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  1. Comment on AI overview for tech illiterate TV people in ~tech

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    I'm sorry you think that was harsh, but I held back there. What they're talking about is destroying an entire industry for more profit, despite profits and growth being at all time highs. Don't...

    I'm sorry you think that was harsh, but I held back there. What they're talking about is destroying an entire industry for more profit, despite profits and growth being at all time highs.

    Don't rationalise greed, please. Think of the people that are actually trying to live.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on AI overview for tech illiterate TV people in ~tech

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    If ideas people no longer have ideas and need AI to come up with things for them, maybe they should just be fired and replaced. Removing humans from creative endeavours is abhorrent and you, and...

    If ideas people no longer have ideas and need AI to come up with things for them, maybe they should just be fired and replaced.

    Removing humans from creative endeavours is abhorrent and you, and the industry as a whole, should be ashamed of yourselves, not that you're capable of such as you chase that very last piece of "margin" into the ever deeper hole in the ground that is "eternal growth".

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Comics beyond sight in ~comics

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    The comics are clearly beyond sight because they're overlayed with all those horrible adverts. What a terrible website.

    The comics are clearly beyond sight because they're overlayed with all those horrible adverts. What a terrible website.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole – and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality in ~society

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    Am I going insane or did I read this several months ago? Is this a reprint by the guardian from NYT or something? Maybe from her blog. Either that or I'm an ex Reddit time traveler.

    Am I going insane or did I read this several months ago? Is this a reprint by the guardian from NYT or something? Maybe from her blog. Either that or I'm an ex Reddit time traveler.

  5. Comment on Rewriting wipEout in ~comp

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    I still have most of those tracks on damaged CDs by the bands they came from. Good times.

    I still have most of those tracks on damaged CDs by the bands they came from. Good times.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Everything shown at Gamescom 2023 Opening Night Live in ~games

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    I'm not sure if I'm just old, jaded and uninterested in gaming or that's just a lineup of mostly uninteresting games. I'm all in for Armoured Core but the rest look meh as fuck.

    I'm not sure if I'm just old, jaded and uninterested in gaming or that's just a lineup of mostly uninteresting games. I'm all in for Armoured Core but the rest look meh as fuck.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on AI is ruining the Internet in ~tech

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    I think it's more in line with Stockholm Syndrome, insofar as we think it's a real thing, even though it clearly isn't, yet we're willing to accept it because enough people think Stockholm...

    I think it's more in line with Stockholm Syndrome, insofar as we think it's a real thing, even though it clearly isn't, yet we're willing to accept it because enough people think Stockholm Syndrome was real to begin with. We're being trapped by our own delusions and beginning to identify with, and accept them.

    If you get me.

    We're losing touch with reality and Sagan's Demon Haunted World is making a major comeback. Just this time there are actual bots pretending to be humans out there, and they're becoming the majority of internet traffic.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on AI is ruining the Internet in ~tech

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    It can reproduce any kind of artwork for free! There's nothing that could go wrong here at all!!! The internet has pretty much already tipped over into bots taking to bots, and AI will push it...

    It can reproduce any kind of artwork for free! There's nothing that could go wrong here at all!!!

    The internet has pretty much already tipped over into bots taking to bots, and AI will push it further over the edge. Sooner or later us meat computers will be pushed out altogether because we can't compete with their output per second, just like finance, and that's going soooo well for the majority of us.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on What is your favourite cutscene/cinematic in any game? in ~games

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    There are so many that aren't worth linking, simply because they're too long, like the end of Metal Gear Solid 3, out because they'd be reposts, like Final Fantasy 7, so I'm gonna go with the...

    There are so many that aren't worth linking, simply because they're too long, like the end of Metal Gear Solid 3, out because they'd be reposts, like Final Fantasy 7, so I'm gonna go with the opening to [Soul Edge] (https://youtu.be/RtF80UCgarY), or Soul Blade depending on where you're from.

    As an old gamer, and having played it in the arcades, I was totally unprepared for the level of hype they'd created for the PlayStation 1 release. It's a banger song with amazing cameos from all the characters and done in a way that early PS games just hadn't achieved. It was one of those "graphics look like real life!" things that seem silly to look back on but at the time were genuinely cutting edge and amazing to witness.

    My friends would come round and we'd watch it endlessly, pure class.