Has anyone done anything yet with ‘agentic ai’ that couldn’t be done better/faster/easier in other ways? So far, I’ve mostly seen ‘I spun up 20 agents to google how to make a tuna casserole on twenty search engines and one more to summarize the results. Please, ignore that this burns as much compute power as our entire office does on a random Tuesday and produces pretty much the same result as if I had just searched once and read the free AI summary, which in turn is slightly worse than if I had searched it with no AI involved and just read the first link.’

Poe’s Law hitting hard on this one.

They used to be, but then again old forms of many things were more dangerous than they are now.

The term you would want to search for is ‘destructible environments.’

• Worms games
• Split Second
• Destroy All Humans
• Red Faction:Guerilla
• Just Cause 2 (so much destruction)
• Shipbreaker is a more relaxed demolition game
• The Street fighter still is reminding me of Bloody Roar where you could kick enemies through walls to fight in another area
• BeamNG.Drive
• Wreckfest
• Control
• 7 Days to Die
• Dysmantle

This is the one I thought of. It’s much more calming than the others but just great.

They’re implied, kinda.

Monkey’s paw finger curls: This just in, approximately 1% of the human population has suddenly died.

The horny parts of the internet can help you with that, temporarily.

Mocha. I can take or leave most things but mocha is mandatory.

His own son… HIS OWN SON!

Such savagery.

Vintage Story is a slowburn survival game with a Linux version from the developers, not a compat layer. It’s focused on realism.

Ranch Sim is a game in which you design your own ranch.

Starship Evo, formerly Sky Wanderers, is still in development but has reached a very playable stage. You build bases and ships out of predefined shapes but with highly variable scaling, as in ranging from 12.5cm grid up to 1m with all the standard slopes, panels, etc. It has logic systems, inventory and production systems, and control systems for space ships, hovercraft, mech walkers, and space stations, all using that heavily customisable building system. Then you can fly around doing little missions, trading, space ship combat, etc.

Archean is similar building but with more realism and programming but more sandboxy with no NPCs.

I’ve heard some good things about Steamworld Build.

I have heard someone say Icarus was like Ark but better.

7 Days to Die ticks much of those boxes as well.

Stationeers is another struggle, survive, thrive game with very realistic mechanisms.

Foundry is Factorio in 3D. Satisfactory is Foundry without a Gödel grid.

I could see a show that’s basically kind of like Dexter, where a group of various kinds of queer people who lost their loved ones to anti-queer violence join a support group but then go Dexter-y and start tracking down and gathering irrefutable evidence of bigoted violence and then murdering the perpetrators.

Bigot: “What are you gonna do? Drown me in rainbows?”

Gay Dexter: “No.” *slits throat* “I’m not that kind of fairy.”

That’s just repeating the concept in the OP and ignoring my point. There is a value in the personal touch. Which would signal a better partner to you: a woman who knows you like to have food sometimes so she installs a vending machine in your apartment with all the options set to ice cream and the prices at 0.00, so you can always have as much of this one thing to eat, any time, any day, with or without her, as you like as long as you keep paying for power, or one who knows you like food, so she figures out what you like and dislike, learns recipes that she thinks will make you happy, spends time finding or growing good produce to make those recipes, and only when she’s feeling ill or burned out by work, reaches for the vending machine? The vending machine is always there as an option, but not wanting to use it is not just weakness. It’s often a desire to be the best version of yourself for your partner, not as a competition with the machine but a competition with the limitations of human language and form to express the inexpressible extent of your love.

The rest of it is just as silly, albeit differently. The point is not that AI is useless, but that it is being used and will be used in ways that make things worse. You, as a person who seems like they have more than two braincells, can tell AI can be used by smart people to do smart things. But that’s not how they’re used. Most people are stupid. Many of them are staggeringly stupid. They will also use the AI, and they will use it to do staggeringly stupid things. They will replace humans with LLMs where they can because they are stupid and don’t care when the eggheaded nerds tell them it’s a bad idea because it makes them feel smart. We are at the whims of idiots with money and power who now have automated even the position of sycophant who tells them they are right.

Another Torment Nexus to add to our collection. Neat!

Yes, fuck that fucker! My PC is an asshole.

You have to be a peculiar kind of stupid to get that causation backward.