Event Horizon when I was 10. I think that recalibrated what the entire concept of fear was in my mind.

Diablo 2, corpse explosion!

Oooh, yeah I’ve been meaning to watch those, I loved the first one of that series but never got around to watching the rest.

Serious question. Did none of these mother fuckers watch The Terminator? Or The Matrix?

(fun project, reply back with more movies in the same vein of humanity inventing our evolutionary successors)

So confirmation bias. Gotcha. That’s generally not a great way to make sweeping generalizations about 50% of the population.

You ever hear that adage about smelling shit wherever you go, maybe check your shoes?

I still kinda feel like every one of those examples was success based on accessibility and ease of use. Connectivity issues? Inaccessible. Facebook was cleaner and more user friendly. I never had a MySpace because it just seemed more daunting to me for whatever reason. Facebook seemed cleaner and standardized in ways, so to me, it felt more accessible.

Steam and Newell comes to mind, about how piracy is an accessibility and distribution problem.

And no, I didn’t mean to invalidate your stance because you didn’t develop something, more that I too am not a developer so I couldn’t speak to your point about how easy it would be to have Reddit be Usenet based and still have the same level of proliferation. My apologies for being unclear.

Yeah, I concur. When I learned I wasn’t allowed to speak there, I simply blocked it and moved on. They can have whatever rules they want. No one is obligated to be there.

On the flip side, I can see it being irksome to click a post and have your comment be deleted because you didn’t notice that community it was or didn’t read every rule for every community.

I’ll wager the vast majority of users don’t read community rules until they run afoul of one. Personally, I just shrug it off and move on, it’s not like whining about it is going to make an entire community change it’s rules to accommodate you.

Seconded

If I saw the artwork myself and it inspired my artwork, would it be any different? Everything is based on everything.

Signage is definitely important. You can’t just throw shit down on the pavement and have it be treated as a sign itself.

Save worthy post. Not the person who asked, but thanks for the extremely detailed response!

Huh, now I’m wondering why I never wondered where the abbreviation came from.

What are you basing the majority of men are shit on? Confirmation bias?

I wonder what a credit card dispute would result in here. Underutilized feature when businesses pull shady shit. Think I’ve had 6 or so disputes over the years, never failed.

Man I really hope Radeon and Arc don’t fold.

I mean you were asking why people use Reddit, I answered. Accessibility. It’s easy to go to Reddit.com, some website you hear about in passing. Anytime large numbers of people flock to some platform is because they made it easy and attractive to use.

Like, couldn’t I just ask, why didn’t you create this Usenet based reddit killer yourself?

Logical processes require logic to function. This is just going to end up creating contradictions and decreasing the AI’s ability to actually produce usable work. So whichever AI has the most contradictions will probably cause a drop in quality for productivity use.

It will be interesting to see how different AI’s continue to diverge in quality and reputation as time passes.

Guess my break is over then, how convenient!

Uh yeah, I’m not going to go to jail over dishonesty. I’m not going to play martyr for some unknown mass of strangers that doesn’t care about me. And you talk about SA and those victims but prison is also a terrible fate unto itself that your argument entirely ignores. It’s like flippant to send someone to prison for years. Imagine if people were that dismissive about SA. Like prison conditions aren’t arguably worse being a risk if consistent SA and who knows how much other horrors.

Should I now counter argue that you bringing up SA without acknowledging the horrors of prison is dismissive of men’s issues because of a for profit prison industrial complex?

Everything affects everything. You bring up something, someone is always going to bring up another side. That’s how discourse works.

But yeah, at the end of the day, my answer is ya, I won’t punish the innocent in order to punish the guilty as a general rule. It may not be utilitarian, but that’s what my gut says is moral. And that’s the best I can go on.

Reminds me of the moral dilemma in the movie Unthinkable.

I think you severely discount NASA’s achievements. I would wager the stagnation of NASA and the subsequent rise of SpaceX was largely due to a lack of funding for NASA and waning public interest and lack of leadership.

I doubt the public would have tolerated the idea blowing up rockets until it worked as a good use of tax payer dollars. So did NASA fail us, or did the public fail NASA?