octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I believe that like 80% of the incel movement is just guys taking 60's sitcom writing as God's honest truth. The way they think the world works is insane, but would make perfect sense to Dobie Gillis. 040
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I think that's it. It's not, as others here are saying, that they're rooting for the villains. They don't care about the heroes and the villains. They only care that that one guy can plug a friggin' computer into his friggin' head and how cool is that?! 030
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you think ai is racist now, just imagine what the public domain version would look like. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Valve have actually said in interviews that it runs surprisingly well in standalone mode. Not to mention that like 80% of the vr games on steam are also on the Quest store and can demonstrably run just fine on standalone. 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've seen multiple people online reinvent runner ducking and and claim it as an ai success story. 010
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've heard that material maker has VR support, but I haven't tried it. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm a fan of the yt series "What Makes This Song Stink", and while I enjoy the humor, it feels weirder and weirder to me because I don't get worked up over bad songs anymore. The reason for this is that I hardly ever hear songs that I didn't specifically pick. 010
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If it looked like Republicans were down for the count, Dems wouldn't rule forever. The left half of the party would almost immediately either split off into their own party or leave and take over the greens. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm not sure about that. Smart evil is not killing the golden goose. It's not ruling with an iron fist, but just skimming little enough that everyone thinks they're doing fine, but you make out like a bandit. 100
Reposted by @octorine.bsky.socialErika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ahhhhh it would be an honor!! We can do iiiit! 🥹♥️ 15104165
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Politicians do what the voters tell them to do. It doesn't matter what Republican politicians say. It matters what undecided voters think they want. If you want dem pols to change their tune, don't yell at them, go convince the voters. 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think if they devoted some effort to fixing the curator system it would go a long way. If implemented properly it could help games find their audiences and gamers find new games, but as it exists now it's useless. 181
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My wife and I used to do audience participation co-op where one of us would play a game and the other would help with puzzles or yell "Potion" when health got low or whatever. I've been playing Blue Prince and would love to do that again, but she can't watch first person games without getting sick. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Have you read the craft sequence? I don't remember this happening in it, but it wouldn't be out of place if it did. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026He shot a man in Reno just to watch him die but then later shot some people in California for more conventional reasons? 020
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I tend to follow authors. The odds of me liking a random mystery novel are pretty low. The odds of me liking a Janice Hallett or Seisho Yokomizo approaches 100% 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I don't remember that one, but his performance in Psych was brilliant. Everyone who guest started on Psych had fun, but he had more fun. 130
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I'm one of those people. I still can't comprehend how anyone could prefer physical books. The only advantage I can see is that I don't thave to remove drm from them. But other than that they're worse in every way. 400
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There are a few of these. The most popular is Demeo, but I really liked Table of Tales. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Escape rooms are fantastic in VR. Probably the best genre IMO. 010
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I've been to the chicago museum of science and industry a few times as an adult, and enjoyed it way more than if I had gone as a kid. They should have adult only days. 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This was my favorite scene in that Steve Martin movie I forget the name of. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I think one of the reasons anti trans is so effective is the gish gallop aspect. It's dumb I'm so many ways that it's hard to pick which bit to respond to. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I think season at a time drops are the best thing ever, and it blows my mind that people can prefer the old way. I usually don't start watching until the season is almost out, which means I get things spoiled, but it's still better than waiting a week between episodes. 010
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Fran Leibowitz, according to the internet. 140
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The word for reading a braille book by touch is "reading". If there were a separate word for it, then we would use that. 110
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Nothing in the original post has anything to do with whether listening to an audiobook is reading or not. Everything he said would apply equally whether it is or isn't. 110
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Is there a books versus audiobooks debate? I've heard a lot of scolding about gatekeeping, but I've never seen or heard anyone suggest that listening to audiobooks is bad or you shouldn't do it. 120
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think they are inspired by that kind of AI. But they don't know how to make that, so they're selling what they do know how to make and hoping we don't notice the difference. 040
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026One of the pile of video game projects I'll probably never finish has you playing a state of the art ai spaceship brain, the first model with full human intelligence. If course since you weigh 8 tons, there's very little room for crew or cargo. 010
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I think there are more positive depictions of AI in fiction than negative. C3p0 was a stick in the mud, but his heart was in the right place, metaphorically speaking. For every Hal from 2001, there's a Clank from ratchet and Clank. I'm not sure which category Bender falls into. 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If someone invented the AI from scifi books, I would be more likely to be pro AI than I am now. Right now we have a magic 8 ball and have all collectively decided to pretend it's alive. 020
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Honestly, I think most of them don't even care about that. They just focus tested a lot of different messages and this one found some traction. They don't care why. When I was a kid, everyone was going on and on about people burning the flag. Trans kids playing sports are the new flag burners. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026One belief I have held for my whole life, although not always for the same reasons, is that everyone should just stfu about sports. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The fact that people aren't always rational may not matter if their irrationalities don't all go in the same direction. Theorizing about what they would do if they were rational can still give you valuable information even if your conclusions end up with error bars around them. 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026On the other hand, the one thing llms are best at is producing output that looks more useful and correct than it is. So however much a person thinks they're benefitting from an llm, the real amount is probably less than that, even if it's not zero 3/3 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026There's a lot of daylight between "useful for some purposes" and "will make you 10x as productive" or "will obsolete all human work", but I'm willing to accept that the weaker claim might be true. Even Cory Doctorow, who has written books debunking ai hype, uses llms for some things. 2/ 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Hank, as well as other people who are generally regarded as pretty smart and gave accomplished significant things, have said that ai (and by that I mean chatbot and similar chatbots, since that's what 99.99% of people mean when they say ai) is useful for some purposes. 1/ 100
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026If he abandons an earnestly held belief because he finds out it's unpopular, I don't think that would cause me to think better of him. 020
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026He had the interview with Bernie Sanders a while back where they were both talking about all the amazing things AI can do, so not a complete surprise. Also, he is pretty smart, so maybe he's right about AI and I'm wrong. I don't think so, but maybe. 120
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026You seem to think that a tumbler fight it manifesto is some kind of ordeal to be avoided and not the whole point of social media. People like arguing about things on the internet. Let them have their fun. 000
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think he is or used to be libertarian or at least knows a lot of them. My impression just from reading the books is the has a lot of affection for the viewpoint, or at least it's adherents, even though he knows deep down that they're wrong. 010
octorine.bsky.social @octorine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Is Neal Stephenson conservative? Reading the Ameristan stuff in REAMDE makes that kind of hard to believe. Or the book he co-wrote containing the black woman on government assistance who accidentally ends up in politics because she happens to demolish some Republican on camera. 110
