There’s still going to be an opportunity cost. You can build massive renewable sources, but powering a data center with it is a shit use compared to other things.

I’d like to see more spaces converted into like “15 minute loading/unloading”. There’s a lot of double parking that’s just people trying to do something quick.

I think it was on coney Island avenue the other day that the whole right lane was taken up by people double parking. That’s absurd. Not sure why so many people needed to drive someplace so close to several subways and bus stops, but there’s a lot of ways to discourage that space.

Conservatives don’t say things because they’re true. They say things because they think it will get them what they want.

Right. For someone in an unstable environment, having a good now is a better choice since it probably won’t be there later.

I do wonder what you’d find if you controlled for wealth and stability. I feel like some people have really poor impulse control and delayed gratification despite coming from a stable home life

I’m sure they want the data for money and other nefarious purposes. But as the other person said, I think the way they try to sell people on it reveals they’re out of touch. And maybe a little that AI’s offerings aren’t actually that good.

But a commercial that’s like “it can write a birthday note for your daughter!” is a bleak reflection of someone’s world. That’s not going to resonate with most people. That’s the kind of thing a soulless husk with no real bond with their child would think is good.

I can’t imagine why you would want any of that. There’s nothing in my life or nearby imagined lives that’s so arduous I need an AI “agent” to take care of it.

This supports the hypothesis that it’s driven by out of touch rich people who are used to having an executive assistant. They can’t imagine doing daily tasks because they don’t. “Making a dinner reservation? Myself?? How gauche. Get Amanda to do it.”

They then think everyone is like them.

as should anyone living in the area while demanding lower taxes.

If conservatives had shame about reasonable things, a lot of problems would go away.

Leadership are mostly idiots. They don’t know how work gets done. They think like “wow it produced so many lines of code!” and don’t know that’s not a useful metric.

My job had Microsoft do a four hour copilot demo for the entire team last week. (Surely an immense expense. They won’t pay for most people to be full time with benefits). The guy used copilot to make a regex to parse html. A little surprised zalgo didn’t show up.

None of the fines for these things are enough. It should be, like, the company is nationalized. The leadership is sentenced to years of community service and barred from working in the industry for life.

I try to prioritize the rare thing. Friends meeting up to play Frisbee in the park? Hades2 will be here when I get back. Let’s go.

But I’m also kind of a cheapskate, so if they were like “let’s go to this fancy dinner and then a cocktail bar” I’d probably skip. Luckily most of my friends don’t really have expensive tastes. $6 beer at the local bar, maybe a hangout where we bring $10-20 of snacks and drinks.

That’s also a problem, yes. DRM free is best. I’m extremely reluctant to pay for a game I can’t play offline as much as I want. (Barring MMOs and the like, I guess. Don’t play a lot of those, myself)

All the wealth is being concentrated in the hands of too few people. I’m not going to buy a $120 game when my salary is down, or I’m just laid off.

A bunch of monsters are all going to be at the same place at the same time, you say?

I worked at a place that involved housing and maps for a while. I remember seeing one map that was a layout for a suburban housing situation. A giant cluster of single family houses along windy little paths. It looked like the bad place.

The houses at the back would have required an extensive and winding trip just to get to a main road, and then who knows how far it is from there to anything commercial. If you live there, you’re not walking anywhere.

I remember being stuck for months in Phantasy Star 2 and 3. Just couldn’t figure out where to go. Then one day I realized the Internet probably had answers, and discovered GameFaqs.

(If I remember where I was stuck in PS2, you had to walk to the left edge of one of the many towns. Instead of exiting to the world map, there was a little area with some buildings. They looked like all the other non interactive buildings in the town, but if you walked into the bottom of the center one, it took you to a new map. At the end of that dungeon, you had to use the seemingly useless “music” spell you could learn from the sexist piano guy in some other town. Not sure how you’d figure all that out on your own.)

Great.

I was just in another city last week that had pedestrianized some streets. It was like night and day comparing the streets for people and the next block that was cars. One was full of music, laughter, people going in and out of shops and restaurants. The other was empty save for cars whizzing by, with almost all empty shops. I should’ve taken a picture from the corner where you could see both, and use it as a poster for “where would you rather be?”

I believe it. But adding that barrier would mean some bad drivers wouldn’t bother, and they’d get a smaller, safer, car instead.

It’s a demand pointed out the entire capitalist hellscape, of which epic is a part, not them specifically.

Sweeney’s a billionaire. He could be pushing for labor to have a bigger slice of the pie. But he won’t, because he’s a soulless husk.

I don’t have the personal budget to buy a lot of games. Pay me more and I’ll spend more. Otherwise, fuck all the way off

That’s an interesting idea. I know they do some events. “Go to the movies” has fallen under my radar for stuff to do, so I haven’t actively checked in a while.