I'm never going to be on the team that demands "forced safety toggles" on something that should be adults only and isn't inherently damaging, but the amount of AI psychosis and other scarily obsessive behavior we have seen in the short yearish that these AI things have been widely available is concerning enough that something should be done now in the infant stages. Because in just a few years this will be a society defining issue instead at this rate.
I can't say if this is the correct choice, nor have I even toyed with any of these AI things in the slightest to have experience, but the absurd reaction to even the slightest changes in each of these models tells me that these people need some sort of intervention.
A completely quiet recording of extremely awful "optics" is I think one of the strongest contributions one can make to this current "culture war." LibsofTiktok showed just how scarily effective it can be, though she by name gave them a lot of ammo to easily dismiss her with and it still took a lot of effort for them to do so.
A completely commentaryless video about a sheboon going off on someone over nothing, or a Muslim doing something Islamic and it making the rounds will do more to contribute to people turning against this than any "talking head" content or even local office (where you become limited by the rules of said office). There is a reason why we know so much about Drag Queen Story Hour existing, but almost nothing from inside them ever escapes and the rare time it did that Demon is a cornerstone of anti-Woke discussion. They know how much these creatures' very existence will offend the common masses and take extreme measures to control what gets shown.
The immoral part is the same as is often lobbed at most who recorded things like in Africa, where you have to actively not help someone in active trouble and instead record their suffering or demise for political/monetary gain. And even worse, its not some African with a 3 day lifespan we can dismiss anyway. I don't really have a justification against this, and I'm not even sure I could live with myself if I did so, but in a "big picture" sense its an awakening tragedy we might need, similar to Kirk's death finally rousing a lot of things from the darkness.
Normally I disagree with you on most things, but in this we are aligned in that too many people are so obsessed with Jews that they cannot fathom anything in existence is anything but a Jewish plot and feel the need to bend every detail in existence back in that direction.
Jews and their nonsense are a huge foundation and backer of Leftist terrorism, and they are no doubt heavily involved here simply because they have touched so much almost nothing doesn't involve them anymore. But they aren't the only part of it either.
That's a lot of names of "those guys are still around?" Because so many of those were popular like a decade+ ago, and even popular was stretching it, and have been irrelevant since.
Like, Jeff Ross needed Comedy Central to name him some kind of "roast master" just so he had a career making mediocre jokes on their old annual show, and he had zero presence outside of that despite getting national TV coverage on it.
And the fact that Jo Koy still exists is enough to make me hate everything about this. That is the most effeminate, disgusting simp of a male that embodies everything wrong with Leftie males.
Almost all these theories rely on the old trick of "if you can't prove this 1% thing that looks off, then the other 99% are now invalid forever."
Its literally the CSI effect on real life, where the 'thing' is solved by finding an exact series of events and details that happened to the T and it wraps itself up nice in a coherent box that fits their personal biases and theories only totally coincidentally.
This is one of the few political topics I've talked about with my wife, since for once its relevant enough for her opinion to have weight instead of the usual "that's stupid, people suck" she operates under for all other politics.
And her response was a pretty standard female one of "its literally the only thing left to deal with the pain." Which I think is a pretty valid stance, pregnancy is hard, especially if you remain working for a lot of it, and I can imagine being told your only solace left is also being taken away is not easy to swallow.
So while the retarded Leftie women would resist literally anything Trump's admin said, there is the broader problem with the entire family unit and building that makes it a little weak to pull out a single branch of it without addressing why its become such a problem to begin with.
But, like most things, they can't actually say that because women are emotional and hate accountability so addressing the "why you getting pregnant with a broke nigga, or one who already took off to begin with" or the "why you having kids in your 40s retard" elephant will just lose you an election. So we have to instead tiptoe into this valid but symptomatic cause instead of trying to actually fix things from the top.
I'm not saying they aren't good. They are literally doing the work to get games out of complete obscurity and unplayability and do so pretty well in a lot of cases. The problem I'm saying is that their pretty well is still below what I'm willing to pay in some cases. But I'm also a miser so if you ask me for money you best be putting up a lot.
went to reinstall XCOM: Enemy Within
Literally had to do the same thing with the same game, its something 2k broke within their launcher that they forced into a bunch of games and then left broken when they removed it.
They literally already told that story in the first game. All three "big" female characters embody some if not nearly all of those descriptors. The only thing that prevents that from being their entire story is each was limited (noncombatant, frail archer, old) and thereby had to rely on Jin most of the time.
So not only is this retarded to begin with, its also completely forgetting the single fucking other game in the series.
Also in that first single sentence they show just how poor their own "media comprehension is." Jin's layers are traumatically welded on as part of his samurai training. Its literally the plot of one of the first missions how completely retarded his samurai code was intentionally made that he cannot comprehend stealth kills and has a PTSD attack in doing his first one.
The constant choice of "standoff" to call every enemy in earshot versus ghosting the whole base through stealth, or some combo of the two showed his character merging and adapting to use his traditional skills and his newfound ones to accomplish an impossible task. And gave players the choice in their roleplay/play style to go as they preferred.
If she is already an angry, hateful harpy who is trying to destroy the samurai then you have none of that. There is no purpose or thought to anything beyond unga bunga destruction.
You've taken the biggest criticism of the first game (the unncessary Ubisoft open world map) and leveled up to just being Far Cry entirely.
For that situation to work you need the confidence that both the conditions will remain as wonderful and that you can still score when the time comes.
