EsotericMeat
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EsotericMeat
@EsotericMeat
Personal account of an impersonal meat popsicle
The P I T Katılım Aralık 2025
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DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO SUBNAUTICA 2..
> be Subnautica 2 developers
> player politely asks why you can’t kill most creatures
> level designer snaps back: "This is not a killing game, go play Sons of the Forest if you want violence"
> another dev adds that big creatures will stay safe because "the game should feel right"
The first Subnautica let you stab leviathans with a knife.
Now they want you to peacefully coexist with 50-meter monsters like it’s a underwater yoga class.
Why do developers treat their most loyal fans like this?
Why can’t they just answer normally without being condescending and aggressive?
Loyal players are the ones who supported you for years.
If you keep talking down to them, they’ll simply stop playing.
And in the end, you - the developers - will be the ones who lose the most.
Peak "go touch grass" energy in 2026.
You think this approach will help the game long-term or are we watching it slowly die?
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Subnautica 2 devs say "go play Sons of the Forest" if you don't like its lack of violence. The game focuses on underwater exploration, and you cannot kill most creatures. On the official Discord, one player asked why killing is impossible in SN2 as it makes no sense. Level designer Artyom O’Rielly replied, “This is not a killing game, so go play Sons of the Forest if you want to kill.” Another developer said, “The team discusses this a lot inside the studio and may let players catch small fish for food, but large creatures will stay safe so the game feels right.” This idea comes from the first Subnautica, as the team wants players to discover things, feel wonder, and live with ocean life instead of fighting it. A fan-made mod already lets players kill creatures, and the studio is reading all feedback. It plans to add better ways to scare off creatures but will not add weapons. Early access is expected to last up to 3 years.
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@PIRATE_ANZU "waaah I'm too much of a pussy to confront my issues so I'm going to blame my genetics!"
Grow up
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Not to read too much into a comic, but IMO "generational trauma" is tabula rasa bullshit. You recreate the same dysfunction as your parents because YOU SHARE THEIR GENES. My father was nothing but gentle to me and I'm still an angry and physical person because guess what - that's
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@TheWizardTower Leftists have nothing to do with this. *Everyone* thinks this game is shit except shill journalists who got paid to review it.
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This is such a fascinating object study.
So, if you're a leftist, games are *tremendously* appealing, because gaming has, built-in, the idea of making a new reality to suit your whims and preferences. It's so appealing because you finally get to live out the "what-if?" without having pesky details like "If we gulag/wall all the farmers, what will we eat?" get in the way.
But, games also showcase that choices matter, have consequences, and that some choices might actually be better than others, which is ✨problematic✨.
Put these two facts in a mixer for a few years, and you get """games""" like Mixtape. Where everything just magically works out no matter what you do.
That's not a game, it's wish fulfillment. Masturbation has more utility.
Christina Tasty@ChristinaTasty
Explaining why I, personally, hate Mixtape in just under 3 minutes of totally uninterrupted "gameplay" (Spoilers):
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A lot of people are mad about this but it’s true.
A chicken was a luxury for a medieval peasant. Probably about the same as real wagyu steak today.
The Notorious J.O.V.@whotfisjovana
imagine thinking peasants could afford rotisserie chicken
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@1234567890_v_ @CartoonsOTMoon Even if they did that flat earther would make claims to try and disprove it. It was VR, they were drugged, the shuttle was actually on a stage, the flat earth is very slightly curved so you can't see all of it at once, etc etc
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@CartoonsOTMoon A alguien se le ocurrira alguna vez llevar a un terraplanista al espacio?
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La tripulación del Artemis II reveló una nueva foto de la Tierra
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STOP RATIOING ME OR IMMA CONTACT YALLS FXXKING POLICE DEPARTMENTS
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@lalisattwo Lol get fucked cunt, your show is getting deleted and you're just an ugly bitch crying about it all
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@freakcuddles Take this sell out advertising shit and fuck off
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@rafalors @WingsBling @ToonHive @grok Some of us actually read an article before we read the comments to see what others opinions are
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@WingsBling @EsotericMeat @ToonHive @grok I bet you didn't read it but went straight to comments 🤣 Don't cry now 😢
GIF
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Ai-generated artwork officially is ineligible for copyright protection as the US Supreme Court declined to review a appeal case.
The court rules that artwork needs to have a human creator in order to be eligible.
(Source: reuters.com/legal/governme…)
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@king_sol_omon @interesting_aIl Are you seriously defending the middle class getting exploited by the wealthy who own and operate these AI models?
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@interesting_aIl Ai will allow middle class or lower class to enjoy the outcome of this experience at a fraction of the cost, the rich can continue flexing they had it “hand done” and everyone can be happy. Quit being divisive.
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And they wonder why we defend artists and hate Al. We don't want to lose art and talent like that.
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@MentokTMT @EXM7777 At this point you're just being facetious trying to assert that complete automation of the process is simply another advancement in human creativity.
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@EsotericMeat @EXM7777 Wrist so you think "the process" is and which aspects are allowed to.evolve and which aren't? Are you in favor of only using film cameras and practical effects? Editing on a moviola and not having digital prints at all?
Should TV go back to 4:3? What are the rules?
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"AI can only copy, it doesn't create anything new"
cool, now explain to me how your favorite artist works
> they consume thousands of references
> they internalize patterns
> they blend everything into something that feels new
that's creation
go watch any behind-the-scenes breakdown of a Tarantino movie, every single shot is borrowed from something else
go listen to any Dua Lipa song, it's samples layered on samples
our brains work the same way... we don't invent from zero, we recombine at speed
AI just does this faster and at a scale we physically can't match
there's nothing AI does that a human can't do manually, and the opposite will be true very soon
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@MentokTMT @EXM7777 Trying to divorce the act of creation from production is what you're doing, and I'm the process creating unattractive and bad product, which in turn leads to a lower value product in the first place
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@EsotericMeat @EXM7777 Seems like it's the other way around?
You're focusing on the production not on the product.
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@BoringBiz_ CEOs will say anything to drive up their company valuation, why would you ever think you can trust them?...
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The CEO of Microsoft AI is literally telling you that most accountants, lawyers and consultants will be automated within the span of 2 years
It’s over
Financial Times@FT
CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman joins FT editor Roula Khalaf to explain why most of the tasks accountants, lawyers and other professionals currently undertake will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months ft.trib.al/SZ4Lti1
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@doomerzoomer Great, now tell me how it turns this pre rendered video into a video game?...
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@EsotericMeat @PearlteaRizzy This isn't vagueposting
Iykyk
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In retrospect, literally nobody expected Lowtax banning anime and hentai from Something Awful would snowball into American century of humiliation. 💀
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