traumatised queer teen with moral OCD: i'm a terrible person. i'm ontologically evil and i don't deserve to live

guy who every new employee is quietly warned about: i am the only one with the moral fortitude to Tell It How It Is. i am a Hero, i am Saving The World, the Allegations are all False™

Armenia’s Hrazdan announced as location of first regional $500 million AI data center The advanced AI infrastructure announced by Firebird, in collaboration with the Armenian government, NVIDIA, and Team, will be located in the Armenian town of...

Really cool that now people are realizing the health and ecological problems that come with massive data centers companies are offshoring the issue to countries with no regulations and framing it as economic development
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Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

writing an important and tense point of character decision making into the game only to have people dismiss the empathetic option as pointless, thereby completely affirming the entire point of this decision being in the game.

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

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At least Dinklage was at peak name-recognition when Destiny came out. He’s fun, sure, but what is NPH famous for in the twenties?

I always appreciate the admission of wrongdoing implicit in every attempt to create a fake process to cover-up AI use. They know it sucks! They just really had the hubris to think they could that they could skate by with it.

Ringworld with side-portals is close to torus-world, and that's D&D's Sigil. Way on the other end of the popularity scale, Youtuber Worldbuilding Notes made some great videos about micro-worlds with a fantasy flavor and odd geometry.

what you ACTUALLY need to read Dune to understand are all of the "would you still love me if I was a worm" posts on the internet

XVI: The Tower surprisingly can hang, but is always saying unhinged shit. They're kind of right tho

XVII: The Star is that friend who will always hang, but they like you better when you're not doing well

XVIII: The Moon can hang but in the way that a cat that doesn't let you pet them can hang

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

Nintendo will sometimes nuke a fan project from orbit for no reason but there wasn't even lip service to rejecting the "Gotta Catch Em All" thing they did for ICE

it's just about exerting control over the powerless

That, and that the endless rounds of corrections were actually about making the clients feel (a) knowledgeable about art, (b) in control of a hireling.
Now when they pull the lever to generate slop it feels free, and of their own making. Perfect product.

Yeah I feel like the hobby is maturing into "if you're looking for X type of D&D game, then you might like Y game also", which ends up serving everyone better than "We found the D&D killer"

I've only played PF2e, but isn't it much closer to Draw Steel than D&D 5e is? Or were you playing earlier D&D?

Similarly, many folks in videogame reviewing/commentary are also purportedly game devs.
For some reason, the ones who make the hate-reviews are also the ones whose games never come out!
Makers like making.

Much like Kevin Spacey with heartless villains, you end up realizing that Jared Leto isn‘t good at *portraying* a pompous yuppie you’d like to axe. He just is one

The Stardew valley concert

Lydia tar

Personally I think she's doing a great job

somehow people who were stupid on crypto were allowed to crawl back and be taken seriously. this has gotta stop

This is great. There should be some sort of decentralized service for blocking sets of people! Oh, wait

What would you recommend for settings that do that part well? Even if non-TTRPG

Disco Elysium

You ever meet someone & think like “Jesus Christ where have you BEEN, why haven’t we been friends this whole TIME” but are faced with the harsh reality of having to BE COOL and not be all “hey uhhh I know we’re both 30-40,with deep friend benches, but can you please make room for me immediately??”

I've read a couple of history books and I can tell you for sure that rounding up your generals, having a drunk yell at them and call them fat, and then stopping paying them that same day is absolutely how you institute durable personalist rule

I think Dan has been trying to move away from moving targets, and what target moves faster than 2025 AI? Early covid?

also, so many of these people are just taking company confidential, proprietary data and dumping it into public iterations of ChatGPT, which is so incredibly problematic on so many levels. Even on our internal approved tools I have to tell people to turn them off when discussing certain legal stuff!

Guy who knows how to kill with one strike from watching YouTube videos when he was twelve

I know the feeling! I try to tell myself that they’ll be no good for me left unused. Thinking of them as “fix later, when logging things into the PC” helps free me to write/draw however I need to in the moment. Nothing more specific, sorry.