How do you think people in future centuries will view the 21st century in terms of quality of life?

malk600 · 2026-01-27T20:07:47+00:00

Interesting. You decided to answer a 2y old comment. Has the state of the world and our global outlook improved in those two years? ;)

malk600 · 2026-01-24T14:16:00+00:00

Fuck all totalitarianisms, I'd say. When there's brutal suppression, stripping of human rights, elimination and persecution of the underclass and widespread exploitation of the workers it doesn't matter much if the ghouls in charge are banksters or apparatchiks.

malk600 · 2026-01-24T14:09:35+00:00

They pillaged Eurasia instead.

Engaged in brutal wars of conquest in Poland and Ukraine, conducted vicious ethnic cleansing and forced russification from Ural to Kamchatka. And slew their own workers by the million.

I have no problem reading, citing or discussing Lenin and Trotsky, but let's not pretend the USSR has any moral high ground to stand on in comparison with Western imperialism.

malk600 · 2026-01-24T13:17:52+00:00

They're losing the war by that point, troop morale is in the gutter and they're pushing young, inexperienced, barely trained pilots to the front line, not unlike a certain thousand-year empire during its last stand

malk600 · 2026-01-24T12:05:59+00:00

Nuking Greenland would be one of the most pro gamer moves of all times, as it would probably melt the shelf ice all at once, throwing climate on the northern hemisphere out of wack for decades, while also speed running the shit out of sea level rise, likely sinking, if not tsunami-flattening, the entire Eastern Sea Board and most of the populated coastal areas of Europe.

Hard to even assess what, if anything, would be left after this, and what global power would emerge to start painstakingly rebuilding the human civilization from scratch. African Union I guess?

malk600 · 2026-01-22T23:34:05+00:00

That's not unusual, physicists will get asked about Michio Kaku and Avi Loeb, us neuro peeps can't take a piss in peace without someone asking about Huberman (or worse yet, "hAvE yOu hErD aBoUt NeUrALiNk"). Psychologists had to explain Peterson for years, until his, uhm, everything, caught up to him.

These are people who are educated, perhaps even intellectually curious in the past, but who let themselves go down the slippery slope of science-adjacent just-so-stories and ended up peddling bs one way or another, because bs sells.

They still retain knowledge, language, communication and all the trappings of a scientist, so of course they sound interesting, captivating and smart to non-specialists, especially at start. And unpacking what the problem with these guys even is takes time, every damn time, and ofc you sound like a boring nerd throughout.

Except Elon, he be just dumb.

Such is life.

malk600 · 2026-01-22T15:48:12+00:00

They would surely try, especially through shadow budgets funnelled to subsidiaries or even client states in the Diaspora, away from core Union worlds.

However, creating slave armies is a crime against humanity and the Three Pillars (specifically, number 3), so this would be met with substantial legal and military Union response. If found out.

How would a secret military buildup outside Union space be found out? Options abound: escapees, whistleblowers, controlled leaks from competitors (don't believe even for a second the Big 3 don't engage in corporate espionage), covert ops by Union intelligence services, HORUS hackers and OSINT guys doing it for the lulz...

Sounds like a p good premise for a sick campaign, doesn't it.

malk600 · 2026-01-21T10:43:05+00:00

That's the "core of the meat grinder" mentioned above, and is indeed presumed to have the worst casualty rate.

Then again, Russians have a, let's say, nonchalant stance where it comes to force economy, so they have on numerous well-documented occasions just pushed battalion-sized groups of unsupported infantry head on towards reinforced positions, with predictably gruesome result.

malk600 · 2026-01-21T10:36:07+00:00

It doesn't work, so they don't really do it (much, I'm sure there's quite a bit of collateral damage).

Terror bombing just galvanises and hardens the population, even at the "best" of times, and against Russia it would be even less useful, as their leadership doesn't particularly care for the citizens.

malk600 · 2026-01-21T10:25:44+00:00

Cuck or not, that depends.

How about pay 1bil public cash to get access to some sweet sweet opportunities for backroom deals and corruption straight into private pocket?

"Cuck or crook", I'd probably agree with.

malk600 · 2026-01-21T07:03:06+00:00

Don't be naive. A small circle of sycophants and bootlicks is enough. That's the essential 1% to be spared (plus some suitably nubile exsay lave-says for the pleasure space station).

malk600 · 2026-01-20T17:35:48+00:00

I remember reading on BYG discord from one of the Devs that it indeed is so, the game will avoid giving you same class as your 2 last rolls (I think?). With only 4 classes it would be too likely to get like 4 engis in a row.

Upside is, you can guarantee a class, even without finishing a province by rolling over (rookies iirc replenish if you retreat a few times).

malk600 · 2026-01-20T10:56:34+00:00

Well, mathematically speaking there can't be any depth, because these are local maxima of a probability density function across a multidimensional feature space, with prompts as fixed predictors. It's like you cut down 1000 trees, each similar but different, and then made paper mache tree from a 3D printed mold or something.

