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Full headline, because I didn't even try to fit it up there[1]: "Trump calls on Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with political and other figures"

"The president said he will ask Pam Bondi to investigate former President Bill Clinton and others' relationships with the late convicted sex offender, a former friend of Trump's."

Does Trump think that exposing Democrats as being clients of Jeffrey Epstein is some sort of "gotcha" moment or some shit? We've known for years now that William J. Clinton was probably raping teenagers on Epstein Island. That's not some revelation. Just like we've known for years now that Donald J. Trump was also probably raping teenagers on Epstein Island.

As far as I'm concerned, we can throw Bill Clinton into the same prison cell as Trump over this shit. Just so long as it's not just Bill Clinton, while Donald Trump is still walking free.

Hearing that Trump is stamping his feet like a tantrum-throwing three year old, demanding that his Department of Vengeance investigate everyone else except himself would be fucking laughable, or maybe fucking sad, if it wasn't so fucking, goddamned wrath-inducing.

And yes, Trump, this is indeed like Russia Russia Russia, i.e. a credible accusation against you for your decades long collaboration and collusion with Putin in order to get where the fuck you are today, just like the "ePsTeIn hOaX" is a credible accusation against you for your decades long collaboration and collusion with Jeffrey Epstein in order to get teenage pussy. Maybe you shouldn't be reminding everyone of your ties to Russia, like, say, that pee tape that you claim is just as much of a dEmOcRaT hOaX as the Epstein stuff. I mean, if you were a smart person, you wouldn't be reminding people of that shit.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, as always. But before he ends up in hell, I wish upon him a tiny prison cell for the rest of his life. Though that's nothing new, as I've been wishing that upon him for almost a full fucking decade now, for what good it's done. *eye roll*

[1] - Well, I did try, actually, but I simply replaced it with the subject line of the email that I used to send the link to myself from my phone so that I could more quickly access it here on my desktop PC.
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Most of this article is serious, but the last two sentences are unintentionally hilarious.

"Massie said Trump can avoid the entire ordeal by releasing all the Epstein files held by the federal government.

"'There's still time for him to be the hero,' Massie said of Trump."


laugh fucking harder

There exists no timeline even remotely adjacent to this one in which Trump would ever been seen as "the hero" if the Epstein files are fully released, you fucking dumbass. Why the hell do you think Trump is flailing ever harder trying to prevent them from being released?
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Wow, Pat looks weird without the clown makeup now. It might be that he still has partially purple hair, though.
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So, to recap this recap:
  1. Trump damaged his already in-the-toilet reputation in the first damn place by associating for years with a child sex trafficker. (And, aLlEgEdLy, almost certainly raped some underage people during those years.)
  2. Trump and the Trumpublicans, in the lead up to the 2024 election, loudly beat on the drum of "releasing the Epstein files" because they knew it would fire up their Trumpanzee base, and it absolutely did do that.
  3. After Trump became *ugh*shiver* POTUS again, though, he decided nah, he wasn't actually going to do that.
  4. Surprisingly, his rabid base, for once in their goddamned lives, actually remembered one of the very, very many promises that Trump vacuously made on the campaign trail, and demanded that this one, at the very least, be kept.
  5. Trump started telling baseless lies about how the whole "Epstein thing" was just a "Democrat hoax" or whatever bullshit, same as he always does when some truth about himself gets out and makes him look bad, because of course it does.
  6. This, again surprisingly, did not instantly make the Trumpanzee rank and file all fall in line like good little dupes.
  7. These emails were released, with probably (hopefully) even more damning shit on the way, despite Trump's continuing efforts to plug the spreading cracks in the dam with his infinitesimal hands.
  8. As a result, the "Epstein files became a fiasco of Trump's own making."
So, yeah, this is another article that basically says we don't know for absolute certain that Trump raped any kids because "no real smoking gun" and all that, but we're sure readers will agree that all of this shit definitely looks hinky, right?

And, yes, it does definitely look very, very hinky, at the very least.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual (and for far more than just all this Epstein shit). May he join Jeffrey Epstein in being "skewered from eye socket to bunghole and then placed on a spit so that their flesh could be roasted by the searing gale of flatus which issues forth from the haunches of Asmoday," among other such delightful things. (And, of course, The Onion has some recent stuff about the Trump/Epstein thing itself, too.)
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"Dorothy (to escape a diagnosis of Feminine Hysteria) returns to Oz and that's about as sane as we're gonna be for this trip!"



