There is a demand for the data centers, but its not ai. That’s just the excuse. They’re building a surveillance state to track everyone. You thought the Chinese social credit system was bad just wait for the American freedom to lick billionaire boots surveillance system where anyone critical of the new nobility gets locked out of social mobility.
I hate this meme. Every damn time it pops up.
Yes they all should.
I think it’s also emblematic of how corrupt our system has become. We don’t have money or housing for the unhoused. We don’t have power for an all electric vehicle transport system. We must baby step every little inch of progress and fight tooth an nail as services are cut out from under us.
Yet these data centers spring up out of nowhere taking our water before we can drink it, and consuming power that our communities already paid for. Our representatives sell our services to take care of them because corruption is just lobbying. They dump pollution and excess heat into our communities during a climate catastrophe.
And it’s all for a technology that has a rather small use case where it works well, but is being crammed into everything whether it needs it or not making perfectly good tech into barely functional crap. All so that like ten white dudes can hoard more wealth, and control more and more aspects of all of our lives.
My favorite weird little guy was a halfling rogue, but he had an academic background. So he played like this overly optimistic nerd who just wanted to make the world a better place. I was playing him in a way that his optimism would fail when facing reality, but I kept rolling 20s. “Couldnt we all just get along?” Solved two conflicts. The best one was, “perhapse you have forgotten the power of love!” Convinced two dragons who hated each other to date. I miss that little guy. I still use his voice sometimes.
Honestly 14 year old me might not like what I do, but I wish she could have found out then what I would finally become.
Still better than business doing the same thing.
I dont expect to make it to 80 unless I somehow manage to survive my country losing world War 3 and stull having to go to work cause capitalists stole what little I had saved for retirement.
You telling me the gang wouldn’t get sidetracked by a locked door?
My friend ran a one shot session a while back. Lots of fun, new players to the table, but everyone was experienced. The boss that night wasnt the commissar or the backstabbing official that gave us the mission, it was a locked door. Sometimes it’s not about the storytelling or the hooks. sometimes even good players in a good group are dense and all you can do is sit there hoping they figure it out as they bang their heads against the wall.
On the one hand, “Oh yall latched onto an inoccuous flavor comment I made and now you want to go somewhere else entirely? Okay, gimme a minute.”
On the other hand, “please for the love of God I set this situation up specifically for the players background and character growth so stay here a minute and just solve the goddamn riddle. Its horse, okay the answer is horse!”
Ow wow she got to meet Stephen King?
Thank you,that was just the information I was looking for.
When did Spiderman’s friend become the ceiling of sex?
My friend ran a game recently where the final boss ended up being an open door. Good times.
I liked the first book. As long as you take it for what it is, 80s nostalgia fluff it’s a solid mindless read. Ready player 2 was just not good. Not even as fluff. Really all over the place, the main character was not the main character, and im not sure that Cline realized it.
the last starfighter fanfic Armada, just dont.
The arc of technology progress since the crash in the early 2000s has been pump and dump scams perpetrated on the entire market.