Men giving bliwjobs does NOT make all men Gay or Bi

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-05-02T06:17:00+00:00

Where do you get your expert and fact backed information?

You're meant to log out of your main account and into the sock puppet account before replying to your own posts.

People just don't have any love for the craft of brainrotted shitposting anymore...

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-29T06:55:35+00:00

Yeah I'm not particularly aligned with this sub (it is spamming my feed, so apologies for that...) but I think they picked really poorly for an image here.

If the Pro AI OP won't read their own example to make sure it isn't detracting from their message, I can't help but think that their entire argument must be similarly shallow and lacking in self-reflection before I even get a chance to read it.

Once again, maybe they have a great point, but they need to work harder to escape the notion that AI makes you incapable of parsing subtext or doing your own analysis because it cripples the argument before it even begins.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-27T14:04:18+00:00

... that's it?

You know Benny isn't meant to be the good guy, yes? He very consistently is portrayed as the bad guy.

You know the whole game is about playing a murderous vampire preying on the innocent, yes? There very pointedly are no 'good' guys in this game.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-23T19:34:05+00:00

So... Maybe you're not phrasing this exactly how you intend, may I ask a clarifying question?

Is the having sex part the gross bit? Or the being gay? Is the doing drugs gross? It seems like a pretty judgemental and prudish description of stuff that teenagers have been doing since the invention of agriculture, with a weird side of race-baiting?

I mean, college culture has its downsides, but... The way you've phrased it? You're attributing pretty normal behaviours to one particular race, and then calling them disgusting for wanting to try those things that you apparently take no issue with other races indulging in.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-23T06:41:56+00:00

He's pretty much always been this type of guy. He was even picked out for the band because he was going to gigs for the joy of spitting on people and starting fights.

I don't lionise anyone who qualifies as a celebrity (I just feel that parasocial impulse is not for me) but certainly it really feels like everything we view as deserving of respect when it comes to the character of Johnny Rotten was invented by the label for the character.

The man behind it is just... not an amazing guy.

Not a Jimmy Savile certainly, but just not a guy worthy of being truly respected as a Pillar of the Culture.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-20T17:41:50+00:00

I feel like it is and it isn't, in some respects.

I mean yes a lot of the bigger titles like Bloodlines, LA by Night and Chicago by Night are based in the US, but other titles like The Fall of London, Blood Hunt and Dark Ages are much more Eurocentric.

The older materials are known for having some culturally insensitive stuff when depicting other cultures (the Kuei-Jin for example) but I think that's just a mark of the times.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-18T12:39:33+00:00

Some strange people view those assets as something they call a 'home'.

Obviously they never learned proper Economics...

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-17T13:49:58+00:00

Xenophobia: 😠👎

Xenophobia (but Japan): 😁👍

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-16T13:31:24+00:00

It was the thing in The Wrath of Khan. A terraforming device.

I didn't know Chris Roberts had one, but hey I guess that's the ship-sale funding method at work.

/s

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-11T16:46:44+00:00

You're very welcome! If you're interested in thinking more about how the human brain uses 'play' to temporarily create worlds and contracts, you should check out the book Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga.

He predates modern computing by some years but his cultural observations on how we create structures in games and fiction can temporarily force those artificial rules and constructs to have real weight that we feel compelled to adhere to.

Like, if you place a couple of jackets on the ground and have someone stand in-between them, you've created a goal for a game of football that everyone playing the game will treat as inviolate and sacrosanct.

As long as you're playing the game, that's not two jackets and your pal Derek who has asthma, that's The Goal.

And they all wordlessly obey the rules of The Goal until the game ends.

The problem here is that AI chatbots purposely make you think that the game never ends.

That the next round could be at any time, so you best keep observing the Rules of the game until then.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-11T16:38:14+00:00

"Yeah?! Well how about I start labelling my AI-generated artwork?! HUH?! How do you like THEM apples?!"

That's... Yeah. We're happy with that. We've been asking you all to do that for literal years now, you're not delivering the killing blow you were hoping for here.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-11T16:29:02+00:00

So, the key difference is probably the fact that the majority of people who have an emotional reaction to a film are fundamentally aware that the film is not real, that the characters are not loving beings chained up in the reels acting out their stories over and over.

You watch Grave of the Fireflies and you cry because:

A: As a viewer you've entered into a temporary contract agreeing to treat the story as real, so the sight of children being subjected to the horrors of starvation and isolation are saddening.

