Fedegenerate

Oh look another oligarchy preparing to invade a foreign land. We call the previous one orcs, seems fitting to call these ones orcs too.

Where are you at now with it?

I first read it as a teen and was fully “yeah, this is the way”, he was my favourite author at one time, terrifying looking back. As I read it more and more, and became more and more lefty, the shine has come off. Now I just see it as a fully open live letter to Authoritarianism.

Nowadays when I read Heinlein I just see the… There was a video by Overly Sarcastic Productions where Red (the host) did a “Deep thoughts with Robert A Heinlein” where some of his nonsense is laid bare… I just see those now, I can’t read them.

Here’s a Reddit thread where users highlight their favourite deep thoughts with Robert A Heinlein.

Exhalation stories - Ted Chiang. I’m into short stories while I physically and mentally prepare for Captive War #2.

Anyways, the first story about a gateway that can take you forward/back 20 years, but you can’t change anything. Going forward merely tells you where you’ll end up, going backwards merely increases your understanding of how you got where you are. Great story, fully locked in, the rest haven’t caught my imagination quite like the first though.

The answer is found in capitalism. Why are gamers, who have continually been fucked by capitalism, so blind at seeing the obvious. '80s game crash: capitalism. Day one DLC: capitalism. Micro transactions: capitalism. All the hardware being hoovered up, so software costs more at every level, increasing prices for both hardware and software: capitalism.

This always trips me up. Would the correct way of writing: a cube 256mm to an edge

256³mm³? That feels inelegant.

Do the math myself so 1.67*10⁶mm³? Which seems like I’m asking the reader to simplify what I complicated.

Or 256mm³? That seems true to speech it’s a 256mm cube…

Sing me the doom song while I drive us to Whitby.

Blood over Bright Haven. A book that, among other things, is about discovering how to be a good ally.

It’s the machine that goes “BING”

You don’t understand, I need all the help I can get!!!

Which is quite literally everything. At the very, very, least goods and services are distributed via oil power somewhere in the chain.

Wait till you learn about Carcassonne. A town so chaotically laid out it has a board game.

I don’t think Spec ops is spoilers to reveal you’re a bad guy, not in 2026: you play the US, in the Gulf. You play the US doing US imperialism, it doesn’t hide that from you. It’s just later in the game it confronts you with what that really means.

Braid absolutely, but it’s 17yo at this point, any reasonable spoiler policy* has worn off. Meets the criteria, gets you all empathetic for the little shit, Tim, then makes you question it all. I think a first play through is impactful even knowing he’s a villain… It’s not that he’s a villain that is cool, it’s how you find out he’s a villain.

*Except for Outer Wilds the spoiler policy on that is eternal.

Ok, but I fail to see the reasoning behind your comment then.

Agree or not whether there’s an ethical way to consume HP, you believe your opinion on the matter is not morally or ethically authoritative.

I don’t think anyone would have suggested otherwise… There isn’t a comment here saying “but what does minorkeys think”.

Ok. You believe your opinion isn’t ethically or morally authoritive, but it could still have merit.

Dungeon Keeper.

Destroy all humans.

Spec ops the line.

Braid.

Manhunt.

Fixed, thanks for the correction. Ironic “We’re wrong all the time” in a comment containing a factual error.

No worries, I meant it in a “Hurr Durr, even the dumb AI gets it, and it doesn’t even know Kirk is dead”, which was perhaps ablest of me.

Going forwards I don’t really know what I want to do about it. I don’t think I’ll stop making layered satirical comments, but posting the explanation along side feels like it’s taking the “bite” away from the satire.

Posting the explanation, without the snark, when someone obviously doesn’t “get it” is probably best. The person asking for a source for Charlie Kirk’s medical exam obviously “didn’t get it”. I should probably have posted the AI summary there to avoid most of the nonsense that followed.

The person who thought I posted an article about George Floyd obviously wasn’t going to respect my time by considering anything I wrote. The person who said I used AI to explain the joke to myself, also wasn’t going to respect my time by reading anything I wrote, there was no avoiding their nonsense. They deserved all the snark they got.

I guess not. I don’t know if that’s because the training data is old. Or, there’s been so much satire around public figures dying that it was more likely article was satire than not. I didn’t inform Gemini it was a Guardian article, perhaps it would have changed response given that, thinking Guardian doesn’t post satire that often.

It got a lot wrong, LLMs aren’t trained to be factually accurate though. They’re trained on us, and we’re wrong all the time.

Searxing is great. Incredibly customisable, and the search is powerful if you want it to be. Using tags to limit which query goes to which engine is something I should utilise more. !WP only going to Wikipedia, or !translate only going to selected translate engines.

FragileFraggle getting the recognition she deserves.

I don’t believe anyone here was saying there was.

You are correct though. It was obvious some conservatives wanted the execution, they just watched, to not be labeled an execution. “Self inflicted overdose” was a convenient excuse for them, so they ran with it.