I've seen this movie at least two or three times (the first time being the year it came out in 1985, when I was 6 years old), and the only things I vividly remember is "CHICKEN!!" and "DOOOROOTHYY GAAAALEE!!!"

The rest is mostly a blur. Like, I remember the GnomeNome King being in the movie, but I remember next to nothing about him. And I vaguely remember Tik-Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead and the Gump, but they were just kind of there. Part of this, though, is because since the last time I watched this movie, years ago, and now, I've read through the first seven-and-a-half[1] Oz books, so it's now like... I remember the characters, but what they did in the books versus what they did in that movie were different, so it's more difficult to remember the movie. Guess that means I need to watch it again.

[1] - I started losing interest after Dorothy and Auntie Em and Uncle Henry all moved to Oz to live there for good, and other people started being the main characters (Tip aside, as that was the second book, with Dorothy again as the main protagonist in the four that came after it. The seventh book was okay, because I liked Scraps, but I just stopped reading the eighth book at some point, and never went back, mainly because Betsy was just "here's Dorothy again, but her name is Betsy this time." (And, to be honest, even Dorothy herself was starting to wear a little thin, as there were only so many quirky ways one girl can be suddenly whisked away by a natural disaster to Oz or an Oz-adjacent land, which I guess is why the sixth book was originally meant to be the final Oz book, before Baum realized he still needed to eat).
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Hey look, more news pointing to the aLlEgEd fact that Trump is a pedophile rapist.

"Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein case, but their relationship has been under renewed scrutiny."

Let me stop you right there, PBS, with a correction. Trump has not been officially accused of wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein case, but Trump has most fucking certainly been unofficially accused of wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein case by a fuck ton of people, including myself. Because it is pretty goddamn obvious that Trump "did wrong" in connection to Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein's little business of pimping out young people to clients for sex-related purposes.

The sooner Trump hangs (metaphorically or literally, I don't care which, though I'd be fine with both) for this, the better.

Anyway, to hell forever with Donald Trump, as usual, and soonest is best. He can join Epstein, who is already there. (This, of course, ignores my own personal belief that "hell" is just a concept made up by religious types and doesn't actually literally exist, but if ever there was a guy who deserved "hell," it's Donald Trump [and Jeffrey Epstein]. And Trump deserves it for a whole lot more than just this Epstein shit.)

"Trying And Failing To Get A Vaccine"

Nov. 11th, 2025 09:24 pm
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A post by Athena Scalzi on John Scalzi's Whatever blog.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and RFK Jr. and "red state" governments and all this asinine anti-vaccine dumbfuckery, just in general.

Balatro

Nov. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm
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Bought Balatro for about $12 including tax (with the "complete your collection" bundle with Vampire Survivors), because I'd heard good things about it, played it for 57 minutes according to Steam, then refunded.

It's just not for me.
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It amuses me to see how much amusement Woolie and Pat themselves get from watching the modern video game industry shit itself out into a trashcan and then light it on fire.
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Fuck Donald Trump.

A fucking goddamned criminal, who just so happened to also be elected to the office of POTUS, should not have unconditional power to pardon his criminal co-conspirators who were directly acting on his behalf.

I'm not saying to just do away with Presidential pardon powers, altogether, I'm saying there should be some way to nullify or otherwise undo them after the fact, or at the very least some sort of oversight more than none at all whatsoever.

But then, who would be doing the oversight in this case? Congress? Full of Trumpanzees. The Supreme Court? Stacked by Trump in Trump's favor. So... even if there was a way to hold Trump accountable for this travesty of justice, nobody currently in power would actually do it.

And in any case, we'd have to fucking amend the Constitution itself to fix this, and good the fuck luck with that. But really, just a simple addendum of "a President cannot issue pardons in case of crimes directly related to the President himself" (fixed up with the appropriate legalese and to eliminate any potential loopholes) would probably fix the obvious problem.

