Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

Like every LLM, grok is best used when you know enough about the subject to know when grok is wrong, and read its responses closely enough to tell when it is contradicting itself or omitting something.

When you use it for things/tasks/subject with which you don’t have solid familiarity, you almost assuredly fall victim to Gell-Mann amnesia.

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

@ericfjacobs @SawyerMerritt I drove my brother’s (many kids) to take them to the airport on a trip a few years ago. When I returned home I refused to sleep with my wife for a couple of days, fearful that the minivan had made me overly virile. I didn’t want any new issues popping up in 9 months.

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

When- not if- the left retakes power all of this will be but a mirage.

And if you think they won’t make sweeping changes to guarantee Trump/Maga/Doge never happens again, you’re delusional. And since the political right lacks the will to do even the most basic things to secure elections, that outcome is inevitable.

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

@BillMelugin_ @MZHemingway lol no it won’t.

This is the same senate that has obstructed Trump all along and you think there’s going to be momentum for THIS?

They won’t even secure elections. Dream fucking on.

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@KurtSchlichter How are you going to get a fifth justice when the elections are insecure and we are guaranteed a packed court and fully-left rule in 2029v

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@KurtSchlichter It will never happen. Between the mail thing and this decision today, this supposed “Trump” court has effectively ended the American experiment.

Historians will look back on this era as a brief mirage on the road to permanent and catastrophic decline of the United States.

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@AnimalsRockOn @NotLivingIn2005 @SCOTUSblog You are delusional.

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@AnimalsRockOn @SCOTUSblog That’s you bud.

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

@skiistiredasf “Doctorate”

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@KL__33 @micyoung75 You are, of course, free to join them.

But you won’t, because you know every word you typed is a lie. That’s not as surprising- lying for a leftist like you is as natural as breathing.

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

Every word of this.

Also… 30 books finished since Martin finished his most recent Song entry is an embarrassment of epic proportions to that slob. Well, it would be if he had any shame.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

@jarvis_best I didn’t realize that they were doing Dostoyevsky as a coloring book these days but good for you!

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

@redsteeze @jarvis_best X needs more Nancy Mace tit posting, not less.

They beat your barbecue takes, at least.

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@CynicalPublius Every word of this is every employee in the last twenty years at NRO.

It is especially Jonah Goldberg.

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@financedystop @CynicalPublius SEC! SEC! SEC!

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@ericfjacobs @MattWalshBlog Springtime for Hitler?

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

It’s a pretty meh deal if you believe we’ve generally controlled the military outcomes (as I do). It’s apparent that Trump doesn’t have the stomach to fully commit on the military side- and that’s understandable.

But in no way is a deal where Iran pinky swears to “not try for nukes ever ever we super promise” a good deal. They’ve made such vows before. The only parts of the deal- as reported so far- that are straight “wins” for the US are just wordplay.

But it gets Iran out of the news (for now), pushes back on the “Israel controls Trump” bs narrative, and allows the admin to refocus elsewhere. So maybe that part is a win.

This isn’t a blackpill take. It’s just reality- and so is the reality that while Trump might have more info- and is a pretty good president- he is not infallible nor a 5D chess player like you want him to be.

[Matt Don’t-You-Worry-About-It @riddlesador]

@bonchieredstate This is by far your favorite outcome.

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@Cnewbster Not ranged vs melee so much as I pretty much always end up on agility/dexterity types.

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@KurtSchlichter It’s satire, Kurt.

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@japan_nobunaga It’s so clearly AI churning them out. It the concept is amazing all the same.