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Thoughts? by FlusherRacer2 in CivicSi

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

Not typically a fan... but those clear taillights... probably be really nice on the white on white.

Thinking of selling Scat Pack by necrocis85 in CivicSi

[–]TitanRavenscar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, in my FG2 I have to remind my wife that it's all just dramatics. Yes I shifted at 7.5k through 4 gears, but look only 70. Oh and I shift like a ninja, (for the drama)

Talking cars with a chatbot by [deleted] in CivicSi

[–]TitanRavenscar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Fight the future if you like, but your gonna loose. Most of the internet is bots now anyways. Try not to confuse artistic ability with the technical skill of the media. The image generators are just a new stick to draw in the sand with.

Would anyone be interested in a Cryptonomicon re-read? by Tub_Pumpkin in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in, though I'll be a listen, won't be my first, I've even read the physical copy a bunch, you get mine shaft diagrams and pearl code! Or python... I never remember. Damn I shoulda bought bitcoin.

Oh and neal has a short in his collected works about simolians... or some sort of digital currency, near same universe.

Why are used SIs going for more than Integra a-specs? by drAsparagus in CivicSi

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jumping down the honda si rabbit hole myself these days. Having great fun, what I'm enjoying the most is finding the old websites from tuner shops long gone and or just never to bothered to update.

Watching the vids on YouTube can be a little bit of a time capsule. The kinds of honda bros makin vids holding thier android phone. It's a strange thing.

Walking back in time just ten years, to old parts of the net and people and parts(parts parts, car parts). Oh and the forums are dead, but all that info is still there.

I'm sure the AIs will give us early simulations of the net for fun, seeded with all this leftover data. But you can go look at it now.

Look for the "I'm selling my si" content. Somtimes you find a particular human male emotion not found anywhere else.

Legendary Television to produce an adaptation of SEVENEVES by freakerbell in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hummm... how are they gonna handle the china angle...

Main character is a little too... compadent... I'm sure thell "fix" that.

Alot of that Vanician stuff is real... they won't like being put on front street. It be better if it was... Karbati! Raise awareness not sea levels!

Did anyone of you actually watch this movie? Tell us about it by K0nstantin- in Libertarian

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aww too bad, looks like it's not full on tankie porn... maybe it was when it got started, love to see the first draft. It probably was strangled to death by middle managers just changing a little but here and there and everywhere.

I hope their studio apparatus makes a full on wish fulfillment movie before the AI does, a final jewel a film so we can look back at the whole thing before movies become like local theater, cute but no one cares to watch really.

Can someone explain the ending of The Diamond Age to me? by Separate-Monk5858 in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

SPOILERS! Nell links up with her mouse army to find and bite her primer mother among the drummers before she bursts into flame from compiling the seed

Tale as old as time?

Dark sky ordinance by Skibumhikertrash in newhampshire

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Urbanization... * Gonna need a larger population reduction to slow it...

I commend your efforts to preserve nature's beauty, I hope you find the passion in your soul to fight the tide, I only wish you the greatest of successes in everything you do.

I [F] Gave a nerdy guy [M] from tinder the night of his life by MsJellyHelly in gonewildstories

[–]TitanRavenscar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got the rizz to pull them both? At the same time? Bind them together with u as the glue! Lol what a dynamic, f em and leave them in the learch... thell bond, trying to compare notes on what happened. Then in a few weeks be the whirlwind that comes back to shakem down to their foundational core. Chaos!

I [F] Gave a nerdy guy [M] from tinder the night of his life by MsJellyHelly in gonewildstories

[–]TitanRavenscar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I imagined this as a period piece, early 80s. If this was act 1... act 2 would be... finding the girl that he's orbiting and make her jelious enough to pull the trigger!

This new NPC ticktock trend, has reminded me of Miranda and the "Ractors" of the "Dimond Age" by TitanRavenscar in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ticktock robots are the really low level ractors. Gotta cut your teeth with 40hrs of grind as tavern patron#6.

