stop. using. ai.

if not antichrist, why antichrist shaped?

I think there's an argument that you can't economic policy your way around the levels of power concentration we've permitted as a society. Can't reasonably tax our way to salvation if governments themselves are oligarchical in nature. The means of collective determination are fundamentally broken

They just did the q&a where they said pdc's were only for military ships and I about ripped my eyes out. PDC's should be all over non military ships stop giving industrial ships pilot controlled guns.

Hey, they are working extremely hard to earn the votes of people who would rather my friends and I not exist (oh and they would love if I would cosign this plan by donating monthly)

It's just hard to imagine that CIG is feeling bad about how things are progressing when you look at engagement metrics or revenue this year. It's a good year for them and getting better. The only persistently negative voices are content creators who's needs do not align with the player base

The pressure YouTubers feel to make content is the primary driver of this negativity loop. The game is meaningfully progressing, and absent of self imposed content schedules of the 10 or so content creators who have no outside revenue stream there is no urgency in the community

There is clearly astounding talent at CIG, but the game teams being subservient to whatever team is calling shots for monetization has to be depressing. If I was in jira and pulled a story to ship this feature to the pledge store I would weep

I cannot fathom the dread that CIG community managers felt pulling into work today. It has to be exhausting when CIG seemingly feels compelled to treat good will as a currency to spend and not something to foster

👋 Weclome

I miss Hawken so badly. It's hard to describe how good that game was at launch.

And as a Bluesky special, a sugary little goblin treat as Strange would say, here's the original Patreon video I banged out on the subject years ago when it was just a diversion in making another video (that also still hasn't materialized)
youtu.be/HxM-ie6r0mw