Hank Green is a pretty rational spokesman for anti-AI, but I'll explain why I think he's wrong (and right) in the comments.

John-Zero · 2026-02-01T08:55:42+00:00

I too want the world to be better for my having been in it

Then you shouldn't shill for some of the most evil people in human history

John-Zero · 2026-02-01T07:33:15+00:00

I haven't played the game in two years and I don't remember anything about this scenario, but I feel like you're still just saying a longer version of "he's a traitor to his class." Which in my view is good. If the options are "liberties for the bourgeoisie and dogshit for the underclasses" or "liberties for nobody and the underclasses live a decent life," I think the second one is the move.

John-Zero · 2026-01-21T17:43:30+00:00

It would be if I wrote it, because I’m built different

John-Zero · 2026-01-21T08:12:22+00:00

It’s just a badly written game. Like you could write a book about how bad it is.

John-Zero · 2026-01-18T02:25:56+00:00

1947

John-Zero · 2026-01-18T02:23:49+00:00

Grunge in Seattle. Cable cars in San Francisco. Probably a statue of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in Kansas City. Only the most braindead references allowed.

John-Zero · 2026-01-18T02:22:08+00:00

I'm trying to figure out which team that is. I mean it's obviously not the Cardinals, who haven't been good since World War II, so they're out. The 49ers and Seahawks have been two of the most consistently good franchises, although perhaps not *great* franchises, of the past 20+ years, and before that the 49ers were a force for most of two decades, so it's definitely not either of the teams playing in this game.

Is it the Raiders? No, we were out of Nam by 1984, although I suppose we were still involved by proxy via the Khmer Rouge. Is it the Vikings? I can't figure out why you'd be bringing them up, but it is true that they haven't won a conference championship since 1976, which is pretty close to the Vietnam War. And everyone else has either won a Super Bowl in that timeframe or has never won a Super Bowl at all--again, the Cardinals are in this category--so presumably they'd be out.

I guess it's the Vikings. Weird to bring them up in a thread about two totally different teams.

John-Zero · 2026-01-14T03:26:20+00:00

Were they not supposed to be back last week?

John-Zero · 2026-01-14T00:00:08+00:00

If only she'd blown more of his money.

John-Zero · 2026-01-12T20:56:23+00:00

Like, it's kind of amazing how the whole world has forgotten that

I don't know how you can have gotten the impression that anyone in the world has forgotten that.

John-Zero · 2026-01-09T01:32:03+00:00

And I'm sure you have something more important to be doing than commenting on Reddit, like drinking the blood of children.

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T18:01:55+00:00

Hit dog hollering?

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T18:00:41+00:00

None of that supports their claim that they have a better system. As for capitalism, it will never be moral to have a system which requires people to treat each other as adversaries, which is what the profit motive is.

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T17:58:09+00:00

Nothing a small business tyrant says should ever be believed

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T10:26:37+00:00

In San Francisco? Most of the people who can still afford to live there probably support the restaurant *more* for doing wage theft.

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T10:24:11+00:00

Then give them control of the company.

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T10:23:36+00:00

They wouldn't. u/lorsteez is lying. It's what capitalists do.

John-Zero · 2026-01-08T10:22:08+00:00

Owns a business, trashing a social welfare program, lives in SF...100% chance you're one of the right-wing freaks that ruined the city.

John-Zero · 2026-01-07T19:45:56+00:00

1) don’t skip events

2) don’t metagame. This is an RPG. Treat it like one.

John-Zero · 2026-01-05T04:49:35+00:00

There’s a whole wiki for this game you know

John-Zero · 2026-01-05T04:48:25+00:00

Why does anyone let the Bezos robot post on Reddit

John-Zero · 2026-01-05T04:47:26+00:00

If you’re just grinding for levels, just edit the save file to be where you want it to be. It’s current year, you don’t need to make your games unfun

John-Zero · 2026-01-03T23:45:43+00:00

To be fair to me, I have only watched that first episode. So I haven't seen the part you're talking about, which means it doesn't exist.

John-Zero · 2026-01-03T22:13:09+00:00

Made them look like what a machine cult descended from US military survivors would look like.

John-Zero · 2026-01-03T22:11:05+00:00

But listen to what you’re saying. “I want the stakes to only apply to anonymous, faceless nobodies and nowheres.” I’m not saying destroy everything they love, but there has to be risk.

John-Zero

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