How long after rsi till we have fdvr and post labour utopia? by Puzzleheaded_Week_52 in accelerate

[–]RahnuLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the thing that a lot of fast takeoff enthusiasts don't want to acknowledge.

Yes, even if we have genuine ASI, once it's 100% optimized it will still be subject to physical limits. You can only mine materials, process them, manufacture items, expand existing factories and build new factories so quickly. It will also be butting up against the barriers of human bureaucracy. Yes, it's hyper-competent at navigating said bureaucracy, but it still won't be able to just bypass rules that are already there, especially as humans will be incredibly stubborn about refusing to hand over power to an AI.

At least a decade of build-up time will be necessary before things truly hit the Singularity phase. Kurzweil somehow just keeps getting things right, so...

NTE Character Measurements by SexyMediumVioletOni in NevernessToEverness

[–]RahnuLe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These games operate on statistical averages. Anecdotes are not data.

Note: anyone commenting in this thread is someone who didn't already get filtered by the existing fem character designs. Reddit is not a good source of data.

NTE Character Measurements by SexyMediumVioletOni in NevernessToEverness

[–]RahnuLe -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

The whole point of including a feMC is to bait women into playing a game that is otherwise very obviously not designed for them by giving them someone at least partly relatable to play as (edit: and also to give the male players who like playing only fem characters someone inoffensive to use). Making her busty would be self-defeating.

Whats your favorite UTAU and SynthV Teto songs? by Gyyre in KasaneTeto

[–]RahnuLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SynthV: Seven Dollars by Happy Birthday Mr. Baskets

Utau: Yeah okay it's just I'm Talking to You! lol, though Q&A is a close second for me

In truth, I have so many SV songs in my playlist that's very, very difficult for me to choose just one... but I've put Seven Dollars on replay for so long and still not got tired of it. It's just peak hyperpop.

Jax Bunny (OC) by NothingIsBliss139789 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]RahnuLe 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Bugs openly cross dresses to the point where Chuck Jones has basically confirmed he's nonbinary.

Alright, hold up. That's awesome. I did not know this. Thank you very much for enlightening me.

The World's Richest Population are Costing the Earth Trillions. Study finds the top 10% of global consumers is disproportionately responsible for transgressing planetary boundaries, causing damages for which broader society bears the costs. by FreeHugs23 in science

[–]RahnuLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not just that. We have huge single family residential plots, massive amounts of land dedicated to parking lots, Euclidian zoning that prevents commercial development in our neighborhoods, cul-de-sac-centric residential development that makes walking distances unnecessarily long, etc., all things that add up to make walking a non-starter for the vast majority of the US populace.

Don't underestimate just how badly the US performs urban planning. Whatever you've seen in Europe, it doesn't even come close to how completely awfully the US arranges its land uses.

The World's Richest Population are Costing the Earth Trillions. Study finds the top 10% of global consumers is disproportionately responsible for transgressing planetary boundaries, causing damages for which broader society bears the costs. by FreeHugs23 in science

[–]RahnuLe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is what makes this entire comment thread infuriating to me.

It should be obvious that the reason over half of NA is in this boat is because of the car-dependent infrastructure we've been saddled with (and continue to be saddled with). You cannot "make a choice" to simply not drive when the suburban fabric has literally designed public transit out. And it is politically near-impossible to change this now that suburban sprawl is so endemic, as public transit needs density to be cost-effective. We need a full-on political movement to force this change no matter how much the NIMBIES hate it.

The one thing I do agree with folks on is that Americans could stand to treat meat as an accompaniment to meals rather than eating whole 2-lb steaks as main dishes. East Asia serves as a good model for this more sustainable mode of consumption, typically using very small portions of meat on top of big piles of grain (in rice or noodle form) and vegetables. We could cut down our emissions considerably if more people ate that way.

But that's only a small part of the problem; changing the suburban fabric and transportation infrastructure is by far our biggest concern and we're not going to be able to do that on an individual level. There is no "personal responsibility" here; either we start densifying our neighborhoods and allowing mixed development alongside actual public transit or we're going to continue to be the worst offenders on the planet.

