we have demons now, just walking around like people
Embed this noticeAme (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 18:54:29 JST
AmeIt occurs to me that, in the 2000's, everything aimed at kids had legitimately good official Flash games paired with it. Like, you could tell that the devs saw it as a personal passion project - good animation, hours of well-varied gameplay, and so on. The Teen Titans one (first pic related) made it into a fan-compiled list of the best 500 Flash games ever. The guys assigned to making the Lego Mars Mission game built a full-fledged Red Alert 2 clone (second pic related) that was the talk of the whole school for a few days.
Checked some more recent ones, and it's like I'm looking at baby's first hello world project. Even ones from, like, 2017. Animation from whoever Vietnam outsources to, gameplay that I'd expect either a nine year old boy or an African American CS PhD to be capable of implementing, and sounds that were scraped off freesound.
It's a small thing, wouldn't even have noticed it if I hadn't decided to go through Flashpoint's archive on a lark today, but it goes to show just how many little things were better before the age of the H1B.
> "I made myself as kidnappable as possible and no men took the bait. Am I doing it wrong? Do I need to wear less? I will die childless unless something changes, fast."
@PoalackJokes88@caekislove Oh, 100 percent. Imagine something like the Letter to America tiktok trend, but with an English-language Hitler speech. We're getting real close to that being possible, both on the technological and social fronts.
@caekislove Counting down the days until /a/ can toss in a Jap cartoon, press a button, and have an AI translate the text, generate embeddings of each voice actor, map them to equivalent English-language voices, and seamlessly dub the whole thing without a single troon involved in any step of the process. We've already got voice replication (see vid related), mapping voices to new languages is on the way, and translation is already solved.
Guy who packs it together and releases it under a funny name is gonna get so many bitcoins in donations.
@Ghislaine A common joke, but the first guy who figures out how to pay crackheads with XMR to assault and rob their political enemies will change history.
@WashedOutGundamPilot If you mean the eceleb drama, I think that's just a small clique of weirdos. I don't follow it beyond seeing mentions of it in my feed occasionally.
Part of it is that this community selects for people who got attached enough to the right circa 2014 that they waded through like a dozen waves of censorship. There's more intersection between that group and people with unhealthy parasocial relationships than there is between ordinary men and people with unhealthy parasocial relationships.
Therno's post is wrong though - the black vote was always fraud, and now it's blatant enough that, unless you've got a way to prevent fraud (seems regime change - complete, but possible that degrading competence plus a wide enough landslide means some nog will fuck up the math somewhere), there's no sense talking about voter demographics.
Kind of want to tell the last few Hillary voters on Reddit, see if I can give them an aneurism by informing them of exactly what kind of content the next generation is enjoying online.
@NotImportant@WashedOutGundamPilot I wrote a longer reply elsewhere, but the online conspiracy boomers, despite their weird rhetoric, are pretty smart about their actual actions. The queue people sort of internalized the mindset of 2016 /pol/, and formalized it into their strange religion - "Don't ever do IRL shit without an immediate, practical goal that you intend to accomplish by doing so, and always operate as part of a larger crowd that the regime is afraid to directly attack" is something they took to heart.