Just started listening to this band earlier this year and they’re so good!

You’re so optimistic! I wish my fellow Americans actually had even one data point. America invented most of the techniques of oppression and tyranny that we exported abroad and renamed fascism. But Foucault and his boomerang have always been correct, it’s just colonialism brought home to recolonize the imperial core.

Americans haven’t read a single history book if they can help it, and proudly so, while the only progress made on oppression has been finding new and ever more complex ways to dissipate and disguise it.

You’re doing God’s work danekrae! (unfortunately that means your opposition is literally Satan)

Is that date important? I forget

FF10 is like a personality test for sexuality:

Lulu - goth dommy mommy

Yuna - good conservative religious girls

Rikku - young and playful girls

Tidus - fuckboys

Wakka - athletic twinks

Auron - yes daddy

Kimahri - 😻

I’m a little embarased to say–I mean I was a preteen boy at the time–but I spent way too many hours fantasizing and lusting over the picture of the Rogue class in the Diablo 1 manual.

Those pixelated succubus titties in the Hell stages were really something too. Kids today just don’t know how desperate we were for even a hint of nudity.

See also, the other love of my young life, Samus Aran.

For all these former-AI-booster takes and realizations about the nightmare they’ve ushered in, I’ve yet to see anyone really comprehend why this is happening and why it won’t stop. It isnt just “shareholders like AI.”

This is the final bet. If one of these companies figures it out, they genuinely believe it’ll be the end of workers, the end of labor cost, and the dawn of an era of unlimited profit. They believe that. I mean what’s far more likely is that it rapidly gets hooked into the MIC and we get actual Skynet kicking off the Apocalypse. Or maybe just the complete annihilation of the economy as we all get a global experiment in what it looks like when “consumers” don’t exist anymore and everything is 100% supply side. But not one of these “rational actors” can bear the thought that they’d miss out on a bet with an infinite possible payout, therefore any amount must he wagered.

I completely agree. I’ve been sharing some art I’m doing for inktober, but only because it’s doodles for practice, and could only make ai art worse for it’s inclusion.

But my writing (on my personal website) or my serious art works or my persona open source code projects? Yeah, I have lost all enthusiasm to share them online. If people want to see my work, I’ll send it to them directly.

I think the era of free and open sharing on the Internet is dead, which does sadden me. I think we’re ultimately moving to a new dark age, the Dark Net Age, where all communication and sharing will go into various private chats and sites, where people can be vetted and held accountable.

Well people that care, which will end up being like the early internet: smart kids, embattled minorities, and crotchety, paranoid old folks. All the people too busy or ignorant to care are already deep into the algorithmic treadmills of X and TikTok and I don’t think they’re ever coming out.

This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.

I’ve really enjoyed getting to see your other artistic skills this month! It gives me a new appreciation for the skill and effort you bring into the heathcliff edits!

Awesome interpretation of the theme! And who doesn’t love drawing a cool sword or two?

Theodore Kaczynski was a mathematician but is better known for being the Unibomber (and author of a manifesto against technology and academia). Quite the cheeky reference!

Damn, it’s almost like recentralizing the internet under 5 (USA) companies’ was stupid and dangerous.

Thank you so much! I’ve been loving the opportunity to practice drawing more, and I’m glad other people are enjoying them too!

Ooooooh you dirty, hahaha

“Cure” yes, famously cures require you to pay for upkeep of them every day for the rest of your life. Like a subscription to being normal that you’re required to pay in order to hold down a job. On top of the other subscriptions you have to pay to live and work.

Oh and it deadens your emotions, messes up your sex drive, makes you emotionally volatile as it wears off everyday, and makes you an insomniac.

“Cured!”

Warlock, tapping on cage lock: Wakey wakey

Paladin: Come at last for your blood sacrifice, heathen?

Warlock: Disonia is a vegan god of chaos, not that I expect zealots to understand doctrinal nuance. No, I’m here to talk, you goodies like to talk right?

Paladin: … perhaps…

Warlock: Can we agree that sometimes there are lesser and greater evils? We’re putting together an expedition into the Dark Lands. A crusade, if you prefer…

Oh wow, now that’s a fun surprise! I loved SS2 back in the day, my god, 20 years… Love the banner image too, Croteam’s always had a cute sense of humor.