Not that this is normal behaviour, and I mean fuck Roblox, as we all know it’s a scuzzy predatory breeding ground. But this constant narrative that video games, or music, or other types of media mediums are to blame after events like this is exhausting. It’s mental.fucking.illness thats to blame here. End of story.
Fuel that bubble, bud. It’s running out of soap.
I’d prefer at this point if Treliving did absolutely nothing, quite honestly. Let’s not setup another decade of darkness with draft picks that end up being wasted on non-remarkable players, and shitty contracts. Trade deadline never works out for the long term, that’s better dealt with in the off-season.
I’m there with them too. It’s time. It’s unsafe, it’s creating world wide political instability, they refuse to incorporate safety mechanisms and it’s literally an unsafe product to use anymore.
It’s like Kayne admiring the Nazis. He’s now claiming it’s mental illness. Makes me think that’s what this largely is. That we have a mental illness crisis, and these dopamine rich environments like social media are just exacerbating the problem.
Yes there are inflationary pressures, but come on. You don’t think companies like Loblaws, and their literally record breaking profits aren’t one of the main causes of this crisis? It ain’t helping, that’s for sure. I mean yeah 5% here and there, sure costs going up. But look at the shrinkflation too. There’s a lot of tomfuckery going on here, and it’s high time it’s brought to an end.
You aren’t getting a processor, graphics card, a motherboard, case and that ram for $699 right now, though. That’s my point. It’s more than double the cost, if not maybe even triple right now. Do you actually get double or triple the value then? Touche on the steam savings (you could even argue pirating - not condoning but just saying it’s an option, to get those savings), but are you going to actually close the gap? PC games tend to be more demanding too, plus as a PC gamer I often find games need a lot more time for optimization and need tinkering, whereas with a console they just sort of work. There’s pros and cons to each for sure, but I’m of the opinion that right now I’m more heavily on the side of the console, at least from a $ value perspective.
It’s high time this government starts wadding into this mess to fix it. We don’t need studies, we don’t need grants, we don’t need tax deductions. We need action. And it starts with Loblaws. I agree, the timing is shitty with all the other stuff that’s going on in our macro world, but enough is enough.
Go after the bastards already!
It’s a thinly veiled plan by the employer to force attrition in the workforce, while trying to keep severance liabilities to a minimum. It’s a layoff plan, and nothing else. Anyone left is a slave.
Look we collectively had a golden opportunity to change things forever, but we blew it. We blew it. Collectively as humans, we are self defeating.
Hell I’d even pack a nice little picnic lunch, and drive them down in a limousine. If that’s what it takes…
One thing that I just absolutely cannot reconcile in all of this, is the involvement of people who obviously have some sort of first or second generational immigration background, in screaming and oppressing immigration.
I know of a person who is now in the US just absolutely down the MAGA spiral. But the weird thing is, his grandparents died in a concentration camp in the second world war. He himself is now an immigrant to the US, from a country he also immigrated to earlier in life. Just absolutely droning on about…immigrants.
It’s completely baffling. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Fascists gonna fascist. Problem is, the cult members citizens of this cult province will continue to lick it up.
You might need something to happen in the PC world for this to happen. Right now you are looking at about 5 to 6x the purchase price for a PC vs a console. Not saying I disagree with the sentiment, I get it. But I’m also sick of Nvidia and AMD who are also pretty gross.
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Fuck, of course, AIMco. Can’t wait until we get pulled out of CPP for “ultra intelligent” dogshit investments, like whatever the fuck this company actually is. And nobody can quite tell what it is they are.
That’s the biggest joke and irony of this all! All these greedy execs, going AI AI AI AI AI AI, I mean if they had a braincell to share amongst the lot of them, maybe they’d realize sometime soon. That you can’t replace mechanical input or physical labour, but you sure as shit can replace some blowhard in an office somewhere, who otherwise adds nothing to the equation but bullshit.
I don’t know if you’ve been under a rock for the past little while, but this AI shit is all starting to get pretty dumb. Like really dumb. A lot of people have to suddenly answer for why they’ve collectively burned billions of dollars, with not a whole lot of actuality to show for it.
Right!? I’m really starting to like the sounds of this. Did you hear that story about the vending machine one of those techbro companies had with AI, where everyone started to fool it and it was ordering PlayStations for them and stuff? Like this all makes AI sound like it’s fucking awesome. Completely hopeless and fucking awesome all at the same time!!
Sooooo AI is replacing my boss, is basically what this getting at, right?
I know we are all like fuck AI and stuff, but please do continue. Is this going to involve setting goals for the year? Am I going to have to complete a self evaluation? Am I getting a raise? What happens if I tell the AI to fuck off, is it going to unalive me? I mean anytime I ask AI to tell me something, I get like 90 pages of drivel and it won’t do what I want it to, so basically that’s just pretty much my boss in a nutshell, no?
In theory, AI could at least be made to be projected as a knockout, while it pours out its nonsense. Versus my boss, who looks like a can of stuffed assholes, and also always pours out a bunch of nonsense while we all look away in abject horror lest we make eye contact.
I’m starting to wrap my mind around this idea a bit guys, I’m not going to lie…
I think it’s more addicting than cigarettes. I used to be a pack-a-day smoker once upon a time. That was a hard habit to give up. Like it took years to reprogram my body and mind to get away from it.
I’ve been continuously trying to cut down on my social media, because just like everyone else, it’s rotting my brain and affecting my moods. It’s literally just as, if not maybe even more harmful than cigarettes in most ways. It’s certainly a more potent addiction, that’s for sure, and it’s more dangerous. I mean cigarettes will kill you long term, sure. But social media will turn you into a socially inept, manipulated, raging angerbomb that is much more dangerous to yourself and everything and everybody around you than arguably cigarettes, and in a much shorter time span. You don’t even notice it either, it’s latent damage thats occurring (like cigarettes).
It’s a dopamine hit like no other too, and again, you don’t even realize it until you are self-conscious about it and working very hard at it. I’ve experimented with some powerful drugs in my lifetime, and it’s hard to explain to a lot of people because drug use rewards are more instant and much more apparent. But whatever weird brain reward system social media powers, I’m convinced it’s just as powerful of a hit as the hardest drugs. It’s certainly very very very hard to get away from.