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Captainant

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    Edited by Captainant

    51 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    The biggest issue was that they released it, then about 6 months in, abandoned it. But it's not entirely EA's fault -- the number of players dropped off a cliff within a week of its release. For whatever reasons, it was a pretty failed product.

    But playing with HOTAS is an entirely upgraded experience from playing it with a mouse or controller. Now there's a big learning curve to having to map all of the controls, learn how to use them, and then after that you've gotta figure out why it crashes to desktop 4 out of every 5 times you try to launch it*, but once you're in the game and playing? It's AWESOME.

    *still don't know why

    Add in a VR headset and baby you got a sim goin! I used to play Elite Dangerous with some friends that way, it was a blast

  2. 9 minutes ago, Bojack said:

    I'm negging your posts on this page because they apparently took down your racist shit on the football board. Not that your posts on this thread aren't stupid, worthless, and poorly reasoned. Question for you or anybody else, do the rep points still count when a post is deleted by admin?

    It is disappointing that shitheads get a free pass like that, and are free to continue pushing their bullshit on the board without a paper trail of their past bullshit. The good deacon and most of the rittenhouse fan club have had quite a bit whitewashed and memory holed

  3. 10 hours ago, Rimbo said:

    too bad nobody else plays Star Wars Squadrons anymore but I'm having a lot of fun with it now

    I really wish they would remake TIE Fighter, it's too bad EA tried to turn Squadrons into a live service game

  4. 6 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I suppose it’s different in that groceries are a bit more necessary than vacation rentals, but I’m not sure this is really an evil of AI so much as capitalism.

    It's different when folks are presented different prices at the same time. That's pretty plainly discriminatory, and just a step away from arbitrarily pricing certain demographics higher as a social punishment.

    The "AI" angle is a red herring - traditional machine learning models were being used for that a decade ago, this is just a shitty extractive unsustainable business practice 

  5. 3 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Truth is, though, if DOJ had acted on January 22, 2021, Trump wouldn't have been convicted or finally (appeal exhaustion) before November 4, 2024.

    And, even if by some miracle he had at least been convicted at trial, it wouldn't have made a single, solitary shit.

    You're right, I'm sure going through a trial and the public recitation of evidence would have done absolutely nothing and not been worth a single shit. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    They know it’s a network of thousands, right? 

    Given how scaling works, they don't need to take out all the nodes to negatively impact the network. Take out 10 or 20% of the nodes, and you'll likely realize a greater than 10 to 20% degredation of the networks throughput and usability.

    Plus, if Russia decides they don't care about Kessler Syndrome they could just shoot a few canisters of ball bearings into similar orbital inclinations and that'll do the same thing

  7. 2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Agree, have always existed. 

    Do you think the prevalence among boys in the birth cohorts we are talking about has changed and is much higher than in prior gens? Or is that a perception change among us based on other factors? Certainly the ecosystems you mention are one huge aspect that "communitize" these maladapteds. I think it's some stew of all of the factors discussed in the thread above, but if there is one common thread to these factors that is acting as a societal promoter/accelerator it would seem to be the online orientation. 

    I mean, there's been a concerted effort by the presidents chief strategist to mobilize their grievances into action. Steve Bannon has been bragging about steering GamerGate for a literal decade now. Much of the poison that flows in the veins of the incels at discussion here originates from those campaigns and strategies

  8. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I mostly agree with this but for the incels and weirdos who go to Slutcon I think it still won’t work and they’ll need training wheels. Church is for sure a place where a slightly inexperienced, or dorky awkward guy can meet women with a support network of people cheering for them. Works well for our generation. I don’t think we appreciate how nuked this generation of weirdos are. They are not going to be able to:

    - Politely feign interest in the sermon or Bible study she wants to talk or ask about

    - Spend a few minutes jawboning with the dads there about a game or camping or how business is going

    - Slap on a pair of khakis and a button-down and get a haircut that looks like the married men there (signaling that they are in the mix for that future). 

    - Get acquainted with a church girl, accept that this particular church girl isn’t interested, and then show up next Sunday and be polite and genuinely friendly, and demonstrate that maybe you’re OK for some other church girl even if the first didn’t work out.

    - Making friends with a church girl THEY are not interested in or even—gasp— with another man there so they can practice doing things like “talking to people” or “compromising on an activity” or “grabbing a burger just to hang out. 

    These guys are FRIED man. They can’t interact with women without either explicitly trying to fuck them, getting angry that they don’t want to fuck, or treating them like non-entities because they aren’t fuckable. They don’t make friends, they just look for other dudes who validate their women hate. They don’t have normal or non-off putting interests and can’t pretend they do. 
     

