“Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search”: who could have predicted that genAI bullshit would open the floodgates to even more disinformation, manipulation, scamming, and spam? Fuck genAI.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“Rich Flu”, a movie in which a plague only targets rich people, looks wild and fun! It’s by the director of the equally heavily metaphorical “The Platform”, only this time it comes with an extra serving of wishful thinking.
“‘The Vampire Lestat’ Concert Event Launches New Season With The Ultimate Expression Of Fandom”: I really love this. Sam Reid and the whole marketing department on the Immortal Universe series are absolutely on fire. Lestat would love this combination of drama and meta.
Reading Classic RuneQuest: Preamble
I started playing RuneQuest with the latest edition, “RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha”, colloquially known as “RQG”. I had fallen in love with the setting via its gigantic1, critically acclaimed, system-agnostic “Guide to Glorantha”2, so using the official game to bring it to the table felt like the next logical move. RQG looked great at first, even though I was immediately skeptical of some of its most idiosyncratic mechanics, like Strike Ranks3. But there was a lot of cool stuff! Divine magic that requires worship at your god’s temples to recharge! Rune affinities that model your personality! Passions that connect to your community!
But after a couple years of play, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong.
“Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked”
HAHAHAHAHAHA 😂🤣🤣 Keep going, everyone, this is amazing!
The Romans started as a Republic but then devolved into an Empire. In Glorantha, the Lunars start as an Empire but the White Moon Movement will transform them into a Republic. It’s an uplifting tale of redemption! A story about the power of social change! We are all us! 🌓
If, like me, you often end up on a fan-made wiki when looking things up for a video game, book, or TV series, here is another reason to hate “genAI”: aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
I reached the end of season 01 of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Fun times! But who the hell put some “body snatchers”-style conspiracy and gore in my Star Trek? I mean, I like it a lot, but it was clearly too hastily made. Should have, at the very least, been a two-part episode IMHO.
Apparently it’s time for stupid American centrism to come for genAI takes.
Listen, it’s OK to find your own nuanced position on the topic, but if your thesis is “mmmh actually both sides are too extreme”, you can fuck off into the sun.
“You got a real attitude problem, Prince Adam! You’re a slacker! No Prince has amounted to anything in the whole history of Eternia!”
