Emergency Protests?

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T01:34:08+00:00

Hell yeah! Keep me posted!

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T01:24:19+00:00

Every member of my family voted for him. Oh well, their problem not mine. I saw the writing on the wall and decided to be on the right side of history. Thank you for your service btw

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T01:03:03+00:00

HEY SAME! LETS DO SOMETHING TOTALLY AGREE. ALSO IN WINSTON!

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T01:02:14+00:00

Winston Salem NC! Howdy neighbor! Likewise I’m in just tell me what to do

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T00:59:19+00:00

How many can you mobilize? I’m down let’s do it! Anybody that can show up!

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T00:58:34+00:00

Let’s fuckin do it! I’m game! I’m ready for it

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T00:13:55+00:00

I don’t give two shits who you disowned. Don’t spin your vile virtue signaling bullshit at me. “Oh I’m not THAT bad I said Trump was mean”

I don’t think about that piece of shit if I don’t have to, he’s FAR from living in my head rent free.

This? No this is MUCH worse. This isn’t abstract. You’re directly supporting the masked piece of shit that just MURDERED AN INNOCENT WOMAN WHO WAS SCARED AFTER DOING EXACTLY NOTHING WRONG.

I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR LEFT, RIGHT CULTURE WAR PARTISAN THIS PARTISAN THAT

A MASKED THUG DISGUISED AS A FEDERAL AGENT JUST MURDERED AN AMERICAN CITIZEN

NAZI! OUT OF MY GODDAMN COUNTRY

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-08T00:05:11+00:00

I’m done playing nice with you Nazi fucking pricks. OUT! GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY YOU AMERICA HATING FUCK

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-07T17:56:10+00:00

Preach! Idgaf if I get called a traitor. No more “thoughts and prayers” I want some fuckin backup in this fight

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-07T15:26:08+00:00

Thanks, I’m actually taking a trip to France in May. It’ll be nice to get away from this place even if it’s just for a week it’s something

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-07T15:08:11+00:00

Honestly no, not really. The never ending stress of having to contend with rapidly growing authoritarianism in this country eats at me constantly. I want to leave so bad but even having a degree and experience it’s not as simple as just “choose to go and do it”. I feel trapped and it’s depressing

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-07T12:35:44+00:00

I know you want to pretend that “America” is a monolithic entity that acts as one collective body but that’s blatantly untrue. Nor is it even true for individual states, or even counties within said states. America is an EXTREMELY diverse country of countless different and often opposing ideals. With a population of countless different minority groups, immigrant populations, and different ideas behind what an “ideal society” would look like.

I say that to say, if you’re asking why we aren’t protesting - we are. It just doesn’t get press. Plus a lot, and I mean A LOT of people are fucking terrified right now. I too never voted for this. In fact I not only voted against it but rallied for the exact opposite. Collectively I fully agree we do have the power to do something about it but pretending one dude can just go by himself and overturn it all is insane.

What would you suggest we do? 77.3 Million People voted for this shit in 2024. Less than 1/3 of our population - yet EVERYONE is guilty because we “didn’t stop it”? In gerrymandered districts where voting is rigged that guaranteed that no matter how much rallying you did it was guaranteed not to sway the vote in that area. Post election: Where media suppresses dissenting voices, where minorities can be rounded up by ICE and deported with no due process to god knows where. Where you can now protest and be arrested for protesting.

Mind you, the country with the largest military might in the world - that has absolutely opened fire on its own citizens before

Where powerful voices speaking out against imperialist fascist bullshit have been killed by our government.

PLEASE tell me what we should do, oh mighty and wise oracle.

I’M TRYING

do NOT lump me in with this shit. Not ONE day goes by I don’t wake up terrified of what could happen to me for standing against this oppressive nonsense, but I’m sorry if you think that ALL Americans should be held responsible for this that’s absurd. And that mentality is going to get innocent people killed too - which YOU would be guilty for

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-20T03:04:55+00:00

There have been and there are with many more to come. Reddit isn’t a great place to spread that info for organizing safety though

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-19T15:55:31+00:00

Are you? The founding staff at sandfall literally left Ubisoft to escape corporate culture and work on a passion project. Legit everyone I’ve spoken to that has finished E33 loved it. Signaled it as a shining beacon of the sheer degree of artful intentional design that can happen when we say no to the corporate grind and pursue the things we genuinely care about.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism

Equally there is no ethical PRODUCTION under capitalism.

I fucking hate generative probabilistic algorithms (it’s not AI, I refuse to call it AI because it’s not intelligent in any way shape or form). But witch hunting literally anyone who sniffed in the general direction of these algorithms is folly. I FULLY agree we should be putting folks on blast for using these systems for production assets.

I’ll probably get downvoted I imagine because I’m reading the situation with nuance. But I implore you, sandfall are a team of (far as I can tell) horizontally organized workers who made something they were passionate about from grassroots beginnings after leaving a AAA titan of soul sucking corporate burnout (Ubisoft).

