Definitely! I mean there's a lot of upsides, but reading the books, I'm always thinking this would suck. Humans are almost like afterthoughts or ornaments. You gotta be 1 in a billion genius for the AI to even take you seriously and not just humoring you.
So, yeah there's lots of moments where I like seeing the underdogs thwart the Culture.
Consider Phlebas or Player of Games. Both great sci-fi books by Iain Banks. Consider Phlebas would be an epic action/adventure, bordering on space opera. Player of Games is... I dunno how to describe it. Genius enters contest on far away alien planet sponsered by future version of CIA, on the premise of diplomatic outreach, but you know there's more to it.
When I was growing up, every movie, publisher, and many games had a continuity job. It was called different things, but were all similar in, you hired an expert to make sure you didn't fuck up the lore or history too badly.
Now, these DEI activists are the consulting experts. We're seeing the history re-writes in real time. Being gaslit about statues, who invented what, black vikings. It's the China great revolution on a global scale.
JP is just another institutional puppet, pushing the theme that only left wing violence is acceptable. You just have to control your output, so you don't create right wing violence. Basically endorsing frog boiling.
The Right creates, then corrupts; The Left divides and destroys. Cycles over and over through the centuries.
I remember the Buck Rogers boxes, but I never knew they were pushing it because of new owners. I'm trying to wrack my brain here... I think I had a friend who bought the set, but we never played it.
We did play Star Frontiers a few times, it was ok. I wonder if Star Frontiers was pushed aside so Buck Rogers would be the 'sci-fi' brand? The DM really had to put in a ton of labor for Star Frontiers. The rules were pretty bare bones. Which is both good/bad. In hindsite the settings where it's like that are usually better, you just need the rare unicorn DM that loves to write.
Somehow we have the safest and fairest elections, but Russia is able to keep meddling with them! Only they possess the technical and mental might to sway our unassailable democracy. How is it that Russia is immune to [Fortify] ? It's normally super-effective.
It'll be Hillary and Kamala. I don't think it can be Newsom because then both the Pres and VP would be from the same state on the ticket.
They know the Clinton Foundation will be so ruthless that nobody will look into any Fortify issues, and still believe Hillary was robbed of her rightful seat. I think it'll be Hillary and a whole lotta cheating both at the boxes and from the media.
Yeah there are games I get up to go get a drink or make some food the splash-segue is so long. Sometimes by the time I get back, I don't want to play anymore. Same with overly obnoxious dvd/blu-ray load-ins.
They do nothing. They look like idiots. Even if they weren't an op, they have no effectiveness or message.
Every time I hear her talk, I understand nepotism and simps a bit more.
He is a twat.
Once again I feel like this is why we fail. I don't wanna see him canceled because some groupies revoke consent 30 years later. Whereas If I could just be more tribal, I would join the mob.
I do love seeing him get eaten by his own though.
Wow. I look forward to the deep insights from these close, authentic friends. Maybe Newsom can broadcast from one of his three wineries. It will be super-relatable. Just what we need in these trying times.
They didn't like games to begin with. It's just their organizations hire from the pool of useless activists because of their identities, then they get their friends hired. They would rather be writing commie manifestos in fair trade coffee shops and policing social media, than anything to do with video games. It's just the white collar job they were able to land.
Guy got lucky she's gone. Also, if he had 'kept his daughter in line' this psycho would have written a reddit post about how misogynistic her boyfriend was to his daughter.
Don't worry, Lindsay, Mitch and Kevin will do a nationwide tour announcnig that they plan to ban all abortion, porn, and video games. Rallying the D's to an unprecedented level.
How long before that baby is covered in monkey pox?
Well, riot month(s) will start soon. So we won't be sad or bored for long.
Just some of my thoughts to keep contrast in my head.
-
If it shakes out that Dr. D is a through and through predator. I'm fine with the pillory and outrage.
-
Hasn't every NBA player and rockstar over the last 100 years plowed through hordes of groupies? When chicks are throwing themselves at you , you're expected to weed out the kids. How diligent do you expect people to be when getting Twitch DM's How far into a conversation?
-
On Twitch you can DM anyone, unless they have it set to private. Was this a case of Dr. D replying to flirty messages? Was this a case of him going to a chick's stream and starting up a convo? I guess I'm wondering if he ever even saw this person, who initiated, did pictures start flying? Was it a catfish? A clout-chaser? Groupie? Or, hopefully not, Dr. Disrespect trolling streams and using his own Twitch fame to dredge chicks?
-
Unpopular opinion. If I'm getting Twitch DM's or messages joking around, flirting whatever, it might take awhile before I leap to 'How old are you and can you provide a govt ID' On the other hand, I'm never gonna try to arrange a meet up or even invest further in an online relationship, from a cold open from a stranger.
Now that I have sorted that all out in my head.
It would seem that Dr. D might be an idiot. Though I like him, why on Earth would you get sucked into a DM bait like that? Especially when he was probably getting 1000's of messages a week, so would likely have a privacy setting turned on. So, it could be more likely that he was trawling streams and started flirting with a girl. Who then turned out to be not completely legal, and he bailed at some unclear time, either before or after the demarcation line of fucking up.
That is such a good point. I gotta remember that.
Pakman is the Vaush of the East. Same person. Same employers. Slightly different audiences.
So she likes going viral, but doesn't want the wrong people looking at her.
She went viral. Decided to make some follow-up content to try and ride the wave. The best her NPC brain could come up with was feminist vomit.
I'm thinking bow, arrows, and weighted/spiked chain weapons got very popular in that era.
This year there's going to be a lot of astroturfing. Handlers behind social media whores like BrooklynDud, Destiny, JerseyJo, Rappaport, will pay big dollars to accounts that can reach a lot of normies.
One of these chicks will go viral and look like they'll have staying power, then she'll get a $$$ offer to start posting friendly to the establishment content, or content that distracts, culture war, signal boost. Just think of the shit the paid actors post.
Anything to distract from actual meat and potatoes issues. Class issues. They gotta keep the peasants fighting each other so they can keep looting. Corruption is so bad they are all in on it, nobody wants to be the first one to squeal, and there's no pressure anyhow.
That is a cool idea. Don't use Chat-GPT though, RimWorld is too raw for it. All those pawns running around quipping "I'm just a language model.." or "Let's steer the conversation to something that inspires more equitable feelings"
Any of the advanced Claude models would be down for the wasteland of RimWorld.
The Culture cries out in pain as it subverts and strips your markets and worlds.