Ryan

right now, an executive somewhere is doodling a giant bag of money as a consultant gives a presentation titled "How to Optimize HR with Generative AI," setting in motion a series of events that will end with their own testimony before a house select committee

the tech world really started going downhill when sales people started pretending to be developers (ie: steve jobs)

now, everyone can rattle off like 10 sales points about a piece of technology, but don't really understand what the focus of the technollgy is.

They should take that "award" away for "funny" Steam reviews because it entices way too many people to drop one-word/snarky joke reviews that don't contribute anything and are often negative FOR the bit (ie "Thumbs down no dog to pet") and still impact the game's rating for the worse

Oh no, my discord chats got leaked. Every one is seeing me and my buds getting along and genuinely loving and supporting each other, and also talking up others we know and love outside of the chat. This is devastating.

It's like giving a master chef shit because he doesn't do sick knife tricks and then, while attempting to demonstrate, stabbing yourself in the hand lol

I think a fun thing would be to start talking about tabletop game systems as protocols, so we can use vocabulary like "Elder-Scrolls-Over-Pathfinder", "Final-Fantasy-Over-DnD", etc

Animal-Crossing-Over-Call-of-Cthulu

It wants you to think it's Death Note from the perspective of a 13 year old, but it's actually Death Note from the perspective of a grad student

I barely remember any of the game of thrones books cause they were bad, but there's an entire arc where some fuckoff prince is on his Love Quest to meet the dragon lady, and she's not home, so he's like "yeah I can go pet her dragons" and he dies

Game of Thrones was unwatchable for the opposite reason of Marvel post-time travel

Whereas in Marvel, time travel exists therefore stakes don't, in Incest Dragons you know everybody dies going in, so it's impossible to care

I read through the entire series of books imagining every region as a Minecraft biome and

- I don't think the text asked me to do anything different
- I don't think it hurt the experience, but it did make it all way funnier

Would be kind of sick. I always thought optane was a cool idea, even if it didn't make a ton of sense for its intended purpose. Kind of perfect for this application though

God I love that city

Yeah that makes sense. Reminds me of Optane.

I wonder how bad the latency would even be these days.

I imagine latency would be pretty rough?

I'm not gonna be able to get that "you claim to be a socialist, yet you play Final Fantasy 14" guy out of my head for days

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

Great fucking video

anyway I do think it would be good to provide more models for conscientious young men about how they can flirt in healthy ways. Not because I'm afraid they will otherwise all stew and become incels — though if some of that is interrupted as a happy side effect all the better

Bahamut Fayth: You're gay.

Tidus: What are you talking about?

Bahamut Fayth: Everyone in Zanarkand is gay.

Tidus: I literally like women???

Bahamut Fayth: You can like women if you're gay. It's called Bisexuality.

Narrator Tidus: I had forgotten about Bisexuality.

Your semi-regular plug for Dr Nerdlove (www.doctornerdlove.com) who is *amazing* at offering compassionate, practical advice that is not shy about calling out toxic masculinity and implicit misogyny and working to decouple masculinity from both of them.

Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?

yeah, I don't think you have to advocate for some leftist fuck manual to see the problem with young men querying "how do I date women" and ending up at an Andrew Tate video in a couple clicks

you know who could be considered, in some ways, an "andrew tate of the left"? your fucking therapist

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Now that like 50 to 75% of the internet is just bots generating fake interactions to make a line go up so that companies can defraud companies that are defrauding companies, we're closer than ever to The Internet

(Just a bunch of nerds who hooked their computers up to eachother)

tbh I kind of hope the monetizeable, ad-driven Internet just dies out entirely, it was always a perverse incentive, and advertising is on-its-face evil anyway

I've dreamed of doing backend / systems work on Lord of the Rings Online forever, lol

If the server source code ever leaks you're never gonna see me again

I think one way is that cadence and tone change when you start a sentence knowing how it ends.

It always annoys me when somebody is reading a script and they realize they're reading a question halfway through the sentence, and their cadence just cuts straight to interrogative.

Overclocked

(I like this one cause the logo is like an obscure pride flag)