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[CleverNickName]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Silksong will be released in 30 hours, 3 minutes, and 10 seconds from...mark.

 

[Deset Gled]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Silksong will be released in 30 hours, 3 minutes, and 10 seconds from...mark.

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I never finished Hollow Knight (got really turned off by a couple of progress eating glitches), but I just got the Castlevania Dominus Collection. So I'm doing good for now.

 

[overgeeked]

I sometimes begin circling a feeling of existential dread.

If I consider if we could be a simulation, or considering the fact so much of our current (diseased) society is digital only, or was stored on some server, or drives, or tapes, that can just be lost, deleted, corrupted, or turned off.

At which point our AI overlords can declare 'It was never like that, it was this instead.' and the hallucination (or worse) is accepted as fact.

Neil deGrasse Tyson did an episode of StarTalk about the simulation. The bottom line is it doesn’t matter. If we are, we always have, so there’s no need to worry.

 

[Scribe]

Neil deGrasse Tyson did an episode of StarTalk about the simulation. The bottom line is it doesn’t matter. If we are, we always have, so there’s no need to worry.

Yeah, there's a great Conan quote as well, but sometimes the gears turn.

 

[pukunui]

I'm not worried about living in a simulation. I am, however, worried that the future we seem to be heading toward isn't one I want to live in. If we're lucky, we'll get a WALL-E style future, where we've trashed our planet but those of us who've survived don't need to work because we've got robots that will do everything for us. If we're not lucky, we'll either get 1984 or The Terminator or some unholy combination of the two.

 

[overgeeked]

(It's tempting to throw Idiocracy into the mix, but it's just too implausible to take seriously.)

I mean...some of us are literally living through that right now. There's no future about it.

 

[soviet]

It's great when 'this is an unlikely extrapolation for purposes of satire' becomes 'oh no, yeah'.

c.f. The Handmaid's Tale

 

[Velderan]

I mean...some of us are literally living through that right now. There's no future about it.

The made up part of that movie is it would take until 2505 to get to that point.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm not worried about living in a simulation. I am, however, worried that the future we seem to be heading toward isn't one I want to live in. If we're lucky, we'll get a WALL-E style future, where we've trashed our planet but those of us who've survived don't need to work because we've got robots that will do everything for us. If we're not lucky, we'll either get 1984 or The Terminator or some unholy combination of the two. (It's tempting to throw Idiocracy into the mix, but it's just too implausible to take seriously.)

"In the yeeeeeaaar twenty-five, twenty-five..." ♫

 

[pukunui]

I mean...some of us are literally living through that right now. There's no future about it.

I mean, yeah, I get that. It was just some of the details in the movie that threw me, but overall ... yeah, totally.