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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 6h

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 12h

Wonder if this was the inspiration for Burn After Reading

To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 1d

The Spider Mastermind at the end of the first BethesDoom does this without dialogue. It actually gets less dangerous by its final phase, where it's so beat up that it can't stand and crawls around spraying lasers wildly and flinging random debris at you, just flailing desperately to survive.

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 2d

I'm game

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky is the place to be if you want to watch elder-Millennial liberals hit peak earning years and morph into crochety old conservatives in real time

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 2d

Ok but what will actually be different

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 2d

"not hard to see how having a great time pretending to murder people in a roleplaying game leads to" etc etc

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 2d

"not difficult to see" doesn't cut it considering this exact argument has flopped with a half dozen other moral panics already

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 2d

This is bullshit, I was supposed to be driven to madness by a scary play, not boring math about thermodynamics

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like I'm seeing fewer guardian caps in the NFL this season than last. Novelty wearing off already?

To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

Not really. The water usage canard is a statistical byproduct of the fact that most energy powering AI is hydroelectric.

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

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Wulf Link @realwulflink.bsky.social · 3d

It's possible, now stick with me here, for TWO things to be bad at the SAME time!! Now I know that's spooky to you but be brave, you can do this!

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

If you destroy all data centers (lol) then you've bailed a handful out of the bucket, while gas and coal plants continue to contribute to climate change. Convert the grid to nuclear/renewables and the problem of data center usage becomes moot as climate change is concerned, so yes, be mad at oil/gas

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

Energy usage per se isn't bad. There are forms of generation that are more or less bad. If the US's grid was entirely nuclear and renewables then data centers could use as much as they wanted and there would be no conceivable problem as long as generation kept pace.

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

Again, the art movement that challenged the idea that "intention matters" is now over a hundred years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readyma...

Readymades of Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

There is no contradiction.

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

lol do you have any idea how many art movements you're writing off with this ad-hoc criteria

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

Souls aren't real.

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

This is deranged actually

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

No it isn't.

To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 3d

This is a digital faceswap. Burke and Hare were serial killers. Get a grip.

To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 4d

The opening scene is the best de-aging CGI I have ever seen, even though I hate the actual idea of it. I thought it was spliced-in unused footage of Hamilton and Furlong from T2 until I saw a behind-the-scenes.

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 4d

Referring to this, which I do not for a second think is anything more than a creative writing exercise www.reddit.com/r/BORUpdates...

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 5d

Not at all clear to me that visible plastic surgery should result in severe ostracism

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To wit or not to wit? @towit12.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. bsky.app/profile/slot...

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 11d

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs.

Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

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