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New comment by webdood90 in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

webdood90 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:45:29 +0000

Run-of-the-mill. Ya know, a normal perpetuator of war profiteering. I mean he's your standard enabler of civilian bombing. Simply an average propagandist. Just a regular guy!

New comment by webdood90 in "Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up"

webdood90 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:35:22 +0000

Lazy, regurgitated take. House prices then were also 1/10 of what they are today.

New comment by webdood90 in "AI makes programming differently difficult"

webdood90 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:25:13 +0000

You must really have your head in the sand if you truly believe AI will not soon be very close to, if not better than, humans at writing code.

New comment by webdood90 in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

webdood90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:22:18 +0000

I would agree. At least previously we could pretend that we were developing a craft in the process.

New comment by webdood90 in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

webdood90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:42:02 +0000

The system does not reward deep understanding. It's too slow.

An analogy that I think helps describe how I feel about it all:

AI is like having cheat codes in a video game. You don't have to try hard and develop a deep understanding of how the game works. You aren't challenged anymore and it doesn't feel like you earned winning the game.

It doesn't matter because nobody cares. Businesses truly do not care. You are a cog, a means to an end. It's only about "winning". Now it's no longer fun to play the game.

New comment by webdood90 in "Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt"

webdood90 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:56:56 +0000

> I did not live through that era

Then you probably don't fully understand where he's coming from, do you?

New comment by webdood90 in "Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt"

webdood90 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:11:32 +0000

So true - same for me. Maybe because I'm older now? Not sure.

New comment by webdood90 in "Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt"

webdood90 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:40:06 +0000

I think this translates to a few different mediums. I'm thinking about modern matchmaking in video games today.

I used to play a game called SOCOM II back on the PS2 and it was all lobby based. You had to jump around to find the right lobby with the game mode you liked, find people to play with and build community. There was time between games for banter.

Now everything is automatic and instantaneous. It has its advantages, just like with music, but something was definitely lost.

New comment by webdood90 in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

webdood90 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:41:01 +0000

The root of all our evils, right here. We only want the fastest cheapest thing possible, without thinking about how it impacts literally everything else about our world.

New comment by webdood90 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

webdood90 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:04:50 +0000

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New comment by webdood90 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

webdood90 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:52:37 +0000

You can have a fulfilling and rewarding career in tech without working for a monster.

The mental gymnastics people do to justify their decisions are hilarious. Just admit you have no morals and love money.

New comment by webdood90 in "Travel locally, where you are"

webdood90 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:10:04 +0000

This, but take a bike ride or a bus instead of driving.

New comment by webdood90 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

webdood90 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:32:08 +0000

Why would you accept this? Who does this serve?

I want to believe the world is full of good people but I read stuff like this and realize otherwise.

New comment by webdood90 in "The real cost of owning a home"

webdood90 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:42:20 +0000

It's okay to do things that don't maximize your return.

Everybody is so obsessed with squeezing out the maximum amount of money from everything, it's exhausting.

New comment by webdood90 in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

webdood90 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:31:53 +0000

Who are you protecting here?

You realize a very small subset of the population can afford a million dollar home, let alone a five million dollar home?

The majority of the city does not give a shit.

New comment by webdood90 in "Life During Class Wartime"

webdood90 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:57:29 +0000

Fair!

New comment by webdood90 in "Life During Class Wartime"

webdood90 — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:40:58 +0000

Why do people stan for billionaires? I don't get it - what motivates you to say this stuff?

Most of what you said is greatly exaggerated or simply not true. It's like you cherry picked Fox News talking points.

New comment by webdood90 in "Life During Class Wartime"

webdood90 — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:04:01 +0000

> Increasing the tax to just inflate a bureaucracy helps nobody

Bureaucracy = jobs, at least. I'd rather that than having it concentrated at the top.

New comment by webdood90 in "ARC-AGI-3"

webdood90 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:14:30 +0000

Crazy how many people have their heads in the sand.

I'm glad you could think of a couple examples where AI might not replace humans. It's almost an entirely useless point to make.

The cat is already out of the bag. The information is out there and the models are trained. Even where we stand today will bring massive disruption in time.

The economy is being propped up by the wealthy few that have money to spend and now their legs are being cut out from under them with this technology. We're in for a reckoning.

New comment by webdood90 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

webdood90 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:27:12 +0000

> These people are absolutely lost, with administration totally sold on the idea that "AI is the future" ...

Doesn't sound that different from my tech job