CromulantCrow

Why do you reincarnate? Let's take the Buddhist view. The cycle of birth and death (rebirth) ends when you let go of craving for existence, craving for sensual pleasures, and ignorance (not seeing things as they truly are). (aka the Asavas.) So, that means these things are the conditions for rebirth. And they are the source of karma in your current life. Do you dream of being rich, healthy, strong, pretty, etc? That's the first one. Do you have fantasies of sex, dream of the next meal you're going to make, or just want to see the sunset from a mountain top? That's the second one. Or are you convinced your individual self is separate from everything else and/or has some permanent existence? (a rough inaccurate summary of ignorance)

If any of these things are true they are probably focused on your current life. You probably don't have fantasies of sex with odd slugs in proxima centauri. You probably don't dream of being a brain parasite. The conditions for the next rebirth are set up by your cravings. And, most likely, you crave something distinctly human. Ergo, the next birth generated by your karma will most likely be human.

And that psychological toll can also lead to suicide. So "survivor" can be taken literally.

I think US popularity is collapsing in the US as well. I know I'm starting to hate it here.

Yup. That was exactly it. I was thinking "I know how to do these" and not even paying attention to the instructions at the bottom.

Why do all of these look inverted to me? Like, what should be a mountain is a deep hole in the ground.

I don't remember navigating menus being particularly onerous.

Getting around is tedious at first, but soon you get vehicles, and, even better, this zipline thing that you can put anywhere. Those are fun to build and navigate.

The only recommended combat is tying your enemies up with ropes, or later, with a rope gun. (I wonder if Kojima is into bondage) I mean, you can kill the enemy couriers, but it's not a good idea.

Industria. It was free on Epic, I think. Took me a while to figure out the boxes said "supplies" and were meant to be broken open to get ammo. Till then it was kind of frustrating running out of ammo over and over. Gameplay and environments kind of remind me of the half life franchise in a way.

Every time something hopeful like this appears I start wondering if it's safe to imagine that maybe things could get better here in the US. But so far I've been disappointed over and over. Part of me wants to just skip over the "maybe something good will happen" part and get right to the "oh, well, looks like he was assassinated by a blackwater hit squad" part. Money is power. The donor class gets what they want. And I have no faith that working within the electoral system will fix that.

I literally just prompted it with "Please finish this essay" and then typed in what justqueenthoughts had posted. And yeah, I think it followed along in the style of the prompt reasonably well, but didn't really add anything interesting. Which is no surprise, that's what LLMs do. Point it in a direction and it will supply an approximation of the mean in the training data that applies.

I have to admit, though, I hadn't heard of the “Two Cultures” debate, popularized by C.P. Snow.

The House bill would remove silencers — called “suppressors” by the gun industry

How to tell me you know nothing about firearms. They're called suppressors because they aren't silencers. Firing a pistol with a suppressor is far from silent. It won't damage your hearing, but it's only on TV and video games that a pistol with a suppressor is impossible to hear.

Replying to my own comment, I think the best tell that this is AI generated is the — character. There's not even a key on the keyboard for that. Alt-0151 (on the keypad) is the only way I know how to get it. Aside from that, I pity the teacher who has to grade this type of slop. But then, I guess grading high-school essays has never been a highlight of the job.