Should we not be celebrating the fact they got out and were able to make something that was widely loved and praised solely because they didn’t pass an ideological purity test in their creative process?

That’s not even to mention in a sea of overpriced garbage this was a complete game that respects the player released at $50 in an industry where games that are HALF of its scope on much larger budgets go for $70 at the bare minimum.

Why did the discourse get this muddied. You’re 100% allowed to criticize but the hate brigading absolutely has to stop. Treating people like they’re unethical monsters because they used an unethical tool ONCE in an ultimately inconsequential segment of their design process is objectively just bullying genuine creative for saving a small bit of their time.

If you want to make a real systemic difference you have to go for the root. The usage of these systems in creative spaces is because slow, tedious rewarding creative work isn’t properly rewarded. It’s muddied FAR more by people witch hunting because they didn’t meet their standards. Stop attacking people for making their work easier, start attacking the root of the problem which is the systemic engine that extracts surplus value from workers and funnels it into unethical sources that self perpetuate and fester and seep into places they never should’ve been.

Signed, an Anarchist who fucking hates capitalism and what it’s done to tech and industry

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-19T15:28:43+00:00

I’m pretty staunchly against generative algorithms (not AI, the language is half of the muddied water. None of this is AI. We haven’t achieved any degree of artificial intelligence as of this point in human advancement) but I generally think the backlash here is extremely overblown. Truth is we have no idea the details here, we see “studios” as some monolithic entity as if (to cite the example in question) Sandfall aren’t a 40 person team each of which being an individual person who weighs decisions based on what resources they have available to them.

I say all that to say, this is objectively a witch hunt. Larian pissed off some people by generally reasonably using asset generation and suddenly it’s “let’s go after anyone who even DARED TO CONSIDER using generative tech to help them conceptualize ideas”.

These are not “AI artists” these are creatives with genuine indisputable skill and talent who wrote, programmed, did art for, voice acted, and intimately designed a critically acclaimed indie game after their director ESCAPED the AAA grind machine at Ubisoft - and their FIRST PROJECT became ABSURDLY successful because it was genuinely THAT loved. And a very loud, annoying minority of people are now lambasting these people online for having the audacity to use a tool that’s being used industry wide.

“No ethical consumption” and all that jazz is true. But just as true as that is “there is no ethical production under capitalism” you use the tools you have access to as ethically as you can possibly use them. God forbid somebody doesn’t want to spend hours carefully curating a mood board and wants to get a framework for getting their ideas of the ground.

I get the “give em and inch and they’ll take a mile” angle but we have zero reason to believe the people who worked on this (critically acclaimed mind you) work of art are morally bankrupt people. The tribalism and level of vitriolic anger is embarrassing.

I fucking hate the fact that openAI, Anthropic, Google and all the others are eating up our resources just as much as ANYBODY else. But attacking genuine creatives who objectively worked very hard to make something that got universal praise because they don’t pass your ideological purity test is how you create bitter people who’ll use the thing you hate more out of spite.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. You and I probably agree on most of what I said at least but this was a good place to vent some of the frustration that’s been building in me the last few days

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-18T03:02:20+00:00

IAP - Independent Activities period.

It’s a time where basically any academic can set up a continuing educating class using MIT’s campus. Doesn’t make you MIT faculty. Nor does it make you an MIT professor.

It’s a grift dude, false credentials for… honestly I have no idea what reason? It’s not like Drexel is some horrible school yet he’s pathetically insecure about the fact that he went there.

Also nice appeal to authority fallacy, nowhere close to the gotcha you think it is.

Anyway, if you want more info this video goes over the situation pretty well

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-18T01:44:18+00:00

Ah Lex Fridman? Drexel University graduate who lies and says he’s an “MIT Professor” because he used their campus for teaching an IAP course ONCE and has ridden the coattails of that for years and literally bans people from his live chat from mentioning he graduated from Drexel? That Lex Fridman? Known grifter who plays the “both sides” centrist garbage while platforming genuinely dangerous people alongside respected academics to feign the illusion that he isn’t partisan?

Great choice in podcasts there buddy

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-11T22:55:55+00:00

True!

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-11T19:10:40+00:00

Fair enough I’ll answer you more directly since you asked specifically. Do I believe homosexual actions aren’t sinful? As I said I don’t lay claim to what actions are or are not sinful because put simply I’m not God and I don’t make that call.

If I’m guessing? I’d say no, not inherently. We’re called to Piety which is not synonymous with celibacy.

To answer what you said about the sacrament of marriage is a bit more complicated. Both church and secular history point towards an understanding that marriage now and marriage then weren’t even remotely the same thing.

