Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@LukeAlmighty Thing is, if we lose enough technology or energy output, we simply won't be able to make us of nuclear material anymore. We won't have enough resources to build and ignite a nuclear power plant.

As for fusion... no... we've been "a decade away" for how long now? And we're still "a decade away". Best estimates are for a TEST production facility for 2040 I think. Which means, there's still far off from widespread adoption. And that's of course assuming the test goes well, and there isn't another Greenpeace social panic that sabotages everything... again. I'd rather maintain zero hope for fusion and be pleasantly surprised if it does happen. Fission is a known quantity, and we should have had a fission power plant at every corner by now (figuratively speaking).

Global warming is a bit more complicated than that, but I was trying to avoid the topic altogether. The whole sea level rising issue has been horribly explained by the media for as long as I lived. And now that I finally had someone explain it properly... yeah... it IS happening, and no EU "carbon plan" will stop it.

@LukeAlmighty Do/Did conservatives actually have foresight in all of this? Maybe you have some specific examples in mind, but to me it seems that conservatives have been struggling to react. The strong opposition to everything social-justice/feminism/woke has come from moderate liberals, or "centrist" types, that sometimes slowly moved rightward as the culture war progressed.

To me it seems like conservatives are still clueless about how bad things are. Meanwhile I was saying that social-justice, what we call woke today, was a religion for close to a decade. I've been doubting the new trans ideology for at least three quarters of that time. I've seen the intentional uglyfication of female characters in games since ME:Andromeda. I've called Antifa as being today's Nazis brown shirts since they first appeared.
I can't remember how many observations and hypothesis over what is happening I've thought about over the years that I've seen intellectuals discover from scratch years later than me.
Easy example, Gad Saad has been talking about idea pathogens for a few years now, and describing "woke" as such a pathogen. But this isn't new concept. I read "The God Virus" by Darrel Ray over a decade ago, before even GamerGate, and realized the social-justice/woke movement was essentially the same thing as Darrel Ray was describing. He just didn't have the foresight to generalize his concept, and he was just focusing on religion.

And I am definitely NOT a conservative. Back then I was liberal-left enough, that taking a political test that recommended what US presidential candidate best fit your politics gave me Bernie Sanders.

There was nothing conservative about me observing this crap and opposing it. None of the thought leaders or "intellectuals" that shaped me before were conservatives. It wasn't conservative values that lead me to realize "bruh, progressivism is bad" before the word became mainstream.

So I really am curious what specifically you have in mind when you say conservatives have decades worth of foresight. Because I don't think this was what I experienced so far in this culture war.

I've been thinking about something last night. I'm starting to think that this could be it, that what we're experiencing right now is the height of human civilization on Earth.
I think that, because we didn't build up nuclear energy in time, we will fail to make the transition away from fossil fuels fast enough, we'll run out, and we'll reach a point where we won't be able to make enough energy to sustain societies as they are today.
A collapse will come. But that's not the real issue. The real issue is that without an abundance of oil anymore, without that much cheap energy, human civilization won't be able to rebound, and will basically remain stuck to somewhere around steam engine stage. At best we might see steampunk become a reality.

I've been thinking about something similar for some time. Humanity owes its technological advancement to fossil fuels. To forests and critters of countless millions of years ago that died and got buried before they could decompose.
As such, ANY intelligent alien civilization NEEDS to evolve on a planet that has fossil fuels in the ground already. If an intelligent life form evolves before fossil fuels get created through geological processes, or where they don't exist for any other reason, that's it. That's a technological dead end for them. They'll be stuck at a medieval stage, forever.

"But muh solar power" NO! You're not gonna make solar panels from burning wood. If you're struggling to barely melt metal, you're not gonna have the cheap resources needed to experiment and research anything more than a basic axe and a sword.
And remember the social panic there was in the 90s, that we were cutting down all trees to make paper? Now imagine trying to sustain a high population civilization that BURNS only wood for everything.
You are not building a technological civilization off of wood. At the very minimum you need coal, but realistically you need oil. No civilization, alien or otherwise, will EVER make the transition from burning wood to solar panels. Same goes for wind. You think you'll create fine copper wire to make electric engines and generators by burning wood?

Now going back to humanity. If societies collapse. That's it. We don't have readily available oil. The reserves we still have need highly advanced machinery to extract. Machinery that might not survive a collapse, or that we'll lose the knowledge of how to use.
We still have a lot of coal, but I'm not sure if even that is easily exploitable anymore. Can you still find coal with nothing more than pickaxes as tools?
After the collapse happens, there will be no more smartphones, no more computers, no more internet, anymore. Ever. For as long as Earth continues to orbit around the Sun, humanity will continue, but will remain stuck in much more primitive societies.

This is not something I expect to happen in the next decade. Not in our lifetimes either. Could take a few centuries. But I think it could happen.
Our energy needs are growing too fast. First cryptocoin and now AI have been the world's dumbest ideas when we're struggling to deal with finding energy alternatives. And dumber ideas are sure to be on the horizon still.
IF nuclear energy had been abundant, this wouldn't have been an issue. But instead of growing nuclear capabilities, we've decimated them. Now there's talks about a revitalization. But projections for the first batches of new generation nuclear power plants are for like 2050 or something. And that's assuming the political willpower is maintained until then. Which... fucking hell people... western nations can't keep it together for 5 years, let alone decades.
Even if I assume mere stupidity, and not outright malice, the world's political system is essentially trying to kill humanity.

