Yep!

Your retirement fund is his exit liquidity, and you likely can’t do shit about this, because that’s how easy it is to just fully mask off the US economy/political/legal system as a wealth raping machine.

These problems, this kind of potential has like, always been there.

But normalcy bias is a hell of a drug, I guess.

Its the most obvious con, fraud, ever.

But its all the systems around making that into a fraud you cannot very easily opt out of, once your see how obvious it is… that’s the clever part.

Yet that idea is the entire basis of the US economy, at the moment.

So its significantly closer to being ‘open’ in that qualified organizations can poke around with some of its innards and probably achieve something useful, in comparison to fully propietary models where that is either legally impossible or extremely, absurdly expensive.

Its sorta like …

… a compiled game that requires you to fully reverse engineer a lot of it to be able to mod it at all, while also its use liscense states that doing that is illegal,

… a compiled game that is highly moddable via tools/apis and/or a significant portion of it that is well publically documented or just source code available,

… and then a truly totally open source, libre game.

Yeah, not totally open source.

But functionally and practically closer to it.

I can mod the shit out of Half Life 2 or New Vegas or CyberPunk or Kenshi, but not so much with … I dunno, basically any live service game.

I still need those original core compiled exes for those games, but basically, many things I can fuck with relatively easily… and maybe if I really go nuts I can figure out how to hack or shim or hijack the exe to make NVSE or RedScript or ReKenshi or whatnot.

As compared to trying to mod HellDivers or Fortnite… near instant ban, most likely.

But also, if you don’t know much about how to make a mod, well you’re basically SoL in that department just the same for any kind of game, really.

goddamnit, lol

brb, jettisoning my recycling into the mobile external containment vessel, prior to scheduled rendevouz.

Either way, well done, you’ve certainly understood the assignment.

… but it takes two, to make a 00.

Whoah hey I was joking!

Its about as ‘bigotted’ to intentionally and explicitly do an equal opportunity insult as it is to guess that someone who says ‘cunt’ is probably from the UK or AUS or NZ.

… Because ‘cunt’ is just a more common part of the vocabulary there.

Ok brb making a game about being a self righteous asshole boomer who is always correct and its actually everyone else’s fault that he has no friends and his wife and kids dont speak with him.

Call it Boomer Shooter, but its not an FPS, its actually primarily a series of small adventure/puzzle levels with complex branching dialogue options.

You get points for shooting down ideas you either didn’t think of first or don’t like because they might imply that you aren’t perfect.

The rules are made up and the points don’t matter beyond a high score at the end of the bad ending.

The good ending happens when you don’t get that many points, despite the game constantly handholding you and telling you thats what you should focus on.

There, enjoy your retirement.

EDIT:

The DLC will add the ability to play as a privileged white woman who gets points for morally policing everyone around her but herself, spreading misinformation, and guilt tripping people who trust her.

EDIT 2:

In case I’m not being clear enough, a Boomer that wants a video game for their enfeebled retired ass can fucking make it themselves, and/or possibly think about why it is the case that the industry has enshittified to the extent that it has.

Who is it exactly thats in charge of all these enshittifying gaming companies again? Oh right yeah, its your 401ks, teaching children how to love their gambling addiction, so that you can retire well.

I mean, it can’t be that hard, right? To make a toy that satifies Boomers? Just bootstrap it yourselves, I’m sure you’ll discover that if you just shake a few hands and burn a few hundred million dollars, it’s just about showing up and doing the job well, or something.

… you want a Boomer game?

It already exists, its Candy Crush, its Words with Friends, its Scrabble Go, its Solitaire.

That’s not even an insult, that’s just literally market research data.

Things we can thank Hillary Clinton for:

As best I can tell, the term ‘UAP’.

… and of course, the snizz snuke.

Hey its like I been saying for a while now:

Oh you think you have a 401k huh?

That’s cute.

So Meta decided to kill itself, huh?

Fuck it, sure.

