Tsukomogami and Patina: In Praise of Old Things

It’s the concept that old mechanical things like typewriters and camera lenses (for example) all age individually. They develop their own quirks and foibles as they are used. They almost (as in Tsukomogami) develop a soul.

We are fundamentally losing that to a society that is about consumable mass-produced trash, and on a long enough timeline, it’s going to mean losing a fundamental piece of who we are as a society.

What a fucking loser. I can’t even describe how pathetic he is when he tries to put on his tough face. Fucking cosplaying motherfucker probably got tea-bagged too often in CoD and now has to take it out on actual soldiers.

That’s the soundtrack for the game. Not the game itself.

There is nothing in this world at this moment that would make me happier than digging through that box, reading old ACTUAL paper game manuals, and falling back into my early 20s when gaming still felt magical.

I’m 50 years old and I’ve always wanted to get my PPL, and it’s always been out of reach.

There has never been a point where private piloting wasn’t limited to the wealthy (or at least the extremelly well off).

Destroy it’s value and then sell it at a firesale to his billionaire buddies.

It’s funny that if you look at the picture above, it has zero “real” context clues. No signs, no name tages, no MAGA hats. But you can still instantly tell who the MAGA asshole in it is.

I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they’d be feeling betrayed rather than excited.

Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!

It’s like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it’s done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.

More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.

Using AI to double check your code is very different from using AI to replace your skilled creative talent on a motion picture. It’s not even an accurate comparison… GL isn’t talking about coding, he’s talking about visual effects, writers, even actors…all of whom who’s careers are at risk.

You want to use AI to make sure you didn’t miss a semicolon at the end of a line, great…knock yourself out. But that has literally nothing in common with what Lucas is blathering about here.

Of course he did. He loves updating his classics every time some “new technology” comes along to let his freak-flag fly.

We’ll be seeing a re-re-re-re-release of A New Hope shortly where he uses an AI generated Boba Fett and Solo giving them a scene or two to develop a backstory.

Final report recommendation: Keep your phone at home when your blitzed, Kegsbreath…

Depends on which end got damaged the most from the truck.

I’m saying that moralilty is just another word for Empathy.

Right. But I’m saying that most people don’t do that because most people can empathize with others.

Morality is just another word for Empathy.

Y’all Quaeda

At least real law enforcement has to wear a uniform. Christ, get someone on that. I hear Hugo Boss isn’t too busy this time of year.

The 80s was an incredibly flammable time for clothing fabrics.

Morality doesn’t exist.

Morality is just Empathy re-branded by religion in order to be codified and used to cudgel uneducated medieval serfs.

What they preach about in not killing, not raping, not fucking deer, etc… etc… literally comes from simply giving the barest minimum of shits about the people around you.

Their problem however, is that Empathy not only predates their religion by hundreds of thousands of years (if not millions), but that Empathy is not limited to humans, which would mean that they’re no longer the creator’s “special little boy”.

So they rename it, put it into neat and easy little Mnemonic devices (lets call them sins) and then run around telling the uneducated peasants “don’t do this, don’t do that” even though most people weren’t doing those things anyway because most people have empathy and simply aren’t assholes.

100%. I’ve been saying it for years that at the end of the day, the only punishment that actually works is the public shaming.

Bring back the public perp walks. March the criminal through the streets with a big banner announcing their crime, and then leave them them in a public cell in the middle of town for a few days with their name on it, their crime, and no privacy so that people can come and see them.

A few days of that will do more to cure recidivism than any jail you can name.

And they should be.

Unless he shows up in person to do his job, we can assume that every thing posted is just a bad fake created by his staff.