Everyone at my job keeps producing these AI slop summary and design documents and thanks I always wanted to read something you didn’t even type that has no discernible content.

Yeah and having an expansive universe with like three languages and three races of intelligent creatures, none of which seem to have any personalities just left it feeling shallow.

There’s no storyline in even the main story. It feels like a vast and lonely universe. I think procedural world generation has largely the same problem as generative AI: infinite slight varieties of responses, all of which are as bland as a HR seminar.

I’ve come to realize over time that I would prefer a completely linear story to games on the other extreme end.

What you’re suggesting sounds very interesting though, linear and more handcrafted content paired with procedural content to pad in the margins. Keep playing forever if you want to, but feel a sense of story and accomplishment in the main storyline.

Edit: that’s probably why the expeditions feel more worth playing… You bump into people because you’re all playing on the same planets, and the star systems you’re playing through are at least somewhat curated.

It’s one of the many toxic byproducts of “journalism” as a for profit industry.

SLAM! Da duh duh, da duh duh, let the boys be boys

Any item he sees in the news that doesn’t involve him, he’s like “but how can I make this about me, which is what everything should be about?”.

A country of 330+ million reduced down to one main character.

Honestly, though this is the definition of “widespread backlash” when it comes to red pilled garbage. So I’ll take it.

I’ve found that when I have trouble sleeping or wake up in the middle of night / very early morning I really just need a wank.

I’m really enjoying the headlines some journalists are finally starting to write. I don’t think we’ve fully moved on from access based, deferential journalism, but there are at least a lot of news sources finally starting to publish things with headlines and content that aren’t from the PR department of the covered news item.

Papyrus? Are you kidding me? There’s no place for that in a professional office setting!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FTfxtyDpqWI&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD

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Yes it has around the same health effects if you smoke it in equal quantity. I think tobacco is a little worse because of some unique compounds or something that are generated, but ultimately smoke is pretty bad for you.

The thing with weed is that the quantity is often way lower, so practically speaking is often not as bad.

This is America. We have no conscience left to shock.

Everyone is waiting for the aha moment where we’ll finally arouse the long dormant inner decency of the masses of this country and we’ll all rise up against the evil that has made its home here but it never comes.

War crimes (at best)

“Wanderfugl” is a name so bad it legitimately sounds like a Rick and Morty joke.

They should make a new chatbot called “healthy” that gives you pointers about how vaccines cause autism or tell you to enhance your immunity by swimming in super fund rivers and eating rotting, severed whale heads.

Just kidding, they should all go fuck themselves.

It’s bad when I watch pluribus and think about how great the Internet must be because all of the botnets would be shut down and there’s only like 12 people that would bother to use it.

I thought about buying a framework 12 for kicks but it’s Intel only and for that reason I’m oooout.

I read a margin breakdown on every big box store in consumer reports and Costco was the lowest margin store there was. They make most of their money on the subscriptions.

There are also some items (beer for instance) that are drastically lower in price versus the competition. So much so that you can make your membership fee back in a couple of trips.

But yes, admittedly they do not have 100% unbelievable deals.

If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?

The engineer’s problem is that the marketing and sales department started running all of the companies two decades ago. So, they’re constantly overruled.

Same here. I didn’t understand why anyone would want a double thick (or now triple thick 🫨) phablet that folds out into a full tablet.

The razr I bought two years ago is the first phone that comfortably fits in my pocket in like a decade.