Fair enough! I’m genuinely not trying to be a hater.
However, there is a line between mythology (a set of tales and myths spawning from a specific historical culture) and fantasy (a fictitious construct from the start). This particular game seems to be going pretty far into the realm of fantasy with the jello cube and the cinematic universe style storytelling, but maybe all of the God of War games have been like that, I don’t know.
Well… The way you’re telling it, I’d say it sounds like your friend has romantic and/or sexual feelings for you, but he is also homophobic and self-hating to the point where he simply can’t accept it. He may also be afraid of the judgement of others, like his family, for instance.
He probably feels that by pushing you out of his life and hooking up with the most available woman (a “beard” if you will…) he can make those feelings go away and live a “normal” hetero lifestyle. This type of binge and purge cycle is a common expression of shame, at least amongst the kinky communities that I am part of. 😂
I don’t think you did anything wrong, or at least you haven’t told us. You never really mentioned how you feel about them!
Makes sense, they are assimilating everything in their grasp by force and without consent.
I’d pay. You really gonna test your karma before getting on a plane?
Yikes… Imagine pulling this pathetic culture war shit while PC parts are up 400% and gas is >$5 per gallon… It’s over dude.
Anyway, I think the reason you dislike the game and the reason I’m disliking it are very different. I can get behind calling it slop, because it looks like something a corpo AI hallucinated, however.
Gotta say, it’s pretty wild that the mere sight of a woman is the new line for “woke” though.
I didn’t mean to hit a sure spot, and good for people if they like it, but it just seems so all over the place…
Originally GoW was Greek mythology, and then the last couple of games were all Norse mythology, but now it looks like a jumble of random mishmash ideas and aesthetics. You’d be forgiven for trying this was a Mortal Kombat cutscene…
I guess it’s like a mythology cinematic universe, or something? Like, what culture/mythos is the jelly cube from?
Wasn’t this game about mythology? What am I looking at here?
a lot of people i know irl including me like ai,
Yeah, no offense but you certainly write like someone who likes AI. I’ll give you that.
Odds are you like AI because it makes you feel like you can do things that you couldn’t in the past due to a lack of talent or skills.
however when i use reddit or youtube or whatever i see a dozen ai bad content. why is that?
Because AI sucks, both in terms of the quality of what is produced as well as the effort by which people use it to produce “content”.
It’s primary real use is for fraudulence and con artistry. Furthermore, it’s a direct affront to humanity and culture. It is the for-profit technological strip mining of all of human knowledge, art and creativity for the benefit of the ultra wealthy investor class, in spite of the rules regarding intellectual property that they themselves created. It’s also intellectually lazy, often wrong, and making us all stupider. Finally, it is an exploitative technology that is being used to replace and subvert human workers.
In other words, generative AI is practically indefensible. There’s almost nothing good to say about it, so what do you expect people to say?
surely they wouldnt have invested trillons on it if it was garbage
Are you familiar with the concept of an investment bubble?
The basic idea is that investors at large end up putting waaaaay too much money into a speculative asset, to the point where its market value greatly exceeds its practical/intrinsic value to the economy itself. We’ve seen this happen countless times in modern human history, from real estate bubbles, to the “.com bubble”, to Dutch tulips.
In capitalism, value is subjective. You might value something a lot more than I do, or vice versa. But it’s also possible for things to be generally overvalued or undervalued by society as a whole.
Regardless how any of us feel about AI (for or against), it is objectively overvalued by investors. Anthropic was recently valued at nearly a $1,000,000,000,000, roughly the same market value as massive giants like Samsung or Walmart, despite being a company that has only ever lost money.
I like this list, but I want to add Windjammers, Neo Turf Masters (golf), and League Bowling!
If you really think about it, how is this different from what all the AI startups are going?
First, know that the majority of people who are poor or homeless are only in that situation temporarily. Unless you have debilitating addictions or mental health issues that prevent you from functioning within society, you WILL get through this.
Buy a small notebook and make a list of local poverty resources: homeless shelters, food banks, hospitals, public restrooms, churches mosques and temples, libraries, employment offices, etc. If you don’t have these things where you live, you make have to migrate to somewhere that does.
Make a list of friends and family, and their phone numbers too. Swallow your pride and call as many of these people as you can and explain your situation to them. Be prepared to gracefully ask them for help, and be prepared to be denied. But if even 1 person can give you a short lifeline it might be enough to help you prevent the situation.
Remember and prioritize what is essential to survival–food, water, shelter, clothing and medicine. Those are first and foremost. After those have been figured out, then you need to focus on finding some kind of employment and income.
In a worst case scenario, you will be on your feet with only the possessions you can carry. You will need your personal identifying documents, medications, your phone (and a charger or two), and anything truly sentimental to you. You will need warm and cool weather clothing, as well as a blanket. A water bottle can also be useful. Any other possessions can be sold for cash and replaced later, if absolutely necessary.
Consider what lead you to this point and do your best to address it in the future. You will make it through this, but you still need to change how you’ve been living to avoid falling back down to rock bottom again. Seek help for mental health issues and addictions. Always remember that you are a human being who is entitled to life and worthy of love. Good luck!
Personally I don’t think that should matter in this case. Why are they taking it upon themselves to moderate private user files?
Plus, we all know they’re probably scraping all of it for AI training too.
I don’t believe for a second that she opposed the war with Iran. That’s her message.
If she really did feel strongly about it (and she should, because ending the “forever wars” was her #1 campaign issue back in 2016), then she would have resigned before the war was started.
The lady is, and always has been, a total fraud.
Must be nice to take everything in life at face value…
I can’t exactly say I’m surprised and disappointed in Gabbard’s political legacy here–I always new she was a snake and a puppet designed to rile up low information voters on our side. But what truly disappoints me is just how many fucking people fell for it over and over again.
Yeah, I really missed the boat getting in on it when it was $0.00…
Now I’d better get it at $0.0 before it shoots up to $0 next year.
I pay more than that as a single adult. And to make matters worse, my plan fucking sucks and covers barely anything with a $9,000 deductible. It’s the cheapest plan in my area…
Meanwhile Festerman gets free fucking healthcare on my tax dollars. Fuck that.
He said, “Fetterman has been sounding more like a staffer, republicans say.”
On a related note, I was really underwhelmed and disappointed by last year’s new Shinichiro Watanabe anime series, Lazarus.
As a huge fan of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo (and to a lesser extent Space Dandy) I was really looking forward to another serious anime helmed by Watanabe. What we got was, for various reasons, not the least of which being the untimely death of Bebop writer Keiko Nobumoto, really boring and subpar at best.
I struggled to finish it, and I probably wouldn’t have bothered it it wasn’t by a creator that I like and respect.
Why would I want a to hold the bag by taking 50% stake in an overvalued bullshit company whose only IP is a trove of stolen data that they are using to exploit the working and creative classes?
Make no mistake, this AI shit is a bubble. The bubble of all bubbles perhaps.