Tar_Alcaran @ Tar_alcaran @sh.itjust.works

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On the other hand, this factor might be the salvation: the current AI market is full of 2000-era-dot-com business models based on selling at a loss and making it up on the promise of global domination later.

Except of course, that's all a lie and they can never remotely turn a profit. AI can't perform anything that's being promised, it's not getting cheaper and it doesn't noticeably improve where it matters.

You can see the cracks starting to form: The classical big tech players are already bailing out of AI-growth, microsoft, oracle, amazon are opting out of their growth and not investing anymore. And of course they are, Amazon pumped over 200 billion into AI, and are turning 5b revenue. Not profit, revenue. They're not making any profit, despite 200b of investment.

Soon enough, Open-AI too is going to fail under the strain of their immense and constant losses when the people who keep pumping venture capital stop doing that. I'll eat my hat if they last into 2028.

massive choices on where the story goes based on your responses,

Really? What massive choices do you make? Hunter or emissary? That just changes the last 20 minutes of the game. Before then, you have no major impact on the plot.

the capabilities to befriend or antagonize any enemy whether a human, alien, or these strange pirates

But you don't. You can't befriend the pirates, there arent really any strange aliens, and you can't antagonize most friends.

You deal with politics, survival,

Do you? There's some minor "deal with this for me" stuff from the factions, but that's hardly politics.

And survival isn't an issue in the game at all, even though you can see the scrapped leftovers from it.

attempting to save the galaxy while trying to discover the hidden story.

The "hidden story" is spelled out and telegraphed in the main questline. It's not a souls like where you piece it together, they literally tell you to your face

I maintain that if they didn't bother with the space thing, or abstracted it more to a "blip on a screen" type of topdown play like in mass effect, it would be a better game. They could have spent that time on the shooter gameplay loop not being shit.

Especially the ones who bought the debt. They want income, they don't want to spend time. If you pay them some tiny amount that's higher than the pennies they paid, they're happy.

"uhoh, we're not popular enough to have our servers filled on beta weekend, so we won't generate enough hype!"

Breaking Hasbro IP is chaotic good though

This joke is a bit derivative

It's easy to knock someone out with chloroform, and many many other chemicals.

The hard part is getting them to wake up later

Only once

It's actually surprisingly hard to get a lithium cell to catch on fire from simply physical damage. You need to break it very specifically, and crushing them flat with a fucking tank will just shatter them before anything serious happens.

The reason that it happens so much due to damage is because there are a LOT off cells, and if someone damages the pack, there's a point between total destruction and no damage where it's just the right level of damage to cause thermal runaway reaction. The other reasons are manufacturing defects, and shitty charging, which are WAY more common than physical damage.

Brains ARE grey, they just hold a LOT of blood, making them look pinkish. But the neurons are grey.

The brain also has white matter (the axons) which is white due to a fatty layer.

And when it isn't their spawning season, you're not very likely to see them in the wild, so it kinda makes sense that people associated the colour with the fish.

Paranoia isn't so much "mean" as it is calling your best friend "fuckface" in front of his mom.

I was going to make the same post, but you beat me to it. So for fun I checked my entire candidatelist for our 26 parties available for the Dutch lower house, and it DOES list a "Dane C. Harris" running for the Social Party. Very likely not a relative.

Turns out I COULD have voted for Harris.

Yeah but, cosplay is fun, that doesn't sound fun at all

Amen to that, I've got a list, but i'll settle for all of them.

But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.

Same here, I learned by fucking it up and doing it until it worked.

Why? My parents couldn't teach me how to get a modem working, so when we bought a 14k4 modem, I had to install that thing at age 12. Granted, I didn't have to compile them, they came on a floppy, but it wasn't exactly userfriendly

"Reinstall windows" was such a common solution, I still have my windows 95 and my windows XP key memorized (and no, not the FCKGW one)

My new(ish) IdeaPad had the SIM option, but it was like 160 euros, and using my phone costs 0 euros.