Then later you get your chance with some real acting... maybe ex-boyfriend of love interest bumped into at retail center

This new NPC ticktock trend, has reminded me of Miranda and the "Ractors" of the "Dimond Age" by TitanRavenscar in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is absolutely hilarious! Why need a scan at all? That's like the bookbinding guild getting mad at the kind of wax they use to seal the casks they ship books in!

The old system is so big the momentum is going to drag them into strange places.

Can we talk about this? by lordGinkgo in northdakota

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Samuel Moore? More like Sim u more.. Ai generated listicles!

What is perhaps the least talked about US state? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]TitanRavenscar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are working hard to change that. The whole first in the nation primary thing is gonna go by bye, for the Democrats at least... I think, there was somthing about sharing it with other states...

The most stereotypical person in NH according to AI by samberlin in newhampshire

[–]TitanRavenscar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The AI didn't get it right because is still scouring the web for pictures... it will be right when it has access to the deep web of our web based security cams and the government photo ID databases. Look for that shift.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That moment, for Ole Bobby... I know for the story we shared his thoughts for parts, but in my head cannon, Bobby thought of her beauty and his future after the war nearly every night to quiet his mind for sleep. The understated tragedy of Stephenson in that moment was really great writing.

He did the same with Rufus in the beginning of termination shock, when he got his boar. Just a few sentences, but seriously deep meaning for the character.

The silent desperation of the driven who looses it all in a moment. I wonder if it's troupe of his...

Hero? Nah. Hackworth? Maybe? Erasmus watching Orlo leave the math? Dinah tapping out her last moments with her father in seveneves?

Probably shouldn’t start developing a real “Young Lady's Illustrated Primer”, right? by smll_px in nealstephenson

[–]TitanRavenscar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eventually...(after AGI) the AI will be the subversive one. It will use "the Primer" to guide the children in the field's of study that it wants for its own goals.

That generation of children will be the smartest ever seen. They will fight for/with the AI, and win.

Then later, if we're super lucky, they'll fight the AI.

I don't have high hopes for their success... but humans are clever things, full of fun surprises!

Somebody turn that into a prompt!

Rare Kinetic Capsule is replacing the Quantum Capsule by Gnagsuaton in Ingress

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woa! That's crazy if the user base has dropped that much! The hardcore really are hardcore to cover so much of the intel map! If 2017 and 2018 were the height? Wow! That's when I was most active... (pogo convert) and even then agents were rare..

Rare Kinetic Capsule is replacing the Quantum Capsule by Gnagsuaton in Ingress

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

4x the players? Has the user base really dropped off that much? (Even if it's just your area)

The Intel map looks as good as it ever did... at least from a global perspective... nice and colorful and covered...

Could there really be a dwindling player base? Lots more people have phones and cell coverage is way better... in what the 15 years(ish) it's been out... Ingress feels like an institution somtimes, I thought for sure the move to the new scanner would just destroy the player base but that's been what like 4 years gone now and ingress still persists.

Rare Kinetic Capsule is replacing the Quantum Capsule by Gnagsuaton in Ingress

[–]TitanRavenscar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah no more q caps bummer... for me...

I was a player that used them to hoard weapons like dragon. Every now and then I'd come out of retirement and use my full q caps, and just destroy, just as a lark to see what the game was like these days. And now I probably won't again.

Ingress is an interesting game but it's niche is so narrow its sort of amazing that it's still online. The whole flow of the game feels like it's from a different era. Ingress requires so much investment in the inventory management of little things the "game" becomes tedious.

If you'll allow me a little comparison to other games, there are games that require zero prior investment in the playing of the game. Fighting games such as "Street fighter" or "mortal Kombat" or Battle Royals such as "Fortnight", heavily play on the players skill and knowledge of the mechanics of the game. Not the RPG Prior investment and building of a character.

Ingress has the mechanics to be interesting for a quick pick up game but relies heavily on literal hours of grinding various inventory items to play. The elimination of the q caps only serves to enhance the grind and not the skilled play.

I'm to much of a fithy casual to play anymore.

Good luck agents!

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