In real life, or in ARMA 3?

Could the punch line be any lazier?

Trying to get out in front of criticism by preemptively mocking it doesn’t delegitimize it. Doing so just makes you look like you just switched topics from fluoridated water and are holding a bundle of stolen copper wire under your arm.

Tankie begone

We’re still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we’re climbing out of it. I’m already being ‘tricked’ left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen

Skill issue

When Oblivion came out there was no shortage of shitposters screaming and crying that it was too bright and cartoonish because it had green grass and blue skies. I guess if your experience with graphics comes from the Piss Filter era, and you don’t go outside, you’ll think everything that isn’t muddy brown is unrealistic.

What’s the point of wrestling with a pig? You both get muddy, and the pig likes it.
Maybe it’s because I grew up with the old, “mean” internet, but my response to communities full of trash is to leave them alone and let the blind lead the blind. Seriously, what the hell is arguing with them going to do? They expect to be challenged, they will not see reason, they will not suffer to be helped, and you are not going to be the person who changes that.

“Why isn’t my horse pushing the cart”

For real, I was shocked it was as many as seven drones they shot down. I saw $200M and figured it meant two.

t. somebody who totally isn’t a psycho

Easy, just use your mouth.

/thread

Also I demand that everyone who calls it AI instead of procedural generation gets tazed on the butthole

That’s barking up the wrong tree. Zero freedoms or liberties are uniquely American from the American point of view, because that would undermine the doctrine of Natural Rights.

Sorry you got impassioned soapboxing instead of anybody getting your joke.

Canceling people who pretend to be nice but have racist tweets from 2007 is all very fine, we have fun with that in our culture. However, the real action is in finding people who call Zoomer culture cringe, and then digging up their old forum posts where they called a lolcat “epic winrar for great justice”

I admire Rome in the sense of holding it in wonder and esteem, but I don’t think it was good, and if you’ll indulge me I’d like to explain more.

tl;dr

I’d say I admire Rome for having such a sophisticated apparatus of state that was, at the time, found in only a couple other places in the world; and for having a really fascinating culture and absurdly robust cultural identity. It’s almost unique in that period for having its cultural identity repeatedly survive truly horrific amounts of senseless bloodshed and turmoil (though I’d personally argue Rome’s real fall began at the end of the Republic). The First Punic War, for example, saw Rome throwing away its entire treasury and 17% of its adult male population in an effort to crush Carthage, and the state didn’t collapse. Romans waged endless civil wars and insurrections, and yet Rome remained Rome through centuries of that.

However, as fascinating as that is, I don’t understand the mind of any person who can come away from Roman history without being appalled by it. Rome was dissolute, degenerate, and disgusting. Everything it accomplished actually fell far short of what could have been, because Rome was repeatedly mired in prioritizing shameless greed and sadistic cruelty above effective governance—like when the reformer Pertinax was executed by his own men, who then sold the title of Imperator at auction. But even though this obliterated any remaining illusions among the populace about the due processes of the Roman state, Rome still held together for centuries, and its dissolution was stubborn and slow. I think if you were to sum up everything about Rome in one word, it’d have to be Proud. I guess there’s just something darkly admirable about that.

“I just want to know why you have such an objection to sea lions”

Future generations will look at people who think there will be sapient general AI the same as how we today view people who thought there would be a microfiche machine in every home by now.

That’s in interesting point of view, but I was just making a joke about goats.