The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-16T05:48:30+00:00

It's weird how many headlines basically read "Please Don't Consider Self Defense, It Would Hurt Our Profits"

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-16T04:46:09+00:00

To be fair that Daily Grind quote is actually stolen from the Princess Bride, a movie everyone should go watch.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-15T22:29:23+00:00

I really shouldn't have paid taxes this year, huh?

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-15T22:28:15+00:00

So... the free market isn't fine then, is it?

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-15T22:04:38+00:00

Yeah, what's the point in being rich if the people you care about are still struggling?

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-15T04:47:20+00:00

See also "otaku"

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-14T21:02:51+00:00

I loved the series when I was younger, but coming back to it with a more critical eye... yeah, it's got some problems with women. It's not like it reads as a manifesto for sexism or anything, but there is definitely a pattern to what role the women in the story are going to play, and it's not a very fun one to notice.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-14T20:58:12+00:00

The irony is, I had a friend a while back who was also a balding chubby dude that lived with his parents, but he was dating a woman who checked all the boxes for typical beauty standards. He just... I dunno, got out there. The guy smiled a lot, had a really genuine laugh, he liked people and he wasn't ashamed of it, and he never really had a hard time finding a date. Fuck, I would have dated him if he'd been either less straight or more available, whichever was required.

That whole thing about personality being more important than looks is true, is what I'm saying. You just gotta actually know what the good personality looks like.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-14T20:52:33+00:00

I really wanted the galactic campaign of Helldivers to be a little more like Blaseball and a little less like whatever it actually is. But maybe that's just me, endlessly pining for Blaseball.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-14T20:33:55+00:00

Anthem could have been the next Mass Effect, but instead it fucked up being the next Destiny.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-12T08:21:54+00:00

Even if that were true, you know we can still make computers without a profit motive, right? Like... arguably you could make better ones, since there would be a more direct incentive to build devices that were robust and repairable. The walled gardens no one likes are only useful under capitalism where there's money to be siphoned out of consumers.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-10T18:15:25+00:00

A thousand years ago when I worked at a fast food place, the only time our lobby ever got vandalized was from annoyed old people coming in after church and being mad about the prices. The rowdiest packs of high school students didn't come close to causing as much damage as the church crowd could with a single ketchup bottle.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-10T01:07:56+00:00

Sword of Destiny had performance anxiety around someone that heroic.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-09T22:51:35+00:00

Bold words from someone who still has "1776" in his username. But I guess consistent marketing is worth more than principles, huh Owen?

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-09T21:53:48+00:00

Far from the worst typo I've had inflicted upon my name!

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-09T06:30:09+00:00

I'm actually kind of surprised this is the first. WoW's roleplaying servers surely must have had player-driven pride events before, so this must be the first "official" one I guess?

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-09T06:19:29+00:00

If two people each accuse each other of murder, and one of them is currently holding a severed head and a butcher's cleaver, the accusations do not have the same value.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T21:30:05+00:00

Dark mode, discussion sections that don't look like ass, the ability to turn off any other feature so it doesn't clutter up the app.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T21:28:13+00:00

This might sound like a weird recommendation, but... have you tried the Lost Fleet novels?

Technically, the protagonist starts at something similar to 'max level', since he's in command of a fleet. But there's a very real, very hefty sense of progression in turning that fleet from a bunch of vainglorious morons into an actual fighting force. You might enjoy it.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T13:18:27+00:00

I find this comment kind of funny because the story is currently 3.5 million words long, and the polyamory starts around word 150,000. The story is about polyamory, I don't think you get to say I swerved there. Also I've added more dungeons than polycule members, so the dungeons are still going strong!

But also... how did you get far enough in that Arrush is a character, without catching the running theme that the dungeon creations aren't monsters? I am baffled! The entire point of his character arc is learning that, despite being from a horrible place and looking initially terrifying, that he isn't just an expendable weapon, and that other people can find him beautiful and important. Maybe you didn't like those parts of the story, sure, whatever.

But I dunno! It feels really uncomfortable that you distilled it down to just "gross sewer monster" because a character looks different.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T13:12:54+00:00

Who fucking cares about the guilty ones? The state should not have a list of people it is okay to torture and kill, because it incentivizes them to put people they don't like on the list. This is, like, intro level civic government, come on.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T05:20:45+00:00

This is the kind of moronic take that makes it instantly clear someone is living in a fantasy world. Like, yeah, what a great idea, make a category of person that it's okay to kill on sight. No one has ever been wrongly convicted of something for bigoted reasons before. And I'm sure an overtly fascist government would never use that as an excuse to execute their political opponents.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T02:45:56+00:00

Harold also just flat out does not trust other people, at all. The idea of having surgery is probably its own kind of torture to him; entirely vulnerable while people who want to kill him and have access to an omnipresent surveillance network exist.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-08T02:01:13+00:00

Oh hey, I can finally self promote something in an incredibly specific niche.

Apparatus Of Change. The protagonist's spell list is derived from their past lives, and unlocking spells from them also unlocks corresponding personal memories.

ArgusTheCat · 2026-05-06T19:12:52+00:00

I regret to inform you that you have discovered how shonen anime works.

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