oooh, i think you'll like it. check out, i dunno, maybe his videos on harvester or bloodlines or...well, there are a lot

Grimbeard GOTH GAMER NATION If you're here for game reviews, you're going to have a bad time.

how do ya feel about grimbeard?

i'm not very far into it, but so far it just feels like a nice throwback to simple, single-player action adventure games like we used to get before...well, everything

dunno about cliffhangers, but it's fun enough

i did buy the dlc though, mostly so the robot girl could have some pants and shoes

you'd be surprised at what's actually in the works right now to do exactly that. when i say omnipresent surveillance, i mean pervasive on a level previously unimaginable. disparate systems working together to fill data gaps, centralising intelligence acquisition to track even the fully disconnected

sure, but they can and will make installing and using an open OS illegal

ok, louder this time: age verification isn't about age verification

it's about surveillance, enforcement, and control

your ENTIRE life - online and off - will be monitored by AI, which can revoke your ability to use any computer (everything is computer) at any time

and that's just the beginning

fair point, but the fact that game prices have remained basically unchanged for decades is still wild

it also has a knock-on effect to cheaper games. if $60 for a multimillion-budget game is too much, $20 is too much for a much smaller budgeted game

and even then, they won’t buy until a -90% sale

the thing about game prices is that modern gamers are super spoiled and don’t realize games have gotten cheaper over time (not going into microtransactions)

whining about a $60 base game is wild to me

example: Monkey Island 2 sold for $60 in 1991; adjusted for inflation, it’d cost $145 now

sorry

really tired of people thinking every damn thing is a distraction from some other damn thing

nothing is a distraction

it's all just shit on top of shit surrounded by piles of shit on beds of shit

everything is exactly what it is because they don't need distractions when they literally do not care

i have literally worked with every single one of these people

Screenshot from the game. Text says "Scott is very busy prompting right now. He is asking the computer to rewrite the sentence "there is a fire" in a way that is "solution-focused, avoids blame language, and maintains team morale". The chatbot has produced four options. Scott has highlighted the fourth, whcih does not contain the word fire anywhere in it.

I was tired as hell writing most of this game, but I'm just a tiny bit proud of writing Scott, one of the most annoying people in existence

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its failure to let me know when i leave out a word?

nothing involving any tech is in any inevitable, despite what its profiteers and their legions of jellyheaded sycophants try to tell you

we don’t have to do any of this

tech stopped making things better long ago; now it just makes things worse and adds a subscription

the answer is less, not more

prediction markets should be illegal

why do we keep allowing obviously bad things like they’re somehow inevitable when we could just, you know…not

poster for American Pie

poster for Porky's

American Pie (1999) is now an entire decade older than its inspirational raunch-com, Porky's (1982), was when American Pie came out...27 years ago

p.s. don't forget to take your pills

we live in inverted times

capitalism has inverted everything it means to be human
broicism has inverted everything it means to be a man
fetishization has inverted everything it means to be a woman
marketing has inverted everything it means to be young

systems of control inside systems of control

i miss when the only graphics options were CGA, EGA, or VGA

meanwhile, on today's episode of You Ancient Bastards: It had only been 16 years since 1969 when Bryan Adams released Summer of '69 back in 1985...41 years ago

follow me for more despair!

It's Only “Overconsumption” When Women Buy Things YouTube video by Robert Tolppi

short video worth a quick watch because he’s absolutely right

permanently blocking all media outlets that run pro-ai stories of any kind for any reason

pretty much means i'll get very little news anymore, but i'm not really seeing the downside

Third Amendment

any government that surveils its citizens without due process or allows its citizens to be surveilled by any entity for any reason is not a government of, for, or by the people

omnipresent digital surveillance effectively quarters State agents in our homes to monitor and police our lives 24/7/365

I think I'm done with Hank Green YouTube video by Kyle the Scott

while i don't think hank green is a paid shill for ai, i do think he functions as an unwitting asset for the industry, which happens a lot with science/tech influencers

there's no end of useful idiots, especially when they're experts in one field bc expertise is specific, but ego thinks it's global

really wish youtube would limit videos to one damn thumbnail so i don't keep seeing the same things over and over with different variations of youtube face

Happy Subsidizing The Wealthy Day, America!
Happy Financing Rich Men's Wars Day, America!
Happy Paying For Poverty Day, America!

Please enjoy no healthcare, no college tuition, crippling student debt, life-shattering medical debt, crumbling infrastructure, and no jobs.

But the Dow is over 50,000!

Luthen Rael from Andor with the caption, "I'm condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them."

starting to think we'll have to wait for AI model collapse before the AI economic bubble finally bursts, which is fun

ofc, some enterprising saboteur could speed it up with AI agents that continuously generate poisoned data for the already contaminated models to keep recursively training on...

shot from Children of Men showing Baby Diego with 2009-2027 in text

Baby Diego dies next year, and y'all don't even seem to care

i could do without April, tbh. useless, miserable month

Tom from MySpace

Tom never had to testify before Congress for selling your data

Tom never shoved algorithmic engagement bait into your feed

Tom never partnered with sketchy IQT-funded startups to loophole domestic surveillance law

Tom never shoved AI slop into every part of your life

AND YOU ABANDONED HIM ANYWAY

good afternoon

the lies linking an entire a decade between 2016 and the current year need to end today

to be clear, it has only been four years since 2016

numerous fake images and statements about 2016 and 2026 have been circulating on social media for years

be cautious about what you believe

i stopped watching all short-form video content (tiktok, reels, etc) a couple of weeks ago, and my mental health is markedly improved, as is my attention span, my capability of focusing on one thing at a time, and most importantly, my ability to enjoy whatever that one thing is

you should try it