would you believe…

no i gave up on star wars completely in 2017 or so. it just depressed me too much that there always needed to be new things and that everything needed a tie-in.

no that’s fair, they’re more like a clone army.

not this shit again

none of those are explicitly evolved and bred by another race to act as their cannon fodder, and kept in-line by psychoactive substances they are genetically engineered to die without.

sure you can argue that they can be fixed by medicine and deprogramming, but it would be a bit like a new star wars film having a battle droid as a jedi padawan

never saw it

never really understood pubg either, it just seemed like dayz with arbitrary restrictions

fortnite is eight years old now and i still don’t understand it.

“original character”. a guy they made up, usually in an existing franchise.

they all are. there are no profitable ai gold rush companies, except those selling shovels.

we have shittons of rare earth metals, but we also don’t want to dig them up because of the health risks and environmental damage. we pay other people to tank that.

ew wtf

so how do you choose which humans to experiment on? bearing in mind that any sort of incentive will automatically select for a particular subset, and randomness will “obviously” need to exclude a particular subset

it’s her bedtime pancake, don’t judge

two whole dollars per user? wow

i think the comment was more on how they started designing the game with terraformning as a central conceit and a randomly-generated voxel world, then scrapped all that when it was too late to pull it out of the game. so the world is still procedural and fully destructible, but the random seed is static and there is nothing left in the game that damages terrain.

MacBook Shuffle

“Sad Story 😥” - 2020 Twitter meme, has my previous comment as a line in it.

it’s called “english spacing” in typesetting.