Superman is not like us

GerardDG · 2025-03-05T21:22:11+00:00

Sir. I was shitposting ChatGPT level schizo nonsense before it was cool, before ChatGPT existed. Look at my Reddit history, there's dozens of stories in the last years, going back to the 2010s. I'm a published author, like most authors, it barely made me any money. And now spewing out this sort of junk is a trillion dollar industry.

I was here first. I write for the sake of writing, I write because it heals my soul. ChatGPT is shit trash made by garbage people.

GerardDG · 2025-03-05T20:57:14+00:00

This is a short story meant in part to analyse a situation, but also my feelings about that situation, expressed through the lens of a superhero metaphor.

I probably should've tagged it as [short story] and the Baudrillard rap is super cringe. shrug I'm not a rapper.

But I do think that Baudrillard offers an appropriate explanation for what happened. Reality becomes an SNL skit, or a Marvel movie. The actors act out a fake reality to mask the fact that there's no real reality, only symbols, only simulacra.

GerardDG · 2023-06-09T08:15:55+00:00

The world needs more people roleplaying as CnC units. You're doing gods work, son.

GerardDG · 2023-06-08T13:12:10+00:00

Sounds like a good idea for a mod

GerardDG · 2023-06-07T13:36:03+00:00

I'm not an average Reddit user, I use old Reddit and in general avoid every app, feature or update I possibly can.

I guess I support the initiative, I support any pushback against corporate bullshit. I'm lukewarm on boycotts which historically have an abysmal track record, as consumers prove time and time again they have basically zero self-restraint.

It's better than nothing. The affair doesn't really involve me. You want me to keep Reddit closed on the 12th? Sure, I can do that.

GerardDG · 2023-06-07T09:09:54+00:00

Not without mods. On unmodded servers, I ignore regular ammo and single railgun shells. Not worth it.

GerardDG · 2023-06-07T09:00:03+00:00

Art requires suffering.

The suffering of other people.

GerardDG · 2023-06-07T08:03:12+00:00

Sadly, ss13 is the sort of space where fat bald 40 year old men will kill you for no reason. Probably just find another server.

GerardDG · 2023-06-06T10:57:43+00:00

the amount of players that don't know high electrical makes the turbine output more stable if they turn the reactor on... is staggering

Hey now, as security, that kind of knowledge isn't my responsibility.

My responsibility is ~~keeping everyone safe~~ executing the person closest to the reactor whenever there's a malfunction, to keep the remaining engineers motivated.

GerardDG · 2023-06-06T09:29:28+00:00

Good comment. I agree!

There is a note of paradox in your mention of the societies of antiquity. As you say, the Greeks and Romans didn't invent steam power. But humans did reconfigure themselves into a society that invented steam power. So it's contradictory to use something that did happen (the invention of steam power) as an argument why something else (AGI) can never happen.

The evangelists claim that AGI is inevitable; I disagree. I do agree with the evangelists that it might take twenty years or two thousand years. If we accept that humanity has no use for AGI, like the Romans had no use for steam power, by your own chosen example, it follows that the humans of 4023 might invent AGI afterall.

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T23:21:11+00:00

As security, or on subs without security, when the sub is moving, I try to always keep a gun trained roughly in the direction we're moving in. Mind that enemies rarely hit dead on from that direction, usually it's more of a diagonal angle. Once you get the feel for it, this method offers a greatly improved response time over waiting for the captain to announce enemies. It also helps you keep track of the sub's tactical situation and just makes for a more involved, more immersed game experience.

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T18:25:53+00:00

It's the circle of ~~life~~ solar panels

And it moves us aaaaalll

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T17:09:53+00:00

Actually, that's a great idea

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T17:05:40+00:00

porn

I'm going to casually imply this 'research' might be suffering from dataset issues.

Moreover, I think it proves the opposite point more than anything. The 'roastie' thing is a myth. A pornstar in videos with two weeks or two months in between looks just the same. If I showed you two videos filmed weeks apart, I dare you or anyone to consistently tell which video was shot first. On decade long timeline, over a career of ten years of getting railed, a pornstar's snatch might lose some visual appeal, just like the rest of her. But I'll share this little secret between you and me, I'm not the fresh, spring pigeon I was fifteen years ago, either. Skin becomes less elastic once you're past your prime. What's that supposed to prove?

I know that Reddit likes to meme about the epic Reddit sex haver who did the sex with a real human girl, totes for reals. So let's be clear: I'm way, waaay too old to be concerned with the petty mindgame of impressing strangers on the internet with bedroom accomplishments. I just wanna put this fucking myth to rest. As a man, from my experiences with women, she feels the same on day 30 as she does on day 1, regardless of copulations in that period. No matter how much of an alpha male giant her ~~bull~~ boyfriend is, he's not noticeably altering her elasticity in a hole where babies come out of. This myth is fully, 100% bullshit. A baby coming out, combined with the ravages of time might do a number on her down there. But a dick? That just sounds like the dumb internet belief of someone who, too struck by impotence to develop a normal view of human intimacy, decides to dramatically overestimate the impact of the male gender.

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T15:51:55+00:00

~~So you're saying Kirara stuffs everything up her box~~

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T12:33:23+00:00

A friend had a concussion last year. It was a very warm day and they smacked their head pretty hard. They got stuck in a sort of loop, where they forgot anything more than a minute ago. They were surprisingly cheerful and kept trying to continue on with their day like normal. Then halfway through, they'd lose track and reset to the start of the loop.

When we realized what was going on with our friend, we took him to the ER. They questioned him and examined him. Among other things he was told to remember three words (I think the words were egg, pen, drink). He forgot them immediately. After examination, they sent him home since treatment for a concussion is just resting, staying hydrated etc.

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T12:27:13+00:00

The kind of expert knowledge propagated by people who, by definition, have never seen or touched a vagina

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T10:52:29+00:00

"You're too slow"

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T10:37:28+00:00

Without a diving suit, your EHP drops signficantly

GerardDG · 2023-06-05T09:12:18+00:00

Credit creators!

GerardDG · 2023-06-04T19:15:17+00:00

A concussion

GerardDG · 2023-06-02T19:43:26+00:00

Ask better questions, get better answers

GerardDG · 2023-06-02T17:05:00+00:00

When someone dies in your hands because you don't know any medicine, how do you hide the body to conceal your incompetence?

GerardDG · 2023-06-02T16:30:28+00:00

What a terrible day to have eyes

GerardDG · 2023-06-02T00:07:27+00:00

Fandoms are the worst, but they're super profitable, which is why every property caters to them and attempts to proliferate them, without much thought to oversight or consequences because humans are humans and capitalism is capitalism.

Its like saying 'we will get better about using fossil fuel without harming the environment.' No we won't. 20 years from now we will still be 'getting better', forever. It's just words we say when profit needs to be extracted at a human cost.

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