The GOP and the Right can not even come close to claiming either, so the metaphor continues to work as the small percentage time it doesn't doesn't enter play to begin with.
Companies aren't providing what customers want, but emulation largely does.
It does for console stuff pretty handily, but older PC titles are where the problem remains and where GOG does shine in some ways but still feels less than I feel is acceptable for a sold product.
I bought the original Legacy of Kain through GOG and still had to do a forum hunt to get it operational, and that's a complete failure on what they are claiming to sell me. I appreciate now having it with the standard GOG no-drm, offline available but the principle remains.
At that point I'd rather just find it on the various abandonware sites, that come with the "here is how to get it working" as part of the package instead of charging me, letting me sit down to enjoy something and realize I'm an hour away from actually playing.
Not even controller mappings or graphical settings.
I've found far too many games basically unplayable on modern systems without these, however.
I'm not asking for a passover to make it run on 4k at 120 FPS, but many older games require technology that doesn't exist anymore in your PC, are hard locked into certain once great settings, and physically tie game functionality to performance levels of the time to work around/with the lag. I just want it to roughly function as it did, without needing to edit files or tweak my system like an emulator might require, something I'm willing to do because its free, not a paid product.
The controller mapping is just because a lot of certain older games have mind boggling controls that I simply cannot go back to. Jap games using O for confirm instead of X, inverted anything, etc. I can live without, but again if I'm paying you for it I want something above the level of emulation.
I suppose that's the heart of this discussion. Emulation is easy and free, and is hugely configurable. If you expect me to pay for something I already likely own again, I want something that's better than the two options I have.
They've repeated their meme of "all republicans, racists, and white men are retarded cousin fucking rednecks" so long that they truly believe it to a level where the alternative rarely enters their brain.
So what started as the idea of the KKK being an overall wearing, toothless imbecile now extends to everyone they don't like is that simple and low IQ. And thereby its totally easy to pwn them with womanly wiles and brain power.
Biden and his puppeteers spent their entire term trying to dismantle, destroy and desecrate everything Trump did, stood for and existed as. They tried to jail him, blamed him for every evil in existence, and used him as the scapegoat for every failing they had.
Anyone's feelings on Trump's actions aside, that was disrespect on a primal level. This is downright tame compared to what they did, and he has every right as a grown man to return the favor to Biden and Obama.
The point isn't antagonizing them, its giving you the option to not have to completely agree with and compromise your own choices to make them happy. My character can be played as I want, with the choices I want to make, and I'm not actively gimping my companions and reducing my experience by doing so.
These types of games aren't about friends going on a merry stroll, its a major adventure full of politics and important decisions. I shouldn't be forced to spare the Rape Master 9000 because my only tank is a goody goody and will walk 10 steps backwards on his personal quest progression if I do. Its fine if he argues with me about it and I have to adequately defend my point of view, maybe even leaves if its a massive enough choice or repeated offense, but normally its just a binary "Morrigan Disapproves, go fuck yourself."
Especially as, as DA2 does actually quite well with it, often just blindly supporting and agreeing with them is the worst possible choice both for their growth and the world itself. The "rivalry" path is often telling them to cut their shit, get over themselves, and that "kill all templars/mages for existing" is not in fact a productive viewpoint right now.
But as it often happens, you are forced to baby them and tiptoe around their little hissy fits if you want to fully utilize them, as their "bonds" often lock both massive amounts of lore, completion of their arcs, and some form of mass power boost.
You've been actively hostile to the very notion that the drugs you are on might be negatively effecting you, and then when pushed on these facts you default to "woe is me, I'm a victim, the world hates me" state.
Of course no one wants to offer you anything but derision, you actively resist anything but making yourself more worthless in some vain attempt that if you are pathetic enough people might decide to help you.
Broadway is suffering from the same fate as most industries on the upper crust of luxury. Inflation and the bad economy has made people be less willing or able to splurge on fleeting little pleasures like this. Its the same reason places like Disney World are struggling. You aren't getting something back from the money spent, and the money spent is huge, so its just a foregone conclusion that its not happening.
That's before you even add in the extreme Leftie and Gay nonsense involved, which means even for the people who could afford it the list of plays they want to see is short.
Have you seen the sets and size of the casts they put on? These are "artists" and drama kids, so no expense will be spared on making it as grandiose and extravagant as possible and since its Broadway they are given far more leeway on budgets for the sake of optics and showing off to the ultra rich who sometimes show up and bring entourages who might "notice" one of them to kickstart their big careers.
Its ironic because literally any other play in existence comes about under shoestring budgets and extreme crunch pressure.
Its petty and a bit childish, but they are illegal and thereby deserving of no American protection under law or culture, and we deserve a little bit of dumb humor at their expense after decades of the Left having a monopoly on it.
The only two groups I see using these things beyond a short term novelty is Students cheating on their course work, and people building sexual/romantic stories with them.
Even if they make up a fractional amount of the total users, they are also the ones using them an absurd amount and thereby feeding it more data than probably thousands of others combined. One of the news articles about this from a few months ago had a guy bemoaning the loss of 100k's of messages lost in an update. One guy did that, and fed it that much data.
The people doing this are not in a healthy state and you'd not even know of their existence if this particular thing wasn't the big "fad" leading to it being talked about in the media and legislation. These relationships are probably the only dopamine hit they've had in forever, and the illusion is better than their sad, lonely lives.