Half Life Alyx is like if we got Super Mario 64, and then four years later the games influenced by it just didn't come.

Fascists provide easy (but often fake) answers to hard problems. Loneliness, the fear of replacement, that kind of thing.

I'm agitated that people got the impression "AI" referred specifically to human-level intelligence.

Like, before the LLM boom it was uncontroversial to refer to the bots in video games as "AI." Now it gets comments like this.

This sounds like the kind of thing Ferrari does, that people accept because if you own a Ferrari you're kinda part of an exclusive club of rich assholes. Teslas are expensive but they're not "exclusive club" expensive, they're more like BMWs.

The only reason I'm not an advocate for this is because this would mean abandoning LGBT people, minorities, and women in red states.

Fediverse skews older than traditional social media from what I've seen.

"No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more" is what the Parler team said.

My theory is they're attempting to keep real estate values high.

Not against it on principle, but there's no way I'd get it knowing about the way the corporations that have the resources to make it happen operate.

I get what you're talking about, but maybe it's being a decently-educated American with a black mom talking, but "enslaved" is not the right word for this.

"Do or do not, there is no try"

The rallying cry of the kind of person who thinks every hobby has to become a side hustle.

Do I need more context? This just sounds like a BDSM relationship to me.