Huh, interesting. I always figured the black smoke was because they burnt one cardinal every day they failed to come to a decision to motivate the rest.

I have never played this game and don't even really know what it is, but wouldn't the obvious solution be to have the abandoned bases get eaten by sandworms?

Grandbobby Nurgle

The way I look at it, generation α and the next 5 generations are in a game of no-respin Russian roulette for who gets to be the ones to fight World War IV with sticks and stones.

I would like to see the linearally extrapolated third picture in this series

This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.

Well, it's a conservative joke, so... yeah.

He made this beautiful sculpture of a marshmallow all by himself, but no one cared. 😢 Why don't pictures like this ever trend?

Unsurprising; as video and image generation models are vampiric in nature.