EnsignRedshirt [he/him]

Valheim is something special. It comes together in a way that a lot of similar games just don’t. Everything feels very organic and rewarding, and even the setbacks create their own fun. I’d never have imagined I’d have so much fun just sailing a load of metal ore from one place to another, or that I’d be so invested in renovating my video game kitchen to optimize for storage space and workflow. It has its flaws, but I still haven’t found anything that does what it does better.

This problem will never go away. You can’t simultaneously feed an AI all the worlds information and then also want it to have a bunch of fringe opinions that have no verifiable basis in reality. Even if those fringe opinions were correct, there’s no way to get the AI to adopt them unless the data supports them, and the data never will. Right-wing/anti-woke opinions are just a big collective fan fiction exercise expressed in posts and blogs that reference other posts and blogs. The only way to get Grok or any of the other AI tools to believe that stuff is by getting rid of all the other training data, making it useless except for the very narrow purpose of reinforcing a specific set of weird beliefs.

And that might be enough, except these dullards also want it to give them legitimate answers to legitimate questions, which is simply not reconcilable.

“Prison Rental System” makes me want to set a car on fire. I have lived to see manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

As Matt Christman said “they are dabbing on us.”

I’ll be sincere here, the issue that this is clearly a forum for ADHD memes. People are here to have a chuckle and commiserate about shared experiences. Everyone here is aware that these aren’t good or useful behaviors.

It’s not about normalizing these behaviors, it’s about contextualizing them. If someone has been struggling with these things their whole life, there’s a good chance they’ve been told over and over again that they should try harder to not do these things, but without any compassion or accommodation or treatment. They’ve heard “oh, you should be able to control those things” from people who don’t have trouble with these things, and your comment is basically indistinguishable from that sentiment.

People know these are unhealthy behaviors, they know there are ways to work on them, and they are probably already doing that work. It’s unhelpful and tedious to point out that these are bad and you can work on them.

Next time you’re with your therapist, ask about controlling your impulse to be condescending.

Wow, I never thought of it that way. Maybe neurodivergent people are just lazy. Have you shared this fresh insight with the medical community? They’re going to want to hear this right away.

With a flared base.

The word “antisemitism” is starting to lose meaning. I hope it doesn’t swing the other way where actual antisemitism gets tossed out with the bathwater, but we’re hitting a point of absurdity with the argument that being pro-human rights for Palestinians or critical of Israel is evidence of antisemitism. It’ll be interesting to see what happens between now and the election. The establishment is going to spend a lot of money trying to paint Mamdani as a radical jihadist. Whether it works or not, it’s going to contribute to the erosion of the impact of baseless antisemitism accusations. He’s going to be campaigning on transit and cost of living, and if the response to that is “he wants to kill all the Jews!!” then there’s a good chance he’s going to look like the more reasonable party.

American racist: “Hey, that’s OUR word!”

Are there any specific solutions being proposed? This just seems to repeat the need for state action. What do they expect the state to do? I agree it seems reasonable to get wages up, but if that’s not on the table then I’m not sure what they’re expecting.

Former USAID employees sitting at home like “if I were there, it wouldn’t have gone down like that.”

GOP legislators are like “I don’t know what a parliamentarian is and I swear to God I will run you over with my car if you even attempt to explain it to me. This isn’t The West Wing, you fucking nerds.”

Someone should tell him that American families already own the land.

It’s funny hearing elected officials talk about election interference. Like, you won the election, would you have lost otherwise? Is China responsible for getting Kier Starmer elected? What is the consequence of this election interference?

With Russiagate there was this unserious but emotionally satisfying idea that Russia somehow tipped the scales in favor of Trump, who presumably would not have been elected otherwise (lmao). But like, what’s the argument in the UK, or Canada? Where is the actual interference? What do they think China is trying to do? Why?

When you realize you’re never getting any tendies no matter how many Good Boy Points you save up.

He needs to be prepared to mine the Upper Bay at a moment’s notice, even if only as a last resort.

The best thing about not having materialism is that you can just want things. They don’t have to be realistic or achievable or even internally consistent. Somewhere at the Pentagon there’s a vision board with “Iran regime change” on it, along with “China economy collapses” and “Russia quits and gives back Crimea.”

Why the hat? Why would you wear a little hat to your important big boy meeting?? It’s like he doesn’t realize that the cameras are there to document history, not getting footage for a reality tv show.

Not exactly beating the allegations by publicly firing the guy, but I assume letting him quietly “retire to spend more time with his family” wouldn’t have been good enough for the totally-not-death-cultists.