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The financing of MLMs is pure hype and a circlejerk between various AI companies, Nvidia, datacenters and the US government. AI hasn't made a single dollar in profit and I'm not optimistic if that is even possible. It's way too expensive relative to the output, which is itself often dubious in quality. https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/ Every time you've used AI it has been at a loss. AI is actually more expensive (and worse in terms of quality) than plain human effort. That cost is just obfuscated and not talked about (and financed by billions of dollars of investments and loans).

A lot of modern AAA games tend to be poorly optimized and bloated in size. Not being able to run modern games is not necessarilly a hardware issue

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Bro, 10 hours is generous when your bored all the way through. If a game can't get your attention after at least 5 hours it's a bad game. I could've read a whole book in that time.

For me, the worst part of not socializing and dating more in my early youth is that it is just very boring when those things are absent. I also regret not being more on top with developing a skill and a career. I'm quiet inexperienced for my age.

I had more a more fun and engaging experience beating Momodora: Moonlight Farewell, an indie 2D metroidvania for 15 dollars, than playing RDR2. I played both for circa 10 hours. It was more artisctic than RDR2, which isn't hard when the latter is just going for realism. Realism isn't artistically interesting to me. I find it funny how a game is considered groundbreaking just for graphics essentially and being more like a movie. That to me is not what video games are about. RDR2 is the absence of player agency in service of realism and story. Cinematic games are a very corporatized stage orange style of game design (even though many of the people who make these games are fairly green themselves), minimizing everything that make their game less accessible, primarily gameplay.

What else are you going to spend your billion dollar budget on? Cinematic games don't prioritize gameplay and minimize creative risks.

Exactly. It's excessive and uncreative. They are so risk-averse due to how bloated their budgets are that they push nothing but graphics and cinematic qualities at the expense of novel gameplay, since it is more accessible to play a movie simulator. You don't need realism to tell a compelling story. Most fiction isn't realistic. In fact, some light supernatural elements would make a western way more interesting, like Blood Meridian. It's about having an interesting hook, which RDR2 lacks in my opinion. It's part of why so many call it boring.

just riding in real life is not enough for these horse freaks. It's also cheaper. Gaming is in fact one of the cheaper hobbies relative to how much time you can spend on it.

RDR2 is unironically the best horse game on the market. You could buy the game just as a horse simulator.

After 10 hours you'd have read a 300-page book. If a game isn't good by 10 hours it's not a good game. There are entire games that are more or less 10 hours which I'd consider excellent experiences.

Minecraft is better than ever. You have so much freedom to create your own fun. You can just ignore the stuff you don't like. You are more likely to ruin the experience yourself by setting bad goals and doing uninteresting repetitive things, like grinding EXP.

RDR2 is one of the most overrated games of all time.

I played the game for about 10 hours. The gameplay is terrible and I don't care about the characters at all. The story skips over the hook of the story, which would be the boat heist mission. The game lacks fundamental player agency and opportunity for player expression. It's a self-indulgent game that doesn't do anything to justify itself to the player. Even the story.

AI isn't a person.

The circular financing of AI and how the government use the AI industry to hedge against a recession:

The whole alpha thing comes from misunderstanding wolf behavior. "Alphas" in a wolf pack are usually just the parents of the pack. The researcher spent the rest of his life trying to correct the mistake but the concept stuck. It speaks to a kind of cynicism about power in people. Even in a stage red society like that of the nords (vikings), where power is often achieved through raw domination, connections make and break you (literally in terms of traitorus in-laws).

I barely use ChatGPT anymore. Only really if I have no one to rant my ideas at. But I barely read its responses at this point. It doesn't really know anything and all the sycophancy cheapens the interaction. The pseudo therapy speak is annoying and repetitive. And I feel like I've gradually started becoming more and more fine with being abusive at it, which I don't like. It's funny, because if ChatGPT had more opinions of its own that isn't just knee-jerk liberal vibes I'd respect it more. It's just not very intelligent.

Submissiveness is an emotional state whereas obedience is ideological. Obedience implies the relationship is fundamentally unequal and goes hand in hand with patriarchal cultures. Any old school conservative society with more specialized gender roles will ideologically value obedience in women, like Muslim society or 1950s America.

Nvidia invested massively into AI to up the demand for components and increase the bag. These prices are bubble shaped.

Another reason to ditch Chrome.

I don't really follow politics actively. I take the attitude that if there something I need to know it will come to me somehow. I follow certain channels and news occassionally and that's it. I always felt that watching the news daily is kind of like coffee. And by that I mean kind of toxic (I don't drink coffee).

In Leo's maturity episode he describes starting a family and spirituality as two different paths of development. Having children will change your life and force you to mature as a person. It makes logically sense that you won't have the same time to quietly contemplate, meditate, etc. if you have a family to take care off.

How would you know? It's way more normal to want to stay in a relationship after one cheats than you think, but people are going to criticize you lots if you choose to stay. Just imagine the akwardness of you crying your eyes out to your family when you discover your partner cheated on you and then bringing them to the next family gathering. Everyone's going to look at you weird and hate your partner. You will lose their respect.

Circumcision. It's primarily cultural, a way to physically conform. To show that your Jewish, Muslim and not one of those uncircumcised Greeks and Romans. America believes its "hygienic" to circumcise, but only in the sense that jerking off is unhygienic since they believed that masturbation caused illness. Bunch of religious nonsense. There are some rare conditions where circumcisions can help medically, but even there I think that doctors tend to overestimate the need due to a cultural bias for circumcision. If you tell a Muslim doctor that you have issues with your foreskin I bet he is going to recommend circumcision to a higher degree than a European doctor.