    A lot of these skills they can’t or don’t want to learn and they didn’t learn them in youth group or wherever. My folks are in leadership in a church and have talked to me about 1-2 burnouts— 18-20 with no job or prospects— who actually where part of the church with their families. They failed to develop and they’ve had to be talked to (and their parents) about how church is for everyone, and that means these dudes can’t creep on girls and act wounded when girls don’t reciprocate. 

    IMO the problem is that there is no place for kids to just be kids, outside of maybe church. And even then, church isn't normal social interaction. 

    Has social media made that problem worse? Absolutely. But at the root, you take away cell phones and porn, what difference do you expect to see? It's loitering to hang out somewhere. Kids walking to the park get CPS called after their parents. You can't really exist anywhere without a meter running and running up a bill. 

    There's no jobs for them to get and build those skills either - it's just a foundational undermining of the social fabric. 

  9. 1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

    What are you offended by here exactly? That there is a *gasp* positive aspect to something that you want to mortally hate? I’m not an AI bull at all, but it IS interesting and there is a silver lining of a cool application for AI as Waymo absolutely uses LLMs and Google’s entire deep mind/brain/gemini gen AI expertise to train and run their models that power self driving. Waymo (and fully self driving generally) is 100% an AI use case. 

    Show your work. How is Waymo using genAI and large language models to do sensor fusion and conduct a closed loop self driving entity? It's comparing apples and oranges - LLM's are trained on unstructured datasets and produce a multimedia output. The PID control loop that drives your car ain't that.

    I'm annoyed because you're equivocating LLM's with machine learning and closed control loop robotics like self driving cars. I'm annoyed because you're making the bull argument and saying you aren't. Self driving cars don't require hundreds of billions of dollars and gigawatts of power, because they're solving a much smaller problem.

    I get it, you want to be optimistic about the freight train of debt coming down the track. It's not gonna be pretty, no matter how much sunshine you pump about how useful it can be. Yes there's uses for genAI, but that's not what hundreds of billions of debt have been raised for and are chasing 

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    Edited by Captainant

    1 hour ago, Vegas64 said:

    For all the fun we have about how there aren’t any real or good applications of AI and it’s all fugazi, I was listening to something that startled me.

    self-driving à la Waymo is a slam dunk grand slam AI story from every angle you look. Self driving only took off after all the neural AI discoveries and advancements of LiDAR and sensors to feed data for foundational models to process. Most of us are familiar because we live or spend significant time in Austin (or SF), but as it starts to roll out nationally and globally the world will appreciate it.

    - CDC statistics cite over 40k deaths in USA a year or 120 a day due to vehicle crashes operated by people. 

    - adjusted for city street driving, apples to apples, Waymo is 91% safer then people driving . You can understand why if you’ve driven the last 10 years with the advent of the smartphone and the epidemic of distracted driving. Heck someone on one of the AI threads posted while driving on CarPlay.

    - and this isnt just a small data set. Waymo has millions of miles driven. 

    - 91% reduction in accidents is a massive cash savings. CDC put out a report on Medical costs and cost estimates of lives lost is $470bn a year (2022). 91% reduction and reducing crashes 10x is $420bn a year. That is nuts.

    - It was relatively cheap for an AI investment too. 15bn investment to get this to this point. $15bn is a fraction of what foundational AGI models have burned. $15bn is 1 year of Ubers profits. It’s 1 month of Google profits. 
     

    You're hand waving and conflating generative AI with self driving cars, calling them all """""AI"""""

    No. Traditional machine learning isn't generative AI. GenAI isn't a closed loop PID control for a couple thousand pounds of steel and batteries, and the underlying technologies and datasets are pretty wildly different. 

    Fucks sake, you keep claiming you're not a genAI apologist and you're making the same fallacious and overly general arguments they do

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    Edited by Captainant

    1 hour ago, Red Five said:

    I'm no political strategist, but perhaps child rape should have been made a campaign issue in some of those presidential elections. 

    It literally was, but the fear was of trans people existing and that somehow translating to child abuse. But ya know, voting for a serial child abuser and rapist like Donald Trump is just not something that seemed to bother very fine people.

    As ever, every accusation is a confession with these fucking fucks

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    Edited by Captainant

    Jesus fucking Christ that letter to Larry Nassar is gross as fuck. We've known about its existence since 2023, but we just now found out about its contents.

    Boy howdy, Donald Trump sure seems to vibe awfully good with pedophiles and grabbing underage "snatch"

  13. 48 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    DOJ spent 30 days trying to create the messiest and biggest fuck you release possible with the Epstein Files. So much so that real reporters are tweeting out misinformation as they dig to find anything worthwhile. What a mockery of justice. 

     

     

    it lines right up with trump's normal tactics. Instead of addressing the matter at hand, he muddies the waters further by counfounding the issue with more errors. It's a firehose of falsehoods. It's extremely effective at getting people to just check out and be nihilistic because both sides are doing it, ya know?

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