Badass

No, it’s a part of human nature and most people can’t rise above it.

Some laws were meant to be broken.

Gay sex was seen as a crime, once upon a time. (it still is, in some places)

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) map of Flock cameras: https://deflock.org/

We can all do our part. Be safe and hide your identity. Leave your phones at home because they can be used to track you.

Not sure why dipshits keep voting for these stooges.

Oh right, it’s because they’re dipshits.

Let me guess, none of them said this during their campaigns.

Useful idiots only elect servants of the ruling class.

Good.

Fuck copyright and patent laws.

Nah, they’re just upset that I criticized their non-existent standards so they pretend that what I’m saying doesn’t make sense.

I see it all the time.

If you can’t read, sure.

Words mean literally whatever you want them to.

The fact is AI can make as-good or better art than most “artists” because most “art” is just cookie-cutter shit for morons.

"writers have been trained to eat and make the garbage too. As long as they are in that arena making that shit, then you might as well have AI do it,”

Learn to read.

I said the art industry.

This is an obvious misstatement. If you actually believe this then you’re not qualified to have opinions on art in general.

“At this point, the only thing that makes money is garbage. It’s just fascinating. It makes a fortune, and that’s the bottom line,”

"writers have been trained to eat and make the garbage too. As long as they are in that arena making that shit, then you might as well have AI do it,”

-Charlie Kaufman

https://deadline.com/2023/08/charlie-kaufman-ai-wga-strike-hollywood-sarajevo-1235498089/

Eh, the art industry destroyed itself when it became nothing but sellouts. This happened decades ago.

The fact is AI can make as-good or better art than most “artists” because most “art” is just cookie-cutter shit for morons.

I’m in the same boat, and it genuinely adds up over time. I’ve literally uploaded hundreds of gigabytes while throttling my speeds.

Every little bit helps.

I would like to see some kind of conservative, standardization on how to organize files like music and TV shows so we can keep seeding the same torrent after it’s finished. As it stands right now, unless you want a lot of “branding” in your files, you have to remove all of the noise which means you no longer have the exact files the swarm is looking for.

There are some torrents that do it right, and hats off to them.

No. Uploading at all is better than nothing.

PS2

Are we currently in a rut, or is there a chance for fresh ideas to emerge again?

Yes, and the problem is low standards. AAA games have resources, but no creativity. Indie games have creativity but no resources.

Back in the PS2 era, AAA games had resources and creators were making decisions instead of the people who went to business school.

Assassin’s Creed, Kingdom Hearts, The Last of Us

The main argument against bsky is that they’re still holding all of your data, unless you self host your own server.

That’s not the main argument against it. The main argument is that it’s not federated.

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