You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
I’m happy I don’t take part in gaming “communities.”
Have a few people you know in real life you can game with. Stop reading forums and youtube shorts and streamer takes on gaming. Seriously, just fucking stop.
Play games you like, read reviews if you must, but buy fewer games, play games less, make more friends, socialize, get the fuck out of your gaming chair, you’ll never be a famous twitch streamer. Your life is flying by while you’re lost in Helldivers 2 drama.
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This is all they heard.
I want the 5 minutes back that I spent skimming over an article that was meant to showcase someone’s research on McCarthy and history around the 1950’s.
For that matter, maybe we stop platforming the dumb takes from social media influencers, people who have absolutely no power other than careers in saying inflammatory bullshit hoping a major outlet will pick it up and get more people angry. This attention-bait economy is thrusting actual clowns and nazis right into the seat of power because we live in a world where if you say something atrocious and enough people hear it, you get money or even seats in government.
I keep going back to it to try it again and again because I recognize the potential is great, but every time I get in there it’s the same feeling of being in a weird technicolor circus, a universe that has a weird scale and no real sense of vastness because the systems are cramped together cartoon solar systems and there’s no real feeling of consequence, no feeling of “going too far, I need to come back later when I’m stronger” or conversely no feeling of “I need to get to that place over there” and it seems the only real challenge is some dangerous robots and animals so you leave that place and go get your fuel somewhere else.
I think it would have connected a lot better if it was less easy to get around, less teleporters to identical space stations, less fast-travel and less ships flying in the sky, less aliens hopping all over the place on planets, less stuff everywhere. Maybe more of a survival feeling where you really do have to climb down in caves to search for a part to get your life support going, even basic, tired old hunger/thirst type mechanics would have really spiced up the experience and would have made finally being able to fly and explore feel awesome.
Also, the crafting isn’t fun, they lean into a lot of weird space minerals and space chemicals and such that you have no intuitive idea what you need to keep. To say nothing of how boggling the inventory/upgrade system can be, I don’t know why they reinvented the inventory/skill/upgrade system so much.
The Outer Wilds - I get recommended this over and over, I know it’s a huge hit, a cult classic, and beloved to many people. I finally got it and gave it a real solid attempt, several times so far. I understand the gameplay loop I guess, the repeating, the weird ship flying. I mean, I appreciate it and love that people are experimenting with new ways to make games that break old molds. I really like the atmosphere and maybe if I were a lot younger it would feel fresh and interesting.
But I never really started having fun, never really connected with the characters or the world, I never got hooked. Everything felt like a janky obstacle instead of progression and reward.
Maybe I’ll try it again sometime, but maybe it’s possible some games just don’t rub me right.
My parents were crazy apocalypse preppers, the first 10 years of my life we lived in tents and vans, they had PO boxes the entire time. It’s not exactly nuclear-bunker level security.
Also, commenter above hypothesizing a new housing/living regime entirely which doesn’t seem that far off tbh.
It’s not like we see faces in everything :)
Welcome to the late 2020’s. It’s only going to get weirder.
To be clear, the LLM in this story did not actually “want” a robot body, it doesn’t “want” anything, it’s not a thinking entity like you or I (assuming you’re real.)
The guy fed it a ton of crazy shit and he got a lot of crazy shit amplified back to him by the world’s best associating machine, crafting detailed and fleshed-out narratives based on every inadvertent prompt he sent into it. People are very bad at understanding how these things work in the best circumstances, so if you’re already unbalanced or have deep emotional/mental health problems, an LLM can be incredibly dangerous for you.
Every country with economic power is a propaganda machine powered by institutional financial corruption.
All the rest are poor pawns that are shuffled around by the economic powers and sometimes turned to rubble.
Take care of and support the best outcomes in your closest community wherever you are, everything else starts there. We’ll never solve this issue but we can make better lives for ourselves and those around us. No, do not run out to the wilderness and live alone, community is strength against all of these forces.
I was raised conservative, back-country compound with apocalypse preppers, israel prophecy, the whole nine yards. I was raised with The 700 Club and Rush Limbaugh playing every day and night.
I read science books that distant family members managed to smuggle to me in gift boxes alongside other “safe” books like Kid’s bibles, I learned more and more about the world around me, I started collecting my own book collection and just read and read and read, and the doubts started to grow, uneasy, shameful, scary-as-fuck doubts.
But the big turn happened when I got out of there, and America started one it’s many wars and I was watching FOX news cover it. A humvee passes a civilian box truck and shredded it to pieces with an automatic grenade launcher. Probably a family trying to escape the city… cut to the host, smiling and praising America’s might, and that’s when it hit me: We’re the bad guys.
