EdlritchEconomics [he/him, comrade/them]

Schrödinger’s Cat Burglar, mostly. Because I will never not play a cat game. It’s Aussie, too, which is just more motivation. It’s also actually really, really good.

It’s kind of cliche to describe a puzzle game as ‘like Portal but with X’, and they were clearly going for a similar vibe or homage, right down to the orange/blue colour scheme. It works though, and it’s definitely its own thing rather than a cheap copy. The central gimmick is that you control two copies of the same cat, and it forces you to think differently as a result, similar to what Portal did by breaking your expectations of physics.

The learning curve is gentle, the vibes are friendly, the humour is less dark, the stakes are lower, and the cat is really cute. Highly recommended.

This looks great, I’ll have to check it out.

That’s how supply chains traditionally have been done. Supermarkets for example have hyper-optimised ‘just in time’ systems where they order stock based on projected demand and it’s all done with stats and probability, has been for decades. Very much the hard math type stuff that AI sucks at. I don’t know for sure but I can’t imagine Starbucks doing it much differently. They have the resources and economies of scale to make it work. From a capitalist perspective there’s no reason to change it, except that some CxO decided to go all in on AI in an attempt to juice the stock price.

Wow that AI does not know what a drone looks like.

I started it. Didn’t get much more than a couple hours in. Seems fine but it didn’t grab me. I could be convinced to give it another go tho.

Yeah fair point about the lag. Don’t move it on my account but if it ends up being later anyway I’ll try to drop in and see if I can deal with it.

That’s way too far past midnight in my timezone, otherwise I’d be so there. Any chance of another one that’s slightly more antipodean-friendly?

I agree that they look brown at the start of the video, but later on they seem pretty clearly blue to me. So it’s either a trick of the light (however that happens in a studio setting?), or somebody noticed and fixed it at some point. Somebody better at video please feel free to correct me.

Yeah that neck is another thing that screams AI to me. You can see the tendons below and above the line move at the same time while being totally disconnected. The guy is also pretty much dead still while talking, most people move their head at least a little.

Dude forgot who he was talking about mid sentence.

Definitely something hinky going on here, but my money is on poorly-masked AI deepfake. Harward is a real guy with internet presence, image search him and compare. There’s something about the movement, and especially the mouth that’s just a little uncanny. Teeth don’t seem right to me.

Aside from the absolute inhumanity, this also functionally publically outs anyone who uses them.

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I swear he thinks twitter is this magical reality altering machine where anything he posts just becomes true.

Why does Trump look like he’s levitating.

Yeah it’s shit but sidenote: I fucking hate it when scrolling a page does things other than actually fucking scroll. Take your text highlight bullshit and fuck all the way off. Make me stop to read at your pace I will launch you into the fucking sun.

That was fast.

You’re right, but I think I’d rather hang out with a non-vegan commie, than a non-commie vegan. I’m vegan myself but I find too many of them are insufferable libs who took to veganism as a shortcut to moral superiority.