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My interpretation is that people hate AI, but an individual’s rage against the machine isn’t enough to hurt it. Something I agree with.

Then it goes on to say that AI is just here to help, which I think is supposed to evoke sympathy for something that was unfairly demonized. Something I don’t agree with.

If you try to distill it further, I read this as dissatisfaction against AI is futile and unjustified. It reads as though AI was a benevolent force designed to help people, which unfortunately just isn’t true

Apes together strong

King Ape knows this, and wants to keep his bananas for himself, so he keeps the apes apart

Being miserable all the time sure is turning me into a miserable person.

I’m supposed to be a silly goose dammit

I got back together with an old tabletop group recently.

Five or six years ago we wrapped up the campaign we were running to take a little break. Scheduling became tricky, a couple of people were expecting their first child and some others were starting new jobs. Without a common meeting, the group just kind of faded out.

Anyway, a couple months back I bump into one of the players and we start talking. Shortly after that, he starts up a new group chat trying to get the band back together.

My mental health has been an absolute shitshow the last several years, so I really agonized over whether I wanted to try to get back together or embrace the solitude that I desperately crave for my free time. Well, I went against my initial judgment and it’s been awesome playing with likeminded people again.

A couple of friends still can’t really make it, the schedule is too difficult with young kids. But we brought in a couple new players too and the funny thing is that even with new people it still feels like old times.

You’re just in time for Swamp Witch September

I used to think the Chads I work with made more work for me. Now I realise the Chads already figured out that the job is bogus and you get paid the same either way

Management is always running a skeleton crew. If everyone gave 110% then that would become the new target. Worse, they’d make 120% the new target and lay someone else off

Giving a solid 60% is enough for my boss to think I’m doing a decent job while not screwing my coworkers. In a crisis, you can turn it up to 80% and suddenly you’re a rockstar

Everyone should be acting their wage. We need more Chads in the workforce to remind management what they should actually expect of their staff

I think in Cube it was razor wire, but they may have upgraded to lasers for Cube 2

Former influencer couldn’t resist one more chance to post about their life.

It’s a good message overall, but with a healthy dose of irony

Is there a Ralph’s near here?

Credit where it’s due, around the time Dying Light 1 came out, Roger Craig Smith was lending his voice to Chris Redfield, one of the more iconic zombie guys from Resident Evil.

My favorite Redfield moment was when, without a shred of irony, he talks smack about the villain acting like a comic book villain. Then in the same breath, he punches a six-ton boulder into submission.

Dying Light also really kinda shook up the zombie slaying dynamic with parkour. It seems like a fairly minor thing now, but that freedom of movement was a pretty big deal at the time, even if it was pretty janky.

Narratively, I agree that Crane isn’t a very strong character. He’s a dime-a-dozen government goon turned idealist. I don’t even remember how the story ends, or even most of the major beats except for a couple of major characters.

But at the time, to kick zombie butt while scooting around the rooftops and listening to Chris Redfield quip one-liners: those were special times even if it was a decade ago. They’re probably trying to recapture that magic, but I don’t know. It was lightning in a bottle and you can’t always get that back

A duck!

Go into a garden and dig up a flower. The next person who comes by won’t know what flower is missing, but they will still know that something is gone

Hey, this is the skin I use. Definitely one of the best!

I dig your style

If you’re clumsy, you might be described as all thumbs.

Unless you’re clumsy enough to get into a thumb-separating accident, then I guess you’re no thumbs

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” is a message made popular - perhaps totally unsurprisingly - by people who sell breakfast foods

Whichever meal you ate when you were hungry was probably the most important meal

I hope they have hazardous materials disposal training and adequate PPE if they’re going to be incinerating my toxic thoughts

Hell yeah!

I, too, yearn for the unattainable

I bet “grognard” is only used by grognards now

For the uninitiated, a grognard is a person who likes older style wargaming. The usage suggests a person who is older, set in their ways, and somewhat curmudgeonly. Often preferring how things used to be in the systems they grew up playing.

Generally speaking, they prefer a crunchy game with high mortality and grit, as opposed to a looser system with a narrative or character-driven focus.

For a term in more active use, I submit “crunchy” since I just used it. A game’s crunchiness describes how complex the rules are - essentially how much number-crunching players have to do in order to play.

I’d be scared too if I had to come back to work after being a victim in a hit-and-run