I partly agree with you in that everyone using the same UE5 engine is bad

But I really don’t agree that deferred rendering techniques are inherently bad. Maybe they cause negative incentives for developers that lead to worse games in the long run, but you might as well blame capitalism at that point

I like techniques such as TAA because they do work better as anti-aliasing in my experience. I’ve multiple times had the choice between TAA and traditional AA and I think TAA simply does what it sets out to do better. Upscaling and frame generation are also nice to haves as optional features people can enable. Sometimes I use them, sometimes not. But it is bad that companies use these techniques as a crutch, indeed, but I don’t want to see them gone

Frankly focusing on the carbon output of AI models is a red herring. It’s not a significant part of the problem and just makes people complacent in the form of feeling like we’ve achieved something if it succeeds. It’s not worse than stuff like video games

Focus on the actual negative effects of AI, but carbon intensity isn’t a major one

That and the conglomerates can afford to invest fully into the most cutting edge automation to reduce the amount of labour needed

I thought I was the only one with this problem. I always kept confusing Kirk and Shapiro in my head

Depending on how you define desire, yes absolutely. I’d argue that bacteria don’t have desires per say, but more instincts and basically being alive automatons.

No

Eh, my opinion is that games should be far more stricter. It’s really not fun when every match devolves into toxicity

What are you on about here? It’s clear they talked about the Democratic Party (not the voters) the entire time

Not if some of those resources are things like oil. It’s gonna run out eventually.

But like, yes, in principle there’s plenty of resources, especially as the main source of energy is the sun. But there won’t be if that resource usage grows infinitely, even if people stop hoarding. It’s going to become a problem eventually no matter what, unless the endless pursuit of growth ends

Unless they’re like right wing or nationalist, people are in general not in denial about our past. More or less the same as in other countries

Most countries have done horrible shit, and it sucks a whenever it gets denied

Slavery is a terrible idea, who knew

Turns out an educated, happy, and productive populace is far more beneficial

Frankly, out of everything, I’m amazed at just how textbook it fucking is. It’s incredible. You’d think that it would be more subtle, more covert, maybe even slightly different so that people won’t suspect a thing, or hell, maybe even due to them already knowing that this is how it went in history and what the end result was

But no. It’s literally fucking, act for act, the exact same shit. I can hardly believe it. It’s so… I don’t even know what the appropriate word for it is

It really is something

And that a CEO intentionally and illegitimately denies health care coverage that leads to people straight up dying or otherwise ending up permanently disabled due to preventable causes, that’s just fine?

Discord is already dying. It’s been enshittifying for a while, and it’s about to go public

Capitalism directly rewards this kind of behaviour. Maybe it would still be a problem in other systems, but capitalism very much exarcabates it by design.

Yes, you should very much talk about whether stuff like this is okay to do to someone else before you do it. You can’t consent when you sleep, so you must get full consent beforehand.

And yes, you should typically ask whether doing something is okay before you do it, in general. Communication is good, it won’t hurt anyone.

And no, it isn’t safe to just assume anything. Ask! That’s really all there is to it. Ask and accept a “no”. Ideally you also check in a few times underway. It leads to better sex.

My mindset comes from the kink community, where generally most things are permissable, but so long as consent stays in front and centre. Unless you have agreed beforehand to treat it otherwise, stuff like a “giggly no” is a no. Well, specifically you’d have safe words such as “red”, but I assume that’s not the case here.

In short though, don’t just assume anything of the other person, ask them, and allow them to talk.

Frankly, I wish we just abolished the damn monarchy already. I hate that we still have kings and queens in a democratic country even if they are just ceremonial. They don’t deserve all this media attention just because they got a lucky birth

Treat all of them as one would any other citizen and be done with it. Unfortunately, the monarchy still faces popular support towards existing, though I hope it changes sooner or later

But why the fuck would the rich be accelerationists?? They’re already rich. They already won. Don’t they want to try to keep the world around for as long as possible? They got everything to lose!

Do they really think that they will come unscathed out of, and live a better life, in a collapsed society?

Say there were one person willing, and able to do it. Would it have been beneficial for the state of the world? This is a genuine question

Like, yes, obviously it likely would have been beneficial for Ukraine and possibly even the Russian people (in the long run), but it would also break the promise of diplomatic safety, and would that lead to better outcomes for the world long term?

No matter what, it’s not going to get worse than dying. There is a floor to the suffering

Sure, they could in theory grab you and torture you, but just keep an easy out around and you’ll be fine