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Lula Goes HARD

Mark Zuckerberg is straight up way more evil than Elizabeth Holmes but because he’s got a lot of money the tech press has to go to his little events and pretend his ideas are valid instead of being like “what’s up with that dumbass shirt?” and “don’t you regularly influence elections/genocides?”

Resharing this because it's such a formative memory... To most people BioWare means Mass Effect / Dragon Age, but NWN was revolutionary - the "Western RPG Maker". It's the only entry on the CRPG Book with 4 pages, because 2 are just about its Aurora Toolset. Hell, we have The Witcher because of it!

Still thinking about Bioware. Who did a run like this? 1998 Baldur's Gate 2000 BG2 2002 Neverwinter Nights 2003 Knights of the Old Republic 2005 Jade Empire 2007 Mass Effect 2009 Dragon Age Origins 2010 Mass Effect 2 2011 Dragon Age 2 Worst was Jade Empire and it was pretty good

I made a quick video talking about the loss of Bioware. Live service and open world structure did a lot of damage to the Bioware formula, but for EA to kill off one of the greatest RPG studios ever shows how near to collapse the gaming industry is. RIP Bioware. youtu.be/Vk-zKGcVIWQ

I'm getting a little worried about my graphics card. I may be forced into a life of crime.

I know Bioware hadn't had a hit in a while, but its shocking to see them gone. Few studios did as much to define their genre as Bioware did for the RPG. The gaming industry is digging its own grave at incredible speed.

If I were to become the official spokesman for a product that I use heavily it would probably be for either lentils or diet ginger-ale. Cause I'm super cool.

Anthropic outlines its approach to "responsible data centre development", and........explicitly promises to carpet bomb communities with massive, polluting new fossil gas plants. This is what your Claude subscription is enabling: web.archive.org/web/20261016...

YOJIMBO is so fuckin funny. We need to pump the brakes on Seven Samurai adaptations and start pumping out more Yojimbolikes

no one over 40 is gonna buy this because you can't play a bluray in it and no one under 40 will buy it because its going to cost $1200

If an economist disrespects you its ok to squeeze their neck for a few minutes until they stop moving. They don't actually have any civil rights or souls even.

I made a video talking about The Witcher 3 Remaster and my distaste for remasters in the AI era. youtu.be/9dQRpPXGB50

right wingers experience the world as a word association game. you can show them bike lanes are good for business all you want but Bicycle -> Emissions / Climate / Europe / Healthy -> Regulations -> Bad for Business

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

Yes, yes, a disgusting sentiment and fully representative of his depraved cohort's worldview, they have too much power and too much money and we can't go on like this, etc. More than that we just need to build a society where we never see a pic of a guy that looks like this again on a news story.

Onomichi Harbor (Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, PC-PS4-XOne, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, 2016)

Thank you for the levitation potion. Very, very much. If you don't mind, I'll just wait here for a while until I calm down. But, as promised, here are the skirt and hat.

Forgot that the funniest part of Black Dynamite is him struggling to hang up on his aunt

200 billion dollars and he can't afford dignity or self-respect.

90 degrees in october, that's what I'm not talking about.

happy birthday to god

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

It's Nobel Prize week! Time for your annual reminder that 72 years after Alfred Nobel died, economists got Swedish bankers to endow an econ prize "in honor of Alfred Nobel," against Nobel's descendants' wishes. Media now pretend the econ prize is as newsworthy as the phys/chem/med/lit/peace prizes.

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Oh yeah that’s the good stuff

thank you to the Fauntleroy Institute for Soft-Handedness for planting this timely article about the value of other people doing hard work

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

Worth note: at the time of this atrocity Anthropic was the LLM powering the Maven Smart System in partnership with Palantir. Don't let Dario's bullshit fool you. There is no "good" frontier AI company.

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

SCENE FROM 2027: Fanduel Ad blasting on the TV: "IN TOO DEEP? UP TO 50K FORGIVEN IF YOU ENLIST NOW" as a man quietly sobs in the corner of the bar

If you shaved and bathed Michael Tracey he would look pretty close to Dario Amodei (derogatory to both parties).

you really would have to be a pretty bad dude to rescue the president

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

There should be a censorship board just for tv commercials. Just to clear out the low effort AI slop. You should have try a little harder if you want to trick people into gambling their life away.

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

I trod the ship; I knew the crew; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney.

thinking about the coolest thing ever put into a videogame www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-YP...

Destroy all data centers, imprison all tech billionaires

only gonna vote for parties who will arrest these people and bulldoze data centres

Ran out of coffee filters, I had to fashion a paper towel into a makeshift filter and it worked fine. Turns out I am a genius at this highly niche and useless skill. After the apocalypse I will be in charge of making things into coffee filters.

Kalshi has added a new Davey Scatino button. Bet with leverage and Kalshi employees will show up at your sporting goods store to bust it out. Enjoy moving out west to work at a ranch after your family disowns you, all with the click of 1 button.

Cant wait for the last remnants of shared reality to completely disintegrate once payday loans and reality-gambling merge, then get taken over by private equity

halo and doom should be public domain. the first person shooter belongs to the people

Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you