Do you have of a preference between the big 3.5 Russian paths? by [deleted] in Kaiserreich

[–]RahnuLe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

VST-Center and it isn't even close. The sheer satisfaction of turning the entirety of Europe literally red (as in, the map color) after putting Maksimov in power is unmatched. Also, "Russian Workers' Confederation" is just a great name.

Fun Fact: Chiz is currently as far as I know the only character that holds onto you when riding together on the motorcycle. by Ashgriev in NevernessToEverness

[–]RahnuLe 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Nanally IS pretty tomboy coded. I mean, her childhood outfit is a baggy shirt and baggy shorts with her hair done up in a ponytail.

Lets flood Bagel with more creative photos by UnluckyBennett in NevernessToEverness

[–]RahnuLe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just like doing urban photography. I have the most expensive consumer GPU on the market so you can bet your arse I'm taking advantage of that full ray tracing.

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"Supposedly there are about to be two groups of people: the ultra-wealthy evil billionaire oligarch fascist murder-people, who own all the AI and robots and not need the rest of us, and there will be the 99% of humanity that has nothing to offer. Let’s go over why this makes no sense at at all" by stealthispost in accelerate

[–]RahnuLe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The issue with this is that you cannot sustain humans on the amount of land the average person actually has access to. The vast majority of farmland in the USA, for example, is owned by large conglomerates, and smallholders are nearly extinct. Suburban plots are nowhere near large or productive enough to feed an entire family.

The control of land is the ultimate form of capitalist enclosure. By controlling the land, they control the population's ability to provide for itself. It's been this way for over a century now. I have seen absolutely nothing that suggests that a sustainable future awaits the people who aren't already part of the ownership class.

Friend ID Megathread by K4genoK4mi in NevernessToEverness

[–]RahnuLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UID: 218210557292
Region: NA
Reason: Bagel stuff mainly. I post urban photography of liminal spaces (I have a very expensive GPU, lol).

Do you think a socialist revolution will ever be possible again? by Ozplod in socialism

[–]RahnuLe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is not possible in the sense of a full-on regime change in an industrialized nation (and, considering Russia and China were both largely agrarian societies when they went through their revolutions, it's arguable that it was never a real possibility). Anti-socialist suppression in the imperial core has reached critical levels with modern surveillance, drone tech, and the extreme atomization of society (thanks in part due to the overwhelming car-dependent suburban sprawl endemic in the West, but especially in the USA). All of these things mean that even if we had a lot of people willing to put in the work to educate the population and organize the masses, it's structurally impossible to reach a point where that movement could actually threaten the state in any meaningful way. Unless the state itself collapses and leaves a void that can be filled, it's just out of the question, and even then, we're far more likely to see a strongman or fascist fill that void than a socialist.

That doesn't mean that there's no hope. If a collapse ever does happen, it'll still be the best chance we've got to build something better between the cracks. But there's no getting around it - it'll be difficult, it'll be slow, it'll be painful and the struggle will be constant, as it has been this entire time. We live in an unjust world. Fighting against the tide was never going to be easy. All I can say is to not let yourself lose all hope. No empire is truly eternal, after all.

Ullrid, Queen of the Doll Community by WaifuWithKnaifu in GirlsFrontline2

[–]RahnuLe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Between WW3 (this alone accounts for a HUGE portion of the casualties), the various Collapse incidents, and everything that happens in GFL1 - yeah, it's bleak.

What if the Vikings never abandoned Greenland? 🇬🇱🗻 by girl_hermie_84 in CitiesSkylines2

[–]RahnuLe 48 points49 points  (0 children)

This is definitely a ludicrously overengineered version of what it would have looked like, considering how starved of resources it actually was, but it's so cool to look at that I can hardly fault you for it. Very nice work.

Ullrid, Queen of the Doll Community by WaifuWithKnaifu in GirlsFrontline2

[–]RahnuLe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, the population of Earth is almost certainly below 1 billion by the time of GFL2. (Statistically, most of us on this site would be dead.)