Correct decision for the wrong reasons, but eh, good enough I guess.

My napkin math results in ‘further than a guillotine’.

Hey.

HEY!

You like food, doncha?

You’ll get better at it, just take it easy.

And now for bigotry:

… found the aussie/kiwi? possibly brit?

I mean… you can’t vibecode well, nobody can, your example here well illustrates that.

Vibecoding -> the magic machine operates via special incantations, and that makes me a magician!

AI-assisted coding -> Ok this hallucinating genius dumbass ram devouring monster is simultaneously very capable in some ways and horrendously stupid in others… if I am very gentle and precise with it, as one would be with a toddler, it may be very helpful, but I can never assume it may not have a critical and fundamental incomprehension of some kind.

LLMs are clearly useful, in the right hands.

They’re great for a senior or mid level dev to use as an extremely fallible assistant.

They’re good for junior devs to both learn some basics about code and also some basics about how LLMs are not magic.

Like, plug a junior dev into an LLM and then the ask the dev to review the resulting code.

That’s not a bad way to train up a junior dev.

… But this shit isn’t production ready just because it involved an LLM at some point!

Its literally all experimental!

C Suite and Managers are just fucking idiots!

It is just that simple!

They don’t want to do their jobs anymore, and they fell for marketing hype.

I’m genuinely less mad at dumbass but eager vibe coders caught up in a delusion… they’re disproportionately inexperienced, they wouldn’t really have a way to know better.

The dumbasses in charge that are cramming the kind of workflow and workforce setup you describe down everyone’s throats?

These fucking idiots should know better.

They basically could not be more perfectly incompetent, and they should be roundly laughed at and openly mocked as the idiot clowns they are, to their faces, all the time, everywhere, including work settings.

Literally the survival of the human species may depend on our ability to point out and identify to these people’s faces that they are in fact complete fraud morons.

laughs devilishly

Glad you liked it.

I mean, I use a local LLM in much the way I would do pair or partner programming with another person… one person is in charge but the other is actively reviewing, checking for problems… but then maybe you both switch at a point where one has a different kind of idea, or one person is totally befuddled.

So… that’s not the same as just ‘chatgpt write my entire codebase’… which yeah, basically is just sitting in the cuckchair…

Maybe the way I’m talking about is more like an active threesome, somebody is analagously the unicorn, I dunno, hahaha!

You a clank-yanker?

Gonna give it a promptstate massage tonight?

Get your digits all sticky givin it a nice, long, terminal input session?

Just make sure you spit on it if it overheats, help it cool off.

At this point, I think most non uptight people have taken to using ‘knob slobberer’, ‘ball fondler’, ‘bouncin on that thing and doin tricks on it’… etc… mostly as just a sex/gender/orientation independent ways of saying you’re a simp, you’re a sycophant, you’re a toadie, something like that.

(Most people have a mouth and at least one lower orifice of some kind and a hand or two)

The idea is that you’re overly subservient, not that you’re any kind of orientation.

Yeah they’re still used by bigots as bigotted slurs in some contexts, but just broadly, society has gotten measurably more comfortable discussing sex, in any context or capacity.

Maybe another comparable thing is like how ‘you guys’ has basically become gender neutral, in many contexts.

Like, I’m a bi dude, and if somebody who knew that about me called me a fag, half in jest, I’d probably respond playfully, not… insulted and indignant.

Same with queer… that’s not even an insult to me in any way, its just a … factually accurate description.

Sure if you use those terms with clear derisive invictive (invective?), then yes its a bigotted insult/slur, but… yeah context matters, there are many other contexts where I wouldn’t find those terms insulting at all.

Like at least to myself personally, cocksucker is an equal opportunity insult roughly the way bastard is… it implies duplicity, perfidy… not sexual orientation.

I was going to rejoinder this with a quip about ‘presumably neither shaken nor stirred’, but given that this was clever enough to stunlock me for ~12 hrs, I guess just ‘bravo!’