You write like you didn’t lose anyone in your life to the pandemic. Must be nice.

It’s obviously 2020 because it starts at basically zero cases. Also it’s weird that your expect rigor from memes.

I too would want a robe, mask, and gun if these fools approached me.

I shared this with a buddy and he responded with his favorite.

Or like Saints Row 3 and beyond. You mean I can wear a hotdog costume while terrorizing a city from my fighter jet? Yes please.

Came here to recommend LGIO too. Cracks me up, I’ve seen basically every video.

Some of the best stuff these days is actually on the unofficial youtube channel where they repost segments from the twitch streams, esp. when Josh collabs with other folks. There’s this UK streamer, Lollipop or something (I really need to look her up) and she might be even funnier than him. But they’re great together.

Anyway, the chaos is very cathartic for a longtime gamer.

I don’t exactly disagree, but I suspect humans were domesticating plants and animals well before capitalism was a thing. Domesticated dogs for example are rather dependent on us and wouldn’t survive well in the wild. Yes “property” and “ownership” are loaded terms but I think there can be some similar underlying truth in regards to our relationship with other things.

In some ways that can extend to nonliving objects or entities. If you create a piece of earthenware from nothing but clay and fire and your own hands, you own it and it’s your property in a sense unrelated to capitalism. As in, you would not be happy if someone stole it or broke it or used it to commit a crime, and you would inherently consider your relationship to that object in your daily treatment of it and your reaction to those events.

And I’d say some of those aspects would extend to an AI or agent. Of course virtually all of the LLMs and other AI/ML models (to my knowledge) have been created within in a capitalistic society so as you point out they have all the additional baggage that comes with that. I’m just saying that’s not 100% of their attributes. The way you treat something should also respect the labor and materials that went into it.

And that’s actually a problem with many of these LLMs that were trained on the creative works of others, but that’s crossing into a whole other topic…

Movin’ to the country, gonna eat a lot of cheeses…

What the fuck does something being your property have to do with that thing deserving a certain bar of treatment? You need to examine the dangerous implications of that line of thinking and grapple with it.

I think a lot of people would put pets or even houseplants in that category, and argue that you have an ethical responsibility for their basic care.

But to be more general (since digital systems are not alive), any physical property requires at least some amount of energy and resources. So if you blatantly abuse your tools, you’re probably wasting things like electricity or mined metals (via poor operation or need for replacement), in addition to your own time and money.

Nah. She’s a very dry character and her lines are generally quite short so it didn’t phase me much. Mostly I was just happy to play out part of her story since she was one of the coolest characters from the original game.

What is France doing that the resentments exist?

former colonial powers

Probably more of a question of what did they do that isn’t worth resentment, based on how colonialism has historically operated.

Maybe this is a good time to finally sell my OG 256 GB LCD Deck.

(I upgraded to 1 TB OLED of course)

Whoa, ok thanks I appreciate the warning and details! I’ll try the existing server route first then. My friend has a domain name we could use but it’s not that important.

Mind elaborating a little? I have one community to switch but haven’t started at all yet.

That doesn’t look anything like Satisfactory. Seems like a mining/crafting game with limited resources, prices for what you mine, and costs for buildables. I don’t see any factory automation.

I assume they’ll do the same as the auto industry and banks and get huge government bailouts once investors start demanding returns. That way all us taxpayers can make sure the scammers at the top don’t have to spend one second worrying about giving up their lavish lifestyles.

Right, but I’m saying those votes didn’t just come out of thin air. The GOP has been tipping the scales to give themselves more and more power for decades, to where it’s now evident they basically own all major US media. They seized control of the senate and representative seats that let them funnel more and more bribes, buy out the media, and control the narrative. Eventually that led to presidential wins.

The average person just wants to get by. They vote for whever convinces them it’ll be less painful, or convinces them that the pain (e.g. restrictions on freedom, austerity, destroying diversity) will somehow be worthwhile.

EDIT: Late fix to a wrong autocompleted word.

Not exactly. Please read up on gerrymandering and the Electoral College. These two factors have been increasingly rigged over the past decades in order to enable a large and vocal minority to put fascists in office. It wasn’t just simple majority votes, it’s been a sustained systematic attack.

Amen, Discoslugs. Not to be super corny but I appreciate your perspective.

Distasteful Tate repost aside, this is extremely similar to the first note you encounter as a player in Divinity: Original Sin.