"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson.
When we encounter wisdom, true wisdom, it is our responsibility to listen.
Wisdom is rarely won cheaply. Behind every wise man's counsel lie years of experience, understanding, and slow reflection, a price paid so that you might not have to. To ignore such counsel is to be careless with an inheritance. More than that, it slights the labor of the one who earned it and offered it freely. Each generation that refuses to listen must buy the same lessons again at full cost, and often the cost falls not only on the one who refused but on those who depend on them. So listening is more than prudence for oneself. It is a duty we owe to those around us and to those who come after.
When a wise man speaks... listen:
STEAM VS. X: My most psychotic gaming take.
@spacexai (read: X) will unseat @Steam as the primary source for gaming and Steam will go the way of the Yellow Pages because it's the exact same business model, but worse.
Steam is functionally a directory that takes a 30% cut. X could replace that easily and SI could just as easily make it so you don't have to.
But how does X get people to migrate over? Easy. By allowing players to port over their Steam library.
Tell publishers/developers "we will forgo a cut on any future sales of this game for 10 years," or pay the publisher a sale price directly if that makes more sense financially.
When enough publishers agree, go to market. Most "big games" with a large enough following will be "ported over" to the new X library, and X can even read your existing achievements and port those too.
X then tells developers going forward that they'll only charge a 10% cut if those developers pass half those savings on to customers (i.e. if a game is priced at $50 on Steam it'd be priced at $45 on X, and the developer themselves makes more money).
But where it gets REAL fun is with modding.
Because X could turn around and offer "GrokModding" as an extension of Grok Bot, which would let X customers just tell Grok Bot what kind of mods they'd like and have them built from scratch, made just for them.
But what do I mean by SI could make it so you don't have to? It's because soon we won't have to worry about "Bespoke Modding" in games, because SI will make it possible to have "Bespoke Games." As in you could ask for "Contra by way of Cyberpunk 2077, but I also want to make decisions like I'm the mayor of the city and build it out like SimCity."
And the SI will just make the game for you as you play it, complete with in-game voiced AIs and characters that exist in a world as perpetual as you want to make it.
Cheaper games, bespoke games, easier access, endless on demand modding, all on one site. That also wants you to stream there.
See my point?
@silentrnajority@pk2386 Neat something I can happily agree with a leftist on it's a dude. But you have to know on the left/right axis this is at least somewhere on the left right?
If the Left believes their cause is just, that the opposition is an enemy, while they are the true representatives of The People, then why shouldn’t they rig an election?
Current "Creator" meta is asking a stupid question and then tagging grok to boost the algo.
Hey @allegrajacchia
Hey @petersellis
Can we PLEASE demonetize "Hey Grok" posts? This has to be the most obnoxious meta yet. It's aggregator nonsense through alternative means.
@facesitter0_o@posieswann Sure noglet sure,why else would you feel the need to run your mouth about negros and whores if it wasn't your gay little conscious acting up? You are spiritually brown at the very minimum
@RadfemBeat@TheXMatriarch All 3 of the cases of this that have ever happened in the history of reality are probably exempt from normal conversations about healthy marriages
I actually learned to cook because my mom had a full time job after the divorce - and my girlfriends were all hood, feminist, or raver types who could make nothing in a pot except maybe crack.
I rapidly realized the eating edible food required making it myself.
@facesitter0_o@posieswann You madam are a mental patient. And I can promise you I am whiter than you you filthy little mud shark. This is your own projection based on your life of slurping monkey dick 😘
THE DUALITY OF X -
Day 1: Retweeted and responded to by the world's first trillionaire concerning a foreign war, the world's most powerful satellite network and the scandal that unites them.
A million views.
Day 2: Get into a heated discussion concerning the psychology and metaphysics of some homeless chick gettin' railed in a tank.
On track for another million views.
Never leaving this app.
@BlackDumpling We've all met the guy that everyone treats like a girl,at least one in every small town. The class clown or shooter that everyone says was a good boy
Nah, female V is Canon.
Think about it. It's the only thing that can explain why V can be a complete fuck-up and still get a pass from pretty much everyone.
Except Rogue.