Agreed. AI slop is literally everywhere. It has ultra saturated the internet more than I think any of us are even really aware of. The fact that there are countless AI generated articles, images, videos, songs, etc that are getting millions and millions of human engagement says all we need to know.

After playing Cyberpunk 2077 a few years ago and now witnessing the rise of hyper AI slopdom, I genuinely believe we’ll hit a point where we have to count the current Internet as a lost cause and create a new one that’s fully firewalled from the old one. Bots will only get smarter, more efficient, and more numerous as the AI era marches onwards. It’s catapulting us further and further into a post-truth society, causing immeasurable damage. With the way the Internet is structured and engineered, there’s no effective way of battling it. The current Internet belongs to AI/bots, and countless people are completely fine with it and/or happily ignorant of it.

And anti vaxxers will make some bullshit claim, making idiots believe it, and it’ll only halfway eliminate HIV.

Agreed. FH4 and 5 are fun, but the monetization is obnoxious and it often felt clunky just to get into fun racing activities quickly.

I truly don’t understand why anyone gave a fuck about Nintendo caring about Palworld.

Wtf did I just read…

Virgin boy eggs are widely accepted as a tradition in the city.[3] Boy egg vendors go to elementary schools in the city where they collect urine from young boys, preferably under the age of ten. Children who have been raised in the city are used to the practice, and relieve themselves in basins that the vendors place in the hallways. The teachers often remind the boys not to urinate in the basins if any of them have a fever or feel ill.[3][5] Some vendors wait with containers in parks or public restrooms for a parent who is willing to let their child offer urine.

Tbf, not all indie devs have the luxury of having a huge budget cushion from a previously highly successful game. People need to eat and have a roof over their heads, and $20 is pretty wild when you consider it took TC over 6 years to make the game. It’s just unrealistic to expect every game be $20 or less.

And it may be a wildly unpopular opinion, but I truly think Silksong isn’t worth more than $20-30. It’s not a massive game and the mechanics, story, and world aren’t that deep. It felt like a Hollow Knight expansion (which is what it was originally intended to be, per the devs themselves) vs a true sequel.

Yeah, you can just not need/want those specific products for a number of legitimate reasons.

What game is this from?

Fucking cowards.

I don’t remember the specific post I saw that compared his tweet from a year or two ago demanding they be released and the one he made in July/August or so where he downplayed it. I did find this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-trump-epstein-call-b2788906.html

I thought that he had retracted his call for the release of the Epstein files after the regime changed their tune on them a couple months back.

That’s fair, I agree with that.

I think the point is that if you go extreme enough on any part of the spectrum/plot/whatever, you’re going to be supportive of generally unpalatable/harmful ideology.

Couldn’t the Unabomber be debatably extreme left? Not that it really matters, because going extreme enough in either direction ends up pretty close to the other–horseshoe theory or something.

I think that was the joke of the headline, but maybe I misinterpreted haha

No offense, but this sounds like nonsense. I can’t imagine any bank willing to take that kind of financial risk given the current context of things.

Yeah, it can be tough to balance it. Sometimes, especially if it’s a loved one, just listening and letting them vent and then offering if there’s anything you can do to help/support them is all they want. Even if you have something that’s directly relevant, it may not be the right time to share. There isn’t really a silver bullet guideline to these types of things since it can be very context dependent.

Yeah, it was literally announced in February 2019. We’ve had to wait over 6 years for it.

And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I’ll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn’t been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren’t even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.

Anyway, that type of OC isn’t going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there’s a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.

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