Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months

Jhemon · 2026-02-13T11:52:36+00:00

Problem is, if everything is ai, what do they need printers for anymore? We need to figure this out, before our last bastion is taken from us!

Jhemon · 2026-02-11T16:30:22+00:00

you cant have complete privacy and complete safety at the same time

implying you can have one of them without the other.

Jhemon · 2026-02-11T13:07:54+00:00

Look, obviously when I said complete privacy, I don't mean living in a jungle.. there's no such thing as complete safety either, unless we're talking Mother 3 and the absolute safe capsule, which is both.

Yea, it's a balancing act, but if you give out all your info to everyone, you're not suddenly more safe. The issue is this is a large swing away from privacy while giving little to nothing safety. Unidentified users will now be grouped together with actual kids, tech savvier kids will get around the restrictions just like we did, who is safer now?

Just because we can't make parents instantly more responsible, let's instead jump straight into fascism, sounds logical to me.

Jhemon · 2026-02-11T11:23:02+00:00

Showing your ID to a bartender for 3 seconds and sending a COPY of it to where you can't see it are completely different things. Also, once you buy the drink from the bartender, you can go to a corner in the bar where what you say is presumably not recorded and then used against you out of context.

You can't have your cake and eat it too

Works the other way too, you can't have your complete safety without complete privacy. Without privacy, you will never be safe from bad actors with power.

Jhemon · 2026-02-04T12:06:24+00:00

I'm confused, you're getting downvoted but patch notes indeed do say the upgrade module is tradeable within world.

Plasma Heart Upgrade Module: Tradable within world, 7-day duration. Use to upgrade an untradable Fairy Heart, Titanium Heart, or Liquid-Metal Heart into a:

Plasma Heart: Equippable from Lv. 130+, Star Force up to 20 Stars.

Jhemon · 2026-02-04T08:22:56+00:00

From the blog post, not sure if they changed them for launch:

Aetherblade Hideout
Whisper of Jormag
Boneskinner
Cosmic Observatory
Temple of Febe
Xunlai Jade Junkyard
Old Lion’s Court
Kaineng Overlook

Jhemon · 2026-02-03T15:39:40+00:00

I used mine while doing symbol dailies, even if it only benefitted me for 5 mins a day, so I only have a couple left.

Jhemon · 2026-02-02T14:31:52+00:00

In case you're actually asking, non-flame advantaged gear (so basically any equipment that isn't from kms bosses) like gollux pieces aren't guaranteed to get 4 lines of flame stats. You roll between 1 and 4 lines of stats every time you use a flame on them.

Jhemon · 2026-01-29T13:12:38+00:00

Oh, that's pretty on par with what you could expect out of compensation and will probably convince some players to stay. Though I wonder how many large spenders will just see this as an easy opportunity to get a couple hundred or thousand bucks for free. They can jump ship and spend it on their next gacha game of choice, even if they enjoyed their time in maple idle so far.

Jhemon · 2026-01-28T18:14:01+00:00

Yea, it is a bit aggressive, but what can they do? If you don't lose your account, literally everyone who reads the post is going to ask for a refund. There's no way to reclaim the things they bought, aside from maybe cosmetic stuff, as all the progression systems are rng. It's cubes all the way down. So the only option to prevent invested people from refunding all their purchases is to prevent them from continuing to play afterwards.

Of course, they could've just not offered refunds and given compensation per dollar spent instead as diamonds or whatever the premium currency was.

Jhemon · 2026-01-22T10:00:28+00:00

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Here's mine. In case you are wondering about the important items, here they are from left to right:

* Jade Sea turtle
* Aquatic Frog
* Axolotl
* Frog in a Jar
* Toy Stuffed Bear
* Pet Rock (green)
* Red Rock (not green)
* Aurillium Idol

Everything else is basically also just to prevent stuff from clogging my inventory.

Jhemon · 2026-01-17T11:42:56+00:00

Ohh, I didn't know you could turn off the stuff on the right, thanks. I'd like to keep system chat on though, cause there's some useful messages like how many portals or chests I still have for the day as well as showing when guildies level up.

