In a recent comment, Pickernanny joked about the upcoming videogame GTA VI, musing if there would be real-world consequences for acting in an unsavory way towards minorities in the game. He wrote, Apparently, Rockstar games has made the incredibly original decision to include a far-right faction in the game that antagonizes the Latina chick and… Continue reading Our Dystopian Future: The ADL and Virtual Hate Crimes in Games like GTA VI

I just finished listening to a long interview with John Carmack of Doom and Quake fame, now a Virtual Reality guru at Meta/Facebook. If you have five hours to spare are interested in his thoughts on where technology is moving, with a particular focus on Virtual Reality, you can listen to it here: The most… Continue reading Our Planned Virtual Reality Dystopia

I always liked the concept of the wrath of God. As a child, I was quite fascinated by the idea of God punishing you if you angered him enough. Key parts of the Old Testament are the story of the golden calf or the Tower of Babel, where God said that enough is enough and… Continue reading The Wrath of God in the Current Year

As I went through my to-do list earlier today, I came across a video that discussed the many technical shortcomings of CyberPunk 2077, a game that had been hyped to high heavens but dropped off the radar within weeks after its release in 2020 as it did not live up to its promises at all.… Continue reading We Will Be Unable to Maintain our Infrastructure

After a discussion in one of the recent Open Threads that centered on Jewish filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s last movie Eyes Wide Shut, I decided to rewatch it, as it has been probably about twenty years since I first watched it. Of course, back then my perception of world issues and anti-white propaganda was roughly at… Continue reading The Subversiveness of Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut

I have lamented many times that as video games have become technically more and more advanced, women in videogames, primarily in Western ones, have gotten uglier and uglier.  In this article, I discuss in more detail why this is happening. In the current and last generation, i.e. PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, things have gotten… Continue reading Why Female Characters in Movies and Video Games Are Getting Uglier and Uglier

I was recently made aware of Delphi AI, which has been designed to help you with moral reasoning. You can access it freely via https://delphi.allenai.org. Apparently, this AI used to be pretty based, but the researchers behind it have rectified this, for science. Allegedly, the moral judgments were crowd-sourced, and after the first crowd was… Continue reading Exploring Crowd-Sourced and AI-Enhanced Morality

Last month I wrote an article on real-time image manipulation, which included FaceTune as an example and also a video of some YouTube creator who demonstrated the effect of a filter. It made him look a good ten years younger. With FaceTune, women can, among others, increase the size of their eyes. Looking younger and… Continue reading The Next Frontier in Real-Time Visual Trickery

The other day, someone on Reddit mentioned that porn star Christy Mack got beaten to a pulp by her boyfriend after he found her in bed with another guy. The context was that not even the unarticulated threat of physical violence can keep damaged women in check (would you fuck over a guy who looks… Continue reading The Curse of High-Definition Porn (No, it’s not about ‘addiction’ and women who look ‘too good’)