose not to rise to the initial comment as it's also a phrase used to silence voices.
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Comment on Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election in ~society
Pioneer Link ParentOh I know, it's the same game generation after generation. Probably the first few that we've been actively staring down The barrel of existential annihilation (Nukes, War and Climate Change) and...Oh I know, it's the same game generation after generation.
Probably the first few that we've been actively staring down The barrel of existential annihilation (Nukes, War and Climate Change) and the same faces are determined to keep us apart when really? They'll starve and burn will the rest of us.
Ridiculous. And people laugh when I say I want to live off grid away from this stuff.
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Comment on Far-right leader Geert Wilders wins Dutch election in ~society
Pioneer (edited )Link ParentHonestly? These right-wing power hungry, dark monkey fuck wits are going to kill us all. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but throwing xenophobic shade everywhere because of our own choices and...Honestly? These right-wing power hungry, dark monkey fuck wits are going to kill us all.
I know that sounds hyperbolic, but throwing xenophobic shade everywhere because of our own choices and actions in the world is insane. So much of the global migration problems are caused by war and capitalistic greed which is caused by these clowns and their mates.
So then they blame the victims for wanting better and leaving their homelands to come to places that are better?
Christ Alive.
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Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentIt's a goal. But you've currently got nearly 8B people sitting there telling you that you need to "make something of yourself" When AI ultimately takes away the creative aspects of our lives, The...It's a goal. But you've currently got nearly 8B people sitting there telling you that you need to "make something of yourself"
When AI ultimately takes away the creative aspects of our lives, The problem solving aspects of our lives... what then? Don't sit there and go "Oh, everyone will just fall into this utopic place!" because even in Star Trek they had to prevent robotics from doing EVERYTHING on the ridiculous scifi starships.
I agree personally, I could sit around in a coffee house sipping espressos and talking shit about philosophy until I am blue in the face. But that's just not for everyone. We've wrapped ourselves up so tightly into little balls of ego, narcissism and feeding these things... that it may just go wrong.
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Comment on How do you feel about AI and the future? in ~tech
Pioneer Link ParentI just don't see that happening though. A big bang is just going to have the current leadership do what the UK did during Covid and stick vast sums of cash into the economy to stop everything...I just don't see that happening though.
A big bang is just going to have the current leadership do what the UK did during Covid and stick vast sums of cash into the economy to stop everything imploding. We'd need systemic change and none of the current lot know what that means, let alone what it looks like.
I was reading Bertrand Russell earlier this week and he wrote how we're barrelling towards the system we're in now... And he wrote it in the 40s.
We need rid of bullshit jobs, bullshit hours and an acceptance that being alive and enjoying life is what we're here for. But the upper and wealthy class despise the idea of "poor" people having lesuire time. So they don't know how to change the machine to get away from their own expectations and needs.
Chill? I'm not angry or annoyed, what must I chill for?
People are allowed to be annoyed, cynical, or whatever about projects out in the world. That involves critizing corporate nonsense for universes that people have strong feelings about.
You know what actually, i actually think your comment has made me realise this place isn't for me. There are some great people here, but there's so many 'be nice dude!' types that feel the need to police peoples language, rationalisations and frustrations as if they're now to arbiters of what people are allowed to say and do. I'm out.