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CitizenKong ,

Yep, it’s not the planet’s first mass extinction rodeo. A few hundreds of thousands of years, and it’ll be right as rain again. Humanity will very likely just be a distant memory then.

CitizenKong ,

Between Fable and Dragon Age, which both look pretty good, I’m afraid this game will have problems not tanking.

CitizenKong ,

Yes, I really like them as well. And I bet the game will be good too. I just worry about the game not selling good enough and with Microsoft’s current track record of shutting studios down, Obsidian being shut down as well.

CitizenKong ,

Might be a reference to the symbol of the symbiote god, which is a spiral.

Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere (www.scientificamerican.com)

The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.

CitizenKong ,

The author really missed out on writing “they scratched every surface, but they haven’t even scratched the surface.”

CitizenKong ,

Which they made bigger in Jurassic Park, so that’s actually proving the point. A bigger raptor species was only discovered after the first movie.

CitizenKong ,

Voting is like having a log of shit in each hand and deciding which one will taste better.

Not-voting is having to eat the shit someone else chose.

CitizenKong ,

“While falling, McKellen could be heard to exclaim ‘Fly, you fools!’” (I do hope he recovers fully though.)

CitizenKong ,

Pft, clearly reality just has a liberal bias!

CitizenKong ,

The least plausible thing is Trump being able to talk in sentences (or even being alive) in 2030.

Kremlin bots spam internet with fake celebrity quotes against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)

Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15....

CitizenKong ,

My favourite description under a picture of the two in a (German) newspaper read (paraphrased): Civil right’s attorney Amal Clooney and her husband, an actor.

CitizenKong ,

We’re almost at the “Brawndo” level of Idiocracy.

“Complete Dehumanization”: Israel Killed Over 800 Palestinians in 11 Days (truthout.org)

From June 1 to June 11, Israeli forces killed over 800 Palestinians and wounded over 2,400 as they carried out bombardments and raids across Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported. This is an average of over 72 Palestinians killed each day at the hands of Israeli forces....

CitizenKong ,

Well, at some point, it will work, when there’s no one left on both sides to start again.

CitizenKong ,

Hitler’s Germany has shown you only really need about a third of the people to be behind fascism for it to succeed (Hitler won with 35 percent of the popular vote). In the US, it looks like that percentage has already been reached.

CitizenKong ,

I tried them too recently and I really like spicy food, but they were just nasty.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)

One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,”...

CitizenKong ,

Which in turn leads to war, which destroys the environment tenfold, making sure even the slim chance of humanity coming through this as anything resembling civilisation even slimmer. We’re thoroughly fucked. But hey, we created sooo much value for shareholders!

CitizenKong ,

I really like my water pillow.

CitizenKong ,

Common sense starts to become a lot less common when education systems start to fail.

IMO schools should have a subject like “media” which informs about how desinformation, conformation bias and social media algorithms work in creating filter bubbles and “alternate” facts.

CitizenKong , (edited )

Well, the UX Design Team has to justify their existence somehow. And if there’s one thing they’re good at, it’s wowing management with snazzy presentations.

Making a snazzy presentation about the necessary overhaul of the data structure of the ingest system architecture is also just generally harder then just showing a flashy, colorful click dummy of the new homepage.

The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right | Mariam Lau (www.theguardian.com)

Massive change is afoot within Europe’s far right. Just as voters across 27 countries prepare to go to the polls in EU elections, a split over the German far right’s allegiance to the Third Reich is driving a realignment....

CitizenKong ,

The same Krah received quite a lot of Russian money visiting the US and was questioned by the FBI about it.

CitizenKong ,

I mean, your bed is home to tens of thousands of microscopic bugs as well. I’d rather not smell them.

CitizenKong ,

Manuela is a very German name, so much so a German rapper actually made a song about it.

But of course its origin isn’t Germanic at all. Which I doubt people with such convictions care about.

