I was actually describing a piece of software, which is not considered a human being, and can in fact be treated differently without any legal or philosophical confusion

No you have to run them through an elaborate model first, then it’s totally legit to use someone else’s literal words as if they were your own

But I do like ironing. I do it so infrequently, I associate it with getting all fancied up to go out to a special event.

And everything about it is so relaxing… The sound of the water in the iron, the hiss of steam. That clean smell, rising with the hot steam. You’re forced to slow down and pay attention, if you want to get it right.

Whether you’re alone or sharing the moment with company, it’s a recipe for encoding a core memory, deep in there, pinned in place by multiple senses.

Imagine naming you iron “utopia”

I thought they were there to cover the unsightly and promiscuous buttons

I loved this cheeky comeback.

Why not reinvent the wheel? I’ve already learned a great deal in just starting this project, and I’m excited to learn a great deal more.

Your energy is infectious! I’ll be eagerly following this project

Thanks I have heard of this kind of problem before, just not in an adversarial space war context, with like opposing forces

Oh my god, that’s such a stupid and simple way to kill a galaxy, but also what a great plot twist that would make in a story. Like the big reveal over why the galaxy has always been at war with itself. Exactly the kind of nihilism I’d expect from an Altered Carbon or its ilk.

Thanks for sharing!

It is, you’re right. It’s kind of a poor comparaison now that I see it spelled out

Reminds of the accounts of people who owned enslaved people being afraid to let them go because of how they thought once freed they would turn around and slaughter their former “masters” because how could they not.

Except that didn’t happen.

Even then, only if the process is fun. Like collecting the thingamajigs (it’s been a while) in Crackdown. I remember just moving around in that game being fun

Sure doesn’t.

As much as I dislike Disney as a company that does sound interesting… really actually brings up so many new possibilities to revisit the classics!

Only just finished the first entry, and this is still the case by the end of that book at least. The main character does have a kind of “raw power” that goes beyond what others have innately, which is a bit exceptional-ising.

It’s hard to pin down, but the tone is more community oriented, and less about this one Special.

This is it. The real product is hype, with a tiny tiny little kernel of actual utility, that is puffed up and remixed until the hype dies away, and we have to make do with whatever’s left.*

The hype machine with generative shit went into fuckin overdrive because while yes there is a grift component, natch; unlike with blockchain, nfts, web3, etc, there is an actual visible thing that the technology can do that hasn’t been done before.

People who are used to selling nothing but vapour lost their minds when they saw it, because rightfully so, they realised how much grift they were going to be able to make off of it.

* Usually this involves a bunch of platform engineers et al de-tooling codebases and infrastructure.

Right? This question is basically asking for a list of games I love, excluding the ones that somehow tricked me into finishing them

Nooo don’t kiss me with your big long lips mister g man get away 😚 oooo oh nnnooo

Or Black and Tans aka half and halfs

When the marketing agency jumps the shark

Respect