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Maestrodomus retweeted
Just returned from a trip to Japan. In truth, I think modern Tokyo is one of the great accomplishments in civilizational history. It is the apex city.
There are 40 million people living there with extremely high levels of *justified* social trust.
It's incredibly clean, orderly, and safe, and yet it doesn't feel totalitarian--at least not if you behave yourself like a civilized person. The respect for individual freedom is clear and visible.
Reaching such high levels of social harmony would be an accomplishment for a single neighborhood, but Tokyo happens to the biggest city in the world. The sheer size alone is unbelievable--the infrastructure alone boggles the mind--and yet it's coupled with ultra-high levels of social harmony. There's nothing else like it.
Truly, it gives me some pride as a human. What an incredible thing we've accomplished.
Maestrodomus retweeted
On the same day Sony told a billion gamers to embrace digital forever, it quietly showed them the catch.
Two announcements, one blog, an hour apart.
First: from January 2028, no new PlayStation game will ship on a disc, digital only.
Second, buried below: Sony is closing the online stores for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, so you will no longer be able to buy games there at all.
Read together, they are not two stories. They are the whole argument about what you actually own.
A disc is the last thing in your home a Silicon Valley company cannot reach. A PlayStation game from 1994 still works today, and the law lets you resell it, lend it, keep it forever.
That is ownership. It is protected by something called the first-sale doctrine, and it applies to physical objects. It does not apply to digital purchases. That is not Sony being cruel. That is the quiet legal truth underneath the whole shift.
Sony's own spokesperson said it plainly today. With all digital content, you are not buying the game. You are buying a personal license for non-commercial use. Not the thing. Permission to use the thing, which depends on the company's servers and goodwill. They once pulled a game called Concord two weeks after launch. Buyers got refunds, but the game itself simply vanished.
This was never really about discs versus downloads. It is about moving the largest entertainment medium on Earth from a world where you own an object the law protects, to one where you hold access the law treats as rented.
Convenient, cheaper, and easier for almost everyone. Also revocable in a way a disc never was.
The click of a disc into a console was ownership. The download is permission. Sony just showed you, in a single morning, how differently the two age.
Do you agree with what Sony did??
Maestrodomus retweeted
The hardware price increases across the board are devastatingly painful to see because once the price goes up, it doesn’t come back down. These increases are now permanent and they will continue. The consequence of this is that due to the increased unaffordability people will be/are being pushed into cloud computing, which will be gatekept via digital biometric verification, which can be revoked at any time depending on your social standing or if you adhere to “the terms of service.”
You will own nothing, you will live in the pods, you will eat the bugs, and you will stream the compute.
The continued march towards the eradication of physical ownership of media, hardware, and eventually your own physical bodies (bookmark this post that this will happen one day) continues.
Maestrodomus retweeted
This is, bar none, the worst thing I have ever read. I have known about the Rape Gangs longer than a lot of americans, but even I did not grasp the scope or scale of what went on. Forget about Epstein, this was a crime against humanity on the scale of the Holocaust, of the Khmer Rouge, or of the lsraeIi atrocities in Gaza.
This was the systematic, intentional, targeted kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of White, Christian girls in England, specifically chosen due to their race and religion.
11 year olds had their vaginal walls used as bottle openers, and were then forced to consume the alcohol. Girls were raped with car keys and and baseball bats. 12 year olds with whiskey bottles inserted into their anus and smashed. Pre-teens raped by dogs.
The NHS is complicit. The British police is complicit. Damn near every single british politician over the past thirty years is complicit. The media is complicit. Anyone who ran cover for this must be put to death following a tribunal.
Nothing short of the public executions of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people, followed by the deportation of millions more is sufficient. Nothing will provide justice; that is the scale of the action required to merely get this to stop.
Maestrodomus retweeted
Karmelo Anthony’s parents wanted their son to live in a gated community, and now he will. So it all worked out for them in the end.
Maestrodomus retweeted
Just so you know, it may look like "Rainbow Flag" T-shirts that I'm wearing today, but I am not a gay.
Maestrodomus retweeted
Just remember the majority of influencers on this platform are sipping a mimosa while hitting send on a tweet they haven't even read and collecting $1k for it while you're flailing about in their replies like "THAT'S NOT WHAT THE VIDEO SHOWS."
They don't care. They got paid.
