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  1. Comment on Comedian Ronny Chieng tells Harvard to ‘Destroy AI’ as graduates cheer in ~tech

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    Full commencement speech available here.

    “I’m glad you agree,” Chieng said. “It’s so stupid. A lot of other respected graduation speakers at colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI, kill it.”

    “Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it,” he told the senior class. “Our generation’s upcoming battle…is going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge, it’s going to be mastery versus faking it, it’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

    Full commencement speech available here.

    11 votes

  3. Comment on Manchester City are considering legal action against Enrique Riquelme after the Real Madrid presidential candidate held up a Madrid shirt with Erling Haaland's name on the back during a TV appearance in ~sports.football

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    My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the talk shows and properly pass judgment on Riquelme's merits, but I'll be quite happy to see Florentino ride off into the sunset if he loses this election....

    My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the talk shows and properly pass judgment on Riquelme's merits, but I'll be quite happy to see Florentino ride off into the sunset if he loses this election. He's had definite success but so many things have left a bad taste in the mouth, and he's about to get in his own way again by bringing back Mourinho.

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  4. Comment on May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 5(ish) Discussion in ~games

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    Oof! That's rough. I had a somewhat tepid but overall positive opinion of the game after finishing it and I've enjoyed your recent critiques of it, which I thought were all fair... maybe until...

    Its success is a blight on good games made by devs with integrity. It needs to fail so that it can't inspire anything to follow it.

    Oof! That's rough. I had a somewhat tepid but overall positive opinion of the game after finishing it and I've enjoyed your recent critiques of it, which I thought were all fair... maybe until this quoted bit. The game's a bit underbaked but not the worst effort from rookie devs (which I believe was the case, IIRC).

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  5. Comment on May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 5(ish) Discussion in ~games

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    I'm glad you like it! It's a sorely underappreciated gem. It may not strictly be a rhythm game, but if you look closely enough you can find that a lot of the environment/platforming elements are...

    I'm glad you like it! It's a sorely underappreciated gem.

    I have to say, I am a bit disappointed because I thought this was a music/rhythm game, but no: this is tried-and-true platformer -- it's just that the music is bangin'.

    It may not strictly be a rhythm game, but if you look closely enough you can find that a lot of the environment/platforming elements are timed in 4/4 and synchronizes with the music. I have often played sections of stages and gotten into a flow state grooving to the beat.

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  6. Comment on May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 4 Discussion in ~games

  7. Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games

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    Wow, I expected more responses about longer franchises like Tekken, King of Fighters, Dead or Alive, even Virtua Fighter.

    Wow, I expected more responses about longer franchises like Tekken, King of Fighters, Dead or Alive, even Virtua Fighter.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games

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    I've never really gotten or been into Smash... I didn't even know which game you were referring to until I read the replies. Is it something you can really enjoy if you don't especially hold a...

    I've never really gotten or been into Smash... I didn't even know which game you were referring to until I read the replies. Is it something you can really enjoy if you don't especially hold a special place in your heart for Nintendo IPs?

  9. Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games

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    I like how they pulled in characters from other indie games to round out the roster. Shame they couldn't get the official Drifter from Hyper Light Drifter... I imagine Heart Machine would have...

    I like how they pulled in characters from other indie games to round out the roster. Shame they couldn't get the official Drifter from Hyper Light Drifter... I imagine Heart Machine would have gotten more money licensing him for Brawlout but I don't know if that was more successful than Rivals.

  10. Comment on When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak? in ~games

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    So many quarters lost to Pit Fighter! Imagine my surprise when I looked it up in the present day only to find people trashing it as the worst fighting game ever. No accounting for taste, I guess.

    So many quarters lost to Pit Fighter! Imagine my surprise when I looked it up in the present day only to find people trashing it as the worst fighting game ever. No accounting for taste, I guess.

    1 vote

  11. When did your preferred fighting game franchises peak?

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    Taking it all into account - storyline, presentation, roster, gameplay, etc. Not sure if there are too many fighting game enthusiasts on here, judging by the posts. I'm not exactly an aficionado...

    Taking it all into account - storyline, presentation, roster, gameplay, etc.

    Not sure if there are too many fighting game enthusiasts on here, judging by the posts. I'm not exactly an aficionado myself, as I haven't really been into them since the Neo Geo and PS1 days. I'm probably only really qualified to say Samurai Shodown 4 is the best in the series, although it is remarkable how well Street Fighter 2 still holds up today. For Tekken, Soul Calibur, Marvel vs. Capcom, etc. I didn't play past the first couple entries.

    25 votes

  12. Comment on The Black Ball | Official teaser in ~movies

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    I never listen to stuff auto-dubbed into English, but this one seems especially bad after hearing the original song, good lord. Film itself looks alright.

    I never listen to stuff auto-dubbed into English, but this one seems especially bad after hearing the original song, good lord.

    Film itself looks alright.

