I work in embedded my whole life so I’m no stranger of fighting over scraps of resources and spending days trying to squeeze in something that doesn’t fit. It made me better at fighting this specific hardware limitations, and now instead of spending 10 times more time on making something that takes no time at all on a capable hardware, I spend only 5 times more.
I don’t know if for creative work it does something, but for programming it’s like chopping wood with one hand behind your back. Sure you can do it, sure you can get better at it, sure it forces you to adjust your ways, but it doesn’t make the wood better chopped, it just makes you slower and more prone to mistakes for no reason

Til, socialism is when means of production are firmly in the hands of dynasty of autocratic rulers. Silly me, thinking that workers should be in charge.

I don’t know if this is the best applicatioon of their genius tbh. If you’re not spending time fighting with tools, you spend it making stuff you want to make.

This conspiratorial thinking is harmful and dangerous, be better

For example, neither batshit tarrifs, nor insane dissolution of trust, if we’re talking purely about international economics.

Voting is enough actually, you just don’t do it for some reason, and now you have to do something else. And if you managed to screw up voting, the easiest thing there is, my hopes are quite low.

They are a monopoly. They don’t care and they don’t have any financial incentives to care. Making good platform that people want to use is hard, making it a monopoly and populate it with slop that other bots are clicking through way easier, and brings basically the same results. People who don’t want to click on slop will continue to do so, but now they’re spending more time looking for it, which is even better for ad revenue. What else are they gonna do, watch Vimeo? Go outside? Don’t be ridiculous.

It was already fully automated years ago, with the bullshit oriented at small kids. It was multibillion endeavour even then, YouTube did nothing to it, why would they, it’s their dream business model. The one now, when bots generate slop that is watched by other bots, is just a continuation of that

Stupid interview questions show you nothing about how people think. Might as well ask them their astrological animal and blood type

Well, if you’re a citizen, the country is yours, and the government is there to manage it, but some assholes in power managed to convince people that it’s the other way around

For me, this specific issue is more of a personal level, it’s not about me waging a war against slopgenerators, it’s about trust. Trust is gradually built item by item. My trust in a company consists of their actions over time. They make a good game - trust goes up. They commit to provide good working conditions to the workers and actually do that - trust goes up again. Them starting using slopgen reduces that trust. It reduces it enough so I don’t trust what they are saying anymore. It’s not that I’m starting war on them or whatever, but they lost enough of my trust so when they just say something, I don’t believe it outright, the way I do with any other company, because for a company the line going up is way more important that anything else, and honouring words demonstrably doesn’t put the line up. Before this shit, my trust in Larian was high enough so I might believe them publicly declaring something, but as it stands right now, I don’t anymore, and that’s kind of the extend of my approach to it.
All the previous games of theirs I preordered, early accessed, bought the second the buying option was available. This one I wouldn’t.

Can’t remember, but it worked after I checked off the other ones without restarting.

If you only disable the first one, the points in menu are still there, so I don’t know what exactly does it do but not that. At least it was like that last time I tried to get rid of this annoying shit.

Yeah, the man has negative charisma. But like any other cult that survived long enough, that’s actually how it usually goes. Original guy is batshit crazy and has control over minds of his cultists, and when he dies the new guy is ruthless, efficient, and keeps in relative obscurity, and if he’s successful, the cult lives on. The second guy usually makes a cult into evil machine of hate, abuse, grift, and expansion.
It happened with mormonism, it happened with scientology. If it will happen with maga it will be the catastrophic end of the US.

Might as well, yeah.

President Vance might somehow be worse.

Yep, that’s about what I expected

You wouldn’t know what a proper analogy is even if it smacks you in the face

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Do you know where the US is?

Read better, said a person who’s media comprehension is so poor, they can’t read past their butthurt