Maestrodomus retweeted
republicans when they control all branches of govt: erm, well, hmmm, wouldn't want to abuse our power...
dems when they win a governorship by 0.00001% margin:
Maestrodomus retweeted
Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.
We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.
I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.
We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.
I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
gamespot.com/articles/baldur…
We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
Maestrodomus retweeted
Here's how the hate for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 began:
Normal Person: "I just discovered E33. I love it"
JRPG Fan: "Game is mid, you smooth-brained tourist. You only like it because you haven't played Dragon Quest/Octopath/Bravely Default"
Normal Person: "I looked at those. They didn't interest me"
JRPG Fan: "OMFG STOP ATTACKING THOSE GAMES. E33 FANS ARE SO TOXIC 😭"
Maestrodomus retweeted
Cubans watching New York fall for a charismatic narcissist with good aesthetics promising utopias while concealing communist, authoritarian politics.
Don’t agree with Ethan on a whole lot but this sums it up better than I can. Promotion of a violent, murderous fantasy to mentally ill weirdos is par for the course for these people.
People are all sending me this doodle in private and asking me to react to it.
First, this is “Absolute Batman?” He’s different to our Batman, and maybe he’s an antifa goon. I dunno.
I mean, look…to Daniel and everyone around him, this is a heroic, kickass virtue signal. The comic book industry is sick with perverse leftism. They truly see our law enforcement as evil. They see borders as invalid and unjust. They think children can be “trans” and illegal aliens deserve the right to vote in our elections because they’re just “seeking a better life” and they believe Trump is Hitler. They absolutely hate you and want you dead.
It’s an inside out, cancerous world in which the creative people reinforce each other’s paranoias and neurosis, and applaud each other for it.
They all loved Charlie Kirk’s murder and they’re in charge of writing and drawing The Superfriends.
This drawing of Batman murdering an ICE agent is just a symptom of all of that. Normal people are disgusted by it, but fuck them, border jumpers have a right to our tax dollars too. If you don’t like it, Batman will break your neck.
It’s a good drawing though.
I never liked her but she growing on me with this.
I’m been urged to offer a response to the backlash over my mockery of billionaire Larry Ellison, who recently bragged about his role in building a dystopian surveillance state where we’re all monitored and on our “best behavior.”
My portrayal of him as a villain was accurate. I offer no apology.
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Maestrodomus retweeted
If we want a country that’s safe for women and children we have to harden our hearts, and know what’s coming— Bill Maher and other “rational voices” (some malicious, some just exhausted from conflict) saying “can we all just go back to before the country LOST ITS MIND”
We cannot forget what we’re dealing with. These vipers exposed themselves because they thought they were winning (imagine dancing and singing cheerfully after a potentially-civil-war inciting political assassination, on an account with your face and real name and in many cases your employer listed right there in your bio)
We know what they look like when they’re winning—we’re about to learn what they look like when they’re losing. They’ll use every debate tactic, every gaslighting/emotional/relationship tactic, every appeal to logic and human decency—the same stuff that fell on deaf ears when you were getting YOUR LIVELIHOOD STRIPPED FROM YOU for refusing to take experimental medicine
The language used by @NickJFuentes in his speech is precisely what we need to remember. These people must be DEFEATED and DESTROYED. They’ve shown their true faces, we’ve seen the joyful bloodlust, it is the JUST thing to ensure that they are unemployable. If you dance on the grave of a peaceful Christian man, and mock his widow—you CANNOT be allowed to teach children, administer medicine, prepare food, handle important information/communications—essentially be trusted with any role above Amazon warehouse worker.
It feels like this anger can never be quenched but it inevitably will be, unlike the secret viciousness of our enemies, who hate God and themselves—when this happens, we must transition our collective mindset to one of fatherly/paternal responsibility. It is our job and ONLY our job, and our duty and responsibility to ensure that society is a safe and nurturing place for the weak and innocent, namely, women and children. This means that the freaks, outsiders, bad guys HAVE to be put in the crystal and trapped there forever, no matter how convincing their pleas for mercy may be. It’s on them to get right with God, but here in this realm they’ll be lucky if they can hold down a job at a mall kiosk
Maestrodomus retweeted
The first two or so minutes of Sam Hyde’s new video is probably the most powerful video content ever posted on this site. Not a single word of this superfluous. If you haven’t watched the full video, watch it now.
