!196@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is the original one, which was frozen and brought back to life after everyone left. people still post here tho dunno why maybe they're lost?
!196@lemmy.world - this is where the mods went. it has a lot of subscribers but most of those are dead accounts
Fascinating question. I have a couple (uninformed) guesses:
maybe "prophet" is a mis-transcription of "profit" and it refers to a "profit squeeze" meaning costs increase but results diminish. this is a way of handling the "game unbalance" problem: the technology is there but the cost is so high it doesn't unbalance things. So "profit-squeeze monster" means you just take that to the extreme.
instead, maybe the last two words go together to make "squeeze monster". You know like those rubber stress toys that you squeeze and part of the monster is an eye or something that bulges out. I seem to remember those being around in the 90s when this article is about. So "prophet / squeeze-monster" refers to two ways of limiting the game unbalance problem: the technology is either used as a "prophet" to just estimate your enemy or something, or its a "squeeze monster" where... uh... I dunno... you disfigure but don't kill the enemy?
instead, maybe "squeeze monster" is like you pull a trigger but can't control it.... you're a "squeeze monster"?
If I were editing that article/review, I'd change the word "trope" to something like "technique" or "approach", bc "trope" sounds like it should be widespread. I'd guess it's probably a technique that game designers used and talked about to one another and had this term as a shorthand probably bc of some anecdote or cartoon or funny t-shirt that someone had once.
No my child, Jesus is helping BOTH sides kill more people. Without Jesus, they would just threaten one another and maybe perform semi-ritualistic battles involving maneuvers, challenges shouted in verse, and single combat with blunt instruments. Occasionally someone would die falling off their horse. But thanks to Jesus, the deaths are measured in millions and we all continue dying until one side gives up. Amen.
I know this probably isn't AI because the blanket pattern is too sophisticated, but something about this says AI to me. What is it? Maybe bc the cat faces all look so similar?
Trump needed the money during the last election. Plus, this way Trump can blame all this unpopular stuff on Musk. Trump can say he was just listening to the business community. Now if your question is "should" rather than "why" the answer is no, he should not.
OP you probably realize you haven't literally seen/experienced everything in the world. I suspect you've switched from one stage in your life to another. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you probably want to talk to a trusted friend / relative / counselor to make sure you're not depressed or something. I gotta say tho that people who "go crazy" as teens and young adults and never stop are sometimes very off-kilter as older people.
I havent really kept tabs on how the “everything” feed works. Does it show posts from small communities here and there?
If you want to see posts from small communities (balanced with the larger ones) then select "Scaled" instead of "Hot" or "Active".
If you're sick of politics and tech then subscribe to communities you like and sort by "Subscribed" instead of "Local" or "All". Look here for relevant communities:
I don't think the barrier to entry is all that bad.... if you install Jerboa or Boost you're immediately presented with Lemmy content without worrying about creating an account... then you can get a feel for whether you like it or not.
It's only a problem if someone is told they must choose a server and create an account to see Lemmy content at all. Ideally people would just be pointed to a server and told to select "Scaled" to get a sense of the smaller communities...
So if I'm right about this....