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Has anyone done anything yet with ‘agentic ai’ that couldn’t be done better/faster/easier in other ways? So far, I’ve mostly seen ‘I spun up 20 agents to google how to make a tuna casserole on twenty search engines and one more to summarize the results. Please, ignore that this burns as much compute power as our entire office does on a random Tuesday and produces pretty much the same result as if I had just searched once and read the free AI summary, which in turn is slightly worse than if I had searched it with no AI involved and just read the first link.’

Poe’s Law hitting hard on this one.

With the machine completed, the messiah had automated his primary task and was thus terminated for redundancy.

Yup. You are probably healthier now than you ever will be. Might get smarter, though. That won’t make you happier, though.

They used to be, but then again old forms of many things were more dangerous than they are now.

The term you would want to search for is ‘destructible environments.’

• Worms games
• Split Second
• Destroy All Humans
• Red Faction:Guerilla
• Just Cause 2 (so much destruction)
• Shipbreaker is a more relaxed demolition game
• The Street fighter still is reminding me of Bloody Roar where you could kick enemies through walls to fight in another area
• BeamNG.Drive
• Wreckfest
• Control
• 7 Days to Die
• Dysmantle

This is the one I thought of. It’s much more calming than the others but just great.

They’re implied, kinda.

Mocha. I can take or leave most things but mocha is mandatory.

It really doesn’t (union workers get ~10-20% more, which can be ~5-15% on overall expenses for a business, vs ~$100/month for ‘teambuilding’ with pizza and dollar store soda) but you know what does? A bazillion hours of OT, training time, opportunity costs, and HR time spent on hiring and firing churn because no one wants to work under shitty management.

Martok: I will stab you.

Gowron: With your d’k tahg, right? Right?

Vintage Story is a slowburn survival game with a Linux version from the developers, not a compat layer. It’s focused on realism.

Ranch Sim is a game in which you design your own ranch.

Starship Evo, formerly Sky Wanderers, is still in development but has reached a very playable stage. You build bases and ships out of predefined shapes but with highly variable scaling, as in ranging from 12.5cm grid up to 1m with all the standard slopes, panels, etc. It has logic systems, inventory and production systems, and control systems for space ships, hovercraft, mech walkers, and space stations, all using that heavily customisable building system. Then you can fly around doing little missions, trading, space ship combat, etc.

Archean is similar building but with more realism and programming but more sandboxy with no NPCs.

I’ve heard some good things about Steamworld Build.

I have heard someone say Icarus was like Ark but better.

7 Days to Die ticks much of those boxes as well.

Stationeers is another struggle, survive, thrive game with very realistic mechanisms.

Foundry is Factorio in 3D. Satisfactory is Foundry without a Gödel grid.

One has to wonder what human society would be like if this was the normal mode of human reproduction. No sexes or genders for people to argue over, just every pregnancy beginning and ending in a screaming, sweaty, bloody mess.

Considerably older than Americans.

I could see a show that’s basically kind of like Dexter, where a group of various kinds of queer people who lost their loved ones to anti-queer violence join a support group but then go Dexter-y and start tracking down and gathering irrefutable evidence of bigoted violence and then murdering the perpetrators.

Bigot: “What are you gonna do? Drown me in rainbows?”

Gay Dexter: “No.” *slits throat* “I’m not that kind of fairy.”

Almost no one says murder is the worst crime. (There’s a reason murderers aren’t as scared of their fellow prisoners as child molesters.) The person above is saying murder is still murder, regardless of justification, which is true. However, many, if not most, people will say there are circumstances which justify murder. Not to make it not murder, just make it ethically acceptable.

That’s just repeating the concept in the OP and ignoring my point. There is a value in the personal touch. Which would signal a better partner to you: a woman who knows you like to have food sometimes so she installs a vending machine in your apartment with all the options set to ice cream and the prices at 0.00, so you can always have as much of this one thing to eat, any time, any day, with or without her, as you like as long as you keep paying for power, or one who knows you like food, so she figures out what you like and dislike, learns recipes that she thinks will make you happy, spends time finding or growing good produce to make those recipes, and only when she’s feeling ill or burned out by work, reaches for the vending machine? The vending machine is always there as an option, but not wanting to use it is not just weakness. It’s often a desire to be the best version of yourself for your partner, not as a competition with the machine but a competition with the limitations of human language and form to express the inexpressible extent of your love.

Another Torment Nexus to add to our collection. Neat!