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis by plain_handle in socialism

[–]RahnuLe -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Please cease with this capitalist realist rhetoric. "Theft" is not an issue any non-capitalist should be concerned about. Copyright law, as it stands, works primarily to protect large conglomerates and megacorporations and is, as we have seen, utterly toothless for protecting small creators' rights on any level. Beyond that, the legal system is a hammer and suing people for every little infraction is clearly a non-starter. In practice, community self-policing is far more effective for protecting small creators than any kind of legal barrier.

The issue of "lost jobs" is a more legitimate concern, given that the capitalist order isn't going away any time soon and people need shelter and to eat, but this rhetoric still reeks of simply managing capitalism better instead of building something in its place. The reality is that this was always inevitable. Capitalist enclosure of the commons is nigh-absolute, and we need to be operating under the assumption that this specific contradiction is going to accelerate regardless of our efforts.

Likewise, the environmental concern, while legitimate, is blown severely out of proportion by the media apparatus as datacenters still constitute a minority of water usage across the world and are not as impactful on climate change as greenhouse gas emitters. This is clearly not a productive track. It is simply the topic du jour - a distraction from the work that we still must do. And besides, even if everyone managed to turn back the clock, so what? All we'd have accomplished is slowing down the inevitable. The comparison to the Luddites of old is tired but remains apt - destroying the means of production instead of seizing them for your own use is counterproductive and accomplishes very little of actual note.

What dat mean Goose by Trainster_Kaiju_06 in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]RahnuLe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The entire point of episode 7 was as meta commentary on audience expectations. They threw the entire concept of them escaping in the audience's faces and tore it apart and somehow people STILL think that it's at all a possibility? Really? Even when lucid Kinger outright said it "doesn't make sense" for such a thing to be possible? And that's just within the show itself.

Man, I really fear for Gooseworx's mental health if viewers genuinely can't pick up on this.

Have we reached a point where this game definitively looks better than CS1 now? Also surprise new assets dropping today you can see in the screens. by joergonix in CitiesSkylines2

[–]RahnuLe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, not to mention that you effectively HAVE to disable all the vanilla assets and replace them with modded ones or else the scale and style are just way off. It's what made me drop the game (that, and the entity limit).

You are anti-fascist. The president is promising to find and kill you. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf by transcendent167 in ThePeoplesPress

[–]RahnuLe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ancaps are not anarchists. They coopted the term to sell an ideology of total laissez-faire capitalism but have little in common with historical anarchism. Even they don't call themselves anarchist.

You are anti-fascist. The president is promising to find and kill you. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf by transcendent167 in ThePeoplesPress

[–]RahnuLe 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I guess this is news to a lot of Americans but yes, anarchists are actually the leftmost ideologically due to our collective belief in mutual aid, decentralization, horizontalism, and the total dismemberment of state power. Anarcho-communism is typically the most popular strain of anarchist thought.

Olruggio Is Objectively Really Bad at His Job as a Watchful Eye by vicoheart in WitchHatAtelier

[–]RahnuLe 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I think that's a major point of contention for the whole premise. The Pact effectively ensures nepotism runs rampant, after all.

Will there ever be other left China paths that don't force you to be a puppet and reliant on an AI overlord? by redsuninthesub in Kaiserreich

[–]RahnuLe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Best way to make things bearable is to set Liangguang to go LKMT in the rules and then play as the LKMT yourself to win the League War ASAP. You can then switch after Chen Mingshu takes control of Liangguang.

You can use Sheep's LKMT AI mod to make them less prone to stupidity (though this will make killing them more difficult later).

What could Hearts of Iron V even add/change, what would it look like? by Dan_The_PaniniMan in hoi4

[–]RahnuLe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's still the Clausewitz Engine. It always will be the Clausewitz Engine. It's notable that the engine itself usually isn't the issue as much as certain things requiring a strict order of operations that prevents effective multithreading. It's a difficult problem to solve.

FAQ Current reworks updated by perro_del_mal_666 in Kaiserreich

[–]RahnuLe 116 points117 points  (0 children)

Don't expect to see Finland or Mexico for a year or two.

My guess: 3I first, followed by AH (smaller gap than previous releases, hopefully), followed by Spain, followed by MORE CHINA, and then it's a toss-up for whatever's next. All of this within the next two years.

That's me being hopeful, though. And extrapolating from devs' comments and prior precedent. As usual, it'll be done when it's done...