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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • It’s funny, years ago, a single developer “killing it” on Steam was almost unheard of. It happened, but it was few and far between.

    Now, with the advent of powerful engines like Unreal 5 and the latest iterations of Unity, practically anyone outside the Arctic Circle can pick one up and make a game.

    Is tech like that taking jobs away from the game industry? Yes. Very much so. But since those programs aren’t technically “AI,” they get a pass. Never mind that they use LLMs to streamline the process, they’re fine because they make games we enjoy playing.

    But that’s missing the point. For every job the deployment of some “schedule 1” or “megabonk” tech replaced, it enabled ten more people to play and benefit from the final product. Those games absolutely used AI in development, work that once would’ve gone to human hands.

    Technology always reduces jobs in some markets and creates new ones in others.

    It’s the natural way of things.




  • Except you know… That it’s not. A truck bed cover is on the exterior of the truck and can be often times folded over or removed entirely to expose the truck bed. The truck bed doesn’t extend to the interior of the car and is exclusively utility. Tonneau covers help with gas milage and theft prevention, they help things from blowing out of the truck bed. They have a ton of use.

    By your logic anything can be anything with extra steps.

    Your livingroom is a garage with extra steps.

    A cardio-vascilar surgen is a butcher with extra steps.

    Heroin is just like marijuana with extra steps.

    Ext.







  • Volkswagen is so bad at this! They have phone connectivity but they bog down the infotainment with they’re own crap software. The GPS is so bad it slowes down the whole system. I will never use vw maps. Ever. Just stop!

    And Chevy just doesn’t have android auto on or apple play on their lower trim levels. But they do compensate by integrating Google maps at least.

    Kia is the best though. Minimal proprietary software. Plug your phone in and android auto automatically comes up.





  • Imagine this: you’re immortal, not just in the sense of “not aging,” but in the sense that you cannot die. No matter what happens, disease, trauma, fire, bullets, you persist.

    Now introduce cancer into the equation. You don’t get a merciful end. You don’t get release. The cells in your body still mutate, still misfire, still turn against you. Tumors grow. They spread. They choke your organs, twist your bones, invade your brain.

    In a mortal body, this means death, an end to the suffering. In your body? It means endless malfunction. Organs clogged with growths but never failing enough to kill you. Skin splitting under lesions that never close. Your lungs filled with tumors, every breath a shallow gasp, but the suffocation never comes. Your brain riddled with metastases until you’re half-aware, locked inside a prison of decaying flesh that never stops decaying.

    And it doesn’t stop there. Given infinite time, you don’t get one cancer. You get all of them. Over centuries, every tissue eventually betrays you. Your body becomes a battlefield of competing malignancies, tumors devouring tumors, a grotesque ecosystem of your own flesh.

    You live forever, yes. But you might pray for death long before eternity runs out.