I’m not an economist or even especially well informed, but… Isn’t war kind of… You know. Expensive?

Yeah I know it could pay off in the long term if you just swept up a country’s worth of innocents, genocided them and grabbed their land (Hi Israel), but… Fuck up the war badly enough, and there’s not going to BE a long term, just because the economy collapses. Right?

Wait, I’ve seen quite a few articles claiming carbon capture was basically an oil industry myth. Are we sure we should be investing in that instead of some things which have more proven effectiveness like renewables?

Honestly, this is a really well made article. They’ve got a damn good point.

Not an American, but I realised it when I had to talk one of my online friends out of suicide because he almost worked himself to death (ten or more hour shifts six days a week for over a month) and couldn’t afford rent.

Start killing oil executives? It won’t fix anything but at least they’ll suffer the consequences of their actions for once

Holy shit!!!

Corporate lust for money, my dude

I deleted every humanlike race from my DnD setting and I’ve still got 20+ different races in there, all furries

YES

Finally some sort of actual consequence for the malicious bullshit of the ultra wealthy. We take those Ws

It’s almost as if having one of the worst reputations of any video game ever is damaging to your long-term health…

Still, I can’t really roast them. League of Legends genuinely did clean up their act when it comes to toxicity, and as hard as I tried to kick the habit, I still find myself going back and playing the occasional match of Heroes of the Storm, which is owned by a much scummier company that deserves to crash and burn.

And really, the MOBA genre isn’t as dominant as it once was in general either. It’s been a gradual decline, there’s been no big disaster that crashes everything. Just there are other genres in style right now. All things considered, I think LoL is doing totally fine given the circumstances. Nothing to worry about, so don’t be disheartened if it’s a game you enjoy.

Bits operate in a fundamentally different way to neurons. Until we create hardware that can emulate the way neurons process information, we’re wasting time and money chasing ‘AI’

I don’t like AI because it’s literally not AI. I know damn well that it is just a data scraping tool that throws a bunch of ‘probably right’ sentences or images into a proverbial blender and spits out an answer that has no actual comprehension or consistency behind it. It takes only an incredibly basic knowledge of computers and brains to know that we cannot make an actual intelligent program using the Von Neumann style of computer.

I have absolutely no interest in technology being sold to me based on a lie. And if we’re not calling this out for the lie it is, then it’s going to just keep getting pushed by people trying to make money off the concept at the stock market.

Can you even imagine being this based?

I need to check this game out

Lancer fandom can leak a bit. As a treat <3.