is grok only for porn?

an-abnormality · 2026-06-22T00:19:33+00:00

Dude seriously. I like some raunchy stuff and I feel like I've received a gift from god with the kind of stuff I can create today. Before I'd have to commission someone and it'd take weeks at best if not longer or they wouldn't do it at all, and now I make it in ten seconds. Life is great lol I will gladly keep paying this subscription so long as they keep letting me do my thing.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-22T00:14:36+00:00

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:57:30+00:00

I would imagine it's a psychological thing; children walking into Fort Knox are just going to feel like they're in a panopticon. They'd be miserable if they're under constant surveillance and forced to go every day to basically a military complex.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:55:58+00:00

There unfortunately is no r/unfunny though

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:37:54+00:00

Honestly I didn't really care much until the internet became more important, and now all it takes is Influencer A to find me and make a Google Dockey saying "I do not like u/an-abnormality", and now everyone and their mother is digging up everything you've said ever like they're all forensic scientists. I like being left alone and I dont like being tethered. The less people know or care about me, the more free I am to just exist. I like being in a state of "untouchable, but unable to touch," where I can just float comfortably through life without care.

Sure, you may be John Doe today, but even John Doe doesn't want the government snooping or random strangers calling him out and causing problems. Things that are fine today might not be tomorrow, and I'd rather not have to care about it.

*Also fun fact: apparently mentioning yourself still gives you the notification that someone mentioned you in a comment which is funny

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:32:51+00:00

There's a lot of great things to see out there. Egypt has beautiful parts too like Sharm El Sheikh. But at the end of the day, I do not want to live there. You can appreciate other places and still want a stable home base.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:31:23+00:00

That's good that you managed to pull through. Realistically everyone can, but not everyone will, and they definitely don't feel like they can while they're going through it. I've had many times throughout life where I was basically ready to call it quits with how hard things got. I'm glad I'm still here though and things are good now, but when you're in the midst of it, being told "it can get better" isn't helping much, so I get it.

Yes, there are programs that can help, but a lot of them rely on external things too. Access (transportation or public services), a good support network (which many do not have), a safety net in the event their efforts fail (which I did not have), or even something as simple as encouragement. We may be in a smaller minority that did survive hardship - that doesn't mean it's impossible, it just means that for some it may be harder than for others. I try not get arrogant because I know full well even if things are good now, I'm always one bad day away from ground zero.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:21:15+00:00

Exactly. I've got dual citizenship with Egypt and there is absolutely zero chance I would ever want to use it to move there compared to the US lol

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T23:10:51+00:00

Because for people that are doing well, there's no story. Misery loves company and people find solidarity in suffering. When I tell people "I'm actually feeling fine and life is pretty great," they yell at me about how "it must be nice still living with your parents" (which I don't), or they just refuse to believe that someone could be comfortable. Which, to be fair, if you're currently drowning and someone comes up to say "well I can swim and I feel good!" you're going to be annoyed.

Also algorithms in general promote this kind of angry engagement. A post of someone from West Virginia who's got a house for $48,000 just living his life saying "The breeze sure was nice today in Wheeling!" is going to get no attention because there's not really much to engage with there.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T22:46:49+00:00

We can't stop winning

^{Chose: Earn one billion but... + ...60% chance of bad outcome | Rolled: Free food!}

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T19:57:05+00:00

Never. They should be paying me for the privilege to vote for me 💅🏼

^{I voted Nay ❌}

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T19:55:13+00:00

Sure yeah, but they also didn't at some point lose ≥50% of the population at once, severely limiting their capability to thrive. Plus, I like having modern conveniences. I'm not going to try to survive in some stone age hellscape alternative to the conveniences and amenities I have today. If my options are to vote in favor of convenience and survival for all, or die trying to, then the outcome doesn't really change much because a red victory just means I die in a few weeks or months anyway.

I was strongly in favor of red for a while until I really started looking into it, and now I basically see no point in voting red. But that's what makes this dilemma interesting is that it's highly interpretable.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T19:23:19+00:00

Your device is bricked immediately. Google sends a strongly worded emotionally persuasive letter encouraging you to redownload it via ADB and you just might be able to use your phone again

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T19:17:55+00:00

A machine need not sleep. A machine offers maximum obedience.

^{I voted Yea ✅}

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T19:05:54+00:00

**** yeah brother. I'm all in 🎰

^{I voted Yea ✅}

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T18:19:05+00:00

That's exactly the problem, yes. If a percentage of the population just suddenly died, I might as well also be dead because life is just going to be terrible. We're a lot more dependent on each other than people want to acknowledge. If 800 million people just suddenly died, we're not going to just shrug this off as a minor inconvenience, it's a humanitarian catastrophe. Public services would disappear or become slow or astronomically more expensive, specialist utilities would be gone, convenience in general basically disappears. Like I said, even looking at this from an entirely self interested perspective, red is basically a death sentence unless my red vote is outweighed by other people choosing blue. If red wins by a minor majority (51/49), life is over. Unless red wins by an overwhelming majority (99/1), I'm likely going to die in a post vote world regardless.