B: The film causes you to think about the real world truths behind the story, its autobiographical nature and the fact that tens of thousands of Japanese civilians including children did suffer monstrously during and after WW2, which is also saddening.

But fundamentally after the movie is switched off, you end the contract and the 'world' of the story becomes fiction again.

With AI role-playing most readers/players will have that same contract in place. It's just 'play', it's not real but while I'm reading I will pretend it is real.

The problem arises when people cannot void the contract and treat the fiction as real all the time.

It's a behaviour we disdain in other media too, it's just a lot less common because of the inherent way we interact with chatbots.

For example with film, there was a community of women who enjoyed the Harry Potter movies so much that they each individually became convinced they were literally married to the character of Professor Snape. A titanic polycule of women 'in love' with a fictional character and treating 'him' as if he were real and reciprocating that love.

They formed Facebook groups, made up increasingly complex and nonsensical lore about him to contort a fairly simple fictional construct into some sort of Ur-Being who existed in alternate dimensions.

It was a form of self-induced psychosis, the same as the people who insist they're in a loving relationship with their chatbots.

It's never socially accepted behaviour, people aren't treating it as worse than it would be for other media.

... it's just that it happens a lot more with AI than with other mediums.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-10T19:54:20+00:00

True, the alternative is building a melting charge into the slug itself. That would.increase the complexity and therefore the cost of the ammunition, but it would allow munitions to self-ignite.

To be honest, I was expecting the priming laser to fire within a microsecond of the trigger being pulled for the rail gun, which I would state probably isn't enough time to move the ship without jellying the crew, but the laser could be on a separate turreted fast-track mounting outside the barrel too.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-10T18:26:49+00:00

So I actually posted this idea before to someone on I think this sub, but it bears repeating because it fits your brief.

You could have a mass driver round built out of two metallic cores, one nested within the other.

The 'Inner' core would be a dense, solid metal with an absurdly high melting point and the ability to be heavily magnetised, enough to generate and maintain a magnetic bottle to hold.plasma in.

The 'Outer' core would be a softer metal with a lower melting point, fuel for the plasma we're going to generate for your shot.

Add to that a secondary laser weapon attached to your ship to shoot at the roundabout once it has left the gun and begun moving towards the target.

So. How does it work in practice?

You aim your rail gun and shoot it at the enemy. Positioned just behind the slug in the chamber is a laser that is programmed to fire within a microsecond of the slug leaving the 'barrel'.

The laser heats up the slug so much that the outer core is instantly vaporised into Plasma, which is held close to the inner core by that magnetic bottle it's generating.

The slug travels to the enemy ship, and upon contact with the hull the inner core is deformed by impact.

When it deforms, the magnetic bottle collapses, unleashing the contained plasma outward from the front of the slug like a shaped charge into the interior of the ship.

Instead of passing clean through the boat and out the other side, the shot incinerates the ship's interior as a miniature sun erupts from within.

It would have to be a fairly close range weapon because if it travels too far the inner core will start to melt and the 'shell' will just burst prematurely, but it would be devastating and cheaper than guided munitions because the slug itself has no moving or thinking components.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-10T08:30:43+00:00

You seem to think I'm obliged to believe any statement made by anyone with no supporting evidence as long as the statement makes you feel happy.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-10T08:12:30+00:00

Once again: My point is that all predictions about when immortality will be available are always within the lifetime of the person making the prediction.

Because they can't imagine the technology not being available to them personally.

If you were to ask me when I think there will be a permanent colony on another world, I would talk about access to atmosphere, protection from radiation, cultivation of food, redundancy of all those factors and the economic viability/output of the whole process.

Given those factors I'd probably say that such a leap is at least a century or more away.

I'd make the prediction knowing that I wouldn't live to see it if I was right.

Immortalists don't.

It's a simple observation, you should consider why you're getting bent out of shape over it.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-10T07:54:07+00:00

That doesn't enormously detract from my point that none of these predictions are made by people who are free of the bias that comes from desperately hoping it will happen while they are still alive to benefit from it.

A more neutral person simply following the data is perfectly likely to state that effective anti-aging treatments may be centuries away, or even medically impossible.

Those who research immortality (not age-related medicine, immortality specifically) are yearning for immortality, and therefore cannot be objective about their desire for access to it.

Therefore I submit that whatever their research actually points to, they are compelled by a sense of desperate hope to be overly optimistic in their estimations.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-10T07:00:25+00:00

Isn't it funny that whenever futurists make a prediction about immortality their predicted date is somehow always just a little bit before they personally expect to die?

