“We’re having trouble with AI solving problems. Let’s solve the problem with AI.”

It’s not strictly a bad idea or doomed or anything, but it makes me sad.

It’s a MINERAL, Marie.

I would suggest redirecting slightly. Every single publicly traded tech company eventually fully enshittifies into predatory ad/data revenue generation due to the fundamental requirement that they not only generate profit, but that they consistently generate growth.

I could create an amazing app, sell it for $5, and if 5 million people download it and I don’t sell out or incorporate and go public, I could just cruise on it and retire happily. There’s no intrinsic pressure to switch profit models because I don’t owe anybody shit.

They’ve been added to the watchlist.

Wait, is that the watchlist?

Yeah that’s the one. Whew, for a minute I thought we added them to the war planning chat.

Wait, fuck.

I get that disrupting family dynamics sucks, but “I don’t hang with fascists” has gotta be like the easiest and most beneficial life rule anyone could ever adopt. My dad’s a piece of shit. I walked away and have never looked back.

If 6 is the Papermate felt tip, then that one. I like the static tip. Otherwise, probably 3, the upstart Sharpie.

Repeat after me: LLMs do not have intelligence.

Ellon DeGenerate

A huge difference between the left and the right is that the left respects the citizens and gives them the benefit of the doubt on how much they understand and consider. The right doesn’t overestimate them and accurately reckons and takes full advantage of their reactive, unanalytical character.

Very true, but that only works on a small scale for a specific thing. This economy is about to crush almost all of us. There will be no denying it.

For what it’s worth, you can’t tell people their paychecks are getting bigger when they aren’t. Biden presided over a “great economy” but wages stagnated and buying power decreased. Trump is going to Strangelove-ride this economy into a pit so deep it’ll be hard to convince people that everything is roses.

A lot of it is that depending on who your party ends up being, it stitches together each one’s ending, so beating the game may let you watch several of said endings. You don’t have to beat it 86 times.

That said, it’s still a crazy game.

Glad to meet a fellow traveler. It’s a gem. I should play through it again too. I have so many little retro emulator handhelds I’m sure I could get through it on one of them in my spare time.

I know! But it’s been “Coming soon” for ages now. I hope it’s still going to come out and not suck. Fear Effect Sedna was pretty damn weak.

Thanks! There was a lot of wacky fun in the PlayStation generation.

Some additional deeper cuts:

• Trap Gunner - because sending your friend on a trip around the entire level into a nest of bombs and mines never gets old.
• Syphon Filter - because, how about… the taser? (The commercial is for 2, but the first one has a better taser… trust me.)
• The Unholy War - because it‘s basically chess but with flying bladebots and chompy little toothbastards.
• Die Hard Trilogy - because it’s 3 games and one of them is inexplicably one of the better light gun games ever made.
• Ghost in the Shell - because find me another game where you drive a tank that climbs walls.
• Return Fire - because if playing Capture the Flag with military vehicles while listening to classical music isn’t a good time, I don’t know what is.
• Star Ocean: The Second Story - because an epic JRPG with 86 possible endings and dozens of different skills like Musicianship, Blacksmithing, Cooking, and Publishing most certainly is not overkill.
• Blast Chamber - because all sports would be better if they were played in a room where you can rotate gravity.
• Future Cop LAPD - because sometimes I’m just tired of conserving my ammo.
• N2O: Nitrous Oxide - because 90’s techno and lasers.

It’s one of the best, most coherent video game stories I’ve ever experienced. Super fun, utterly engrossing. The unfortunate part is the tank controls, but the story makes it totally worth it.

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - because it’s literally one of the best games ever made. So good that when it borrowed the Metroid formula pretty much wholesale, they renamed the formula Metroidvania.
• Metal Gear Solid - because it sits in the Goldilocks zone of Kojima-ness. Nutty but not impenetrable.
• Silent Hill - because everyone should know what it’s like for seventeen pixels to make them shit themselves in fear.
• Metal of Honor - because Call of Duty used to be the whippersnapper upstart. Know your roots, son.
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 - because there were THPS games with more, but there were never THPS games that were definitively better.
• Resident Evil 2 - because hitting your stride while defining a genre is a beautiful thing.
• Valkyrie Profile - because the world is ending but I really want this mermaid to be happy…
• Fear Effect - because it’s a seven hour game across four CDs but my best friend and I couldn’t put it down until we finished it on day one.
• Vigilante 8 - because they out-Twisted-Metaled Twisted Metal.
• G-Darius - because sometimes you just gotta blast a giant robot fish in the face with a screen-filling laser beam.
• Incredible Crisis - because we all have bad days.
• Tenchu - because Solid Snake shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun sneaking around and killing people.
• Rakugaki Showtime - because before there was Smash Bros, there was bashing the Smiley Ball for super moves and launching ICBMs against your foes.

Oh no, as if they’ll all vote Dem? Even if they did, Trump will win the next TOTALLY FREE AND FAIR election 99/1.

Lots of great ones mentioned here and while I don’t know if it’s my favorite, I have a deep soft spot for Super Off-Road. It has an incredible spatial sense and fluidity for its time and still holds up at any barcade.