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  • I used to love Borderlands…

    Then they locked characters behind expensive DLC. So I started waiting for the “everything” editions, but then it made sense to just wait for big sales…

    And eventually not caring about the franchise.

    Its like Crusader Kings or Sims. It’s better than annual releases that don’t really change, but the DLC structure turns people away from the entire game. Even if you wait for a sale, all the “new” DLC stays expensive.

    So people put off buying anything till they just don’t care.










  • AI is shit.

    Facial recognition is shit.

    But none of that was really the issue here:

    Lipps spent nearly four months in a Tennessee jail without bail - classified as a fugitive, she had no hearing, no interview, nothing. North Dakota officers didn’t retrieve her until October 30, 108 days after the arrest. October 31 was her first court appearance and the first time police spoke to her, reports InForum.

    Arrested and thrown in jail for 108 days before seeing any sort of judge is a constitutional violation.

    We hear about this because it’s an obvious wrong case to an old innocent grandma…

    But it’s not the only time it’s happening. And if this happened to her, it can happen to anyone.

    A lazy/dumb cop or ICE agent can just declare you’re someone they’re looking for, and by the time it’s settled your life is destroyed.

    We can’t keep kicking police reform down the road.

    We can’t settle for moderate politicians who say they’ll try on a few issues.

    We need politicians who understand that everything is fucked and desperately needs fixed across the board.


  • It’s been a minute, but I thought the tokens represented compute time

    But then they realized people valued the idea of compute time more than the compute time.

    So it became similar to crypto, where it was just used as a currency.

    The part about gaining control I thought was something else, where Pied Piper didn’t have 50% of accounts on an app, just a majority. And due to the decentralized nature of their software, whoever had the majority controlled the code. So the Chinese and Gavin set up a zombie network of bot phones to gain 50% in a hostile takeover once the boys were switched from independent accounts to an organization.

    But like I said, it’s been a minute and sometimes I’m wrong.

    But I think they were two separate iterations of what the company was at the time


  • AI companies who can’t find anyone to buy their product, swear their employees would rather have their product in exchange for labor rather than money…

    Which could easily be used to buy the product no one outside the company is buying.

    This is just a way to juice metrics and claim this “compensation” as sales on the books.

    And I’m almost positive the “per user growth” they’re talking about is just how brain rot addicts will use chatbots for everything once their brain atrophies from not using it. But just by mentioning that they had to admit that overall use wasn’t a metric they wanted to talk about.

    It’s like how a small percentage of drinkers (the alcoholics) buy the vast amount of alcohol. Less people drinking is bad for the company, and a few alcoholics can’t sustain the company without being replaced by new addicts.

    Edit:

    Also, isn’t this literally a plot point from Silicon Valley?

    Like, their desperation move to get funding at some point was handing out compute tokens, but the only people who wanted to buy it was their competitors because non of the companies had customers?


  • I can’t tell if the author is ignorant or really think “posting knowledge” to social media isn’t just handing it to AIs…

    Like they even take a break in the article to defend people who take low paying jobs training AI and that how it’s actually a good deal for people who don’t have a job.

    It’s like when a 9 year old learns what reverse psychology is and does a shit job at it.

    Everything the author said just gets AI free or cheap training.





  • Try “random start” mods.

    Instead of taking you thru the opening scenes of a big RPG like Skyrim, it just punts you to some random area so you can immediately start messing around

    A lot of games have big scripted events the first couple hours, being able to skip those helps it from feeling repetitive, because that’s the stuff you’ve done ever playthrough you’ve ever started.