There was a lot of tension there. And Andrew isn’t a prolific chatterbox himself. Lack of and or bad conversation is why Wayne split to start Mission. If you had an issue, Andy would just as soon as tell you to go fuck yourself as any thing else. Patricia was still with Andy for the spite fueled sisterhood era. To deny Wayne naming rights. Also why Patricia left and got with captain sensible(Dave) iIRC.

Wayne on the other hand seems about as level headed and nice a guy you’ll find. Though if I had to chose between mission and sisters, I would still trend sisters. They just have a raw less produced sound than mission has. Though mission is great too.

Yes as others pointed out, the residential schools etc. The land theft etc etc etc. My grandmother went to “indian school”. Though fortunately not one with the mass graves. But a lot like the catholic schools in many places throughout the US and Mexico. It was largely about indoctrination and cultural erasure. Much like what’s happening to the Uyghurs.

I don’t watch broadcast news any more. But I know it used to be a stream of pretty young white girls going missing. Missing black children would rarely get much coverage. People missing on the reservations…it’s kind of like that pool meme. That doesn’t get covered at all outside the reservation. And it happens quite often. Because there isn’t much opportunity on the reservations. Have to go to the nearby white towns. Where there is often, not always a heavy stigma. And people get “disappeared” with little repercussion. There are parallels with the Uyhgurs there as well. They have very little freedom to travel. Often effectively 2nd class citizens in their own land. As the state decided it wasn’t their land it was “our” land. The state’s land. Pumping it full of ethnic han like so many israli settlers in the west bank. But they gave them jobs and schools they didn’t want. So even stevens. Unrgateful savages am I right?

Yes. Just can’t mention what all of involved with his projects. Why can’t we just have fun things once in a while. The hive mind would collectively have a conniption fit if they heard those two letters.

This is the same sort of shit the US and Canada did to my family. But it isn’t an east west thing. This is what the state does. The more centralized and controlled the more brutal it is.

And yet you take the state at it’s word without evidence at all. Let’s be real, you’re likely a statist campist. Everything is Calvin ball. So why should we care?

As was the zombie hop. That’s why everyone is always running back to the cemetery.

Oh absolutely. I’m not against using AI where appropriate. But you do always have to check 100%. But it’s definitely troubling how much people are looking to offload thinking in general.

It’s not really my type of game. I kind of cut my teeth on FPS back in the early 90s. So I’m a bit more comfortable with the Boomer shooters. But it’s definitely enjoyable. I’ve not reached the end game ever. And I’m not actually played it much since it went 1.0. But the scenery is of course very beautiful and the systems are a lot of fun to play around with. I find I get a little bit OCD though and end up taking a ton of time having perfectly laid out conveyor belts.

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Throaty’s implementation was unique though. His videos are often rather long. But generally entertaining and informative enough to watch.

Eeeeeh, not as much as you might think. Well at least not compared to something designed for it like lto tapes etc.

I have one just for the free games. Load it all through heroic. Got hundreds, bought zero. And some of em are pretty decent. I’ve seen outer worlds pop up twice on it. I think I may have gotten satisfactory from it as well. Guardians of the Galaxy, river city girls one and two, deaths door. But that’s the only reason.

Commodore, Amiga, Atari, amstrad, specy, oliveti, dragon 32, Tandy. Just about any 8 bit computer other than Mac or IBM PC it was the standard. I think the apple II could, but it wasn’t common.

But I definitely remember being over at a friends. Letting the commodore load while we did something else for 5 to 10 minutes.

Well on one hand it makes sense. Providing election misinformation can be punishable. Rarely is but it can be. And frankly its just kind of terrifying that so many people would readily turn to AI for these answers. When they could/should just go to such websites and get it themselves. Especially considering how bad current models are about hallucinating and giving false answers just to give an answer. Not to mention the agenda of those controlling them.

Ai won’t be the end of us. But lack of tech literacy and critical thinking might.

