Part of it came about during the pandemic. You had people paranoid about supposed post-covid effects and the pandemic also led to loosened rules for Telehealth.

So a lot more people were getting themselves diagnosed and getting prescriptions for ADHD meds that normally require a little more upfront cost and effort.

I'd also factor in information overload in relation to how increasingly fast paced society keeps getting. Which isn't very straightforward to avoid as it maybe was in previous decades. Still technically doable, just not quite as easy or simple as it used to be.

What little I've heard of its earliest origins isn't much better either.

A few of these could be poor habits and signs of some issues, but the list as a whole is a complete shotgun blast that tries to paint any kind of emotional response that isn't totally flat and submissive as being "immature".

And I say this after having recently dealt with a guy who was legitimately emotionally immature and controlling. (A messy breakup involving a friend)

There's a certain twisted bit sneakiness to this too. Because female characters in anime have long been a thing, and this wouldn't normally seem like something out of the norm.

Except because it's being pushed and funded by a Western company, you know this isn't a natural creative choice but instead yet another DEI-type of motivation.

Turkey is in such a weird spot. They have ties with pretty much every side. And I don't think most of it was deliberate, just a matter of location and timing.

The ballooning costs are in part due to the inflating bloat they keep trying to stuff into every game. Not every bloody game needs a crafting or a skill system, nor does every game need 100+ sidequests throughout the entire campaign.

I think some studios were also banking on investors fronting them for a long time, based on player numbers and playtime, which was never seriously going to hold in the long run. Players can only be led around on a leash in so many games for so long before they just get sick and tired of being denied actual fun in the games they're purchasing.

Feminist nepotism and ideological circle-jerking vs encouraging actual talent and success.

Sometimes they're fun to laugh at. Unfortunately, they're also a massive brain-drain on society, so the payoff may cost a bit much.

Feminism is a bit extra prominent and overbearing in Spain, from what I understand. I suppose that alone could factor in for a small but sizable chunk, especially when combined with even the slightest touch of regressive leftism.

Oh I'll agree. LLM's are an exceptionally efficient tool for gathering, collecting, and organizing that kind of data.

Most of it wouldn't be anywhere near as fucky if there were proper privacy protections for citizens, both from governments and corporations. Or if not for the attacks on VPN's and the attempts to push digital ID's.

Although even then, I do admit that AI could still be used to identify an individual (writing style analysis, any scraps of identifying info leaked from your connection) unless you maintain every security precaution imaginable every single day you use the Internet.

This is the fault of pozzed power mongering governments passing bullshit laws and restrictions on fundamental human rights, not the tools that were employed.

It's less about "respecting their customs" so much as being street-smart and recognizing what kind of situation you could get yourself into, based on the location and environment.

IE, don't walk down a dark alley in a crime ridden city in the middle of the night unless you're damned sure you can defend yourself against an assailant. And, if you can help it, avoid living in that city to begin with.

So, somehow more of an issue than:

Nations and international groups trying to push for digital ID's, while governments enthusiastically pass online verification laws with wild abandon.

Attempts to outlaw/ban VPN's.

Still very much active government/intelligence surveillance programs that collect and store massive amounts of data on people, often without a warrant.

Corporate data collection and the selling thereof.

I mean I'll agree, that AI as a tool is going to make things way easier for various groups in their efforts to collect and store data about individuals. The problem though isn't so much the tools that are being employed, so much as that they're being allowed to collect that data in the fucking first place.

Pretty much. At least 90% of the time. There are a few rare exceptions where a reboot has actually not sucked. Like the newer Judge Dredd movie that came out a few years ago.

I was a bit skeptical at first, just given how much I've always hated reboots since the trend first started. But I'll hand it to them, they did manage to at least partially do an interesting job at modernizing the more technical aspects of the Macgyver concept and execution.

The characters in the reboot aren't quite as memorable as the original of course. And there are episodes and plots that get run down with the same rinse and repeat crap that's the norm for these kinds of shows today.

Overall it's barely an echo of the original, but they could've done far worse.

Glints of truth wrapped in a big fat lie. No fucking duh that the way these kinds of statistics are gathered or reported is faulty as hell.

That's not the problem, at least on this topic. The problem is that the Democrats were lying out of their asses and that they KNEW what they were spewing was complete bullshit.

But they tried to gaslight the public anyway, using every misused tool and asset available to them. Including their beck and call media outlets.

Exactly this. The genie's already out of the bottle. The best thing to do now is to try and ensure that at least AI development isn't kept under the sole control of a handful of corporate goons.

Also, we don't have to regulate development and access to AI itself in order to try and address some of the risks to workers and the economy. The burden of regulations could instead be applied to the large companies who might try and over-utilize it as a replacement for qualified employees.

Make those cooking toys for boys a toy grill and then we're headed in the right direction. And include a toy maintenance kit as well.

Tyminski should add an enemy creature/monster "inspired" by those subreddit moderators in a future game or update. Show those clueless brats just how powerless they really are, and just for the hilarity of seeing them blow a gasket.

I'm nearly positive that the main reason for Wrath of the Righteous having some of the "diverse" characters in it did was because the original tabletop campaign had them. (Plus the creator of that tabletop campaign was a tranny).

Owlcats didn't seem to go very far beyond simply adapting some of the same bits, almost like they were doing it out of contractual necessity rather than any actual enthusiasm for the cringey token characters.

At the very very least, it seems plausible that the company's just not 100% completely infested like a lot of other studios. But they may still have some problems with rats.

Although the channels they're writing through are increasingly ignored by the populace. So it won't be long before it's the equivalent of personal fanfiction, read by no one except other little fanfiction creeps.

Yup. They take mental shortcuts, either out of laziness or because it's "inconvenient" to their goal.

Like just recently I saw a thread on resetera, and the number of people diving in and auto-believing some book claiming it was Joe Rogan's fault that Harris couldn't get on for an interview.

No one even questions the book's claim. They just insta-assume it's true and then spit out a bunch of baseless ad hominem bullshit about Joe Rogan. How he's a "racist", sexist, just about any and every nonsensical accusation they can come up with.

And these are the same idiots who wag their finger at anyone who dares to do their own research. Instead insisting that you solely put your hands in the hands of the so-called "experts". Because the so-called experts could "NEVER" be completely off their rockers or full of total bullshit.

"Zizian." The names they come up with are always such pure cringetastic faggotry.

Depending on how soon you need it, I heard that VLC should have built-in AI-language translation pretty soon.

Otherwise, what others have suggested would probably be a better and more immediate solution if you have access to existing subtitles.