Oh hey Willis, good to see you on the fediverse. How’s the buffer doing?

If a description of your work competes with your work, your work suuucks.

thunk thunk

Airini Lalonde.

Futurama freely makes shit up. They’ll invent new math theorems to make a body-swap episode work, but if their cool new backstory for Bender contradicts canon, they do not give a dang.

It’s not the worst plot hole, because it doesn’t affect the extremely episodic show. They’re just willfully apathetic toward consistency.

Yeah I’ve already saved this thread for when you lie about me to someone else. Called that in the first comment.

Meanwhile someone in your ingroup admits they did exactly what I said, but they said nuh-uh before repeating exactly what I said they said, so it doesn’t count. Again: first comment.

Honestly, thank you for being an uncomplicated example of exactly what I’m talking about. I could put a sticker on your forehead and you’d try rubbing it off the guy in the mirror.

‘He kinda did.’

‘I kinda did.’

So you’re a nazi?

Troll.

good media should crowd out the bad.

Does should mean will?

Disinformation is not erased by correction. Brains don’t work that way. Reactionary radicalization must be prevented, because curing it is a thousand times harder. This is protecting people from harm through speech, as much as censoring directed threats or bigoted abuse. Polite phrasing on intolerable beliefs is just mobster speak: ‘it would be a shame if anything happened to your children.’

I think it was meant as a gotcha question

It was meant as a universal touchstone. Surely, I thought, everybody recognizes literal nazi propaganda should have been stopped, at some point. But no: that obvious extreme was met with milquetoast ‘well I wouldn’t read it.’ Neither did the Jews, buddy. Didn’t help. Systemic problems aren’t about you.

By the by, calling pointed questions “gotchas” is also a conservative tactic. I opened gently with acknowledgement that at one point the nazi party was just some schmucks. But not only did you suggest the problem with pro-holocaust propaganda was sourcing, you outright invited modern fascists to the table, so long as their racism is scientific racism. You can’t wedge yourself under a low bar and claim it was a trap.

The person in question told you I was right, and you agree with them, but still pretend I’m wrong.

Which is different from the ingroup-based reality I described… somehow.

My level being an accurate reference to specific events I’m prepared to source.

When you recognize you were wrong, your beliefs are supposed to change.

The problem was what, not who.

Possibly just to deny people standing, should they sue. ‘We haven’t dehumanized you yet!’

I’d be interested to see if reddit has “peaked” since then.

Math isn’t the problem, when you search “tetris attack snes” and the results are all “tetris,” and then clicking “did you mean what you actually wrote?” returns “nothing on the internet resembles those three words, you freak.”

Actual people did make this game. All the art in the current version is human-authored. This was a place-hold-er. It’s programmer art, except it looks good enough to accidentally ship, rather than an MS paint atrocity.

But hey, if you wanna rail against the game industry in terms of class and capital, here’s your pitchfork, let’s talk about unions and residuals.

No human artist would ever confuse second- and third-century architecture! Any child knows columns in a peristyle should’ve been corinthian until yeeears after Diocletian. And a parabolic arch? Outside of Dalmatia?! What’s your degree in, paint by numbers?

A single image made slightly wrong and left in by accident is ruinous. Seeing a load screen with a single mistake is worse than the game crashing every five minutes. Refund. Refund!

Frankly, get over it.

A lump of algebra will instantly draw whatever you describe. Or finish whatever you doodle. Or clean up two things you’ve lazily bodged together. No shit it’s gonna get used for placeholder imagery.

If a game ships with Shutterstock logos on a texture, that’s an embarrassing flub, but nobody screeches how they can’t believe a developer would do this to them. There’s no moral panic when a crate label still reads “Alan please add details.” If the whole game is human-authored aside from one JPG they missed, then even the hater-est of AI haters are crying wolf. Modern development can obviously make excellent use of this witchcraft. These are artists, being paid to do art, and it helps them make the thing.

Are you responding to someone who said, ‘all use is forced?’ Because I didn’t.

If you want this in your browser, great, there’s these things called extensions. The fact a goddamn LLM is standard, but DownThemAll is barely tolerated, speaks to completely fucked priorities at Mozilla.

You are functionally illiterate.

I object to this conversation on several fronts.