But going back a bit, with energy usage growing so fast, at some point something will collapse. If people start rioting and pillaging AI server farms and solar plants, if people start chaos and revolutions, you think energy plants will survive? You think fragile solar panels will be intact? You'll have South Africa style situations where the infrastructure will be compromised, and left in taters to the point where you can't even use every bit of energy making capacity you have left to create new solar panels, new windfarms, etc.
You won't be able to grow back, because trying to ration energy for basic industry instead of population needs will just get you a free noose around your neck as part of a new population revolt.
And solar panels wear out. So do wind farms. You won't be able to replace them, more and more of them will fail, until you have nothing left and are back to burning wood to stay warm during winter.

If you had an abundance of cheap oil, gas, coal, sure you can build back. Just burn more and more. But you're not building back from solar and wind.

I don't think it will happen within our lifetimes. So unless you care that much about your great-grandchildren, this really isn't something that will affect you. Not something you should care about.

But if you have some deep optimism and hope that one day humanity will reach the stars, if you're like me and hope humanity will exist forever more, discover everything there is to discover, explore all the deep blue and the cosmos, reach the pinnacle of science and technology that we can't even imagine yet... If you're romantic in that way... this is a sobering thought to consider.

@WhitestTemplar Honestly, probably the first time I opened one of his videos, but the title made me curious ("This Video is for Wanted Criminals Only"), and it was short enough that I wouldn't be wasting much time.

I just had a weird feeling that if I put this here, it might actually reach the targeted demographic at some point.
Yeah, I know it's a stupid video. But it made me laugh a bit, so... can't be that bad.

@Mr_NutterButter Same here, I couldn't watch anything after Alien Force because I just hated the art style. Alien Force won me over cause it had a pretty interesting plot, and added a lot to the lore.

@LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter
You either learn how to treat your partner or how to raise children from your parents, or you learn how NOT to treat your partner and raise children.

It depends a lot I think on how well you were raised. If there was a good healthy relationship, there are probably gonna be things that you unconsciously copy and never even think about it. So sure, there are gonna be some similarities. But I stress "similarities", because your partner will never be exactly like your parent, so your behavior will adapt to him/her.
But if the relationship was bad, you're more likely to end up thinking about your parents actions, and try to do things differently.

TL;DR There are always gonna be things you pick up from your parents, but it's not gonna be a perfect 1-to-1 correlation to how you treat other people, especially if you had a bad relationship with your parents.

@Mr_NutterButter Man... that's a long time ago... might have been the fast guy, I think his name was something like XLR8. Diamond Head was probably a close second.
I never really liked any of the new aliens from later series.

@LukeAlmighty @Mr_NutterButter
A lot of parents would spoil their kids to hell and back with games and consoles, because they've been gamers themselves at some point in their lives. But when there's simply not enough children to begin with, and political leaders are salivating at the idea of importing more human beings, like cattle, than babies being made... It's simply a better investment for companies to focus on adults.

Case example: you're Valve and want to do research on a new gamepad or joystick.
Is it a better idea to focus your research on how children hold a gamepad, when your birth rate is predicted to keep dropping, and nobody even wants to fix it (and there's enough conspiracy theories that elites work to make it drop more)?
Or should you do your research on adults, since you know politicians insist that we will import more and more adult human cattle, at least until the end of the century?
In the first case, your research is less and less relevant as time goes on, but in the second case, the research remains useful and pays dividends for a long time.

@Mr_NutterButter @LukeAlmighty
The reason they can't market towards kids is not because the gaming market has become big, but because the growth potential for advertising to kids is too small. There are no kids. Society is broken and no one is having kids. Even suggesting to a woman to have children is now in the best case scenario taboo, in the worst case scenario is considered misogyny worthy of a prison sentence. The only "children" women want to take care of are illegal immigrants from some god forsaken hell whole, who are also adults.

So the only market that exists and keeps having a reliable potential for growth, not just in gaming, but in entertainment as a whole, is adults. And this might also be what has caused media to be stuck in this remake era. They keep playing on adult's nostalgia, instead of making something that children of today might like.

@LukeAlmighty
>They made it bigger
I've heard people argue before, and I didn't quite believe it, but I'm starting to. Gaming is not for children anymore. They're not focusing on making games or consoles for children. The entire market is focusing solely on adults.
Kids can cope with a smaller screen because they're holding it closer to their face anyway, since they're, you know, small kids. But adults need bigger screens, bigger surfaces to grasp, etc.

@coolboymew
Pretty based for having integrated auto-mapping, inventory, character windows etc. I found a few years back a program that gives these facilities for a few old cRPGs like Might&Magic by hacking into DosBox.
https://www.eskimo.com/~edv/lockscroll/WhereAreWe/

If you ever thought "nah, Vtubers are not for me", you need to watch this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCB-1xGR4iY

@LukeAlmighty
Ultimately women's choices when it comes to children are voluntary, but there is something to be said about whether you can say someone is making a choice with informed consent when the feminist religion is giving people false/fake information on which they base their decision making. Is it your choice if you're being manipulated into it?

But in the end women are still responsible to gather information outside the propaganda (which too many don't do, and that's a choice in itself for which they are solely responsible).

You know... it would be kinda poetic if Snow White 1937 gave Disney its success, and Snow White 2025 finally collapsed the company. Almost StarWars-esque, the birth and downfall of a Hollywood empire.

@js I meant that South Park had an episode around hummel figurines. I think the town became obsessed with collecting them, and I think the boys where smuggling them or something.

@jeremiah In case you haven't noticed, chad communists appreciated the beauty of adult women. Not children... fucking Germans...

@js Isn't that the South Park thing?

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