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As with most games I’m just not going to get it day one and wait for the reviews. It’s not like they’re going to run out of stock so there’s no harm in delaying things.

I want to see what they do with the RP side of things, as there are rumours of a proper RP mode, which would make online play actually bearable. But since it’s just rumours with no evidence, I’m going to wait.

I don’t know “eyes” is a difficult word to spell.

Why are all the experts going on about the fact you might blind pilots but not talking about the fact that it won’t actually do anything.

It would have to be an astonishingly vast megastructure for it to have any effect at all. If we were talking about a structure 100 km across or more they might actually have some sort of point.

He famously isn’t rich. He manages the money of the rich, he himself is only well off. This isn’t his money he’s investing, it’s the money of the people he works for. So there’s obviously some market feeling that this is a good bet.

The fact that he was even able to make that bet is incredible. How deluded do you have to be to think the AI bubble won’t burst? Keeping it going will require in ever-increasing amounts of money to paper over the gaping chasms that keep cropping up, and eventually the amount of money necessary to keep it going will cease to be feasible. Then, after taking gullible investor for all of they’ve got, the whole thing will fall over in the world’s most well deserved and predictable market crash.

The subprime mortgage collapse was inevitable only in hindsight, you had to have a good understanding of the market to see it in advance. To see the level of corruption and false promises that have to be made in order to make the mortgage bubble possible. But everyone can see the AI BS right out in the open, I’m not talking about the “how many Rs are in strawberry” questions either, I can sort of see why that’s not really a fair question. I’m talking about the fact that every single business that has ever tried to replace its employees with AI, has always failed, and failed almost immediately. Even Amazon couldn’t make it work.

You have to be pretty deep in the Kool-Aid to think that ubisoft has “taken risks” with Assassins Creed.

Why would the doctor not want people to stick things in the sand?

Wouldn’t it be amazing if we had marginally competent political representatives rather than the complete wastes of oxygen that we have right now.

If he’s invented teleportation that’s totally different I’m all for that.

There is a severe lack of people to work in the care sector. I don’t understand how the situation is improved by having them remotely control expensive robots. They can still only be in one place at a time controlling one robot at a time.

I agree on the slave front. If there is going to be any slavery going on, it better be good old-fashioned analogue slavery.

Where does it say that

The article never makes the claim that you can access it from anywhere in the world. Literally nowhere in the entire article does it ever make a comment even remotely suggesting that that’s a possibility.

Yeah let’s all just ignore the utter ignorance that this image demonstrates.

I grew up in the 1980s and trust me it’s a microscopic fraction of what it used to be. You used to be able to cut blocks out of the air. If you sat at the back of a cinema you would be lucky if you were able to see the screen through all the haze. That’s all gone now.

Oh yes the famous nation of Europe. An entire continent full of nations and different cultures been rendered down to the stereotypes of the occupants of a single city.

Americans need to get out more.

I wouldn’t have had to explain common sense things if you had thought about it for 10 seconds before posting your comment. So any condescending attitude you feel you experienced is entirely your own problem.

The thing about logical thought is that it doesn’t actually care about your feelings. You’re the one that decided to try and couch this in terms of misogyny, but the reality is that female birth control simply developed first and had a huge impact on women as a result. And even if reliable male birth control existed (there are experiments ongoing but it’s certainly not publicly available) women would still have to take birth control themselves in order to guarantee they wouldn’t get pregnant, precisely because of the disparity of fertility mentioned in the image. So whether or not male birth control exists, basically has no bearing on women.

That’s not birth control that’s just like having a vasectomy. The big power of birth control is that it works after the fact so if you wake up in the morning and you realise you’ve made a mistake, you have options.

That’s not how engineering works. That’s like saying that you don’t need gas release valves you just need to never over pressure the line. Now obviously the objective is to never over pressure the line, but it’s good to have contingencies in place in case it happens.

You could equally say that you don’t need to be on birth control if you just always use condom but sometimes they fail.

The fact that you think that that response was defending sexism rather proves that you are not arguing from a point of good faith.

No one is saying sexism doesn’t exist, but that’s not the point being argued here.