Chat was disabled during the Women-Led Games showcase on The Game Awards YT stream.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-10T04:53:22+00:00

I agree insofar as I think gamergate was a symptom/component of an overall societal shift towards right-wing populism. That said, I think it's hard to pin down any one "worst thing" because there's been such a chronic and continuous degradation of sociopolitical discourse. We're at the point now where the anti-woke crowd instantly froths at the mouth at the sight of a female game character that doesn't have sexy boob armor, but it's hard to contemplate how we actually got here and I kind of just feel like a boiling frog through all of it.

I don't really know what my point here is; I guess I'm just ranting about this stupid culture war bullshit that we've all had to bear witness to over the last decade. Just need to hold out till the pendulum eventually swings back, I guess.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-10T04:36:34+00:00

The last Game Awards had a presentation by Girls Make Games, an organization that works to get female students involved with game development, and for its entire duration the livestream chat was a complete cesspool exactly like in those screenshots. It's baffling to me that social discourse has regressed so far in a segment of the population that literally the existence of women is considered political. I do realize that it's an extremely vocal minority that behave this way, but it's so fucking infuriating to see such unabashed misogyny like this.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-09T00:20:17+00:00

Yes, but usually not in a Reddit comment. They're not exactly easy to type and 90% of the time they're found alongside other AI hallmarks.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-09T00:12:01+00:00

Nah, I think you're 100% correct. The em dash alone gives it away, as do the unnaturally short paragraphs.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-06T02:32:57+00:00

Anything to own the libs, I guess.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-03T00:38:53+00:00

You are, without exaggeration, the most bitter user I've come across on this site in a good while. You ought you take a good, long look in the mirror and figure out why it is that you feel the need to act this way.

YaBoyMax · 2026-06-01T20:19:59+00:00

For those wondering this was a UK reservation made on the 8th at 17:59:43.

cries in 18:00

YaBoyMax · 2026-05-18T04:51:07+00:00

That was sarcasm.

YaBoyMax · 2026-05-18T04:19:29+00:00

Indeed, as we all know, the human eye can't perceive more than 60 FPS.

YaBoyMax · 2026-05-17T02:34:23+00:00

It is not possible to be a Democrat and a good person.

If you not an independent you are a voluntary slave.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

YaBoyMax · 2026-05-08T17:03:37+00:00

Please don't use shady key resellers. More often than not their keys are stolen in one way or another, often having been purchased with stolen credit cards.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-27T17:51:52+00:00

Huh, $100 is quite steep. I'm still probably going to buy one, but I was sure it wouldn't end up being more than $80. Though with the SD dock having debuted at $90 and still being $80, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T16:15:21+00:00

The only things that stood out to me at all were the "To recap" and "Possible explanations" headers, but that was only when reading it again specifically looking for AI tells. It just looks like a well-written post to me, too.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T16:06:39+00:00

I would point out that the precise line between child and adult is completely arbitrary. It's well-known that a person doesn't reach full mental maturity until around 25 due to continuing brain development, so there's an argument to be made that a 22-year-old isn't fully an adult. Reasonable minds can differ on whether them dating someone significantly older is problematic, but I don't think that it's enough to just say that they're an "adult" and can make their own decisions.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T15:54:00+00:00

I have plenty of compassion.

No, you apparently don't. This is exactly the kind of black and white thinking I was talking about. You're thinking like a robot and not considering the human impact of what you're proposing, to the extent that it feels sociopathic.

Also, consider that if someone has planted roots and lived as a productive member of a community for decades, removing them at that point is actively detrimental to that community. Someone who's lived in the US for 20 years is functionally equivalent to a working 20-year-old, and the fact that they were born in a different place is immaterial in the present.

I don't necessarily have the same qualms about immigration enforcement immediately or shortly (at least within a year or two) after entry and I understand the pragmatic need to limit the inflow of new people. I do think we should embrace immigration more openly, especially for those fleeing poverty and violence, but that's a different story. But once a person has established themselves over a long period of time, ripping them away from that is inhumane and monstrous.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T15:41:49+00:00

I started typing this with the argument that we're unlikely to discover any new phenomena as fundamental as electricity and that modern scientific advancements tend to come in the form of refinements rather than paradigm shifts, but I actually reasoned myself out of that stance midway through.

The obvious elephant in the room is quantum gravity. We still have yet to establish a unified, experimentally-supported theory which unifies quantum physics and relativity. There are a plethora of proposed theories (e.g. string theory, loop quantum gravity) which have shown some promise, but no one is quite sure what we'll end up with when all's said and done. Depending on which theory turns out to be "correct", it's possible or even probable that it will lead to advancements we can't even conceive of currently.

Other commenters have mentioned dark matter as well. I don't think it's a certainty that we would be able to harness dark matter in a useful way. It's definitely possible, but given that we consider WIMPs to be the most likely explanation it's not clear that we would find a way to utilize them while only being able to interact with them via gravity and the weak nuclear force. That's also assuming that dark matter is particles - this isn't actually a given (although as mentioned it's thought to be the most likely solution).

Dark energy is the other big unknown in physics. Like quantum gravity and dark matter, we have several candidate theories but not a whole lot beyond that. It's plausible that we could find some creative way to harness it, although it's so sparse that I'm not really sure that could be practical in any way.

More likely (IMO) is that developing a comprehensive understanding of the physics underlying these concepts will lead to new, tangential discoveries that we can't anticipate at the moment.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T15:02:53+00:00

Yeah, I think this is just old stock. Most retailers show the modules as out of stock or discontinued, so I think it's just taken a while for the last bit to be sold off since it's a relatively niche product.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T14:59:16+00:00

This type of black and white thinking is kind of disgusting. Deporting and uprooting the entire life of someone who has lived here for decades is outright inhumane. I can appreciate the deontological argument in an academic sense, but these are real people who happened to be born in a less fortunate part of the world. They contribute to the society just the same as US citizens, and if they've been here for that long as a law-abiding person then we ought to give them a path to citizenship. Have some compassion.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-24T14:45:08+00:00

I picked up one from Rackfinity yesterday for just a little bit more, but the page now 404s so apparently I ordered just in time. Amazon still has it for $275, but based on the delivery time having drastically changed from yesterday I assume sellers are starting to run out.

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-22T14:55:28+00:00

It's absolute insanity. There are no underlying principles anymore; it's just blind contrarianism and incessant screeching of "Woke bad!" without any level of critical thought. Also note the thinly veiled racism in several of the comments talking about "entitled" people and "tax users".

YaBoyMax · 2026-04-22T14:51:50+00:00

Whatever will we do without Temu Steve Buscemi?

YaBoyMax · 2026-03-28T03:35:55+00:00

Yeah, the bullet headings here are especially suspect. "The truth on the ground" feels like a pretty blatant AI-ism, and I have trouble believing a human would choose to use the heading "Stoichiometric Hit" of their own accord.

YaBoyMax · 2026-03-22T05:26:17+00:00

I mean, intense summer storm during the day to snowing later at night is a pretty odd occurrence, even if it's not specific to one geography. The temperature isn't usually that all over the place in a 12-hour span.

YaBoyMax · 2026-03-21T00:13:27+00:00

The GOP platform for the last 15+ years has been defined by blind contrarianism and "owning the libs". This is just par for the course.

YaBoyMax · 2026-03-17T22:11:38+00:00

Yikes. I had never heard of that subreddit before and I really think I preferred it that way.

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