This will never ever be viable for painfully obvious physics reasons. The big problem with data centers even on Earth is getting rid of heat. In a near vacuum, there’s no air to try and shunt that heat off to - you’re just fucking stuck with it, only slowly radiating it out a little bit at a time.

Read the actual prompts included in the project, it’s all pretty tame stuff.

Also, my favorite part is that like. The buttons are literally fake, there is no button, it’s just being described to them via text. They literally can’t tell because these LLMs’ entire universe is just the strings of text being fed to them. I know writers who use subtext and they’re ALL cowards. Fucking Larp Language Models

“You should’ve learned how to use AI” guys when I learn how to use AI :)

Eh, I kinda despised the art direction and soundtrack.

Silent Hill 2 (the remake) was competent, but from an artistic standpoint I strongly dislike it. I lean pretty heavily towards disliking remakes, and in this case it was a chance to undercut a lot of what made the original game unique. I’m sure a lot of people had a good time with it, but that’s also true of like, Assassin’s Creed games.

Eh, one good entry isn’t enough to convince me Silent Hill is good again. After Book of Memories my trust has been permanently broken.

Nah, if they were going at it from that angle, the clerk would be some kind of angry person with a trans pin and the exasperated person would be the customer.

The Israel pins feel a bit too on the nose for a piece that doesn’t even have room for kratom or boner pills

Aftershock Therapy

Counterpoint: The AAA game industry and its institutional funders wield vast amounts of capital and are uniquely capable of making big and interesting games that would not be possible for an indie. It is, in fact, worth lamenting the fact that these resources are being squandered, in the same way we should be angered by the way that data centers waste our water.

While I’m in no way saying that the PSL has any particular claim to being “the real communists”, it feels a bit weird to immediately try and retroactively discredit them as leftists in the wake of this. Yes, real leftist orgs can absolutely have predators hiding among their ranks, just like any other organization can, and instead of implying that this sort of thing could never happen to us true leftists, we should remain alert to this possibility.

I was always big on Samus. I inherited a copy of Super Metroid from my dad and got copies of Metroid Prime 1 and 2 alongside Smash, so I was a HUGE Metroid fan as a kid and that absolutely influenced my decision to main her.

That’s maybe going a bit far. It’s pretty much all down to just his health failing and him not actually doing anything lately imo

God I hope so…

Folding Ideas called this the Thermian Argument

Grapes of Wrath scene where they hose all the plastic down with acetone

If it were built at full-size, an underground golf course might actually be the most expensive structure to be constructed in all of human history

Eh, I wouldn’t really bother going down that rabbit hole. The most I could believe is that the US had some advance warning of the attacks and chose not to act on it - the idea that the US was specifically courting the attack on the twin towers, or that they staged it themselves, is basically just total nonsense. With all the wars the US has staged on foreign countries on a whim, would they really need to fabricate so much pretext to do what they’d already been doing for years?

On the advance warning thing - it’s worth noting that “receiving a tip-off about a possible terrorist attack” is not the same thing as knowing 9/11 is about to happen. Ignoring any warnings is careless, but it isn’t necessarily the same as being willingly complicit.