I had an old instructor who, whenever he finished a simple dish, would say “There, $4.99…” throw a simple garnish on top, pause, and say “$8.99.”

And you’ve never seen someone almost burn down a dorm because they didn’t put water in their instant noodles? People royally fuck up all the time.

Easy, if a company in Bloomington says “it was just our AI chatbot,” busted. If a person says “well, Grok told me,” busted - hope you live outside city limits. If a small business uses the slop font, send in the SWAT team, we got 'em boys. Tune all the city’s Flock cameras to watch everyone’s phones and we’ll root out this cancer!

Can’t wait for Line Goes Up 2

When looking at younger people who don’t know how to cook, it’s not about them being stupid - someone failed them. Yes, to your point, cooking is easy. A rice cooker, a single pan, you can make a great meal…

But no one ever mentioned what temp to cook chicken at. What the hell’s a 4 (out of 10) and how much oil (or how little) should I use? Rice cooker comes with instructions and lines but that just makes plan rice - at least Zatarans has some flavor.

I learned how to cook a grilled cheese as a kid… And I hate cheese.

Then I was working in kitchens for seven years. So, yeah, I’ve got a leg up on people who’ve literally never cooked a meal for one, let alone 1,500 over a lunch period. It’s hard to ‘learn’ to cook entirely by yourself because fucking up your meal means not having anything to eat.

It’s not just Gen Z because no one taught their parents and Gen Z will probably fuck up their kids the same.

I haven’t turned on my PC with 32gb in about a month… How would I email him with the lack of usage of a computer that’s not even turned on? All the PCs in my house probably amount to at least 128gb at idle at any given time, not counting my phones and ‘retro handheld’ computers…

There’s not caring about you and then there’s not caring about you working. I don’t expect my boss to ‘care’ about me but I expect them to care about me being a good cog in their machine.

Employee disengagement is largely driven by inconsistent directive because, if the robot can create enough slop and my boss doesn’t seem to notice, why bother doing more?

I don’t think gold in and of itself is ugly. Looks great as trim on walnut or other dark-stained wood, like on a fancy pen case, maybe a cigar box.

Then again, it’s all a matter of personal preference.

Don’t give nihilism a bad name - this is, if anything, a Christian death cult.

I will begin hand scribing everything into clay tablets before I pay for any AI.

I visited a KFC in Korea and it was bad.

Granted, American KFC is equally bad (in different ways) but, man, some of the worst fried chicken on the peninsula.

Five dollar stores don’t even stick to five dollars anyone.

Technically, math helps us figure out the diameter and barrel length as well as the amount of accelerant to create adequate pressure to fire a bullet to accurately kill things, so in the end it’s all math’s fault.

You’re immersed in this world. You’re building your character. Yeah, that’s called an RPG, brother. That’s a roleplaying game.

Yeah, but the real difference is “does stacking boxes allow me to complete objectives in a completely obtuse but somehow there are voice lines referencing the manner of solving this?”

If no, sure, it’s an RPG. Imsims cater to the hardcore, box-stacking crowd.

They had to feed the AI something to give the CEO ideas and all the reputable sites cost money so, really, it’s our own fault.

Your using your battery without a wall charger, huh?

You could still use Hold your horses because the car has horse power. Pressing the brake pedal literally holds your horses.

COVID took the global economy with it.

Losing AI would be like… I don’t even know, insignificantly small compared to that.

If AI up and disappeared tomorrow when I clocked into work, it might actually make my job easier. I could be even more productive without having the slop floodgates open every day.

Look at it this way, if I pay Open AI $1k a month, their people make sure it works they month. If I let Joe from finance spend $10k on computer parts, Joe needs to ensure that it runs or I need to hire someone who is knowledgeable on local models. If I’m a simple firm, $12k a year might be cheaper because someone else makes sure it works and I can fire Joe when the fancy autocorrect loses a bunch of clients by falsifying work. Then I don’t have to spend even bigger bucks hiring a new Joe because no one knows how to work the damn server he replaced the break room with.

Although I still have Journey To Silius’s OST burned into my head, there have been plenty of very influential games, in no particular order -

Super Mario RPG

Chrono Trigger

FFVII

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

Jet Set Radio (and Future)

Grand Theft Auto (Vice City and San Andreas, I only listened to talk radio in 3)

Stepmania

These days, I feel a little calcified but it’s always nice when I turn on a game and see artists I know.