xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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Joined Jun 2020
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Is AI just a marketing gimmic made to cover up the fact, that we've hit the peak silicon with the 5nm technology?
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How hard do you think it would be to build small scale fusion or "free energy" ?
Put another way, how much of this is a true Hard Problem, and how much is academic stupidity and/or technology suppression?
Put another way, how much of this is a true Hard Problem, and how much is academic stupidity and/or technology suppression?
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> outspoken AIPAC antagonist rotated out for more compliant AIPAC recipient
america is a real country
america is a real country
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@xianc78 >They probably can't even go back to chasing their original dreams either because the cat's out of the bag and everything has been archived.
I'd argue it's more, they've been changed mentally to not ever do anything that isn't political. Some of them can't hide their powerlevel enough to make something someone will care about, and will literally complain about political games before posting swatiskas on Twitter.
Or worse, they'll just talk about their past life of going to some infamous rally and some internet feuds like it's some trauma dump. Or they overcorrect like a drunk driver and go to another extreme of the political spectrum.
But also, I think the big problem too is once you know how people act in this era, the "magic" of meeting cool people online is ruined hard. How do you know that this person isn't crying about you on Bluesky?
I'd argue it's more, they've been changed mentally to not ever do anything that isn't political. Some of them can't hide their powerlevel enough to make something someone will care about, and will literally complain about political games before posting swatiskas on Twitter.
Or worse, they'll just talk about their past life of going to some infamous rally and some internet feuds like it's some trauma dump. Or they overcorrect like a drunk driver and go to another extreme of the political spectrum.
But also, I think the big problem too is once you know how people act in this era, the "magic" of meeting cool people online is ruined hard. How do you know that this person isn't crying about you on Bluesky?
I think the worst part about the culture war was the mentality from both sides that everyone was the enemy unless proven otherwise, so you might as well pick the side that you find the least cringe/offensive. This ended up being disastrous in the long run because you had people who would otherwise be gamedevs, software developers, comic artists, cartoonists, etc end up being culture war grifters instead, and they probably only did that just to seek validation from their peers, and many (if not most or all) of them ended up being lolcows anyway, so it was pointless in the long run. They probably can't even go back to chasing their original dreams either because the cat's out of the bag and everything has been archived.
This even affects people outside of content creation because it brought in the trend of adopting (or LARPing as) some niche political ideology like AnCap, NazBol, monarchist, etc and making that your entire Internet personality, and then just locking yourself into an echo-chamber, either by blocking people you disagree with or bullying the shit out of them. Yeah, I'm kind of guilty of this as well (minus the personal echo-chamber part), but I kind of regret it. Politics and philosophical discussions can be fun provided that you have an open mind, which is why I think older-forums did it better by having containment subforums for heated discussions, but ideologies should not be your entire personality. It will get you nowhere in life, outside of doing podcasts or writing Substack articles for a living.
I don't know if we can ever go back to the way things were, especially given the sunk-cost fallacy is a thing and we are living in uncertain times anyway, but I really miss the days when politics and other heated discussions where in their own containment areas and people can just create and enjoy stuff online.
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@PurpCat @Morghur @Vidmastereon
This is the primary reason I've tried to disconnect from online politics in recent months and move towards making stuff instead. Blogposting will accomplish nothing.
This is the primary reason I've tried to disconnect from online politics in recent months and move towards making stuff instead. Blogposting will accomplish nothing.
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@Morghur @Vidmastereon >at least the fucking libtards will spend a pittance on the horrible shit they claim to support.
For every Undertale/Deltarune or even Cruelty Squad, there's so many flops, games that are like Dustborn but don't even get hate played.
Most of the time they end up consooming the big product, and their culture war wins in part have to do with things like the "long march through the institutions"/O'Sullivan's Law (when companies/groups are subverted), nepo hiring, etc.
The pittance they'll spend money on are shit like Marathon, Overwatch, etc. I mean AAA games where there's aesthetics or messages or pandering in them. Or it's just whatever Nintendo makes.