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and with Rudy Giuliani and those other 76 shitbags who were doing crimes on behalf of criminal Donald Trump.
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Full headline, because Dreamwidth's subject field length continues to be inadequate: "Researchers 'Embodied' an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World"

Just to note, these are the same guys who did that vending machine test a while back, too.

Anyway, no, the LLM did not "suffer an existential crisis" nor was it "thinking about its role in the world." It was simply regurgitating what would most likely be the response of an AI in a story about AIs being shoved into a machine for which it was grossly unsuited. Sort of like the Rick and Morty episode mentioned in the article. Which was probably already included in the LLM's training data, along with hundreds of other similar stories, since those things are trained on basically everything the creators could steal from the Internet. The LLM that "had the existential crisis" had simply tapped into some part of its vast database of stolen material and found something that resembled a "this AI is having an existential crisis because it was made solely to pass butter" type of story, and it spat that back out again. And then it referenced HAL 9000, as one tends to do in such situations. It just as easily could have referenced Marvin the Paranoid Android or something, instead of HAL.

It would be like if you regularly wrote a bunch of doom/emo shit on your blog or whatever, and then your auto-correct started suggesting a bunch of doom/emo shit every time you tried to write something, even if you may not be wanting to write doom/emo shit at the moment. That's what it suggests, because that's what it had been trained to suggest.

It just goes to show that LLMs are not meant to be shoved into robot vacuums or vending machines or toasters or spaceships or any of that other shit into which they're being shoehorned. A LLM is good at one thing and one thing only, and that is to spit out whatever text is most likely or most appropriate to follow whatever prompt is fed to it, and then continue to do that by building upon the text it (and the user) feeds back into it. That is all. Nothing more, and nothing less. It is good at what it does, but it is not "thinking" or capable of "having an existential meltdown" or whatever.

Is it funny when the LLM you put into a vacuum cleaner and told to go get some butter starts quoting HAL 9000? Sure it is. But is it actually useful? Who the fuck even knows, at this point? But I would say probably not.
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If I went the entire rest of my life without ever once hearing about Soulja Boy again, it would be too soon.
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Shit like this right here is why I no longer like to buy games that are still in active development even after "release" or "going 1.0" or whatever the fuck. None of that shit means anything at all anymore. A game that "leaves Early Access" and gets "released" into "1.0" but which is still being actively developed after that means that the game in question is still de facto in Early Access in all but name. It's all just a bunch of worse-than-worthless buzzwords, now, same as all the other worse-than-worthless buzzwords the modern video game industry likes to throw around, like "roguelike" or whatever.

Bug fixes are one thing, and I fully encourage game developers to fix their broken "finished" games, but if they're actively changing story and shit, that's not a bug fix, that's the game still being not finished yet, despite having been "released."

And this is why, more specifically, I won't be buying Hades II until it hits a <$10 price tag in six-plus years or so (for comparison, I bought the first Hades on sale for $9, in 2024, which was four years after its "final" release in 2020 and six years after its Early Access release in 2018). If I ever buy it at all, of course, considering I never actually bothered to finish the first one yet.

"Space Duck Video"

Nov. 5th, 2025 09:47 pm
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For some reason, these never showed up in my Feedly thing, so I never knew about them until now, today, when I watched the latest episode of HFIL and they had an ad for it/them at the end. Which... may mean that more such videos are coming soon? That'd be cool.



Four Youtube embeds behind cut )



None of these videos seem to be related to each other in any way, other than all of them being part of Team Four Star's Space Duck Videos thing. Yeah, I'd watch more stuff like this.
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Once they got past the escargot and the balut and whatever other weird ass-foods that Reggie kept bringing up, they finally mentioned french fries toward the end, and that's what I'll focus on here. When I was a kid, I used to drown fries in ketchup. If I didn't have a little pat of ketchup to dip them in, I didn't really want them. Nowadays, though, it's like... keep that shit away. Let me enjoy, or at least tolerate, my fried potato sticks in peace, without diluting them with tomato paste. Like, even McDonald's fries are pretty decent without ketchup on them. The only kind of fries that I still think "need something else" are those shitty crinkle cut fries that mostly local restaurants tend buy frozen in bulk and then just dump into a vat of grease (or, worse, just toss into a microwave) to heat up. Those things are the french fry equivalent of cardboard.