  13. Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games

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    Quoting my reply from an older, very similar thread:

    Quoting my reply from an older, very similar thread:

    I'd never been interested in FPS games because I thought they were all about walking backwards in narrow corridors shooting demons with shotguns, which never looked fun. When my brother's friend brought over Halo and we played through the first level together, it was immediately different for me with its larger environments and varied gameplay. I'd had some great moments after that, but walking outside at this point during the assault on the control room and seeing a full-pitched battle going on between the marines and the covenant without me was definitely a "Holy shit!" moment. It made the game feel so much bigger than just me.

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  14. Comment on What's your favorite personal gaming memory? in ~games

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    Evolve was such a cool, original concept, it seemed like the epitome of a "next-gen" game when it came around. I never played it but I watched tons of it on Youtube, and I kept waiting for it to...

    Evolve was such a cool, original concept, it seemed like the epitome of a "next-gen" game when it came around. I never played it but I watched tons of it on Youtube, and I kept waiting for it to become the new big thing... and it just never did. They fumbled it so hard.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on The banal horror of Jimmy Fallon in ~tv

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    Despite the annoyingly performative nature of his onscreen rapport with guests, I've seen it mentioned that he's personally quite likeable. Maybe that plays into how his banality has endured. The...

    Despite the annoyingly performative nature of his onscreen rapport with guests, I've seen it mentioned that he's personally quite likeable. Maybe that plays into how his banality has endured.

    The single most amazing thing to me about Jimmy Fallon is that he has gotten The Roots beamed into American living rooms for over a decade and a half. It's tough to quantify the social impact that may have had on The Tonight Show's target demographic but it's also probably easy to underestimate. It's also among the unlikeliest of scenarios one could dream up, if you know anything about The Roots.

    Roots frontman Tariq Trotter, a.k.a. Black Thought, is quite literally the best rapper alive, by the way.

    Them brothers said, "Don't go from written bars filled with rage
    To primetime television and your gilded cage
    Then forget it's people in the world still enslaved."
    I barb-wire my wrist and let it fill the page

    7 votes

  16. Comment on What's something that you missed out on? in ~talk

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    I saw the plot twist coming before I even made it halfway through the first paragraph. At least you learned the lesson.

    I saw the plot twist coming before I even made it halfway through the first paragraph. At least you learned the lesson.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Woman covertly filmed for 'humiliating' social media content - then told to pay for removal in ~tech

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    Unless by "feature" you mean "reasonably appear as an incidental part of the general environment," I don't agree here. Almost nobody would think it's fair, much less appropriate, to be the...

    By going out in public, there is an implicit consent to be seen by others and to potentially feature in photos or video taken by others.

    Unless by "feature" you mean "reasonably appear as an incidental part of the general environment," I don't agree here. Almost nobody would think it's fair, much less appropriate, to be the unknowing central subject of recording simply because they're going about their business in a public space, even if they're not presented in a compromising or explicit manner.

    I do wonder if the description of feeling exploited or powerless stems from an unreasonable expectation of privacy in public that has become seen as normal nowadays.

    My opinion is rather the opposite, that photo/video social media antics have largely eroded the sense of reasonable boundaries that people think they should observe in public. It should be noted that such activity is performed by a minority - a significant minority, perhaps, but it is still not yet the majority that has agreed to adjust our social contract.

    16 votes

  18. Comment on What’s the best thing you’ve done for someone else recently? in ~talk

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    Also, it's great to create space for people to pitch in up to the point that they are comfortable and not terribly "inconvenience" themselves without feeling guilty about stepping away while the...

    Also, it's great to create space for people to pitch in up to the point that they are comfortable and not terribly "inconvenience" themselves without feeling guilty about stepping away while the person they're helping still needs so much more. It may not be as much of a factor when you're already friends beforehand, but I have a couple friendships that developed from me initially trying to help someone out when they're clearly being failed by social services, bureaucracy, etc. and no one else is really making the effort to help them. In each instance I found myself at a point where I thought to myself, "I want to help this person, but I can't afford to be their everything."

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  20. Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music

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    I asked a similar question a while back that got a ton of recommendations. A few of my own favorites that come to mind: Denzel Curry - Bulls on Parade | original by Rage Against The Machine Feist...

    I asked a similar question a while back that got a ton of recommendations.

    A few of my own favorites that come to mind:

    Denzel Curry - Bulls on Parade | original by Rage Against The Machine
    Feist & Ben Gibbard - Train Song | original by Vashti Bunyan
    Killing Me Softly, by The Fugees, or Roberta Flack (the Frank Sinatra cover is just okay, IMO) | original by Lori Lieberman
    T-Pain (and his fantastic band!)'s cover of War Pigs | original by Black Sabbath
    Ben Howard's cover of Call Me Maybe | original by Carly Rae Jensen
    Wu-Tang Clan - Sucker MC's | original by Run-DMC
    Too $hort - I Need A Freak | original by Sexual Harassment

    5 votes