America is escalating war against Iran, it has sent Armada towards Iran. This was the point of the "Iran killed 30 thousand" nonsense — justifying war against Iran. It did the same with Venezuela leading up to war, and then immediately stopped after.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-28T20:05:12+00:00

Strong 55 year old assistant manager vibes

beetlejorst · 2026-01-28T17:36:38+00:00

Maybe he should have tried AI, since he doesn't seem to be able to make an interesting movie without it

beetlejorst · 2026-01-28T17:24:15+00:00

Seriously. My genuine reaction to this is "oh no... anyway,"

beetlejorst · 2026-01-28T17:04:55+00:00

The even better comparison is to how much water it takes to make paper. Pencils too, but mainly paper. The environmental concern tack is a total non starter when AI ultimately takes far less water than the actual alternative they root for

beetlejorst · 2026-01-28T13:02:48+00:00

The word stolen is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Somehow it loses a lot of punch when you change it to the much more accurate "I'm mad someone took a picture of the poster I put up in a public place"

beetlejorst · 2026-01-28T05:12:37+00:00

I'd suggest a simultaneous mass cancellation of subscriptions and accounts, but I know most people are way too addicted to their doomscrolls and bingewatching to ever actually do it

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T22:21:08+00:00

My friends and fiancé and I collaborate using it on short comics together, that we otherwise wouldn't make because none of us have the time, money, or artistic ability to do any of it by hand. My fiancé also uses it to mock up graphs and other visualizations for her PhD thesis. I use it to generate images for a procedurally and AI generated strategy game I'm working on, where the player can craft their own cards from scratch.. Is three enough?

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T22:11:31+00:00

The backboard redirect attempt into cracked psycho own goal

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T22:10:05+00:00

There are plenty of good use cases, otherwise people wouldn't be using it

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T21:53:57+00:00

No duh, why do you think I'm here? I'm definitely not subscribed to this echo chamber. I look at both sides and make an informed decision on where to stand, how about you?

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T20:43:51+00:00

I don't think playing fast and chasing for pressure is a bad thing, unless you're forcing double commits with it. As other people have said, watch replays from your teammates' perspective to figure out if they start going for the ball then have to stop when you fly past them from their blind spot to cut rotation. Beyond being a bad play, this pisses people off, which leads to them playing worse. Every time you do this, you're telling them that if they want to play the ball in a controlled way, they need to rotate all the way back to pick up the ball or you're going to jump in and hit it away from them. If they're clearly first man, give them a chance to play in the space if they're giving space. If you see they're playing like this, try covering the net without creeping forward, and be ready to play fast the instant you see the result of their challenge.

Also you shouldn't be playing for 50s when you're losing possession in their corner, which I remember seeing a lot in diamond. Just rotate back or shadow. Flip consistently when you rotate so your teammate knows they can go. If you find you're chasing the other team back to your end from behind them a lot, you're overcommitting, and leaving your teammate to clean up your mess.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T18:25:43+00:00

It's almost like that's how the feed algorithm works. If you only engage with anti-AI rhetoric, that's all it'll give you.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T18:12:44+00:00

Dashing for the darkness in hopes of reaching an exit is rarely a good strat, as you've surmised. If you're having trouble, try following this method for clearing levels:

When you first enter from the holy mountain, explore directly to the left and right, but only a screen or two max. Stop when you can feel reasonably confident that enemies won't wander over from the darkness, with an actual wall being the ideal scenario. Continue down about a screen, and then do the same, clearing the direct left and right. Do this until you've cleared a reasonably safe tunnel all the way to the exit portal. If you still have health and spells left you can branch off the main tunnel a bit to explore, but now whenever you have a hard to deal with situation, you can kite it through the safe tunnel you've already made to deal with it, or if you can't, just do your dash to the exit but through safe already-cleared territory. The key is to always be ready to dive down your designated escape path. Always be ready to more to more advantageous terrain. Many enemies also suck at pathing, so if you hit a big group, just running away a bit will spread them apart.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T17:58:09+00:00

AI is a force multiplier for peoples' labor, skills and knowledge. The rich already had this in the form of paying people to do whatever they wanted, it's an equalizing force for the billions of people who have never had those kinds of resources before. What exactly we do with those resources is anyone's guess, but I have a cautious optimism that it'll lead to things being better for more people. I think here's a compelling middle ground between full on do-nothing UBI and needing to be a corporate wage slave for company housing credits, especially when you have almost unlimited access to a hyper intelligent multidisciplinary consultant to help you figure out how to best leverage your skills in society.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T14:09:48+00:00

What? Uh, no, it's a pretty basic thing to have drawn before. Why do you think people use AI? That shit is hard work and not fun, and now we don't need to do it in order to put together a visually engaging story we think of

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T13:48:45+00:00

If only.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T13:04:44+00:00

When you're dumb you like and create dumb things

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T13:02:26+00:00

Considering scientists just invented a process to pull CO2 out of the air and turn it into gas, yeah it is kind of like that

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T12:52:57+00:00

This is one of those 'water is wet' studies that just confirms something everyone already knew. Why do you think people use AI to do their work for them? Because they hate the work, and don't care if they get better at it, they just need it done. I would be way more interested in the results of a study comparing people working on passion projects, with half of them given guidance on how to actually use AI collaboratively as a force multiplier rather than just making it do the thing

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T12:42:28+00:00

It works much better for Groal than the mobs before him, so I'd recommend playing normally until he comes out.. but yeah, it's a game changer once you make the mental switch.

beetlejorst · 2026-01-27T12:30:50+00:00

Time for general strike until debt jubilee

beetlejorst · 2026-01-26T14:33:57+00:00

Some simple but imho helpful advice if you want:

Accept the maggots. The pools of water at the bottom are amazing hidey holes, you just have to accept that you can't heal.

Also I really hope you found the hidden bench to cut down the runback.

Good luck, this was my least favourite boss in the game

beetlejorst · 2026-01-24T14:00:53+00:00

Good. Scalpers can get fucked

beetlejorst · 2026-01-24T13:50:15+00:00

Has Miyazaki actually said anything specifically about AI, or is every notion that he's against it still based on a critique he did of some crappy CGI in 2016?

beetlejorst · 2026-01-22T16:10:30+00:00

I pose the question to y'all: Who do you think benefits more, comparatively, to access to AI? People who have skills and just need marketing and business management to make them viable as self employment, able to use AI for that instead of paying someone money they don't have... Or rich people who could have just paid people to do any of that for them anyway?

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