Prelude to the Apocalypse

[Sima Tuna]

When I was a (conservative christian) child, I had one of those comic book Bibles. The thing was honestly awesome for a young boy. It was full of killing, violence, lust, warfare, betrayal, murder and more murder. I loved it!

Stupid sexy murder. That's how they rope ya in!

The Brick Testament is the go-to for fun bible adventures, these days..

Samson had enough of that lion's shit

Young me would have loved it.

[orange808]

15 boomsticks. Wow.

[orange808]

Why are terrorist Timothy McVeigh's words in print? I'm asking for a friend.



https://www.foxnews.com/story/mcveighs- ... o-fox-news

Bonus points: Fox News Terrorist published at Fox News.

That's inconvenient, eh? Don't clutch those pearls too much.

[BIL]

Oho! orange-san, I think we are talking about the same thing! Speaking of the cod-Orwellian, I'm mildly horrified to see ~Teh Graun~ delete MC Goatfucker's classic 2002 diss track "Letter II AmeriKKKa" because some pampered fuckwits went "BRUH, THIS CHANGE ERRETHING" @ it.

The children - however overextended and catladied their childhoods may be - are retarded by nature. Of course they will go from "LMAO MURICA GUD" to "LOLOLOL MURICA BADD", or vice-versa, in ways we may find garish. Defacing the historical record will not eliminate this developmental foible - quite the opposite, it will intensify it. Render it permanent, even.

YOU GAPING GRAUNIAD HACK FRAUD CUNTS :O

orange, if I could spare the ATP, I'd bump the KanKel Kulture thread with its latest victim!

[BryanM]

Bill I watched some youtube clips of the South Park Strong Woman episode the other week. I liked how the girls had an "unfair advantage" at playing board games because their overdeveloped math brains were just too stronk. Really wrapped itself together in a neat little ouroboros in the end.

Everything has a beginning, but nothing ever ends.



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Holy shit, Sam Altman fired from OpenAi. Shit's getting real, I guess?

[BIL]

"I'M HERE TO KICK SOME FUCKIN ASS"

Pure physics is a motherfucker, isn't it. 3; So implacable. And yet comfortingly consistent, once; before we unmoored it from reason, and let blind zeal buffet away. Oh god, I have to scratch my nose - again! I hope I won't tear my face apart like Darkman, that would be awkward. Here we go lads. Phew! Another narrow escape.

Well, let's parachute this bloke in a dress into the ladies' MMA tournament. I'm sure that too will be fine.

I was glad to see that sick cunt Megan Rapinoe (*PTOO* >:[) go out with a knee injury, recently! Man's game innit love. But NOW she'll spend all day bleating about "equal pay" () for "equal work" (). So I'd rather she had her face smashed in by the strapping lads she's adamant the next generation compete with. Perhaps a TBI too, as so reliably occurs when men batter women, deliberately or not. Speaking of the cerebral!

Oh well. Other people's faces, and other people's daughters, will surely prove the courage of her convictions.

We are a fatally pampered lot Bryan! 3; So comfily removed from the ancient killing floor, where your Rape Chimp 9000 meatsuit trumped all notions of fairness, the new clerical class has snuck it back in. No end, indeed. Small wonder even stalwart ~Teh Graun~ has forsaken Burger Town.

...y'know, IIRC, that BALEETED polemic was buttmad about IDPOL, too. Wait. Holy fuck. Those heckin' cool and smart TikTokkerinos were right all along! Bruh, this change errething I foreswear my previous post, Bryan! PLS frens, do not share my casual racism and call my new non-Shia BFF "MC Goatfucker," but instead... MC HALAL

He thinks women's footie is shite, too! Women's suffrage as well, admittedly, but nobody is perfect!

[BryanM]

Good morning, doomsday diary.

The OpenAI drama really was like unplugging a computer, then plugging it back in. Rumors are really out there; one claim I initially brushed aside as obvious nonsense was the claim they made a system that could solve AES encryption. Enough nerds are talking about it though, that does give me pause with a what if. What if this machine can basically perform a feat of magic now.

NVidia's H200 card being almost twice as powerful as the H100's from a couple years ago sure is a feel...

Rational reasons to be optimistic about the future in comment sections have been appeals to religion: if quantum immortality +/- the anthropic principle apply, everything should be just peachy despite how rationally fucked everything should be. Qualia can't observe the universe if it's dead, after all!