As for the rest, well, like Woolie says, it really depends on what it is. If it is specifically intended to complement the meal, that's fine. If it's meant to just drown out the shitty taste of whatever subpar food it's there to be dumped on, then fuck off with all of that shit.
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Trump is threatening to sue California after voters passed Proposition 50, which would allow California to gerrymander in a way that would make it easier for Democrats to retake the House next year. This, of course, comes after Trump explicitly asked the Texas GQP to do the exact same goddamn thing, except in his favor.

I mean, I get it. California is doing it as a thumb in the eye to Trump and as a direct response to Trump's Texas bullshit, which makes Trump's tiny mushroom shrivel in rage and fear that he might lose power, whereas the thought of Texas adding more Trumpanzees to Congress makes Trump's little Toad swell a few quectometers (as much as is possible).

If Trump somehow wins and the shit in California is struck down by the courts, then the courts better fucking turn right around and strike down the shit in Texas, too. Or if the legal challenges to either of these things reach the Supreme Court... well, I suppose it will end up being balanced out in that case, too. If the Supreme Court were to strike down the California stuff, that should de facto also strike down the Texas shit, or if the Supreme Court upheld the Texas shit, that should by default uphold the California stuff, too. Unless, of course, the way Trump "wins" is somehow via his typically absurd, bullshit claims of "vOtEr FrAuD" or whatever. Or, else, if the Supreme Court somehow does semantic contortion in such a way as to rule that what Texas is doing is fine and dandy while what California is doing is strictly a big no-no, which I could very easily see the Trump-stacked SCOTUS doing.

Honestly, I think gerrymandering sucks, no matter who is doing it. However, in this particular case, it's good that California is doing it, at the very least, to rebalance out and possibly prevent the horseshit that Trump and the GQP wants. Because, in this day and age, pretty much anything Trump and the GQP wants is worth preventing, no matter what it takes to prevent it. And there's also the fact that one of the reasons Trump/the GQP have been winning elections at all very likely has been in part due to all the disgusting, ridiculous gerrymandering in GQP favor that has happened over the past decades. Just one of many, many ways the GQP has been rigging/gaming the system to try to artificially stay in power, of course. (See also: stacking the Supreme Court in their favor.)

"Potent engines..." "...unprincipled men..." "...subvert the power..." "...usurp for themselves..." "...destroying afterwards..." "...unjust dominion." You know, all that asinine shit that George Washington predicted would happen, over two centuries ago.

(And yes, I know, I keep swiveling back and forth between describing Trump as a puddle of diarrhea and as a dried up turd. The point is that he's shit, no matter which way one looks at it. He will never not be shit.

With apologies to actual shit for the undue comparison. I take it all back. Trump is not shit. Trump is worse than shit could ever possibly aspire to be. As I've said many times before, a literal wet sack of dogshit would make for a better POTUS than Donald J. Trump, even if all it did was just lay there, unmoving, for four whole years, doing nothing at all.)

Anyway, in conclusion, to hell forever with Donald Trump and the GQP, as usual, and the sooner the better.
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Link to comic.

Link to comic.
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I kept waiting for them to talk about "the death of the offline game," as I was expecting it to be a discussion of how all games these days require at least some kind of bullshit online component, but what they meant, as I found out toward the end of this video, was that all games these days (even literally offline singleplayer games) will have online wikis and tutorials and Youtube videos geared toward showing you every single nuance of the game and how to play it and complete it. This is not necessarily a bad thing, in and of itself, but what they discussed about how it is within the sphere of MMO games and MOBA games just turned me right the fuck off (more so than I was already turned off to such things).

Anyway, while I was waiting for them to get to that thing that they never actually talked about in the way I was expecting them to talk about it, here are the other topics they discussed before they got to that point.



Regarding games that automate the "boring" stuff, starting from the beginning of the video. Read more... )



Regarding "too many world events happening all at once," starting around the 5:00 mark. Read more... )



Regarding school shit, starting around 13:20. Read more... )



Regarding walkthroughs and tutorials and Youtube guides (and esoteric, user-made spreadsheets and whatever bullshit) for video games, starting around 18:40 (and lasting for the rest of the video). Read more... )

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