It’s clear that you want attention

They’re the ones that want it? Not you? You’ve posted several threads in different communities with the same hyperbolic personally attacking subject targeted towards an individual. You get the sort of nuance and thought you put into things. I don’t think you put much into these posts.

Acting as if a well-known and influential developer of many decades. Has magically overnight turned into nothing but a Vibe coding script kiddie. It’s hyperbolic, downright absurd, and not at all rational or respectful. Not at all concerned with why someone like him might turn to such systems and how they might actually benefit everyone. Just reflexive and reactionary " reeeeeeeeee AI bad! "

Is AI bad? Well at the moment it definitely has its problems. And can confidently generate some bullshit when left to its own devices. That’s unquestionable. But what is also unquestionable is that at large it’s only going to get better. And if there is one thing a generative pattern detector and generator is well suited for. Generating/checking code might be it.

AI is stealing jobs? No it isn’t. The oligarchs are using AI to steal people’s jobs. But there’s two points with that to understand. It’s the oligarchs and not AI. And the only reason having a job is considered so vital. Is because we tie people’s existence to it needlessly. As a species we could largely do away with the need for people to have jobs to survive. The reason we haven’t, is again those same oligarchs. It wouldn’t benefit them. To be equal to everyone else feels like oppression to them.

AI is destroying the environment, gobbling up all the power, and slurping up all the potable water? No again AI is not. It’s the oligarchs rushing to build massive oversized data centers. In an effort to monopolize ai. I assure you running a simple model on olama on my home PC doesn’t have any water connected to it. If anything uses little to no more extra power than it would under normal operation. It’s always the oligarchs. Always the oligarchs and the states they wield against us.

Posting reactionary cringe we’ll have people not taking you seriously as you’ve seen. If you want thoughtful intelligent responses. Provide thoughtful intelligence prompts.

It’s the weakest of weak arguments. But they aren’t technically wrong. Though I don’t agree with the fervor their chasing this with. If there is one field where AI might make some sense. It is coding Etc. Unfortunately, likely at the moment they are still using large commercial models such as Claude etc. Run by exploitative oligarchs. That said, if you want someone to displace the exploitative oligarchs. People like Torvald are exactly the sort of people you need. They know exactly how exploitative the tech Giants are. And are developing platform and systems that will be capable of replacing them. While being capable of being much more ethical, sustainable, and available. It’s kind of their whole thing for 40 years or so.

Not at all out of character for them. They don’t have any good arguments. But they use the bad ones consistently. Which goes to show that it isn’t about instances so much. Though they can be a guide. But that kind is everywhere still.

Maeve, always the ones you most suspect

To be fair gtk moved away from them first lol. But this sounds like a good thing either way. It’s off doing its own thing now. I think allowing GIMP to integrate with its host system better we’ll make for a much more pleasant experience for everyone using it.

I’m old enough to remember when there were no binaries provided for gimp. Had to compile it yourself LOL. It’s come a long way. Even if I do tend to use krita far more often anymore.

Okay, and? Are you claiming he supports them simply because he’s not outright banned? I may be making mistake but I’m trying to find some logic here.

I will be honest. As someone who watches a lot of Hong Kong film. I have been extremely worried about such things happening to them. And being forced on to them. Which for the most part I have yet to see. I think it’s probably coming sooner or later. But so far that’s not the case.

Two years ago when Twilight of the Warriors came out and was getting crazy awesome reviews globally. I was actually pretty amazed to see how mainland China was allowed to be portrayed in that. Now that may just be because it was pre-dengism mainland china. Not the current gang of criminals in charge of the state. So they probably didn’t have any big issue with it not being portrayed glowingly.

So how is this working for you? Is Blizzard and World of Warcraft a Chinese psyop? The World of Warcraft movie strangely was huge in China years ago too. Is this something other than reactionary cringe? Have you seen Stephen’s movies? He does live action Looney toons and fantasy.