I'm up to maybe a 56% now on the probability of a reverse Eugene Debs winning the election this year. "Vermin extermination" and all that. A fascist clown ending would prove Final Fantasy 6 right once again.

Speaking of fascists, I learned that in Robocop 2, Robocop goes haywire after being installed with a bunch of woke directives. I assume this is something definitely preserved from Miller's script.... I really probably should watch Robocop 2 again some day, it's been 30 years, but you know.... .... I could just watch Robocop 1 instead, which has been the main issue here.

Eh. Here's the internet meme of the week.

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It certainly evokes memories of things like World of Warcraft's "rest" system. Exactly the same as the fatigue system, same numbers and incentives and everything. Almost everyone hated fatigue, but loved rest. The monkey brain really is feeble at most things...

[BIL]

Personally, all TOUCHY-FEELY like (uwu ^o^), I would say that SMB example is nearer to training wheels than mere rebadge. Those pillars and the negative space they create seem like legitimate kinesthetic aids; from regrettably extensive time with humanity's ultimate artform, Running Jumping Man II: The RunJumpening, when there's a handy grid of pylons rooting each vital XY point to the screen floor, it's much clearer at a glance where to steer the flailing fat man / rock n' roll wizard / rodeo clown.

I would imagine taking away those guidelines creates non-trivial compensatory load on the player's brainmeats, albeit a negligible one for battle-hardened grid-seeing spergs. (they even get the MARIO 1CC :O)

Admittedly as you know Bryan I am a goddamn sperg (｀w´メ)

[BryanM]

If you weren't, you wouldn't be here.

The 4chan copy pasta once again for the new kids:

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"In that direction," the Cat said, lazily waving its right paw, "lives Anonymous: and in that direction," waving the other, "lives tripfags. Visit either you like: they're both weeaboos."

"I don't much think I'd like being around weeaboos," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all weeaboo here. I'm weeaboo. You're weeaboo."

"How do you know I'm weeaboo?" said Alice.

"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

[Sengoku Strider]

Damn, jealous of everyone in the UK right now after Trump switched the country to the Quantum Financial System, which according to prophecy means money is now free and brings us one step closer to the rapture.



I like that they're running everything through this one guy on Facebook, gives it a personal touch other G7 economies lack.

[BIL]

And so Henry Kissinger dies of oldmanitis peacefully at home in bed, and not being fucked in the mouth by a massive gay lion until his head explodes. Bryan your thread is as fearsome a harbinger as ever. (｀w´メ)

[Sima Tuna]

Henry Kissinger also won the Nobel Peace Prize.

[BryanM]

I'm going to feel very embarrassed if Dick Cheney ever dies one of these days. After all those assertions that the immortality serum was just for him.

If it really turns out to be a Metal Gear thing, where he comes swinging out of the mecha stronk as fuck with a "how'd I get a body like this? Exosomes, son!" it'd really be a "you stupid" moment for the human species. It's not quite on the same level as "lick mushrooms, become immortal" but it is outrageously simple, for an initial rejuvenation therapy.

[BIL]

Henry Kissinger also won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Truly an august institution, even before Obeme snipe he WR with Destroy Libya Any%

[Rastan78]

When God tier Japanese superplayer and Cave specialist Clover-TAC has become a right wing gun nut there's no doubt the apocalypse is near.

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[BIL]

That beard says he's serious about branching out! Coming soon THE PROPORTIONAL RESPONSE Virtua Cop 3

[Rastan78]

He's currently playing DDP Red White & Blue Label: Deathtiny Hands Resurrection

That beard

Yeah he's almost unrecognizable from back when he appeared at Stunfest. Must've been going hard on the Fox News Kool-aid.

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[BryanM]

Neuromorphic processors are a bit back on the radar, now that OpenAI looks like it'll buy some from a company Altman invested in. One hand washes the other. Nobody really cared to invest in hardware for something that didn't exist yet, settling with GPU's or TPU's, but it seems like we're moving close to products that are potentially useful for stuff.

Emulation naturally has a huge cost overhead - Decent Super Nintendo emulation on BSNES requires orders of magnitude more power than an SNES has. And if you want to simulate electricity moving through circuits? Well, you might be able to play Pong that way. If you use a stripped-down version.

