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Just some guy, trying to figure it all out. I'm kind of crazy that way. Lots of people have little tidbits about what they are about. Okay.  Insane.  Bored.  Bring up "preferred pronouns" and we'll throat-punch you.  How are you doing?

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Why Anthropic Is Destroying So Many Books for AI

I need to establish 2 baseline things before we get too much into this.  First – AI is NOT some hyper-intelligent system.  Sam Altman has said that AI has surpassed human intelligence, but that’s bullshit.  Absolute bullshit.  So why did he say it?  Because second – AI is a scam.  That’s the penultimate thing to truly understand about this technology.  It is a scam.  The biggest scam in history,…

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Hey Jaffe - Games Don't Have to Cost $300+ Million to Make!

I finally decided to tackle this stupid argument directly, because it is driving me nuts.  David Jaffe’s ENTIRE defense of Sony killing physical media is, and I quote – “It is just the brutal unavoidable financial reality of an industry trying to survive when games cost $300+ million.”  Yeah, I’m going to put up some numbers for you, Dave, and let’s see if you have basic comprehension skills. …

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RAB: Mitch McGonnell, Thought Crime, and The Stupidest Controller Design Ever

I had a bunch of things that got on my nerves today, but I didn’t have enough to say about any one of them to make a full post by itself, so I thought – why not just talk about them in a Random Assortment of Bullshit post?  That sounded fun.  So here we are.  Hope all of you are well in this dystopia we live in.  Anyway, the first thing that came to my mind is the latest picture of the…

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America is Out of Ammo

The war with Iran is not going well.  There is a reason that countless presidential administrations have said that going to war with Iran is a bad idea – because it is!  They have been preparing for a war with the United States for over 40 years.  They understood the enemy they would be fighting.  They understood that our biggest weakness is that they could exert control over one of the most…

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Everything Comes Back to AI

I’ve been looking at what’s happening in the world, and I realize that 90% of how fucked we are as a country and a species comes back to AI.  This total scam of a technology that the tech bros hyped up to INSANE degrees, and the gullible morons at businesses bought into hook, line, and sinker.  It has become so wrapped around all the REALLY bad shit that is happening in the world, and lots of…

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"You Might Not Win, You Know!" Okay.

This is such an American idea.  I see it everywhere in this country, all the time.  This concept that if you might lose the cause you are fighting for, that makes it not worth the effort to do so.  It’s the most common justification for Democrats never doing ANYTHING to fight against Trump.  “They aren’t in power, so they would fight for nothing!”  Oh.  So you only fight for something if you know…

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PSN Down. Sony's Response? Say Nothing!

You gotta admire how much Sony doesn’t give two fucks about their consumers.  It takes effort to be this much of a dickhead, completely out of spite.  Because that’s what it is.  Spite.  They are mad that EVERYTHING that they post becomes fodder for the people who are mad that they are about to have a monopoly on ways to buy Playstation games and are effectively going to cut off over 120…

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The NDAA and the Democrats ABSOLUTE Complicity in Treason

“Saying both parties are the same is bullshit!”  Shut up!  Shut! Up!  Shut the fuck up you centrist crybaby!  I am tired of listening to you, when the reality is so patently obvious.  It’s so painfully obvious that there is collusion between the parties, and the fact that the center-left liberals and the Kyle Kulinskis of the world don’t want to accept that fact is driving me fucking nuts. …

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Top 10 Abandoned Video Game Franchises

Gaming has a problem right now – it’s getting kinda predictable.  We’re not seeing a lot of games that buck the trend or do something new, at least outside of the Indie space.  Another thing is that so many franchises have been going on for FAR too long, and need to die.  But at the same time, other franchises have been allowed to languish and may never see the light of day again!  So many cool…

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The Sony Disc Battle Shows How Weak So Many Gamers Are

I swear, sometimes I feel like people are just LOOKING for reasons to give up.  It genuinely feels that way.  Like, they have the vim and vigor in their hearts for a righteous cause, and then, the SECOND that they are given a reason, any reason, to walk away they do without a second thought.  It’s so fucking frustrating, given that there is something tangibly real to fight for with this, and I am…

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Nothing Good Is Happening Now

My inner doomer is really starting to peek out, because everywhere I look, it feels like everything sucks and there is NOTHING that is good happening.  That every battle is happening in vain.  That humanity is so stupid that all we can do is watch as everything falls apart.  Because what can one person do?  What can one person do against the tide of inexorable nightmares that have been building…

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You Can't Leave America Anymore

I remember seeing an article back in January that the 2025 was the first year since the Great Depression that more people immigrated out of America than into it.  More and more people on the left are seeing this country as a lost cause and are looking for better options abroad.  Many countries in Europe are more than happy to take these people, many of whom came from skilled jobs, and offer them…

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Sony is Getting Bots to Fight Their Battles For Them

I can’t say this surprises me.  A company as cowardly and pathetic as Sony is too chicken to come out and fight their own battles.  They can’t win in the marketplace of ideas.  At first, silence was their preferred tactic.  No response, of any kind.  Then, when that didn’t work, and people started to bring this up in chats associated with Sony, they would ban their accounts.  Then, when that…

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America: Canada's Dickhead Neighbor

I don’t know who is unaware of this, but right now there are insane wildfires that are ravaging the Canadian countryside right now.  Over a million acres of land have burned.  It is a nightmare that they are DESPERATELY trying to contain.  Saw a video where two firefighters were inside of a vehicle and all they could do is wait for a rescue as the fire was literally raging all around them and…

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Now Sony Is F*cking Over Anime Fans Too!

I have to be impressed, at this point.  The level of contempt that this company is showing for people who buy their products is just magical.  I don’t think that I have EVER seen this much visible contempt for consumers as we are getting from Sony.  Talked extensively about how they are fucking over games with physical media options, but that isn’t all they’re doing.  See, they want to fuck over…

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Sony Is Going to Bankrupt Studios with no Physical Releases

Something occurred to me as I was reading through Jason Schreier’s article on Bloomberg about Sony’s decision to stop physical discs and the backlash against it.  He made a point that Sony is standing to make an astronomical amount of money by not releasing physical games anymore.  Because then they will have a monopoly on the marketplace for games on their platform.  So they can jack up prices…

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America's War With Iran Will Destroy the Global Economy

There have been moments in history where we faced a potential disaster.  Lots of them.  Especially after the nuclear bomb was invented.  The Cold War was the closest that civilization came to being ended by our own nationalistic ego.  It was the closest that life on this planet came to utter annihilation.  Before we hit the gas on climate change with AI data centers. No joke, you know how I…