I always love the animal argument. Are you wearing clothes? Get your groceries at the store? Drive a car? Hold a job? Congrats. You’re part of human society so all that shit goes out the window. Until you’re living naked in the woods, you don’t get to compare yourself to an animal.
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It’s weird seeing a breakdown of the character that I got my username from.
I might be guilty of this. Used to go every week with a friend and eventually started figuring out my stride. Now I’m the one that does better than a casual player and it’s weird.
Welcome to the future where you will rent everything and be happy about it!
I’ve heard the explanation being that it’s a defense against treating dead bodies as alive and spending resources on them at a primal level. Just imagining when we first developed empathy and tried at length to care for those who we lost and evolution needed us to focus on the live ones.
It generally helps if you tie it on
My bet is that he’s known the entire time, but just says whatever he thinks is most profitable in the moment.
The big smile on the shop owner’s face is the best part
23:2400. Surely I’m safe…
Remember, the only real separation in society is generated by the upper class!
This is technically AI-driven, but not the same tech as all the image generators you see. This is an implementation of Style Transfer which came out years before OpenAI was even really on the map.
And costs $3500. I’m already making a car payment, thanks.
Here’s to hoping we get to see the results of “too big to fail”.
This is also the origin of “saved by the bell”, if I’m not mistaken.
I don’t play without a lighting mod that allows me to use torches in-hand for this reason.
Could also be that they stopped focusing so much on themselves/their appearance and started living in the real world and people noticed.