IBM of Japan commissioned a cross-over with Steins;Gate ten+ years ago to promote their product. What's kind of funny/reassuring is most of the things it claimed it could do are now possible - getting the computer to recommend some terrible recipe ideas. Altering clothes on photos of people. Etc. Admittedly it wasn't exactly as ambitious as things like physics-violating FLYING CARS, but it they were still capabilities computers were incapable of back then.

TLDR: To have a brain you must build a brain.

[orange808]

Congress has not removed Jonathan Pentland from the United States Military, but they claim they care about people saying offensive things about others based on ethic background.

Interesting...

Oh, I forgot. Johnny Freedom was assaulting a black person. That doesn't count. Congress is here to protect white men.

Cancel culture is totally cool when they want it. Remember the fake objections to cancelling? Johnny Freedom isn't out of the government organization, but these college presidents must be fired? Students must be ejected?

Doesn't add up. It's not consistent. Congress is hypocritical and they have no credibility.

Same as always. Everyone is liar. Everything is bullshit. Everything is subjective. Everything is made up in the moment for convenience. Always.

Don't clutch those pearls too much, boys.

[Sengoku Strider]

BREAKING: Heroic Patriots Reveal Proof We Are Living in Alternate Reality from Tear in Space Time Continuum



They spelled SERN wrong, but how long have I been saying this? Now we have ironclad proof.

[Sima Tuna]

I've been absolutely disgusted by the lack of filial piety among my family lately. My grandmother's husband passed away a couple years ago. His stuff was immediately looted and distributed to the children without consulting her. She's poor and suffering now, in need of all forms of help. Her sons are well able to economically support her, particularly the two eldest. But so is her daughter. Have they offered any substantial help in this area? Have they fuck. She's lucky enough if anyone from the family will swing by with some groceries (she's not able to drive herself at this time.) I know some of the family try to help, but the ones who do try are the ones who can least afford the time or the money. How absurd that the poorest are the most rich in spirit!

I'm speaking largely of people who are older than me, so this rot I've noticed in society seems to be a phenomenon which predates my own existence. Of course, I am not saying that an abusive parent deserves anything. There are limits to any association and one is not indentured into servitude simply by virtue of being born. But it seems to me, that if a parent is kind towards her children, and if she harms nobody except herself, and she genuinely needs help, then it is a child's duty (assuming they have the means) to provide that help in her twilight years. Am I not correct? What disgusts me even more is all these selfish fucks claim to be born-again christians. Christ, save me from your fucking followers. I've met bums on the street corner with stronger morals! The change from their pockets would be a boon to their mother, yet they do nothing.

Well, what do you think? "Parents can just get fucked?" Or do you think that filial piety has some relevance? Have you seen respect for elders vanish in your part of the world?

[Sengoku Strider]

Well, what do you think? "Parents can just get fucked?" Or do you think that filial piety has some relevance? Have you seen respect for elders vanish in your part of the world?

I've long thought that respect for one's seniors is one of the things Confucianism got right, vs. Western traditional culture's obsession with youth=beauty=virtue. Unless you die that old person is gonna be you some day, and it's gonna be you when you need that respect the most, and when you've put in the most work to earn it. Yeah, notions like filial piety can be abused by parents who just take that as an invitation to walk all over their kids or have their dumb assumptions go unquestioned. But the concept is supposed to rest on a mutual respect for each other, and for social harmony and stability.

[BulletMagnet]

Well, what do you think? "Parents can just get fucked?" Or do you think that filial piety has some relevance?

I'm certainly no saint, but I do at least attempt to do right by my own folks, if only for the reason SS mentioned; every time I bend over and something doesn't feel quite like it used to I'm reminded that I'm next in line to need the kind of help they need, and will have no right to ask for it from anyone if I wasn't willing to provide it myself when I was able.

Christ, save me from your fucking followers.

As Gandhi is purported to have put it, "I like your Christ very much, but I do not like your Christians, for they are very unlike your Christ."

[Sima Tuna]

Well, what do you think? "Parents can just get fucked?" Or do you think that filial piety has some relevance? Have you seen respect for elders vanish in your part of the world?

I've long thought that respect for one's seniors is one of the things Confucianism got right, vs. Western traditional culture's obsession with youth=beauty=virtue. Unless you die that old person is gonna be you some day, and it's gonna be you when you need that respect the most, and when you've put in the most work to earn it. Yeah, notions like filial piety can be abused by parents who just take that as an invitation to walk all over their kids or have their dumb assumptions go unquestioned. But the concept is supposed to rest on a mutual respect for each other, and for social harmony and stability.

