Sometimes I think about the future of self driving cars and how everyone I talk to about that future is like “okay but in an emergency we’ll be able to take back manual control, right?” and I usually placate them by saying, yeah, that’s totally how it’ll happen, but actually we’re already seeing the opposite. Cars with “self driving” features like steering and breaking that kick in and take control from the driver if the driver is about to rear end someone or is in a dangerous situation because the truth is computers can think faster and have better reflexes than us and I think about this going into the future and how if the self-driving cars are able to share their data with each other and learn from the driving experiences of every car on the road soon we’ll have cars that are so massively experienced at driving and avoiding accidents and making microsecond decisions and partial degree turns of the wheels and being so damn precise that automobile accidents will be almost unheard of and that’s when we’ll develop the most wasteful hilarious extreme sport in history where a single human driver will go up against an arena of ultra smart self driving cars and just by driving around recklessly try to coral them into crashing into each other and I tell you I would watch that sport all day.
A special Fuck You to the customers who come into the store right at open and then pay for $20 in merchandise with a $100 bill. We aren’t a bank. 90% of our big bills we drop deposit at close the night before. Am I really going to have to give you $80 in $5s??
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I used to hate this shit so damn much. Not only is it annoying by itself, it was always awkward as hell to have to get more change if people did this during morning rushes!
Final transcript as follows: (Really, really depressing)
Prokhorenko : command I am compromised, I repeat I am compromised.
Command: Please say again and confirm.
Prokhorenko : They have spotted me, there are shooting everywhere, I am pinned, requesting immediate extraction.
Command: Extraction request acknowledged.
Prokhorenko : Please hurry I am low on ammo, they seem to [be]everywhere, I can’t hold them for too long please hurry.
Command: Confirmed, hold them off, continue returning fire, retreat to a safe position, air support is monitoring, state your coordinates
Prokhorenko : [gives coordinates which are blurred in the transcript]
Command: [command repeats coordinates which are blurred.]Confirm
Prokhorenko : Confirmed, please hurry I am low on ammo, they are surrounding me, bastards!
Command: ETA on evacuation 12 minutes, return to the green line, I repeat return to the green line.
Prokhorenko : They are close, I am surrounded, this may be the end, tell my family I love them dearly.
Command: Return to the green line, continue returning fire, help is on the way, followed by air support.
Prokhorenko : Negative, I am surrounded, they are so many of these bastards!
Command: Extract ETA 10 minutes, return to the green line.
Prokhorenko : I can’t they have surrounded me and are closing in, please hurry.
Command: return to the green line, I repeat return to the green line.
Prokhorenko : They are outside, conduct the airstrike now please hurry, this is the end, tell my family I love them and i died fighting for my motherland.
Command: Negative, return to the green line
Prokhorenko : Unable command, I am surrounded, they are outside, I don’t want them to take me and parade me, conduct the airstrike, they will make a mockery of me and this uniform. I want to die with dignity and take all these bastards with me. please my last wish, conduct the airstrike, they will kill me either way.
Command: Please confirm your request.
Prokhorenko : They [are] outside, this is the end commander, thank you, tell my family and my country I love them. Tell them I was brave and I fought until I could no longer. Please take care of my family, avenge my death, good bye commander, tell my family I love them!
Eve Online (“spreadsheets in space”) is the infamously intricate massively multiplayer space trade/conquest game where in-game currency can be exchanged for real cash, making the battles fought there consequential in a way that sets it apart from other games.
But now the game has been brought to the brink of a battle that beggars belief, as the notorious Clusterfuck Coalition (formerly the Goonsquad) has used a tribute system based on ancient Persian tithing to create a galactic empire they call “The Imperium,” whose leaders have waxed fat and arrogant (and have attempted to cash in on in the real world).
It’s got to be too much for the other players. Working with a war-chest supplied by one of the bankers behind I Want ISK, a virtual casino that allows players to gamble with in-game currency (which, remember, can be exchanged for real-world money). The looming battle looks to be the biggest in the game’s history.
This is the most surreal shit I’ve ever read. Members of The Imperium swore fealty to a cosplayer. The owner of I Want ISK is hiring mercenary troops to fight in absurdly gigantic battles. There may be a real dollar value to the damage done in game. It’s more like reading about a parallel universe where space war has broken out than an MMO.
this is astounding. it’s the polar opposite of what rick roll is, and yet you still feel rick roll’d because you ended up with something that you didn’t expect and are slightly frustrated by. truly a great twist on a classic meme, we have reached full meta-meme with this.
Hey. I dunno if this will be posted, but it’s worth trying.
I recently got out of the SJW community a little over a year ago. I was really deep in it, and it made me into a really nasty, malicious person. I wasn’t aware of it, however. I thought I was apart of the most awake, enlightened group in the world. Eventually i ended up making a series of public, petty mistakes and was chased out of the community, and I’ve been off tumblr since then.
