Young adults have to become experts at something to realize that - a prospect that AI makes harder every day.

You mean like every single other game that has the resource chugging always-on home-phoning DRM stripped out?

It’d be more surprising if it DIDN’T run better.

The definition of financial happiness is the difference between how much you make and how much you spend.

While some poor jerk is spending the next 30 years paying 30% of their income on a mortgage, you’ve got everything you need at a 10th the cost and can afford to weather whatever comes at you.

We are extremely aware and super tuned in, but the vast majority of people who buy games do not look this closely.

Irresponsible companies are the result of irresponsible consumers. It sucks, but it’s built into our economic system, and more deeply, our species.

For those of us born before YouTube, we can just leave it.

For those born in the last couple decades, legacy tv and movies are difficult to watch and are only consumed occasionally. It will never, ever occur to YouTube’s primary audience to stop watching.

“Futurism” hits like a religious word now that you need a blind faith that’s contrary to logic to believe there’s a future for us at all.

We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.

At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species’ DNA.

They’re the same people who go “I’m fine with the raising prices. It’s a valuable service to me and I make lots of money, so I’m fine with bending over for their shareholders.”

It’s capitalism signaling for people with more money than values and ABSOLUTELY no sense of pattern recognition or consequences.

They’ll get offered ad revenue sharing and it’ll be too good to pass up.

They certainly have no ideological problem with following suit.

Disco Elysium (2019)

Let’s jump RIGHT back into another corporate owned social media site that will sell everyone’s data, enshittify, go public, and then squeeze everyone to death.

Apparently we’re incapable of learning this lesson.

Don’t worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it’ll stop getting worse and everything will be great.

Look, the individual - one, single, unshielded human mind - constantly bombarded with the cumulative brainwashing tools built of hundreds of years of psychological research, ads and manipulative propaganda being ceaselessly fed to them by organizations with bottomless wallets, and perverse lifestyle incentives driven by law, monopolistic market manipulation, and tax codes, is obviously completely to blame for every decision they make and should bear the full brunt of all responsibility.

/s

Waterworld is good.

incoherent grumbling

This guy and his mom approve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTomMm61Ixw

The real money is in creating the robots that will clean and maintain the sex bots.

God, have I been there.

The worst part of Big Bang Theory is how bad it makes you feel when people you know recommend it to you.

“What kind of person do you think I am, exactly? And who do you think this show is for?”