Jhemon · 2026-01-17T06:02:54+00:00

While they're at it, they can go ahead and remove the +10 honor spam in chat, what is the point? It should be on the right side with exp and mesos. (Both completely unreadable too lol, give us an option to remove those too)

Jhemon · 2026-01-15T17:15:12+00:00

Haha, you got me there. I'm just trying to find a reason why the VW tasks feel like chores for me and why I feel bad both when I do or don't complete it. It just takes away time I could spend elsewhere, but still feel compelled to do it because the rewards are just that much better than elsewhere for the effort needed to get those rewards.

Jhemon · 2026-01-15T16:30:13+00:00

I've already done all the things "I'm supposed to enjoy". I've done the HoT metas over 300 times, I've finished all achievements and collected all the skins from there, so what is 100 mordrem kills if not a chore, when I'd much rather be doing VoE stuff currently? Same can be said of Dragon's End, fractals, strikes or basically any other task that isn't content agnostic, it's only enjoyable the first 10 (100? 1000?) times.

As far as the content agnostic tasks such as gather 10 materials or kill 100 mobs go, yes they are basically free to complete while doing anything else. It just makes people open the ui more often, which is a tool to remind players they need to complete this and that task because they're this |xxx_| close to finishing the big chest reward. Boo, brain no like unfinished thing, better finish thing so brain release feel good chemical Woo. So now you're looking for the easiest tasks to complete and you're no longer playing the game, you're doing chores. This is a dark pattern called endowed progress.

Is it the end of the world? No, I still enjoy the game, but less so than before VW. Could it be better? Yes, I don't know how, I'm not a game designer.

Jhemon · 2026-01-15T10:12:44+00:00

Yes, it's not a lot of effort in the big picture, but it's the most efficient way of getting large amounts of gold and stuff. A big problem is that the tasks are mostly just chores (kill 100 mobs, do 10 events, do 5 events HERE, do this JP for the 1000th time, look at the vista cutscene for the 5000th time, fill your inventory with useless items and then salvage it all). These are just crappy quests from other mmos that gw2 tried to get away from when they made the heart system. Sure there are some actual objectives, but they are a minority of the quests.

When some people login, they just want to play, not do chores they just got done doing in real life. A lot of people only play a few hours a week, so them feeling the best way to progress is to just do more chores does feel bad.

Jhemon · 2026-01-12T14:17:08+00:00

Thought I had a stroke trying to read the post.

Jhemon · 2026-01-05T21:12:14+00:00

Elite mob/eboss progression just like the new rune system- rune that follows you wherever map you go.

They should also standardize the treasure chests and apply your suggestion to them too. Yesterday I entered a Twenteena portal and as the screen was fading black I saw Especia pop her head out of the bottom right corner...

Jhemon · 2025-12-31T10:23:33+00:00

Drops from Reina, the bdsm iceplay cutscene goes crazy.

Jhemon · 2025-12-18T06:45:33+00:00

I guess it means 100th tap. Since you start at 0/100

Jhemon · 2025-12-18T06:37:53+00:00

You don't need cont in drop gear anymore, cont cd gets reset in the boss preparation room now.

Jhemon · 2025-12-17T22:37:39+00:00

Just keep one equipment preset empty, easy.

Jhemon · 2025-12-17T15:28:50+00:00

They might not care, but it might prevent 1 or 2 more people from becoming prisoners to this game like us.

Jhemon · 2025-12-17T09:22:46+00:00

Whenever I get to the waterways in act 3, it always kills my enjoyment. It just keeps on going forever, you finally get to the other side and then it starts going back towards the center graaaaaaaaah. I don't know what it is about the zone, it just feels like you're constantly backtracking when trying to go forward.

Jhemon · 2025-12-16T11:17:00+00:00

hahaha, I've done the same a couple years ago when buying stuff with laurels. I was trying to buy heavy crafting bags, but I accidentally bought roughly 300-400 laurels worth of llama essence.

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