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I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it's a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.

When I think about it, between emulators and various icon collections I have enough games to last me for the rest of my life. And that's a feeling of being free, not trapped.

I also have to do a shout-out for analog enjoyments. Interacting with the natural world and exercising all of your senses are just straight-up good for you.

Oh they do care, just in the wrong way.

In the business world "benchmarking" basically means "let's copy what the successful people do, so that line go up"

In their robotic, amoral view of the world, they see one of the most successful people on the planet (according to their definition of success) constantly spouting obvious lies and being surrounded by sycophants while getting elected twice and grifting billions and facing no punishments. Maybe if the tech CEOs get rich enough and their companies get important enough, they can join his club.

Ohhh, and they must be how we get oligarchies!

I think it's a combination of that and the worry that there will be one winning ubercorp that practically merges with the US Government.

I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It's like they know it's now or never.

I think the green specks they mentioned ARE the parts where it didn't work. It was not like an analog issue that might tint the color of all the pixels, it was a digital issue where more than 99% of the pixels were the EXACT correct color and then a handful of spots had corrupted data which manifests as green specks on that monitor.

I don't know what the specifications say should happen when data loss happens, but I'd much rather my screen show a random spot rather than refuse to display anything that's corrupted.

you can think of the units of measure as multiplying and dividing sort of like the numbers themselves.

So if the nuclear battery continuously delivers 1 watt...

In one hour it would have delivered 1 Wh or watt-hour, because 1W * 1h = 1Wh.

And it works in reverse. If it takes 2 hours to deliver that 1 Wh? That's 1Wh per 2 hours or 1Wh/2h=0.5W!

ahkshuallly, don't you mean a capacitor?

Well maybe this time the new battery tech can be real and gay!

I have two optimism-filled counterpoints to this.

1. Happy childhood memories are often much nicer than actually existing as a child. Much more concentrated. You already have the good stuff.

2. The only person stopping you from walking through the woods and finding cool rocks is you!

(insert caveats here about how adult life sucks for so many people right now and they don't have free time to wander in the woods. I know. It sucks. I can only encourage you to consider it a metaphor and find something realistic and rewarding that fits your life)

This is where the information economy starts to eat itself. If every message arrives pre-saturated with irony, critique, and self-awareness, then no signal can rise above the din. Warnings, reassurances, satire, and sales pitches collapse into the same register. The audience isn’t persuaded or misled so much as numbed.

It sounds like you are describing an unfolding future where all communication us ultra-processed.

I have posted about this a couple times, but ever since I saw Jon Stewart a while back describe modern propaganda as ultra-processed speech. It's engineered for reaction and engagement. It's like you said, everything collapses into the same register when there's a BOMBSHELL headline every day.

But the ultra-processed thing has been reaching much further into our media and culture than political speech for a while now. Like I dunno, everything that has half the people's faces buried in their phone in public.

I mean if we already have a dictator anyway, how about some infrastructure to go with it?