“Oh, so you don’t think Google is going to give your boss access to your private communications on your personal phone, too?” Correct, I do not think they will do that, they have never done anything like that, and there’s no evidence they’re considering doing it now.

The world is always changing, but the things people are worried about now (authoritarianism, protectionism, anti-immigrant sentiment, concentration of wealth, etc.) are very old problems.

This stuff is the AI equivalent of when McKinsey predicted that the "metaverse" was going to be a $5 trillion industry in 2030.

This is all just fantasy fiction. No one actually believes this is going to happen. We are not mere months away from the entire global workforce collapsing.

Automated text generation has existed for decades. "Dead internet" is from 2016. Markov chain text generation dates to at least 1984. The incentives to algorithmicly generate web text have been around since before 2010. Huge swaths of the internet have been case for seo/advertising slop for decades.

I've played a lot of Monster Train 2. Great game.

Have you played Eternal Strands? It's a physics-driven action RPG from a studio headed up by Mike Laidlaw, who used to be the director of the Dragon Age games. It's a little janky in places but overall I thought it was a lot of fun. store.steampowered.com/app/1491410/...

I also didn't like Blue Prince, so 2025 is definitely my year of being a hater.

Hah, I'm surprised you've missed me complaining about it. I wrote a thread with some of my issues back when I was playing it.

Aside from the (many) plot holes, my biggest issue is the same thing that bugged me about Clair Obscur: It wants to constantly hit you with Shocking Plot Twists and Big Emotional Moments, but it doesn't spend any time developing the characters or plot first, so it feels random and unearned.

Also that bartender's beard is too neatly trimmed. All modern bartenders have moustaches that look like they belong to the villain in an old western.

There are also little details that don't quite make sense, like the drink glasses being tilted at a different angle than the vase in front of them. But I agree that this is close enough to a real photo that you're very unlikely to notice unless you start picking apart the details.

Look at the person in the back who appears to be hovering between two chairs. I admit this is very hard to notice unless you're looking carefully for it.