I'll always remember the saying, "I'd rather be old than the alternative."

Do young people think old folks appear out of thin air? Unless we die young, those old duffers will be us one day, indeed. Kids will laugh at us and call is idiots for playing our creaky shmups in the nursing home while they're out on the Holodeck. Western society seems to care very little (generally) for the plight of the old. What does an old person do when they are out of money? They can't just go get a job. Either they aren't healthy enough or no place would hire them because of their age. Even then, I do see some people working retail jobs and think to myself, "damn dude, it sucks a guy this old has to be here bagging groceries."

If you made it to old age, isn't that an accomplishment? It means nothing was able to kill you before your time. People should celebrate your life. (Again, obviously not abusers.) Old people should spend their twilight years enjoying the families they helped build, shouldn't they? I dunno man, it just seems so cruel the way we treat old folks. I get that some of them are abusive assholes and some of them need 24/7 care their families can't provide, but there's still a hell of a lot of old codgers who fall outside those two categories.

[BulletMagnet]

Western society seems to care very little (generally) for the plight of the old.

If you take a completely heartless, numbers-driven view of society - which, as capitalism eats itself alive, we're increasingly encouraged to do by its worst actors - old people and children are bad for the economy, since they consume resources and contribute little in return (and, unlike kids, this state of affairs will never change for the elderly as long as they keep living). This is why we had Texas' lieutenant governor saying during Covid that grandparents should be willing to risk dying so the economy could get going again.

Of course, the primary wrinkle in this state of affairs is that the boomer generation by and large had better economic opportunities than the generations that followed them, and thus producers are forced to appeal to their interests because they're the ones most likely to still have some cash to burn; naturally this opportunity to take their money before they can pass it on to their next of kin won't last forever, and hence you have the abundance of scams, legal and otherwise, specifically targeting the elderly.

[Cuilan]

It seems like the boldest stands to take these days are:

You can support the Ukrainians without glorifying the Azov Battalion/Right Sector, while also criticizing the Russian government without calling for the genocide of every Russian.

You can support the Palestinians without glorifying Hamas, while also criticizing the Israeli government without being antisemitic.

I really don't think it's hard to do both of these at once, but maybe it's just another way in which I'm a weirdo.

(Ah... the heyday of Cuilan might have been before your time, if you weren't lurking for years. ... I mean a decade.)

Oh, hello there. Yeah, those sure were the days.

[BulletMagnet]

criticizing the Israeli government without being antisemitic.

Congress is currently working to make such a stance illegal.

This is a particularly sore point for me because it recalls the post-9/11 era when criticizing the Bush administration, not only for Iraq but for anything, meant that everyone was free to scream at you about how you "hate freedom" and "want the terrorists to win" and are "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" and, of course, "if you don't like it you can just get out". Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[AGermanArtist]

Criticizing the Israeli govt is fucking antisemitic and Israelis who do are branded self-hating and subjected to what essentially boils down to something akin to an inquisition.

[Sima Tuna]

criticizing the Israeli government without being antisemitic.

Congress is currently working to make such a stance illegal.

This is a particularly sore point for me because it recalls the post-9/11 era when criticizing the Bush administration, not only for Iraq but for anything, meant that everyone was free to scream at you about how you "hate freedom" and "want the terrorists to win" and are "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" and, of course, "if you don't like it you can just get out". Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

It's tiresome just how transparent the whole con is.

Make it "antisemitic" to criticize Israel's actions in any way, therefore Israel are free to complete the total genocide of Palestinian people, stamp the ground flat and build condominiums on top of it. The territory now thought of as "Palestine" becomes another part of Israel and we all just forget that ever happened, yeah? Palestinians are all either dead or forced to immigrate to other countries, whether or not those countries will take them. Break them down into separate groups of "refugees" and remove any national identity of palestine.

Disagree with Israel doing any of this? You must hate the jews! You must be an anti-semite! You must approve of Hamas raping and murdering civilians!

Oh yes, I certainly don't see behind this paper-thin charade, Mr. Netanyahu.

[neorichieb1971]

Ah, USA makes rules that only it can break.

Israel is acting like a certain country around 1939. I mean the bombs are there, the tanks are there.. People are starving and homeless but who cares.

Going back to my original quote, the USA turns a blind eye sometimes. But sometimes it labels a country doing the exact same thing as a war crime. If the USA was so rightious it would stamp down and let the Isralies run out of ammo.