it’s kind of a critique of the three laws of robotics. it’s main point is the effect that those laws would have on the people living alongside robots governed by them. the primary issue it points out with the 3 laws is basically that if people have an abundance or free labor that is strictly bound to do everything for them and protect them from all harm then they basically become slaves to their own servants (the books use that phrasing, probably because the characters narrating don’t see robotic labor as slavery). they’re not the best books I’ve ever read but I think they make a really good point about how ai/robots should be governed and about what the difference between one of those and a person even is (or rather if there is one at all, save for the three laws), and they are decent just not the best.

you should read roger macbride Allen’s caliban series

hopefully this goes through and all of the ai vc sink companies collapse and take their founders with them

you forgot to mention the hurdy gurdy

you can get cheaper prices elsewhere all the time. look at humble bundle (idk if they’re still around but thats where a lot of my games came from a while back), green man gaming, or any of the console app stores. depending on who has sales when games are cheaper all the time. y’all are falling for propaganda trying to discredit one of the only decent companies left in gaming written by their competitors and their competitors’ friends. try thinking a little before just following the social media hive mind because you’ve spent the last couple decades seeing proof that this is a blatant lie.

that’s basically what the fw desktop is meant to be. idk how good it is at it but the pricing tends to be 2-5k depending on your options, so similar to a mac mini.

only in our dreams

oh, well in that case the framework desktop might be in line with what your looking for. it’s like 1 liter in volume so not very big and it runs a pretty powerful processor with very fast ram and a very similar layout to how macs tend to be set up. it is expensive but not too much more than a mac.

I would look at framework. more repairable, more upgradeable, and they’ve recently taken steps to make their products closer to a max level of quality (including the option of a haptic touchpad on their two main models)

yeah the framework 12 doesn’t make a lot of sense bc the price point is way too high. kinda sucks bc if it was at more of a Chromebook type of price point it would be undoubtedly the best option for schools.

yeah, shows that they actually give a damn about what they sold you. always nice to know that they’re gonna make sure what I paid for will still work right. it’s part of why I love indie games so much. you can reach out to the dev like 10 years after they stopped working on it and let them know about a minor bug and it’ll be fixed like the next day.

edit: spelling

love it when studios randomly come back to a game years later with a new dlc like “hold on tim had a really cool idea while working on the next one so we’re gonna add it to the old one”

i love everything about nier automata except that it hijacks my camera all the damn time and even hijacks movement pretty often

finally, a real political meme instead of just somebody’s opinion in a tweet

make the shitty meme yourself lazy

glad they’re finally realizing the metaverse is bullshit. the term came from early cyberpunk (genre, not franchise) media to describe the internet as we know it before it was invented and properly named.

its talking about taking part in your kids interests, not letting yt babysit them.

bread and circuses were free. unfortunately this is even worse.

thats not nearly enough cells to have an internal experience, they’re fine.

arch users hate it when you use gui for some reason