I have all of the big studios blocked on Steam. So any new dog shit they pump out that is inevitably built around nothing but extracting wealth, is never shown to me.

And all of it draws a straight line back to billionaires.

You and I are in the same boat, friend. The money is too hard to turn away. The upside is that I really enjoy the folks I work with. Electrician, plumber, carpenter—they all sound intriguing. My dad went from electrical engineer to carpenter. Loved it.

I’m working a dead end job (more like career—I’m a programmer) with no kids. The fun in the work is gone and I feel unmoored. I’d honestly be okay with exhaustion caused by watching kids grow and learn, over the exhaustion I have from being forced to use AI while learning nothing.

Hot.

Capitalism doesn’t have a monopoly over the idea of exchanging goods and services. It’s all about accumulation of wealth and will pursue it endlessly because it has no endgame. Union busting; laying off 8,000 employees on leave (Meta); appeasing shareholders over the customers that made them wealthy; burying us all in AI slop.

It’s an easier out than admitting they’re uninformed or just plain wrong.

That’s what I tried and failed to do because they honestly scare the shit out of me. They’re so prehistoric and amazing, but I run run awayyy

I would’ve had the same response lmao. They are terrifying and their necks are exceptionally long. I was trying to grab this one by the sides and it turned around to try and bite me at record speed.

Man, don’t mess with these things when they’re full size. They are MENACING. I tried to get one off the road once and it chased me away while snapping any time I tried to come near.

My wife has been sick all weekend, and it’s like 100 degrees outside so our AC is struggling.

The upside is that I’ve dumped a ton of hours into Subnautica.

There is no good time for AI slop to hit.

Oh? I’ll have to look into that. That’s enough for me to consider something else altogether.

I have a hosted Matrix serving sitting around for this reason. Trying to get folks to use it is another story 😢

It coincides with real life really well right now because my wife and I started snorkeling recently and it’s been a nice disconnect.

Playing through Subnautica and having fun with it. I just completed the Seamoth last night so I can delve into the deepest depths of the ocean.

The futuristic ones ignore the fact that all of the homeless and destitute are not present because they’ve either been enslaved, or they’re relegated to the old decrepit previous version of the city, as the Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd showed us.

Edit: Altered Carbon and even The Fifth Element demonstrated this too. You saw the poor living below the smog line.

You can get banned from connecting your console to their services if you’re caught using pirated games, or you’ve tampered with the system. There’s ways around it though, and some people don’t care if they’re locked out of services as long as the system still plays the pirated software.

Sony thinking they can just pull a Steam way too late in the game, and with Steam and GOG as competitors 😂