A few more things really sealed it, when I had friends start to come back from these conflicts in boxes, or a couple guys I knew who blew their own brains out after coming home. I still despair at these horrific wastes of life and I can’t figure out why more people don’t see life as precious. How fucking stupid do you have to be to justify war, murder and causing destruction to society.
an extremely painful and demoralizing but important part of the healing process that will eventually lead us to a better place.
Most people can’t take the discomfort of socializing with friendly people or having to wait more than 30 minutes for food to be delivered. We are so far beyond an age of people willfully accepting discomfort into their lives. It plagues all sides of the political spectrum too, the lazy avoidance of facing uncomfortable realities and one’s own shortcomings.
I was raised conservative by back-country, cultish apocalypse preppers and drug addicts, so the change and realizing came easier for me as soon as I got out of that environment and started seeing the world for what it really is. There were a few pivotal moments that made me suddenly say “Wait a minute, we’re the BAD GUYS here” and it made me want to make the country better.
For most people it’s very black-and-white though, there is no “better” or “worse” in many people’s vocabulary, seriously this is a huge problem in discourse, nobody gets that something can be “worse but not bad” or “better but not good” and this is shredding our ability to bring people over to the side supporting better outcomes.
I’ve heard great things about flavored sparkling water as a beer-alternative, unsweetened or lightly sweetened. I can’t recommend quitting drinking enough. It gets harder and harder to break the habit and makes you have a great big ol’ belly that won’t go away easily. (Fruit juice and other carbs will do the same thing. Sugar belly sucks.)
Wine was my poison for many years, does the same thing. I now just drink a lot of water at night.
Well, to be more correct, if they see a venture of tactic of theirs isn’t paying off as their delusional AI’s told them it would, we can at least get them to scrap that direction and try something else. We’ll never actually “stop” them, but we can use the thing we have, that they want, to at least direct them away from the places that they are causing harm to things we want to preserve.
I am under no expectation of this happening at all, we have hundreds of millions of families who will throw whatever new, shiny, mainstream tech-toys and “blockbuster” releases at their kids as a babysitter, those are the breadbasket of the tech and entertainment companies.
I barely consider twitter and 4chan “forums” in the sense that nobody goes there to learn anything or read people’s perspectives, it’s mindless mental carbohydrates.
4chan has always had this absurd mixture of completely learning-disabled homeschool chuds grown up smashing their faces against their keyboard to spam racist memes and incoherent slur posts, and like 2% conspiracy-mavens who post essays that make Ted Kaczynski look like a beacon of rationality. Some of them learn to reign it in enough to actually control the conversation and those are the really dangerous people.
But largely, the average percentage of MAGA americans and the percentage of americans who fall under the “functionally literate” threshold form a circular venn-diagram and I wish that was hyperbole with all my heart.
On one hand this is unrealistic because it directly implicates Trump for starting this conflict and people are going to blame him and the administration for any kind of terrorism on US soil.
On the other hand, these are not very bright people, they are literally stupider than almost anyone typing on this website. They are only invulnerable because of money and connection.
They don’t read. They certainly don’t read forums on the internet. They CERTAINLY don’t read lemmy. I’ve seen only a couple here in the last few years and they seemed like fakes/trolls.
Conservative citizens in the US are largely barely literate and can just barely engage on the level of all-caps tweets and improperly used memes on facebook.
Very possible, but incumbent republican leaders are kinda shitting themselves right now after all these local elections pointing towards local Republican leaders possibly facing a shellacking in the upcoming elections. A lot of criminal chuds are going to be whining very loudly from prisons for the next couple years as they realize that their invulnerability is entirely dependant on current polling.
This is just the needle pushing more towards subscription models for all the things.
In a few years you won’t own games or game systems, you will have a controller to the side of your monitor and all your PC functions will be outsourced to a microsoft server and your games will be streamed to you according to whatever subscription tier you’re on.
If you all want to stop this, STOP BUYING NEW GAMES. Just put the stupid fucking companies out of business, we can “acquire” plenty of PC games for our PC’s and there are vast numbers of used games out there, alongside whatever is kicking around in our steam libraries that we didn’t have the attention span to even try. Let’s go on a spending diet and enjoy the lives we have for a little while until the oligarchs all starve.
Kind of like how reddit is overrun now with AI that keep posting questions to those “Peter, explain the joke” type subs which have absolutely exploded in the last few years, I think more than a few are spreading out of containment.
At least I hope so.
I would literally prefer the creepy, unnerving idea that artificial entities are prowling our forums trying to learn about humanity than the idea that there are people out there who can’t figure out the most basic things.