I loved this cheeky comeback.

Why not reinvent the wheel? I’ve already learned a great deal in just starting this project, and I’m excited to learn a great deal more.

Your energy is infectious! I’ll be eagerly following this project

Me when my partner says to call her back it’s urgent

Thanks I have heard of this kind of problem before, just not in an adversarial space war context, with like opposing forces

Oh my god, that’s such a stupid and simple way to kill a galaxy, but also what a great plot twist that would make in a story. Like the big reveal over why the galaxy has always been at war with itself. Exactly the kind of nihilism I’d expect from an Altered Carbon or its ilk.

Thanks for sharing!

It is, you’re right. It’s kind of a poor comparaison now that I see it spelled out

I didn’t loathe it.

Reminds of the accounts of people who owned enslaved people being afraid to let them go because of how they thought once freed they would turn around and slaughter their former “masters” because how could they not.

Except that didn’t happen.

Yeah I was gonna say, just go ahead and mirror that and also make the ball sad

Thanks again for this. And it actually was fine. Everyone was perfectly lovely and made me feel included.

This feels like a Stanley Parable reference but it’s been a while…

Works with mazes and everything else. It’s the “good ol’ rock” of cardinality

Even then, only if the process is fun. Like collecting the thingamajigs (it’s been a while) in Crackdown. I remember just moving around in that game being fun

Sure doesn’t.

They look like me after I think I’m going to sneeze but then it doesn’t happen for me

As much as I dislike Disney as a company that does sound interesting… really actually brings up so many new possibilities to revisit the classics!

I always found it a comforting/uplifting thought. Like it proves humanity has taken some of the good forks in the path and so is capable of doing so now and in the future, too

The parts that are work are the job, but extracting rents for owning something is not work. I realise it’s not a clean break, but the idea is landlords usually get a lot more value than they put in.

Whereas most of us work jobs that take more value from our labour than they’d ever actually pay us for.

Thanks, that actually did give me a much needed boost. I hope you have a great weekend!

Only just finished the first entry, and this is still the case by the end of that book at least. The main character does have a kind of “raw power” that goes beyond what others have innately, which is a bit exceptional-ising.

It’s hard to pin down, but the tone is more community oriented, and less about this one Special.

This is it. The real product is hype, with a tiny tiny little kernel of actual utility, that is puffed up and remixed until the hype dies away, and we have to make do with whatever’s left.*

The hype machine with generative shit went into fuckin overdrive because while yes there is a grift component, natch; unlike with blockchain, nfts, web3, etc, there is an actual visible thing that the technology can do that hasn’t been done before.

People who are used to selling nothing but vapour lost their minds when they saw it, because rightfully so, they realised how much grift they were going to be able to make off of it.

* Usually this involves a bunch of platform engineers et al de-tooling codebases and infrastructure.