The past year+ has been… really difficult to cope. I feel worthless, with no purpose in life. I’m constantly paranoid that people are lurking, wiating to spring on any mistake that i make and hurt me. I feel afraid of the SJW community as well as the people (everyone else, basically) that the SJW community taught me was ‘evil.’
I used to have so many ‘friends’, a following of people who enjoyed my art and what i would talk about. But they immediately turned on me once the community decided I had violated their constantly changing ideology.
My partner has been helping me cope. It’s been a blessing, really, to have them. They escaped a christian cult and now live with a different name to avoid being quite literally physically kidnapped and dragged back. People are assuming they are exaggerating, but they’re not.
So my partner, having been part of a literal cult, has seen my experience with tumblr SJW community, and how badly it fucked me up, and how much i’m struggling to cope without it… They have helped me realize that while not a religiously based community, tumblr’s SJW functions exactly like a cult, known as a ‘cultic’ community or relationship. We’ve been researching and finding resources about post-cult recovery and all the resources i find, even though they are worded about religious cults, can be more or less related exactly to tumblr SJW extremism if “social justice” and its morals/ideologies is substituted as the religious part, with the ‘cult leaders’ being the extreme charismatic bloggers that everyone listens to.
so i just want to take a moment to suggest you add this to your resource page. People who are leaving the SJW community probably won’t be able to understand it was functionally a cult unless someone points it out to them, like i was lucky to have been.
that cult masterpost can easily be applied to exactly what i experianced during and after the SJW community
and although this specifically isnt a resource, it’s someone’s experience with basically what i wnet through, and how it functions like a cult and how it is a very extreme and collective cycle of abuse
Kind or reminds me of this guy on Reddit talking about badly getting drug in the SJW subculture screwed up his girlfriend and her relationship with him
This is what pisses me off about people getting tunnel vision on things like religion and cults being the only real danger.
The problem isn’t necessarily the type of organization it’s the kind of behavior and community that goes on.
Dogmatic thinking and communal abuse (like cults) end up isolating people and doing literally every single thing a long term abusive domestic relationship does… Except reinforced and carried out on a group dynamic and whole.
If you think being in a romantic relationship or friendship that’s abusive is bad? Think about an entire community running that way. Where at any moment you can be cast out of literally the only support group you have now, because you were manipulated or forced into driving everyone else away.
“In Eregion Sauron posed as an emissary of the Valar, sent by them to
Middle-earth or ordered by them to
remain there to give aid to the Elves. He perceived at once that
Galadriel would be his chief adversary and obstacle, and he endeavoured
therefore to placate her, bearing her scorn with outward patience and
courtesy. […] So great became his hold
on the Mírdain that at length he persuaded them to revolt against
Galadriel and Celeborn and to seize power in Eregion.”
Tumblr: No she isn’t! There is a perfectly logical explanation as to why she mastered everything she touched perfectly on the first try.
Star Wars fans: ….how then?
Tumblr: She used the Force.
Star Wars fans:
that is literally how the force works if you can use it have you never seen a star wars movie before or
anakin never finished a race, then wins one first time out
anakin never flew a starship before and manages to do what the other pilots couldn’t: blow up a droid control ship
let’s not forget luke
luke never used a lightsaber or piloted an x-wing before, then the second he uses the force, bam, perfect first time out
lmao look at this person tryin’ to call rey a mary sue like it’s 2004
[ Image in the OP is Han saying “That’s not how the force works!” in The Force Awakens; images in reply are of the parts of previous movies being discussed. ]
That and like. She has better reasons for knowing this stuff than the above dudes do.
Like, of COURSE she knows all about mechanics- she’s been scavenging starships for parts most of her life, so knowing what’s what and how it works is a crucial life skill.
When she handles a lightsaber, she’s very obviously using it like she would a staff (and spends most of the fight running away from Kylo anyway). You know, like the staff she carries with her all the time for self-defense in the desert hellhole she grew up in.
Everything we see her do with the Force is stuff Kylo did in front of her- he invades her mind, and she invades his and then mind-tricks a Stormtrooper (which still takes her three tries). He Force-holds her and later tries to Force-pull a lightsaber, and she Force-pulls it to her instead.
Practically everyone in the Star Wars universe is casually multilingual, and the only character in TFA who’s shown to be unable to understand at least one of Chewie or BB-8 is Finn, who was raised and brainwashed as a Stormtrooper (and neither the Empire nor the First Order seems to be much of an equal opportunity employer when it comes to species). Given her scavenger history, Rey having met astromech droids before isn’t just possible, but likely.
Her skills are better-established than either Luke’s or Anakin’s before they matter, but nope, she’s the Mary Sue, apparently.
For god’s sake, if you take Episode 1 at its word, Anakin was a goddamn virgin birth caused by the will of the force, and has an extensive prophecy about him being the Chosen One.
so back when i was in college, someone in creative writing class with a friend of mine wrote a story. it started out as a simple story of a wedding, and the bride and groom were arguing over infidelity that may or may not have happened and then some weird dude showed up and said some cryptic shit and left.
and then the guy showed up again, much later, at the reception. naked.
and then he ran to the cake. and began fucking it.
i used to have a printout of the story and i distinctly remember the line “oh my god, he’s fucking the cake!”
the most amazing part is that was written for a grade.
someone wrote this story.
someone wrote this story, where a man puts his dick in a wedding cake and fucks it until he’s had enough, and handed it in for credit. he did not fail the class.
if cake fucker guy can write a story and have faith in it, so can you. believe in yourself.
