It’s funny, because I remember playing Persona 5 and seeing that statue in Shibuya Square every time I’m running to the train.

And then I visit Tokyo and there it is. Like getting to meet a celebrity IRL. Except it’s a statue. And there’s a someone next to it with an Imperial Japanese flag screaming fascist shit in Japanese. And at the crosswalk there was a guy with his dick out flashing people.

Japan is a magical place.

Stop offloading thinking to others

The irony of this statement is so thick you could choke on it.

It’s your laisse-faire thoughtlessness that’s lead you to tolerate the recklessness of others. You’re not thinking at all, just closing your eyes because it makes you feel safer.

Ignorance is your Strength

they famously started out by using pagerank

Pagerank was built on the Markov Model, which became the core of modern LLM graph design.

It was a precursor technology, not an independent system, which used Hyperlinks rather than word tokens to form associations.

they usually mean llms specifically and using that to replace actually going to the source websites is new

So much of the complaint around AI isn’t even the LLM part. It’s the weighting and censorship of certain sources and data, convinced with the masking of results behind natural language output templates.

You had the first problem under Pagerank already (Google Bombing and “shadow banning” of sources the company didn’t find reliable). The second is entirely a product of the interface and has nothing to do with the heuristics of the program.

Who can forget the hard-nosed political analysis of the PA Comics from the early 2000s?

It never gets old.

Which, up until maybe eight or nine years ago, Google was pretty good at.

But then we went into this insane build-out cycle, where you were seemingly incentivized to be extra sloppy with every aspect of the business.

That’s not how monopolies work.

It’s cute that you think strains of marijuana haven’t changed in thousands of years.

You’re a real smart guy who definitely knows about weed.

This is how my dog sees the world every time a repair man visits.

Listen, this genocide has a lot of nuances and moving parts and history, which means maybe it’s not a situation where you can just stick your neck in and say “Killing children is wrong”.

I mean, consider a corollary - the British extermination of the Irish. Yeah, it looked bad at the time. But a bunch of Irish people survived. And as a consequence, we have to put up with Ed Sheeran.

Gen-AI use is fine

It’s really not. There’s already enough procedurally generated GACHA crap. Plus the games that are barely more than T&A Simulator. Hooking this up to the AI pipeline and blasting it into Steam or some similar digital games marketplace is bordering on an act of violence.

It doesn’t make a gamedev any holier or respectable if they torture themselves by hand drawing 1000 unique titles and textures for bookspines for some NPCs bookshelf.

I mean, this is what really separates the Men from the Boys when it comes to game development. You come at this thinking “Aha, what kind of dumbshit would have 1000 unique ideas for tiles and textures? How could that possible add to a player’s experience?” And yet this is exactly what makes a FromSoft game or a Hideo Kojima title or a top tier FF title or old school Blizzard or Bioware or Ubisoft or Nintendo game stand out from the pack.

The loving attention to detail. The craftsmanship and creativity and invention, when translating an idea into a digital asset. The fact that it isn’t just a reskinned cracker box CTRL+C, CTRL+V’d a thousand times across a janky looking brick wall.

You begin to see a game’s age and lack of care when an expansion comes out and people are saying “X is just a reskin of Y” in the reviews. You see its strength when you’re on your 100th hour of Eldin Ring or your eighth Resident Evil game, in a location you’ve never been getting blindsided by a creature you’ve never seen before.

“Burden of my safety always lies on others only”.

In product liability cases?

Nevermind that children would have access to a vending machine.

You’re absolutely right to push back on this. 20mg was not the recommended dose, after all. Google is an excellent source of reliable information and it’s always best to consult with a search engine any time you’re researching recreational drug use.

Libertarian-ass response. “If you get yourselves fucked up using our product, you simply should have known better”.

Trying any drugs at random at a concert without someone who’s real about dose and expectations is kind of…well, a bad idea in general.

How on earth is this an argument in favor of weed-gummy vending machines?

you know what you’re good for before digging into those

That’s an absurd expectation.

I don’t know what the happy medium here is on labeling and access

I mean, just for absolute starters, I think giving THC the same regulatory treatment as alcohol and cigarettes makes sense. Even past that, regulatory limits on per-unit dosage and warning labels on packages that aren’t 2-pt-font and maybe even a nurse or pharmacist on hand at point of distribution to give you someone with more experience to talk to would be a vast improvement.

Everclear tastes like such ass even mixed with anything it has to be diluted down to like, wine strength to be drinkable generally from what I’ve seen, or at least cocktail strength.

One experience I had in college that stuck with me was that, as someone gets drunker, their ability to self-regulate alcohol intake disintegrates. This is to the point that some of my friends who are 100 lbs skinnier than me were going shot for shot by the end of the night. And that always ended in disaster.

The fact that Everclear tastes like ass doesn’t dissuade someone who is already 3+ drinks in. Especially if they’re just pounding them.

Lolz. Any money Fetterman rooks from a GOP donor is money that’s not going to a race where it would be more usefully spent.

Let that ogre-brain zionist simp dial for dollars from the wealthiest shitheads he can find. If he’s going to be a lead weight around the necks of his friends, the GOP can have him.

How do I tell them if I’m not on Facebook? That’s where they are.

Mueller Time energy to this story.

Like, Susan Collins doing crimes is no surprise. She’s had a long and tawdry history of saying “I could never support this horrible thing” in public, while holding her hand out behind her for Mitch McConnell to slide in a bribe. And the Pentagon being a wellspring of kickbacks and bribes should be a shock to nobody born more recently than yesterday.

But is anyone going to do anything? I’m not holding my breath. Maybe if they get Alvin Bragg on the case…

Russia trying to buy off Donald Jr is such a bonehead move on two fronts. It makes their corruption look obvious. And it misses the fact that Donald Trump hates his son and would never take his advice to begin with.

Now, bribing Jared Kushner or Scott Bessent or Howard Lutnick? That’ll get you some better mileage.