I said Star Trek. If had meant those series, I would have said so.

That’s the whole point of the push for top-to-bottom automation — so the wealthy can completely eliminate any dependence they have on the rest of humanity, once and for all. Sure, it won’t be ‘as good’ as what actual people can do, but it’ll be good enough that they won’t care anymore, because it’ll be infinite,…

Every episode of Star Trek is a ‘ship in a bottle.’ They’re completely unconnected and isolated. You could arrange them in any order, and it wouldn’t matter one bit. Because nothing actually happens. Nothing ever changes. Nothing they do matters, just like nothing they did before mattered. TNG followed most of that…

The ‘ship in a bottle’ design paradigm, popularized by Star Trek(s), has been used to death by MMOs. It’s old, tired, and boring. No amount of lore or superficial storytelling can change that.

How can anyone be surprised by this? The end goal of capitalism is to take money from customers who have no choice but to pay you while giving them nothing in return. Literally every business that ever existed is driving towards that goal. Because the objective, the only objective, is profit growth. And what’s more…

Yes, lightbulbs are fire hazards when designed improperly. And they are also health hazards when improperly disposed of — more than a few types have special disposal requirements, like fluorescent bulbs.

No, but we do need someone overseeing the production and usage of lightbulbs to ensure that they’re not fire or health hazards. Which they are if they’re not used, designed, or handled properly. And the Republican party sure as shit isn’t going to lift a finger to protect the public if they can’t use it as a cudgel to…

To be fair, a robot apocalypse isn’t the part about AI that concerned him. What concerned him was a deep fake of him making a speech he never made. He was apparently confused or flustered by it. And, yeah, if someone had not been paying attention to the deep-fake world, I could see how that might slip their attention…

“Well, you see, mods rob us of the opportunity to sell all these things that players have made. We simply cannot permit that loss of potential profits.” — Capcom

That would only work temporarily, which the various social democracies around the world are starting to experience. You see, like everything else before it, the people who have ‘more resources’ will invariably use their greater means to warp the system into serving themselves ahead of everyone else. And they can do it…

Yeah, AT&T tried that whole ‘you can only our authorized stuff on our systems’ schtick. How do you think that went, Microsoft? I’ll give you a hint: the FTC and DOJ got involved.

There’s no such thing as a sandbox that’s too big. It’s that there’s not enough sand in it. And in Starfield’s case, the sandbox is practically empty.

First, ESO is a completely different team in a completely different studio. But second, that’s kind of the problem. They went from a team handling a single major IP to a team juggling three major IPs, with very little structural changes to the team itself. So while they are still releasing a new game in roughly the…

No, what’s scary is that they *ARE* sending their best. Fascist, misogynistic, sexist, racist, bigoted, hate-spewing, violence-inciting, democracy-killing, theocratic-tyranny loving, corporate-welfare supporting, anti-education, anti-science, anti-society, etc, etc. That *IS* the Republican best. And it has been for…

The original face of Max Payne says things, and....I’m sorry, but I just can’t unsee his mug as the guns-akimbo, time-slowing excop with nothing to lose. “You are in a computer game, Max.”

Indeed. Consolidations are almost never a sign of a strong, competitive, and healthy industry. They are, in fact, signs of an industry on the verge of spiraling into total collapse. It’s a sign that businesses have grown large enough to gobble up their respective markets and sit on them, blocking any new entrants or…

It may be illegal, but it’s not anti-capitalism. It’s actually representative of the force that drives capitalism — private ownership and control of capital, and what happens when private parties own all the capital. It demonstrates the end goal of capitalism and why the system is so fundamentally broken — it’s inheren…

The best example I can think of regarding the fundamentally broken nature of capitalism is the humble lightbulb. If we could make a lightbulb that lasted a 1000x times longer, under capitalism, there’s no value in it. You can’t ‘run’ a business selling a product that you can only sell to a customer once. You’ll run…

The cynic in me immediately asked, “Ease for *whom* exactly?”

Imagine getting to within spitting distance of one the greatest possible achievements in life only to fall short while everyone is watching. What a disappointment and an embarrassment. Those poor stairs are probably scarred for life and in need of serious therapy.