I like to reblog inspirational writing things. Usually they’re stuff like “you can do it!” and “tips for staying motivated” and character development and worldbuilding.
This… takes the cake, you might say.
An extremely….. inspirational and motivational post about believing in yourself and your writing abilities.
I keep saying this, I am screaming it into the void, but demeaning your opponents’ intelligence is not a good rhetorical strategy. Yes, even if they’re being petty and annoying and misogynist. Even if they’re man-babies* crying about SF movies on the internet.
When you demean your opponent’s intelligence, and treat them with contempt, three things happen.
First: You start underestimating your opponent and ignoring when they have something valid to say. Like, okay, yes, these people are usually annoying as hell, but sometimes they have a point. For example: a comedy movie that contains a hell of a lot of representation, but no comedy, is a failure as a movie. I’m not saying that Ghostbusters is that- I have no opinion on the franchise, I’ve never even seen the original, much less the trailer for the new one.
But a lot of people are burnt out on stuff that touts itself as representation because a lot of it is not very good. The good stuff that’s good representation - Star Wars TFA, for example- does not need to shove in your face, OH, BY THE WAY, WE’RE STAR WARS. BUT WITH WOMEN AND BLACK PEOPLE. THAT IS THE ENTIRE CONCEPT OF THIS FILM. IT IS STAR WARS. BUT WITH WOMEN AND BLACK PEOPLE. TEE HEE, AREN’T WE PROGRESSIVE. It can stand on its own merits.
If Ghostbusters can, great. If Ghostbusters can’t- and again, no opinion on this- isn’t it better to defend the stuff that is actually good representation, rather than to double down on defending something terrible?
Second: you radicalize people who otherwise wouldn’t have taken a side. So, okay. Mr. (or Ms.) Average Jo, who didn’t particularly like the Ghostbusters trailer but didn’t really hate it, comes across this article. Mr. Average Jo sees the article, and cringes back in disgust, because what the hell, are people not allowed to dislike things now? Mr. Average Jo becomes significantly less likely to trust or believe you when you say, “no, really, the people on the internet shouting about how bad Ghostbusters is are doing it out of violent misogyny.” They might even start to dislike Ghostbusters, just because you were so terrible about its critics.
Third: with this kind of shit, you perpetuate screaming, violent ableism. Look. I’m not one of the people who believes that it’s ableist to cut off people who are ruining your life because they have a personality disorder, or to say ‘crazy’ or ‘batshit’. But this is rank fucking ableism. This is the kind of ableism that gets people hurt.
Every time you use the word ‘man-baby’ you give more fodder to the people who attack neurodivergent adults for being ‘immature’, the people who try to keep autistics from following our special interests because they’re ‘childish’, the people who berate ND people for not having jobs or living outside the home.
Every time you use poor spelling or grammar to demean your opponents, you reinforce the idea that it’s okay to make fun of people who communicate poorly or don’t use ‘standard’ English. You hurt people with learning disabilities, people who speak different dialects, and people who aren’t native speakers, all at the same time.
This kind of fuckery needs to stop. You are not doing anyone any favours, least of all yourself. Knock it off.
I think this is an excellent summation of why the article pictured above was a ton of horseshit, but I gotta give special focus to the 2nd point because it sounds kind of similar to the Streisand Effect.
It’s like these people, so high off their own sense of superiority over the barbaric foe, don’t realize how they’re pushing others to turn on them.
Nah. Its just projection because this is the highest level of rhetoric they’re capable of.
I also watched a video about the trainwreck that said there was claims of Sony intentionally molding the narrative by removing reasonable criticism of the movie (especially from women) while leaving sexist and racist comments intact.
De gustibus non est disputandum I'm a 26 year-old American with a constantly growing and shifting personality/sexuality/gender identity, go figure. I play all kinds of RPGs, adventure games, some FPS, and a multitude of table-top games.
I read primarily fantasy and SF, but I'm not opposed to more traditional novels or even travelogs. (and I'll read educational books/manuals for hours if the subjects really interest me)
Movies and TV is about the same as books, on all counts. Documentaries are an insanely underrated genre.
I don't trigger warn like 99% of the time, and while I'm not against social justice or women's rights by any means, I am VERY much against Tumblr's overly emotional, "privilege means you have no problems," "racism and sexism are unidirectional," and "oppression justifies awful behavior" type of "Social Justice."
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De gustibus non est disputandum I'm a 26 year-old American with a constantly growing and shifting personality/sexuality/gender identity, go figure. I play all kinds of RPGs, adventure games, some FPS, and a multitude of table-top games.