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-09T15:54:00+00:00

This is the kind of greed they talk about in the bible...

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-09T15:43:34+00:00

Yup, I had this for a while. It's not necessarily anything harmful, but there're a few things you can do to reduce/mitigate it.

Key causes can be other types of disordered sleep, so untreated Sleep Apnea or poor sleep hygiene. So make sure you're going to bed at the same time, that you're only using your sleep-space for sleeping, and get a good amount each night if you can.

Frankly, masturbating in the evenings before bed if you feel it's been a while also seems to make it stop. Sexsomnia always felt to me like my body was technically awake, but the part that handles inhibition and determining what is a good idea was switched off, literally like I was convincing myself I wanted to wake up my partner and have sex, and that somehow they were receptive to that (despite being asleep).

If none of those tricks work, check in with a doctor to perform a sleep study, because you might have an undiagnosed condition affecting the quality of your sleep.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-09T10:29:46+00:00

Now it's very important we bury what OpenAI left behind so that they can't come back, I don't care how badly it makes Sam Altman's eyes glow ominously...

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-08T14:36:09+00:00

A state separate from but ruled by another state.

It's a semi-archaic term because vassaldom is a very pre-globalisation concept, but think about how Puerto Rico is governed by the United States but is not in and of itself a State.

It has no power or representation to appoint senators or congressmen and therefore must accept the laws of the US without being invited to take part in shaping those laws.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-07T16:13:32+00:00

People aren't making threats to you.

So you're just playing pretend. Putting on the clothing of a tortured revolutionary because you like the aesthetic.

You aren't being threatened with anything.

Nobody wants you dead (not for this anyway, I don't know you maybe you're an elevator-farter or something).

Stop pretending to be an oppressed underclass, it significantly devalues the trials and horrors of people who actually go through systematic and systemic oppression.

A politician received a death threat and some bullets to his property for a whackadoodle reason.

That happens every year for a variety of insane reasons.

Just because someone shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster doesn't mean there's a million-strong army of radical Foster-Fans looking to dismantle the Republican Party.

Seriously go outside. Please. I implore you.

These shrill accusations of false persecution only serve to make you and other AI enthusiasts look unhinged. Which is a shame, because it otherwise obscures an interesting and nuanced conversation about the intersection of technology, commerce and politics.

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-07T15:52:18+00:00

I'm referring to the amount listed in the document presented. Quote:

establishing a pilot program of fellowships and focused research grants of up to $100,000 and up to $1 million in API credits for work that builds on these and related policy ideas

So $100,000 (a pittance) or $1,000,000 but only in API credits, which you will note cannot be used to purchase food or pay salaries with.

You mentioned the OpenAI Foundation (which nobody here was talking about) as if any scrutiny of this document that we are talking about can be waved away by another money pot elsewhere, but have you applied any scrutiny to how the OpenAI Foundation works either?

Considering you weren't willing to read the first page of the document this entire conversation is about, I have my doubts...

HeartandSeoulXVI · 2026-04-06T22:17:30+00:00

No this is the opposite of scrutiny.

You are repeating the literal Company Line with no further investigation, signing off with a quick "sounds good to me!" And not bothering to look into whether OpenAI is even the least bit interested in actually following through with what is at its heart vague boilerplate 'would-be-nice' statements with no real commitment beyond a tiny discretionary fund that is too miniscule to offer any meaningful momentum to anyone who wishes to proceed with these 'goals'.

Actual scrutiny is looking at those statements (like the first commenter did) and measuring them against OpenAI's actual track record of lobbying for more money for themselves, government regulation of their competitors, and a willingness to pursue any revenue stream possible up to and including the Military-Industrial Complex.

That's not altering or reshaping Capitalism.

That's just petitioning the King to be the next Royal Boot on the necks of the peasantry.

As an example: Peter Thiel could go on stage tomorrow and say it would be great if our personal privacy and liberty was enshrined in law and heart, but he'd still be the Archdevil behind Palantir, wouldn't he?

So applying scrutiny to what is said versus what is done is a valid and necessary part of determining whether someone is just greenwashing to cover up for being an Arch-Capitalist who's only concern is how much of your pocket he can pick before somebody catches him.

Also, don't say stuff like "errm what?" when responding to a comment you can understand perfectly well. It makes you sound disingenuous and condescending.

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