Violence isn’t the answer but it has to be an answer. A possibility. The last alternative. It is the reason peaceful resistance can work.

I mean, these tech CEOs went to college graduation ceremonies and said “None of you will be getting jobs, lol” and went on TV and said “AI will destroy humanity” and then ramped their data center expansion so rapidly that peoples electric bill went up by 300% and when the public hates them and their technology and votes accordingly they are “What happened? How can people be so short-sighted? Why is this so political?”

I dunno, fuckheads, maybe move fast and break things isn’t a popular strategy when applied to society.

Big agree on time stop mods for coop. It is highly stressful without it, especially getting a cut scene late in the day.

Time to level another character I guess.

The entitlement of these people is truly remarkable. Us plebs should only rent and we should be grateful to have even that, according to the capitalists.

That series is so irritating. Basically kids haunted by the ghost of Rube Goldberg.

I have also had this one be 1. Someone has died in the office. 2. You senior manager / director was fired for corruption and HR wants to question everyone for involvement.

Same. Every Python app in its own container. Of course, this raises the skill bar again.

That sounds amazing. I’ve not delved into the modding scene yet, the vanilla game is already so complex and engrossing.

Interestingly you can play as an animal or plant in the current release of Qud, heck you can play as a concrete wall. You just can’t start as those things.

Psionics is definitely a source of weirdness.

The bubble is growing over time. It will have a more severe impact in two years than it would if it happened tomorrow.

My take away was that the protagonists were too caught up in being the protagonists and the outcome would have been better if they had just done nothing.

Which just isn’t a very good adventure story.

The main issue is that increasingly AI companies are making up a big portion of index funds which are required by law to be purchased by mutual fund managers and thus part of retirement accounts, so value will be evaporated out of retirees accounts. The larger the bubble the more the impact.
Also note that the only reason the US is not in recession right now is due to AI market “growth” so the GDP correction that follows will cause companies who have invested in the technology (not just AI companies, but most of the Fortune 500) to contract. The fallout will be unpredictable, but the most likely scenario is layoffs. Further, the Fed will be reluctant to cut interest rates, because inflation is extremely high due to tariffs, so the one lever the government has to stave off the recession has been compromised by the current administration. So the recession will be deeper and worse with a longer recovery than it would otherwise have.

So why care? Because grandma’s retirement will disappear, a bunch of people will be laid off and the levers available to mitigate the impact have already been pulled. Oh and inflation will get worse when our government bails out AI tech bros to the tune of $1T.

While I am not cheering for the bubble to pop, the longer it goes on the worse it will be so the sooner it happens the better.

Noita is a game of scarcity and making the most of what you have to eek out a victory.

Noita is a game about exploration and discovery with every new discovery likely finding the New Game button for you.

Noita is a game about adventure and quest completion.

Noita is a game about abundance and becoming god.

It takes on average 60+ hours and 100+ attempts to finish the game for the first time and the community refers to this as “beating the tutorial”. The game is insanely deep and in defiance of modern game design refuses to sign post any information aside from the basic controls.

The sacrifice of one’s self in the pursuit of knowledge is the highest offering to the gods.

Orca are not uncommon in the waters near me. I was in a relatively large boat so I felt quite secure, but if I were swimming or in a kayak it would have been terrifying even knowing that they don’t attack humans. They are huge and hunt in packs and are intensely curious so sometimes approach to investigate things.

Harbor seals are all over and sun themselves on the docks where my uncle lives. Cute but big and smelly. My poor uncle has to clean up after them. It’s always cool to see them but definitely not scary.

I was raised around wildlife and instilled with a deep respect for nature, that these creatures are best left to live their lives and enjoyed at a distance.

This has been expected for at least 10 years. I still have a ton of pots lines though. Mostly alarms and scada, which should really be on wireless at this point.

Orca and seals, though they aren’t aggressive to humans of course. Coyotes and bears on land. The latter at a distance, which was both of our preference.

Salsa is fruit salad.