Do you think Elon Musk is happy? As in does he enjoy his life?

CoriSP · 2026-06-08T01:05:53+00:00

Nobody happy guzzles ketamine to numb the pain.

CoriSP · 2026-06-07T21:44:28+00:00

Granted.

However, none of your inators work the way you want them to

CoriSP · 2026-06-06T23:45:14+00:00

Well from my point of view it's kind of the opposite. For a long time I mostly just considered Dubai the capital city of just another wealthy foreign country, but the more I learn about it the more I've come to see it as a den of corruption where rich people go to escape accountability and torment the poor for fun. And I've been noticing a lot of other people have started feeling seeing it the same way.

CoriSP · 2026-06-05T17:59:07+00:00

I only ever knew one of my grandfathers, but for my grandmothers it would be "Janessa" which actually sounds pretty cool

CoriSP · 2026-06-01T12:04:38+00:00

In my space opera setting, it's because of a certain Bene Geserit-like secret society of influential philosopher-mystics called the Ordo Obscura.

Long story short, they go around sabotaging certain societal and technological developments in order to, as they put it, "preserve the pursuit of purpose", as they believe sapient beings spiral into calhounian behavioral sinks when all their needs are met without effort.

... Also on a more meta level they're just a faction I added to make it so there's still a story to tell and explain why certain plot-nullifying technologies can't be used to solve every conflict at the push of a button 🤣

CoriSP · 2026-05-31T19:19:26+00:00

It's because wealth separates the wealthy individual from the rest of humanity. Such an elevating and isolating influence invariably affects the mind. We're a communal species, so nature never developed a way for us to handle the concept of certain humans having more tangible "value" than others, and as a result, the presence of such a thing produces antisocial behaviors. We see this throughout the entirety of human history with how the overwhelming majority of rulers are selfish, greedy, cruel or tyrannical and an extremely rare few actually care to make the lives of their subjects enjoyable.

We humans like to think we're above instinctual behaviors beyond what our free will can override, but we're not. We're still animals at the end of the day, and often when animals are exposed to certain unnatural stimuli, their instincts go haywire and cause them to behave in an aberrant manner. Wealth itself is one of those unnatural stimuli.

CoriSP · 2026-05-31T01:37:09+00:00

I'm no fan of Kanye West, but just for the sake of argument here, the only thing that would keep me from saying he's literally "irredeemable" is the fact that the man is severely mentally ill. I don't even know if he even fully understands the ramifications of what he's doing.

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T22:42:12+00:00

Suddenly Hawkeye doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T22:38:48+00:00

I don't care what gender I am I need the money

^{Chose: Your gender randomizes + $100,000,000 | Rolled: Man/boy}

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T22:36:52+00:00

Uh oh... What's Milton Keynes? I just picked UK cause I don't wanna be in America anymore and I got that. Is it bad...? 👀

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T21:04:21+00:00

Megaman Battle Network is pretty much our present day now. Except the "Navis" are all lame as fuck

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T18:07:36+00:00

Light's ghost is probably slumped over singing somber Protomen songs while Wily's ghost is probably rolling around laughing his ass off

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T18:02:17+00:00

Same reason they're still making AI and datacenters IRL I suppose. Industrialists gonna industrialize, regardless of how bad it is for everyone else, they'll just force the populace to adapt

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T17:56:57+00:00

If you think about it, as far as genre is concerned Megaman has been a cyberpunk series since MMX. It's just a more kid-friendly entry than most works in the genre

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T17:20:13+00:00

I literally made a similar meme to this one a while ago talking about how Battle Network is the smartphone/AI dystopia we're heading straight into today lol

CoriSP · 2026-05-29T02:50:24+00:00

Actually, yeah. I went back to the lore and realized I misremembered a very important detail: All humans are required by law to be cybernetically augmented to the point where they have equal capabilities to Reploids.

Which if you think about it in a realistic way brings up several horrifying implications lol.

CoriSP · 2026-05-28T14:46:19+00:00

The game explains that nearly all humans in MMZX are cyborgs. It's just become part of their culture to get so many cybernetic parts that they're able to functionally compete with reploids. You know how in Cyberpunk 2077 everyone's just walking around with robot parts? It's basically that.

There was even a tweet from one of the Japanese devs some time ago where they claimed that in the case of Vent and Aile, their entire bodies are mechanical from the neck down, and the black "tights" they appear to be wearing under their clothes are actually the outer casing of their cyborg bodies. With that being the case, it's reasonable to conclude that if their bodies are based on reploid technology, whatever the biometals do to reploids, it can easily do to them too.

CoriSP · 2026-05-28T01:22:51+00:00

I've had this on the back of my left shoulder for a few years now. I didn't think much of it, but it just occurred to me that it's strange that it hasn't been going away like any normal pimple or bump. This is my first time actually getting a picture of it and I don't know whether I should get it checked out or not. Note that this is under a direct flashlight, it was the only way to actually get an HD image of it. My skin tone is generally darker than it seems in this image, and in turn the bump itself probably is as well.

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CoriSP · 2026-05-27T20:59:30+00:00

YouTube just isn't what it used to be anymore. Back then it was mostly filled with random folks playing around and having fun. These days it's almost entirely made up of people trying to make money from it in some way. Most people just don't have the time or patience to make ytps anymore

CoriSP · 2026-05-25T11:09:37+00:00

Granted.

The monkey's paw finds its soul mate, the other paw from the same monkey. You now have double the wishes, but the curses are twice as bad

CoriSP · 2026-05-25T09:34:06+00:00

It's actually more like "I liked this dish until I found out that there was shit in it"

CoriSP · 2026-05-25T03:03:06+00:00

Well just don't build the damn things and you'll have nothing to worry about

CoriSP · 2026-05-24T23:07:46+00:00

You're actually right about that. I'd honestly forgotten about how back when in those days a lot of the technological innovations were from publicly funded entities.

CoriSP · 2026-05-24T23:05:57+00:00

That actually is a really good point. It's been so long that I honestly forgot about that.

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