We aren't talking about "ideas" being stolen here, we're talking about work being stolen and exploited for corporate profit.
Personally I don't think it's crazy to suggest that the person who writes a book should own it, the people who compose a song should own it, the artists who paints a painting should own it, etc.
As much as techbros love to pretend that AI is ushering us into a post-capitalist, post-copyright Star Trek future, it is actually in fact doing the exact opposite--it's empowering the biggest and richest tech companies to exploit human creativity in the largest industrial plagiarism scheme in history, all so some bullshit VC investors can gain their way up the pyramid scheme known as the stock market.
Yeah, this shit drives me crazy. Putting aside the fact that it all runs off stolen data from regular people who are being exploited, most of this "AI" shit is basically just freeware if anything, it's about as "open source" as Winamp was back in the day.
I’m starting to really consider the whole “reality is a simulation” angle, and whoever is running the game has put in a cheat code. (not really really, but more than I ever have before)
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I have some reeeeeeal bad news for you: the American voters handed Trump and the Republicans not just 1, not 2, but ALL 3 fucking branches of government, on top of a media in which at least 33% is in his fucking pocket and at least another 33% is too stupid to see through his bullshit.
I'm not sure what kind of push back you're expecting or who you're expecting it from exactly, but to whatever extent there IS push back it's gonna be 90% performative gesturing and hand-wringing until at least 2026. And that's the best case where people are smart enough to vote in their best interest, which knowing how fucking stupid you all are, I'm not gonna hold my breath.
My principled choice says fuck Netenyahu, fuck Hamas, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Yahweh, fuck Mohammah, and fuck useful, easily manipulated idiots who desperately search for a new excuse every 4 years to let perfection be the enemy of progress.
Congratulations, you're about to see what real scorched earth genocide and mass relocation looks like.
This is a democratic republic, or well it was... The people (the demos in democratic), absolutely deserve much of the blame for how they voted.
A functioning adult brain shouldn't need to be "motivated" to do what is obviously the better choice for them, their family, the country and the world. And yet here we are, a land of endless useful idiots, thinking they are making a stand while doing exactly what empowers the corporate oligarchy the most.
It was death by 1000 cuts, but let's not pretend Gaza wasn't a major contributing factor on top of a feels-over-reals vibecession due to pandemic inflation.
I hate to say "I told you so", but there it is. Nothing is in place to stop Trump and Netenyahu from going truly scorched earth on Gaza and the West Bank now.
Time to see what a real, unmitigated genocide looks like.
I have a certain amount of nostalgia for Quest 64.
It kind of feels like half a game, and really doesn't compare well to other RPGs of the era, but it definitely has some kind of appeal that's hard to pin down. Sometimes I think about the game that Quest 64 could have been and it makes me wish that more love could have been put into it before release, but I'm guessing that business and time just stopped it from being what it was meant to me.
Maybe one day people will decompile it and we can mod it into something truly awesome. :)
Treasure are such a famous developer within the retro subculture that it's hard to call any of their stuff "obscure" at this point, but I want to give my nod to Light Crusader for the Mega Drive (Genesis).
It's got a bit of that isometric controls jank, but it's just got the perfect vibes for a Genesis game. The right level of difficulty (hard but beatable), awesome art, quirky as hell, and one of my favorite soundtracks of the entire 16-bit era. Do yourself a favor and check it out--at the very least, give the soundtrack a listen, as it's some of the best that the Genesis has to offer, in my opinion.
We aren't talking about "ideas" being stolen here, we're talking about work being stolen and exploited for corporate profit.
Personally I don't think it's crazy to suggest that the person who writes a book should own it, the people who compose a song should own it, the artists who paints a painting should own it, etc.
As much as techbros love to pretend that AI is ushering us into a post-capitalist, post-copyright Star Trek future, it is actually in fact doing the exact opposite--it's empowering the biggest and richest tech companies to exploit human creativity in the largest industrial plagiarism scheme in history, all so some bullshit VC investors can gain their way up the pyramid scheme known as the stock market.