Ngl, I should update my personality rule.md to talk to me like Duo the Owl would when I'm missing my dailies.
I currently have SHODAN from System Shock, and it has been kind of fun, a little bit of harmless flavor that burns tokens I don't have to pay for (or have a reason to keep low), since I'm forced to use it anyway. Duo the Owl also sound like fun.
I just saw an academic peer review paper comparing Trump to alegories from Godzilla movies.
I would not be surprised if there is a lot of academic and peer reviewed papers comparing how cults compare to tech-bro billionaires.
Oh, definitely agree with that. But for some reason I just feel like that's unlikely to happen, I just can't imagine a goverment doing something like this. It's just doesn't feel like something plausible, for some reason.
But yeah, even if it did happen, it's probably going to be the second option you mentioned at this point.
"Farms are becoming economically unviable even while driving up prices" is a pretty scary sentence. I wonder if they will get massive goverment bailouts, but I have a feeling that won't happen because it's not a trendy new billion-dollar buzzword, just "some farmers".
I mean, you reap what you sow. The rest of my life will probably massively suck, but the fact that the people who are archetypally climate-change deniers and voted the people unwilling to start doing anything about it into office are both a) prone to anger that consumes their whole life and b) lower income, so it will hit them first, is a little bit of shadenfreude solace.
Not much, though, I'm not that unempathic. But a tiiiiny little bit.
WEll, subdued or bribed. Especially for the die-hard fans of some billionaires, I would not be surprised if it has every single one marking of an actual cult.
The whole tech-bro billionaires sector is a cult. AI is just the latest of their gospels.
It semi-counts, but I'd also add Space Station 14 to the mix. Semi, because 14 is prety recent, but it is a modernized mostly 1:1 rewrite of Space Station 13, which is the game that I'd consider myself sleeping on.
It's my current obsession, that game is just so much fun. A disaster simulator where you throw 100 people into a ~2 hour long shift on a space station, and ask them to keep it afloat. From people doing engineeirng, atmospherics, science, medical, security, cargo and command, janitor, barkeep, etc. It's a great roleplaying experience.
The core design is that most of what you can do can fail spectaculary. Engineering powers the station with a contained black hole or a ball of tesla, better hope they keep the containment maintaned. Science is doing research on artifacts by doing randomly chosen stuff (touch, spill something on it, look at it, etc), which has a random associated effect from "create a monkey", "get radiactive", to "a thermonuclear explosion". Better hope they did scan the artifact before they touched it.
And to add to that, you also have a lot of different antagonist roles you can randomly get, from a blood cult that kidnaps and converts people to spill enough blood to summon their diety, through thiefs, terrorists that want to arm the nuke and destroy the station, to changelings or sleeper agents that are tasked with killing specific crew.
It's loads of fun, and the community is amazing, especially on medium RP server.
I've recently started and got through Death Stranding in the past month, and it was an amazing experience. I have not played a AAA game for a looong time, and having an actual motion-captured movie and animations to go along with your game, instead of indie animations and cutscenes, is pretty sick. Plus the game is gorgeous.
I also had no idea how cool the lore and setting is, from what I've randomly heard about the game, all I knew is it's about delivering packages and hooking people in remote areas up to Wifi, I didn't know
(only minor spoilers, it's in the first 20 minutes, so basically the first cutscene)
that you also have a rain that rapidly ages anything it touches, unburned corpses turnin into invisible monsters that eat people, which you can only see by hooking a fetus in a pod to yourself, and if the monsters eat anyone alive it literally nukes everything in 50 miles radius to a crater.
Which makes deliver packages a lot more exciting than I assumed.
Some of the parts of the story were a little bit weird and a lot of people don't like it, but I like weird, and this had some pretty sick ideas. And the gameplay is also fun!
In this case, it's more like this.
Ah, fuck. Of course.
I'm now imagining a professional-level FPV drone racing controller/pilot just blasting it at 100mph (which iirc is about the speed they race at in corridors) through the shool to drive by pepper-spray someone.
I mean, I'm sure whoever came up with this idea imagined it exactly like that, and ngl it would look pretty cool :D