Existential Dredd

"Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents"-Luke 10:19 | RPGs are my passion | TTRPG Game Master of 12 years

[Madhav Agarwal @Madhav_2077]

@Pirat_Nation lawmakers accidentally discovering half the internet runs on unpaid people maintaining stuff after work will never stop being funny

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@UtahSlake @Vivek4real_ Nobody has ever been affected by hype ever huh?

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

BREAKING: MICROSOFT JUST ANNOUNCED TO BAN ITS OWN ENGINEERS FROM USING AI DUE TO THE COST OF USING IT.

VP OF NVIDIA SAID, “THE COST OF AI FOR MY TEAM WAS MORE THAN HUMANS”

“AI CAN COST MORE THAN HUMAN WORKERS NOW”

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@Kyochi_Myogo @realTateBrown How many generations? I was thinking how the rise started in the 70s or so where you had the "food pyramid" plus lead (causes poor impulse control), plus other fun things like forever chemicals which mimic fats in the body but can't be broken down.

[Smug Frog @smugfrog_]

@TheRealKitty019 "When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right." - Bezos

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@Kyochi_Myogo @realTateBrown This is a good point however there are other compounding factors here. The rise of obesity was precipitous, and it's not possible huge swathes of the population were suddenly born with a "get fat af" mutation. Environmental factors are at play here, namely environmental toxins.

[Dean Gilbert @WardenDean]

This happening immediately after the Gooseworx shit, which happened immediately after the Gamoverse shit, which happened immediately after the Planetronika shit should be a wakeup call. Whatever twisted version of "morals" or "activism" these "fandoms" stand for is a damn cancer.

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@ChibiReviews When they say "treat with respect" they mean honor with extreme privilege nobody else gets or expects.

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@anamberava @katiserie Win 7 was literally Vista service pack 2 what are you talking about?

[CRG @Cantrushit]

Boomers five years ago: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO MY IMAGE OR POSTS BEING USED BY MARK ZUCKERBERG FOR META, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, OR WHATSAPP TO SELL MY DATA. Like and share if you agree!”

Boomers today, for some reason: “hey I just uploaded all your baby pictures to ChatGPT and you and all your cousins look like penguins isn’t this cute I’m uploading all the grandkids next”

[Jennifer D'aww @GMShivers]

It's very important if you're smarter than other people that you don't flash your ass on that unless it's necessary to solve a problem other people can't solve on their own, because you will create a prompt dependency in others.

Don't feel the need to prove you're smart all the time. It will help ensure you have backup when you need it. Help other people form their brain connections to sync up with them by teaching people to think and come to a conclusion, not wagging a metaphorical finger in their face. If you press on people to rely on you it will become impossible for them not to.

Yeah maybe you can see 27 steps ahead, but don't you want a team of people that understands how to see at least 14 steps ahead?

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@MrsLibertyBell1 @a_man_in_red Most people haven't been through late stage cancer you ghoul.

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@LiebermanAustin @oasishealthapp Good https://t.co/GGzHpfeuVl

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

Men 250 years ago: “I’ve been drinking Madeira wine, ale, rum, and hard cider since I weened off my mother’s tit. Water? Never touched the poison. On the morrow, I shall overthrow the most powerful empire in the history of the world.

Men today: “I drank a glass of wine and it ruined my life. I couldn’t even podcast. My bracelet told me I was dying.”

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

Men 250 years ago: “I’ve been drinking Madeira wine, ale, rum, and hard cider since I weened off my mother’s tit. Water? Never touched the poison. On the morrow, I shall overthrow the most powerful empire in the history of the world.

Men today: “I drank a glass of wine and it ruined my life. I couldn’t even podcast. My bracelet told me I was dying.”

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much.

After all, they were allowed to come to America, and prosper greatly by doing so, and a large portion of the population bent over backwards to welcome them and make them feel at home.

If you don't understand realpsych, you would expect them to be grateful.

But that's not how people actually work.

Human beings are grateful for gifts and favors only up to the point where they feel they can no longer repay them.

Once that point is passed, once a person can no longer repay his debts, then he has a choice between two narratives for understanding the rest of his life.

"I am a charity recipient, not a self-sustaining human being."

"I was entitled to what I took from those people, because they are bad, or weak, or horrible, or something."

In other words, if you give someone too much, more than they deserve, more than they can possibly earn, they become ungrateful little swine, precisely in order to preserve their own psychological well being.

And they will surround themselves with others who participate with them in that collaborative lie.

Sometimes people can make entire careers out of pandering to the over-privileged and under-deserving. Careers like "publicist". Or "immigration lawyer".

And they will invent an entire mythos to preserve their self-worth. They will convince themselves that thriving off undeserved gifts makes them the elite of humanity, while those whose inheritance was taken from them are some mental stereotype of drunken "Biff", who partied his way through a second rate IT school.

There's just one small problem that they must handwave away or ignore if they can.

Biff's great-grandparents build America into the greatest nation on Earth.

Biff's grandparents won WW2.

Biff's parents invented the internet, and flew astronauts to the moon.

Biff's entire tribe was thriving. Otherwise there would have been nothing to give to immigrants, and no reason for them to come here.

Meanwhile, all of the places that the immigrants are coming from have existed a lot longer than America, and been filled with the ancestors of those immigrants, and lots of other people who are like them in every way.

They had centuries, sometimes millennia, to get their shit together and build something where they were.

They didn't.

They had to go live in someone else's country, for "opportunities".

Of course they have to pretend that they "deserve" those "opportunities" more than the very people whose ancestors created the "opportunities" in the first place.

Because otherwise they would have to admit the one thing their self-esteem could never endure....

Leaving their own nations, and their tribes, was an admission of abject failure.

[planefag @planefag]

the only two realistic options for a writer on social media are: full send, no filter, or no account whatsoever

I will not elaborate

[BLACKSTAR @Art444Star]

All of this, in all its forms that we've seen over the years, across all mediums and contexts, is their method of imposing themselves on as many people as possible.

It is a predatory, ego-masturbatory, self aggrandising, domineering gesture.

These people are not strong (or brave lol) enough to physically harm the people they want to impose upon, they are not creative enough to leave an artistic mark on the world, and they are not good enough to want to leave people alone and they're not smart enough to know better.

This is a desperate scream into the void, because they are mega salty that the world, correctly, does not cater to their every whim.

And because they are too weak and cowardly to attempt to engage in a debate, and too stupid to articulate or even form effective rhetoric anyway, they abuse systems and deploy high school-esque tactics of social warfare, chiefly rumour mongering, smears, reputation destruction, dogpiling and moral posturing.

And all of their justifications are warped by motivated reasoning. They are not your friends, they are not your allies, they are not trying to help you "be better", they are bad people who want to cause you pain.

Never apologise. Never bend the knee.

[Existential Dredd @thisdarkfuture]

@airows1 @OtakuEspiritu D&D, TTRPGs in general too.