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Thats why I choose to be a pessimist. It eliminates disappointment.

Expect the worst from humans and you’ll usually end up being factually correct, you’ll never be disappointed, and occasionally, if the moon and the stars align, you just might be pleasantly surprised about something at some point in your life, just don’t count on it.

Optimism looks fucking exhausting when dealing with our gem of a species. Being let down most of the time and still putting on a smile for the next disappointment you won’t expect 5 minutes later. Looks like masochism minus the sexual pleasure. Good luck with that optimists!

The base game is prettier and more stable in my few playthrough hours with the update.

I miss mods, but this was a significant improvement to the base game imho, especially base visuals, and mods will come.

Honestly the last time I launched the game in an unmodded, un-community patched state, a couple years ago to be fair, it crashed every half hour or so for me from runtime errors, so this feels like a more stable bedrock on which to build.

Just one Bethesda fan’s perspective.

🖕Live Service🖕

It’s not the dev’s fault, they make what they’re told to make. But the President of media enshittifier MAXHBODISCOVERYDUOPOLY has stated that is what they will continue to force feed us in lieu of content we purchase to then enjoy full stop.

Yep, intellect and capacity for introspection are curses in this bad joke of a civilization, especially in poor socioeconomic circumstances.

No one will even be honest with them in childhood and just tell them “because some sociopath families who were born before you called generational dibs, and convinced some of the other poories that are dumber than you to defend their dibs at gunpoint.”

Nope, they have to parse through the bullshit of bootstraps and can do attitudes that tend to be thrust upon children for years after the Santa Clause jig is up.

It depends kid.

What’s your parent’s net worth?

Shit, I thought he was saying paper is majestic.

That fucker has been pointing and laughing at me for 10 years in my head.

He’s not wrong, but still.

I promise you the Pentagon has already spent billions working to weaponize both AI and AI derived robotics.

Their philosophy is that if a new technology even has potential military applications, they demand getting it first, best, and in larger quantities than any other nation on Earth would even consider. Our military industrial complex is the largest surpassing the Joneses continuous effort humanity exerts.

That’s how we get to spending more on our military than the next 9 nations combined. That’s why we have 11 nuclear aircraft carriers, France has 1, and that’s all there is on Earth.

I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s the reality. Whatever we consumers have access to is behind what our military is testing and throwing basically infinite money at.

We’re less than 5 years out from networked, general purpose humanoid robots, that we’re using current AI technology to train to interact with the physics of the real world in virtual sandboxes, being everywhere.

Within 10 years there will be humanoid robots no human Olympian can compete with by any metric. We are static on timescales we can perceive, they are iterative. It won’t be close.

You’d think our response to Covid would have shattered the mass delusion of human hyper-comptetence.

Yep, it’s not an experiment at all if those conducting it aren’t prepared to accept the results.

It’s just a biased pursuit of confirmation.

To me the most sickening and predictable part is that he basically declared victory instead of actually learning and conceding his point.

We’re almost finished. This is just the transitional period where AI is roughly as inept as an average human. They have nowhere to go but up, and most humans are less competent than they believe they are.

waves at Dunning–Kruger effect

The first transistor was made in 1947, now AI can carry a conversation with a larger vocabulary than most humans. We spent 180,000 years wandering around in the dirt before it occurred to us we could grow stuff in one place.

I give money to homeless people exclusively as my form of charity. At least in the US, I see no hope. I vote blue out of harm reduction. I see no point in giving to charities where some affluent person in an expensive suit draws a salary from donations, coordinates fancy parties for people like themselves to charm them into acting like human beings for a moment and parting with some infinitesimal fraction of their sociopathic dragon hoards in exchange for both bragging rights and tax breaks that robs the commons they owe so not real charity, and calls that being a humanitarian.

I see our massive homeless cities as monuments to our society’s avarice and malice. Fellow citizens we sent out to die of exposure and police harassment at their lowest point for the crime of not producing value for the owners.

I hope when I give $20 to one of our society’s greatest victims, they spend it on whatever will give them a moment of temporary relief or escape from what our society has done to them. If they have mental illness or drug addiction issues, it is 100% our fault as members of this society for not helping them, and we don’t, as that would require significant resources and we’re all out for ourselves as “rugged individuals,” as if there’s some kind of perverse honor in that.

Landlords are pretty dystopic.

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