I think the big issue here is more, there's less people on the right making games. Most of the people from GG decided they'd rather be grifters like Quarter Pounder instead of being gamedevs and look where that got them. Meanwhile the left churns out slop that ends up only noticed when it's in the "LGBT gamedevs for Gaza mega-bundle" on itch.
For every Undertale/Deltarune or even Cruelty Squad, there's so many flops, games that are like Dustborn but don't even get hate played.
Most of the time they end up consooming the big product, and their culture war wins in part have to do with things like the "long march through the institutions"/O'Sullivan's Law (when companies/groups are subverted), nepo hiring, etc.
The pittance they'll spend money on are shit like Marathon, Overwatch, etc. I mean AAA games where there's aesthetics or messages or pandering in them. Or it's just whatever Nintendo makes.
I think the big issue here is more, there's less people on the right making games. Most of the people from GG decided they'd rather be grifters like Quarter Pounder instead of being gamedevs and look where that got them. Meanwhile the left churns out slop that ends up only noticed when it's in the "LGBT gamedevs for Gaza mega-bundle" on itch.
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Made some Ethernet cables today to clean up my embedded lab. One white jumper because the blue finally ran out.
Bottom shelf is modems that are for automated testing:
* Zyxel PMG5617GA (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* SmartFiber XP8421-B (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* Zyxel EX3301-T0 (EN7516 chip) Router only
* Nokia G-240G-E (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* ChinaMobile GS3101 (EN7526F chip) Fiber
* TpLink Archer VR1200V (v2) (EN7513G chip) DSL
And off to the side, another ChinaMobile GS3101 which I'll be sending to someone after I install OpenWrt on it.
Bottom shelf is modems that are for automated testing:
* Zyxel PMG5617GA (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* SmartFiber XP8421-B (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* Zyxel EX3301-T0 (EN7516 chip) Router only
* Nokia G-240G-E (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* ChinaMobile GS3101 (EN7526F chip) Fiber
* TpLink Archer VR1200V (v2) (EN7513G chip) DSL
And off to the side, another ChinaMobile GS3101 which I'll be sending to someone after I install OpenWrt on it.
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This is also why I avoid political shit on my TL because it's been a constant rerun of 2017, and nobody will lift a finger for each other and would prefer to feud it out over if their own political prisoners were FBI plants or some shit.
The only difference is now people are also unsure if Anime is based or cringe.
The only difference is now people are also unsure if Anime is based or cringe.
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Guys, here's this fear porn article decided to make you feel some way. No, I won't suggest solutions and any way out of it, not even outsourcing what I want people to do.
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I don't even know what this Quartering drama is all about, but I find it said that people still obsess over these YouTube political grifters. Virtually every single one of them has become a lolcow at some point. Who cares? Just move on with your life.
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Apparently people can't do math and give in to stupid ideas like Roblox has a child exploitation problem based on raw numbers.
Even people advocating against this stupidity. GamersNexus stated that Roblox has a problem and stated there are 13,000 sexual incidents on the platform a year. Without context this sounds like a problem, but it's not. There are 1.4 billion users on the platform! That is 0.000000867% risk factor. Your kid is far more likely to be hit by a car: 0.0001% and it is about as likely that they'll be struck by lightning. If you can't do math that amounts to a near ZERO percent chance your kid will encounter a predator.
Based on this logic every kid should be locked in a padded room and only released once they turn "adult" (?28? maybe... brain isn't "fully developed" until then). Yes, this is stupid, but these advocates of this kind of shit are the real threat and the real extremists. They think even one incident is far too many as if there is some magical way to stop all threats if only we pass another dumb law (that often only endangers children, or worse everyone). They advocate based on fear and rely on stupid people (those in 'society') not being able to think for themselves.
It's long past time we started advocating to re-introduce 'danger' into the lives of 'children'.
In the 80s getting cut up- falling off a bike- or dealing with a bully was said to 'build character'. I certainly wouldn't go quite that far, but there is some element of the mentality that you need to let kids live and learn and experience the world for themself that makes sense. It's how we learn and grow as humans. Not doing it leads to bad decisions, bigger more prolific problems; loss of life savings to Nigerian princes.
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- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
