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[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 82 points 5 months ago

Damn so frfr China built one of these things off the money from horny gamers? This is like Dengism but way more funny

[-] indred0@lemmygrad.ml 78 points 5 months ago

I'm upset that reality isn't as funny as the headline. Mihoyo apparently donated money to a university that way doing tokamak research. They don't own and operate it.

However, whales partially funding it is still true.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the context, this was definitely a weird way to word this

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

Gamers actually helping save the world for once.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago

However, whales partially funding it is still true.

Capitalism would have a lot more clout if billionaires and companies used their money to fund solutions to humanity's problems, instead of using their money to create problems for humanity and then offering solutions for profit.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 64 points 5 months ago

what the fuck is on their dev roadmap that requires fusion power

[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

Skyrim 2025

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

I wonder how much of their operating costs are just the electric bill? Basically everyone is using a computer and even if you aren't doing LLMs, there's probably a dozen computers rendering something at any given time.
That and they probably have more money than they know what to do with, might as well fund something cool

[-] ElCanut@jlai.lu 6 points 5 months ago

Running in chrome

[-] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

Hoyo is going to make genshin real, starting with the fake sky

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 58 points 5 months ago

Holy shit they didn't call it an "artificial sun"

bloomer

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago

For real. What is up with Western media refering to a fusion reactor as an "artificial sun" when the Chinese do it?

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

It sounds cool as hell, which I don't think was the intention Western media had.

[-] Edamamebean@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

It sounds extremely cool. Reminds me of how Liu Cixin describes the spaceships in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

Doc Ock also called his reactor an artificial sun so I guess it's to invoke a negative emotion although it just makes it sound even cooler.

[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

yeah it's to make it sound kinda scary & reckless.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, got to make sure people don't start thinking a clean and powerful energy generation is a good thing. Especially when the State Department designated enemy is doing better than the US at developing it

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s not just western media. Official chinese media call it an artificial sun too. I suppose for chinese people, it’s just a cool sensationalized headline, but for westerners it’s scary sci-fi mr. Burns shit

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

They know their readers have no idea what the name refers to and probably are just reading the headline + first paragraph if anything past that.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

Western reactors are called that too by the media I thought

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

The chinese text in the embeded video reads "artificial sun"

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 58 points 5 months ago

not going to surprise me if MrBeast builds the first TOKAMAK in North America and brands it as Beast Power.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

He builds it on the cheap and it doesn't work right, but everyone pretends like it's fine

This eventually leads to the future that Mutant League Football takes place in

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 5 months ago

I would really appreciate it if anyone sees the reactor looking off to pitch into help clean or repair it so it's branding always looks the best

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

Excerpt from Xi Jingping Thought:

To seize the west’s productive capacity is not enough. Once we achieve that, we will then seize the western man’s semen, then we shall use it to fuel nuclear power and usher in a new age of communism.

Scary

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

A friend of mine has officially helped fund a nuclear reactor

I gotta step up my game I guess

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

The $5 a month Welkin Moon pass seems like a bargain

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