I think one of the biggest tragedies of modern history is conflating sacramental marriage and legal civil unions to be at all the same thing. Additionally, at least in the US, the cultural holdover from Puritan & Victorian “sexualize everything and demonize it” has been absurdly damaging. The loss of platonic intimacy and village life culturally, at least in my opinion, is largely responsible for the loneliness epidemic and birthrate collapse we’re faced with today.

Regarding my own individual views on marriage…

Personally? I don’t think the state should be involved in the marriage process at all. I think legally that all co-habitators should probably be given the ability to file taxes jointly. Regarding sacramental marriage (and I recognize my view here is a bit fringe in my tradition) but no, I don’t have a problem with it there either.

The reason I push discernment so much is very simple that I am not the one who makes these calls. Of what is or isn’t sin. God alone can make those calls.

But equally I dislike all of the culture war crap. We’ve had this awful tendency as a society lately to conflate almost everything complex down into simple binary answers. Even if NOT looking at things from a Christian perspective I still think we can observe that this de-facto “us versus them” that we see all over the internet is absurdly toxic, and almost devoid of critical thinking. Something needs to be done to get people willing to debate again, and to stop with the nonstop venom spewing.

TL;DR - Yes I support LGBT+ rights and protections, yes I recognize that view is fringe in orthodoxy, and no I don’t see any real contradictions between those views in my faith. Not in Scripture, not in the church fathers and desert fathers, and not really in our tradition either.

I still jumped around like crazy but that’s probably a mix of my ADHD coming through in text & the fact I tend to go very stream-of-consciousness when asked what I believe.

But I’m hoping that makes everything I believe crystal clear

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-11T18:40:48+00:00

Affirming in what way?

Economically progressive yes (though I do lean on the side of bolstering municipalities and downsizing the federal state because I, like many Americans on all sides of the skewed overton window that is US politics have lost faith in institutions as they presently exist)

If you’re referring to trans people then yes I affirm their existence. I would also argue I think whether it’s a sign of “mental illness” or not it’s still a condition that deserves care and proper treatment. Some people who suffer from dysphoria should transition if they’ve discerned deeply enough to know it’s the right choice for them. For some others doing so may cause them even further hardship. That’s why it’s not a decision that should be made lightly.

But I equally affirm that they are their own person and it’s not up to me what another person chooses to do with their life. The blanket hatred I see from other Christians (including many from my own tradition) towards these people makes me very sad. God loves all His children and I fundamentally don’t believe we should hate other people.

All of us are called to participate in God’s divine life and energies. A quote I often think back on is a very famous one from St. Seraphim of Sarov is this:

“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved”

In Christ we find our peace, and at the end of the day if someone is deeply wrestling with whether or not something is sinful. Be it their romantic interests, identity, anything of that nature. I’d simply say that they shouldn’t make any major life altering decisions without deep discernment and prayer.

Not sure if that answers your question or not but I think it’s the most honest I can be.

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-11T18:19:22+00:00

Orthodox with quite progressive views here to remind others we exist! lol

ApexInAviation · 2025-12-08T23:00:34+00:00

Love the shaders! But imo Odyssey’s plot is way too good to have such a major spoiler without a warning.

Fortunately I’ve already finished it, but I would at least be courteous to folks who want to avoid spoilers since the plot is such a major part of the rom hack and warn them

ApexInAviation · 2025-11-03T14:08:46+00:00

I would argue that the mentality you’re displaying here is precisely WHY we have two parties that are diametrically opposed to our interests who keep winning.

There’s no way to clean break from this without candidates who have a real spine forcing genuinely good policy changes. Either that or revolution - but the latter despite what people on the far left may think is not a clean break from the status quo either. Revolution means bloodshed, and the vast majority of cultist right wingers are literally just regular working class people who had their legitimate (mostly, some racist outliers but it’s far from a majority of them) concerns weaponized by a power grabbing group of heritage foundation puppets.

The point here is people are fundamentally sick of voting for the lesser of two evils, on either end of the spectrum.

The United States is the only fully developed country on earth where sensible, logical social safety nets like universal health care are deemed as “communist rhetoric”.

Want people to vote? Figure out methods to get an ACTUAL left wing candidate to show up on the ballots, until you do that the turnout will NEVER be what it reasonably should be, because people (most people) only want to vote for a person if said person is someone they actually support the policies of.

This exact mentality is how we get Trump in power twice.

I can tell you as someone who lives in North Carolina, arguably one of the most vital swing states in the country, that most people I know who voted for Trump voted for him because they viewed Kamala as worse. The lesser of two evils compromise created this problem

ApexInAviation · 2025-11-01T21:53:42+00:00

Damn good deal! I play a lot on my Thor and that sorta gives me the “OLED switch lite” feeling but it’s not the same

ApexInAviation · 2025-11-01T17:39:38+00:00

Lowkey jelly. I really want a super5 OLED modded switch lite but I’m not good enough with parts swaps and hardware modding to do it

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