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  • this is the part that really baffles me, though I guess I can’t expect much from the class that seems to be literally incapable of foresight.

    Like say AI actually does get there. Some company is able to crack human consciousness and we get truly intelligent AI, good enough to replace your workforce with… that AI isn’t going to be free. It’s going to be a monthly fee for your business. and then when you’re fully reliant on AI, when skilled labor is simply too difficult to cultivate any further, it’s going to inevitably enshittify. These corpos will end up slaves to the AI company.

    It’s like they fundamentally cannot see that they are giving up control. They’re so fucking stupid.






  • I just don’t get why it’s not an option.

    Like, murder was not easy in Subnautica. It was incredibly inefficient, often ended up in you needing to heal way more than otherwise necessary, and for some targets could take a really long time. I remember killing the big Leviathan down in the lava caves because I just didn’t want to have to deal with it constantly badgering me all the time while collecting resources, and it took me like 30 minutes of wrangling it with the mech’s grappling hook and hitting it with the drill.

    I can get the stance of not wanting to give the player conventional weaponry, and pushing you into the role of being prey instead of predator, especially for a game whose main theme is about living in harmony with nature. I have plenty of fond memories of the first game playing with those constraints. but you’re just creating less gameplay by making the fish immortal. I’d even say that for someone like me, it makes me less interested in the direction of the franchise as a whole. I’ve always thought that as far as difficulty curves go, starting as prey and ending as predator is way more satisfying then starting as prey and ending as prey that’s harder to kill.





  • Yeah it’s a pretty baffling plan from Higashi Village. It seems like they were trying to engineer situations where the twins get murdered so that they could awaken their powers but…why do that? why do it in such a hostile way? you’ve been generally successful at indoctrinating them, just don’t reveal that returning doesn’t have a 100% success rate and convince them it’s their destiny or w/e, maybe train them a little bit as well.

    Higashi’s motivations just seem pointlessly evil for the sake of being evil. If the goal was to control two superpowered twins, I feel like there was a much more elegant solution.