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I used to play on my college’s Overwatch team. I did the grind. I hit GM. I put in 5000 hours. It has forever made me despise competitive games/gaming. 2 years ago, I tried valorant for a few weeks and was immediately accused of smurfing just because I was pub stomping the lobbies.
I still have good fps fundamentals and pretty much any one I touch is trivially easy, but I stick to single player games now.
I don’t believe that will ever come to pass. That future relies on the creation of a real AI and not just fancy text predictors. That real AI would also have to be actually sustainable which LLMs are not.
Not only has there been no progress on real AI, it wouldn’t be able to ruin society even if we did manage to make it. The rich and powerful are not impervious. They will inevitably make too many people too poor and then be overrun and torn to shreds. It’s happened countless times before and if we’ve learned anything from Ukraine and the Middle East this past decade, it’s impossible to bomb a large group of people into submission.
Have you heard of the “permanent underclass”? It’s a concept that silicon valley people have become obsessed with. Silicon Valley tech workers are doing hard drugs and taking untested peptides so that they can work harder and longer all in the pursuit of escaping the permanent underclass they believe AI will create. These people believe that when AI takes all the jobs, everyone who isn’t already rich will become part of some permanently unemployable poverty class.
It’s madness, but you already have to be unwell and have no concern for humanity in order to work at these giga tech firms in the first place.
I can’t believe it’s been a day and no one has said Kenshi yet.
Kenshi is an open world rpg where you control one or more characters in an enormous wasteland. It’s super complicated with a ton of systems and that game really hates you. When you start your first save, you’d be lucky if you only get captured and enslaved instead of killed. Your character is a regular person in the world, not the powerful main character (the real main character is Beep) and you’ll constantly feel it.
Eh. They can be fun for a bit, but it’s either super easy or require too much active attention. I got a full time job now and I’m just not looking for an “all gas” game when I actually have time to sit down and play one. If I play any shooter nowadays, it’s gotta have something else besides running and gunning to keep me engaged while I play.