CitizenKong ,

That’s what happens when people who don’t understand LLMs try to profit off of LMMs. You can be sure that the actual programmers at Google told corporate that this would be the exact thing that would happen, but corporate pushed ahead anyway. The programmers shrugged, did their job, and brushed up their CVs just in case.

CitizenKong ,

More like Mother Nature being oblivious to humans because we are only an abberation in this planet’s biological history. Our biggest accomplishment being that we started another mass extinction but we’re far from the first organism either (that would be algae if I remember correctly).

CitizenKong ,

And he’s also married to a black woman. Strange behaviour for a supposed rascist.

CitizenKong ,

It would just be the Master. In one incarnation, he forced his wife to dress sexy and abused her regularly, he should feel right at home among Republicans.

CitizenKong ,

Yep. Also, Trump is constantly in the news for being on trial, they need something to create whataboutisms about Biden. It’s just Buttery Mails 2.0.

CitizenKong ,

It’s a disgrace Madonna wasn’t even put on trial back then!

CitizenKong ,

Someone should remind them that they didn’t do it the last hundred years or so because the alternative was angry mobs trying to kill them.

CitizenKong ,

It doesn’t work like that. It will soon if Disney has their way, with actors selling away their likeness rights for perpetuity with their contracts.

CitizenKong ,

Oh I know, that’s what I was refering to.

CitizenKong ,

For example this: cnbc.com/…/disney-reportedly-creates-task-force-t… and this: rollingstone.com/…/sag-aftra-amptp-studios-contra… The second article details how due the strike the actor can consent to digital copies of themselves or not and reimbursed for their use but those digital actors are still coming.

CitizenKong ,

Money. The answer is money.

CitizenKong ,

They are not prequels, they are very loose adaptations of the book. Basically very expensive fan fiction.

CitizenKong ,

Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.

CitizenKong ,

Yes, because that’s what happens when a narcissist has way too much money. A person capable of self-reflection would realize that it’s much easier and safer to trust people around you that know more about their respective areas of expertise. That’s what good leaders do, they delegate. Musk is incapable of that. The companies he owns are not yet bankrupt despite, not because, of him.

CitizenKong ,

That’s actually not a bad analogy. Politicians are rarely versed in topics they talk about and instead are just reiterating stuff experts told them. That’s why lobbyism works as well as it does.

CitizenKong ,

AI is the new procedural generation, in that it will be touted as making the games more real and immersive but really only makes them boring and repetitive, thus stressing the importance of genuine creative handcrafting. I’m looking forward to smaller studios selling their games with a “no AI” pitch in a few years.

CitizenKong ,

IMO as long as he spouts this hateful shit, everyone should misgender and deadname Bruce Jenner.

CitizenKong ,

Meanwhile, the last patch for the multiplayer part of the game has ruined the singleplayer part, you know, the actual game.

CitizenKong ,

reddit.com/…/stuttering_and_freezing_on_single_pl…

CitizenKong ,

This is a quote by Martin Niemöller, a German theologian who spent eight years in concentration camps towards the end of WW2 and who afterwards publicly spoke out a about the dangers of complacency in the face of fascism.

CitizenKong ,

Also screw long term profitability, make the graph quickly go up by firing people to get your bonus, by the time it comes back to really bite the company in the ass, you will have golden-parachuted away already.

CitizenKong ,

I mean, Larian is pretty much that. Instead of just doing Baldur’s Gate 4 although Hasbro fired all their contact people and probably would have urged Larian to rush a sequel, they are instead during an IP of their own next and refuse to go public and/or get bought.

CitizenKong ,

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell, 1984

CitizenKong ,

Always have been. Even the one thing they always claim they are better for they aren’t. Conservative policies have always led to weaker economies, not stronger ones. In every single objective metric, they are bad for society as a whole. Great for a few individual people and their bank accounts though.

CitizenKong ,

“You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about this guy, the more I don’t care about him.”

CitizenKong ,

But is it really bondage gear if it doesn’t hurt your wallet?

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