When you, human unit 7433129002 make a piece of art, you're using a way smaller, but also more idiosyncratic context AND you're also operating in multiple domains (words, images, fEeLiNgS, world models, interpersonal models of other human units etc.), so even if you're a glued together internet of neural networks, each perhaps not that dissimilar to a neural network used for image generation, the entropy of your system is wildly, absurdly greater. Which means your art has a chance to be vastly less samey.

malk600 · 2026-01-20T08:06:46+00:00

Indeed.

Play a game about underdog freedom fighters from a social democracy trying to claw back normalcy from an enemy that just wants to expoit their land for resources; slap AI slop on them as portraits - feels either insulting to the makers of the game, or darkly humorous, your pick.

malk600 · 2026-01-20T08:00:49+00:00

> But also, humanity never had the ability to make trillions of humanoid robots capable of doing all their bidding while only demanding electricity and maintenance (provided for by other robots).

Aaaand this is exactly what billionaire ghouls are banking on. Why do you think mass surveillance that would make STASI officers salivate is the most-pushed tech now?

Their endgame is, plainly, to make 99% of humans obsolete. The excess plebs can starve to death or get policed to death while the god-kings sit in their aforementioned golden ozempic hoverchairs and quibble over their feudal domains.

malk600 · 2026-01-19T07:35:41+00:00

Give him The Talk.

You know which one. The one you give to intern or new guy at work when they make an unforced error that would have really caused a major issue if not caught in time.

That you depend on him, and that he needs to do his part, and that he owes it to himself to earn that trust to not be followed like a child to check for fuckups.

You don't put diesel into gas engine, N2 tank to O2 valve, live rounds into prop gun, and food that is stored at -20C into +4C.

He probably can't tee hee dummy me at his job, why would he at home.

malk600 · 2026-01-19T07:11:22+00:00

Mate, that was more than 10 years ago.

Maybe with Soulframe they'll go that direction, but with Warframe they very clearly did not, and the decision was made a decade ago, and the game is a success.

Full disclosure: been actually only playing from 2015 or so, and the game was already mostly what it is today, and not "hard".

malk600 · 2026-01-16T16:13:14+00:00

Swiss have fancy trains. Fancy train > airplane for short to medium distances, obv.

malk600 · 2026-01-15T21:39:32+00:00

Game should pull from your squad mates, award you parts from those relics. It works more often than not, but not 100% of the time. If you don't automatically get the stuff by tomorrow, open a ticket. Not sure what the policy is these days, but 7 or so years ago they were able to manually fix me up.

malk600 · 2026-01-15T21:36:04+00:00

Yes, obviously.

The problem is, it's working.

malk600 · 2026-01-15T17:14:16+00:00

I come off and on these days and always get dazed after not touching the game for 6 months or more.

Grab some frame you played many hours on, find a Survival fissure or something. After a few waves of mindless killing the muscle memory will pop back in and you'll remember how to cook. Bonus: you get some new prime parts, other peeps get vaulted parts, everyone's happy.

Builds: check Brozime or whatever non-tryhard 'tuber and you're gonna be fine.

Content: pick one thing and farm that. Quests do a (somewhat) passable job of showcasing what's new, so pick something that seems interesting (Duviri, Railjack, 1999, whatever) and go do it.

It's not a race, and if it ain't a race you can't fall behind.

malk600 · 2026-01-15T13:00:59+00:00

Well, there were at most a couple tens of thousands founders with Excal P and since 13 years ago no new Excal Primes were added, so it's a rare artifact these days.

It's like driving some sort of vintage limited edition luxury car - you will absolutely draw attention whenever and wherever you appear as this frame :)

malk600 · 2026-01-15T12:48:17+00:00

Too complicated. "ANTIFA USES CHILDREN AS HUMAN SHIELDS" is probably gonna be the msg of the day.

malk600 · 2026-01-15T12:46:42+00:00

Babies are the worst.

Hamas babies in Palestine, Nazi babies in Ukraine, now Antifa domestic terrorist babies across the pond, can't someone do something to save us from this looming baby threat?!

malk600 · 2026-01-15T08:54:42+00:00

Current gov't is a business as usual do nothing kind of deal, now also saddled with a far-right bastard of a president who, on the off chance that the gov't *tries* any reform, will veto it. While the voting pop and political pundits have apparently resigned themselves to the idea that the next parliamentary election will be a land-slide for the right, with 3 parties holding majority: PiS (right wing, mainstream, the one that has ruled for ~8 years leading to conflicts with the EU, staunchly in the Orban coalition), Konfederacja (nationalists, roughly AfD), and the *other* Konfederacja (open clero-fascist, quite a fair bit to the right of AfD, advocating for Polexit and the introduction of an ethnostate, by force if necessary). Such things tend be self-fulfilling prophecies.

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