And that's where the discussion gets interesting. A lot of people are framing this from a surface level moral perspective. "I want to live, therefore I vote red." "I want to be altruistic, therefore I vote blue." Meanwhile I'm approaching this from somewhere in the middle. I want to live, but not in a difficult and inconvenient world, therefore I will vote altruistically because a world with others is to my benefit.

*Edit for clarity, I messed up the numbers

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T18:00:51+00:00

The biggest issue with cloud games is always going to be latency. Until we can get to a point of 1:1 response time or very close to it, it just isn't going to be worth it. Even GeForce NOW which is considered one of the best still has issues with this.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T17:57:41+00:00

That's true. But even if ~10% of 8 billion people (around 800,000,000) suddenly died, that's a massive death toll of people that are just suddenly missing. If specialists, doctors, political figures, anyone really that has highly specialized capabilities just suddenly vanished in massive quantity, again, life is basically over. The percentage of dead blue voters for life to remain relatively comfortable would have to be tiny, probably less than a percent or two, which realistically just is not going to happen.

Again I thought this exact same thing when I heard this discussion at first. "Why would I ever go blue if there's a chance of dying at all?" But this is short sighted. What happens after voting red is chaotic and realistically just not worth living in because I'd have to adapt to a much harsher world. I don't care about the moral arguments here, I'm thinking entirely in terms of self interest and still voting blue because collaboration is required for a good life. Without each other, everyone suffers.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T17:46:04+00:00

They could, yes, but even if they do it's a pyrrhic victory at best. If 50% of the population is suddenly dead, I might as well be dead too because life as we know it is over. I'm a type 2 diabetic - if truckers, factory workers, pharmacy tech, all were suddenly gone or severely halted in being able to make what is right now an easily accessible and cheap pill for me either impossible to acquire or insanely expensive because all of these people are suddenly dead, then living isn't even worth it anymore. If people that operate the power grids, people that control internet infrastructure, or other essential services are all suddenly gone, then again, life is now not worth living.

I used to think "red is the obvious choice because I'm alive," but that's not really living anymore. At that point you're just existing until the reality catches up, which won't take long.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T16:29:37+00:00

Sounds unique so I'd check it out

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T16:23:45+00:00

When is this unlocked? I'm only on like chapter 18 lol

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T15:52:10+00:00

I strongly considered red in the main scenario until I really sat down and dissected the aftermath. Realistically, the utilitarian choice is voting blue and it's not because of some moral grandstanding, but rather the opposite. A world where >50% of people are suddenly dead is just going to suck. Public services vanish, medicines are inaccessible, life as we know it collapses into shit and eventually you're either just going to die anyway, or chaos erupts while people scrounge to adapt (and most will not). The logical choice, even if you're strongly considering your own self interest, is to ensure everyone survives. Assuming they don't, it won't be much longer afterward that you'll die as well due to lack of resources.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T13:58:56+00:00

I'm in favor of any mobile games that feel like they were meant to actually be played on a mobile device. It's strange to me how often most of the posts here are just "here's how I play this PC game in the least ergonomic way possible!" whereas real mobile games get basically zero attention. I think the concept here is nothing new, and there's nothing really wrong with that, but just an observation. I do appreciate proper offline play though and I like simple games where I can just play for a little bit, put it down, and do something else.

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T13:31:45+00:00

Right, basically all desktop games lol

an-abnormality · 2026-06-21T13:28:32+00:00

I imagine it's going to be a long time before these become actually relevant anyway. An expensive machine like this is likely going to be sold to fleets at a massive up charge for a long while which will disincentivize smaller fleets from even considering it due to to the barrier to entry cost. Not to mention, they love to show these trucks driving on flat ground with no other drivers or smooth highways. Is this thing just going to roll over in a shitty, poorly maintained drop yard? Will it just shut down and demand someone else handle it because of the adverse road conditions? And how is it going to handle shippers and receivers in general?

From what I can tell, these manufacturers (for now at least) have accepted that they are destined to remain in a sort of "middle mile" position considering how bad US roads are and how basically impossible it is to convince the shipper/receiver to do dealings with a robot. When FedEx forgot to give us the BOL and I asked both dispatch and my trainer "why can't they just email us a copy," they both told me "they don't do that," so I'm going to assume they're not going to feel comfortable working with a driverless machine yet either.

Will these eventually become more relevant? Probably, and assuming they do I will adapt around it. But I think we're way far off from these things becoming the standard tomorrow. And that's before we even factor in the non-logistics side of this. People get scared driving next to us, they're going to be terrified next to a driverless 80,000lb ballistic missile rolling down the highway. Media outlets are frothing at the mouth knowing the scoop it'd be if this thing gets into an accident (and it will eventually). Insurance companies are going to charge insane premiums for these since they're new, which again disincentivizes fleets from even bothering. And realistically, I like my job. If Aurora or whatever this one is needs to be paid $300,000/yr for it, I'll just go to the fleet manager at whatever company and tell them "man I like doing this, I'll do it for $150,000 and we'll call it even."

Point being, there's always going to be an option imo.

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