I was playing Cult of the Lamb and beating it, decided to look up any videos to see if I missed any lore or whatever, like what happens if you make other choices…

Surprisingly missed so fucking much about the world. Either the streamer was making up bullshit or the world is way deeper than I thought, with a whole history of why the crowns and gods exist.

I remember someone gleefully laughing when a butterfly landed on her finger

This is more of a cultural thing where you know you will get killed if you go against the leader, you know it’s “bad” to even talk bad about them, and it’s just accepted and you don’t really criticize it… Because criticizing your government would mean getting in serious trouble. You learn this young. You accept it. You just don’t do it.

That’s how it was in the USSR, how it persisted under Putin, and they just believe that to be a symptom of a “strong” government. Apparently youth might be waking up a bit more in recent years, but it was like that for a long fucking time and they accept that just opening a piece of white paper in front of a building like a protester means getting carried away.

So yeah they know these people are getting killed by their government. It’s just accepted. There is no question that it isn’t an accident.

It’s like that one video where someone goes up to a random Russian guy and asks him if he supports the war or Putin or something, and he gets quiet then says, “why talk about such things when we’re surrounded by a beautiful city?” Then walks away.

these are billionaires surrounded by yes men. Idiots like Elon Musk used to have smart PR but then their ego and narcissism took over and they built some weird cult of personality where if you disobey you lose your source of income, so they’re surrounded by followers.

I’ve been relatively close to a techie who became a CEO and it corrupts them. They think that shit lasts forever and start acting like how they think heartless money worshipping CEOs should act.

People like Zuck don’t realize that luck is half of what made them that big, that it’s not genius level business maneuvers. They were just lucky entrepreneurs. When they put money where their mouth is, you get the Metaverse, the cyber truck, stupid shit driven by ego.

Now that Facebook elders are dying off, they get “AI layoffs” which arent actually ai related, and courts that are no longer in favor of them.

I think it’s pretty obvious some folks get away with a little bit of AI art if they’re able to do most of the art themselves to create a cohesive art direction.

But if you have a cohesive art direction, it’s pretty much a guarantee you didn’t use AI for the art in general. It just isn’t able to perform that well yet, and it’s clear the non artists who use AI don’t have the eye for what makes it so bad.

Maybe a shortcut for a decorative item here and there, but it’s almost pointless if you already have the talent to make original assets.

Yep. I’ve seen indie game devs try to push AI art into their products and it never looks good. There is no cohesive design. It looks like badly done collage work with images in different resolutions sometimes. And if they’re that lazy, it usually shows in more ways.

in my experience, a lot of the game devs using AI would normally try to do the art themselves, but think AI is “better” than what they could do… Then they throw together a collage of mismatched art that has no cohesion and call it a day, and get upset when they get called out for it, thinking it’s just some anti AI thing.

People love to take shortcuts then hate when people tell them they sacrificed quality to do it.

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Chatgpt, how can I create the grandest pizza morale boosting party without spending money?

Cyberpunk 2077 has a pretty straightforward suicide hack though. People don’t truly care if the game is good.

Is there an advanced white paper that describes the baby fur to Nazi fur pipeline in relation to Elon Musk?

Are you not using AI at all? I still think this is a bubble about to burst, but also, they each do have actual groundbreaking products. Doesn’t mean I believe Altman or OpenAI will necessarily be around in 15 years, but in my opinion they’re more of a WebVan than they are anything.

They are conning people by selling the lie that they are replacing the working class, that I agree with. But they still have something that will stick around, even if it ends up being less loud in our lives. The bubble will burst, but it won’t disappear.

The main world championship and title of GM is open to everyone, so it’s not truly split.

There are FIDE women only tournaments but that’s due to there being less participation of women. When you have something like this where the skill distribution is gaussian, if you have like 50 women compete and 1000 men, you will notice that it’s extremely unlikely for a woman to ever reach 1st place just due to statistics. Replace women and men with brown hair and blond hair and you’d see the same phenomenon.

The tail of the statistics where you see extreme deviations of improved skill would be dominated by the population with much larger participation.

To counter this, they have women only tournaments so that you always have a woman in 1st place in some tournament, basically to improve participation and convince more girls to play when they’re young.

There are of course probably other factors but these things improve participation and are meant to help get more women in chess, not separate them out.

I did the exact same after. Love that service.

No hidden fees… Because if you try to charge past that limit I set, it gets denied lol

Some of them not so easily, no. I had a subscription where I had to call and get forwarded twice over an hour to get someone who kept asking what they had to do to keep my service, dropping fees and halving my monthly rate for 6 months, etc. They make it really hard to cancel.

Honestly it’s fucking evil. I had cards expire and thought, awesome, finally done with those subscriptions! Then I noticed I was still getting charged for them on my brand new card.

We’ve let them take our money, manage it for us, and now they’re turning around and saying “don’t worry, you’ll still get everything you need … Just turn over your finances and decisions to us”.

Fuck this

We know this, but they’re gambling on current children to be raised in this world and not know any different.

Teach them different.

They want to close the loop and get the human out of it

I used to think that but I’m also noticing a pattern where it is just a waste of time and energy.

AI generates the big wordy email that sounds super formal. Someone else uses AI to summarize that email.

It’s like a dumb idea is decompressed and recompressed immediately and unnecessarily. We should never be using AI to do shit like write blogs or lots of words. That should be the human. It should only ever summarize if that’s it’s purpose. But inevitably, people get lazy and want it to write their article…

Sometimes I just keep clicking these things over and over and have them regenerate new prompts and keep spending tokens just so they think they got a surge in engagement but I couldn’t give a fuck less and just want to burn as many of their tokens as possible before I never visit their site again