Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. "You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That's a scam."

It's like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought "No, that's not shitty enough"

Mr Burns (seated) and Smithers.

So who is going to be first to set up a grifty EA think tank where the thinking is admittedly all done by LLMs, and why shouldn't it be us.

Frankly I'd be more impressed if they had a lab of non-thermodynamic devices.

Where are they going to find 500 people in India who are good at solving cold fusion and will do it for pennies.

Basically he's like the dudes who left Twitter for Gab or Truth Social and found it boring because there weren't any libs to own.

The sign of a great CEO is that sense of urgency.

The real “techbros” are all business people in an actual position of power, not the introverted QA tester just trying to get through the day.

If the QA tester goes home and checks his Raspberry Pi dogecoin mining rig, and is saving up for a Cybertruck, he's probably a tech bro, if only a larval one.

There's probably some blurring of what "AI doom" means for people. People might be left thinking that "there could be negative effects due to widespread job loss etc" without necessarily buying into the weird maximalist AI doom ideas or "torturing simulated you forever" nonsense.

And the weirdo cultists probably use that blurring to build support for their cause without revealing the weird shit they actually believe.

Or he now has the lung capacity of a 15% smaller 18 year old.

Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.

I feel like TED bears some responsibility for this kind of thing, somehow.