u/Hegiman

I’m old I have maybe 30 years save medical advancements afforded me in that time. That’s being generous considering my health. That aside. As l am seeing tech evolve when I was younger it enchanted my mind. Seeing video games go from a block in the screen (Atari Adventure) to a little guy (Mario bros) to full fledged people (any modern AA or better title basically) has been neat, seeing my desktop go from 32Mhz to 3.5Ghz has been amazing. Watching the insides of my systems get shrank and then integrated was a cool experience but seeing the way they’ve turned it all back around and made it into a powerful predictive surveillance weapon is so disheartening and diabolical. This technology was supposed to make life a utopia yet the greedy have made it a weapon for their use to ensure their power and status for eternity if possible.

I fear the youth of today will have a future of digital slavery. Where your not held in hi Dave but you’re physical being is never allowed privacy. You’re always monitored and tracked. Everything you do and say scrutinized and classified. Until they decide you’re a threat to society. Not that you’ve done anything wrong but the systems have flagged you as a potential terrorist and so you’re charged with future crimes.

It’s more dystopian than many of the sci-fi I read as a teenager in the 80’s and then later as an adult in the 90’s. I really hope for your sake there is a sudden shift in thinking about tech. I can see that data centers and flock cameras have began to change the way people see tech but I’m not sure that’s going to be enough to convince everyone how bad it can get.

I suspect the reason AI is being so heavily funded is to justify the massive expansion of data centers but I don’t think they’re for AI I think they’re for Robotic Policing and they need massive server farms to run a cities police force with 80% machines.

Good luck and god speed youth of today.
If you don’t solve this before it too late you’re children of the grave as us nuke babies of the Cold War we’re u til the Cold War ended. We have to end this tech rush or the future may be terrible for all but a few.

Today I celebrate 12 years of being on this website. I’m that time my life has changed in so many ways for the good and bad.

In 2014 when I first signed up for Reddit Obama was president, I only had a one year old grand child, I lived in Missouri, and my life was very different. Things have changed for the good and bad.

I’ve moved back to California and lives in Nevada as well. I lost nearly everything in a wildfire. I’ve got three grandkids now the 1 year old is now 13 and in jr high. I’ve lost close friends and family I’ve gained new friends and family. It’s been a wild ride.

One of my fondest memories of Reddit involves the 2014 secret Santa exchange. I signed up for Reddit because of the gift exchange program. I saw someone got snoop dogg and I was inspired. I ended up receiving a custom hand made leather wallet. The best wallet I’ve ever owned. I really wish I could find the person who made it. I love the wallet and want more goods from them.

When I got an Oculus Quest a couple month after they came out. One of the games I played was a game called robó-recall. Now it’s been 7 years now. There has yet to be a game as fun and addictive as robo recall imo. The reason VR is still niche is because we only get gorilla tag games now and great games like RR are nowhere to be found. Please for the love of all that’s digital make a sequel to RR:U

This is my favorite MJ album. The new songs are my favorites and his best work imo. I like almost every song. There’s like 2 songs I’m not super crazy about but I still like them. Tabloid Junkie was ok but I thought Leave Me Alone was a better song about the tabloids the other song I didn’t care for much was his cover of the Beatles Come Together. I love the other tracks immensely my top 3 being Scream, Earth Song, They Don’t Care About Us. Honorable mention to You Are Not Alone.

I personally will always have a bias for Thriller. I was ten I ran home from school with my best friend to watch the mtv music video debut. It was an amazing video that really blew us away. We especially liked Zombie Michael. What a cool look. Of course we all wanted the classic jacket with the V shaped front in red and black. That’s my favorite but

His best video imo is the technical marvel that was Ghost. The visual FX the character work the dances were all top notch MJ.

I’ll give an honorable mention to the film Moonwalker. It has all the videos from the album “BAD” compiled into a weird storyline. Bad was a good video as well.

MJ really set the bar high for music video production with thriller and continually pushed the limits of Walmart a music video was. A visionary artist.

This has been happening for months now. I had never seen the podcast before and now it’s constantly being shoved on me. WTH?

I Remeber back when I was a kid in the 80’s//90’s some people would claim they put cameras in cable boxes. Most dismissed them as crazy. Now we see this same type of data collection happening in our daily lives.

It’s widely known especially then that military tech was 10-20 years ahead of consumer markets. Is it possible they had developed digital photocells and were using those. A flat photocell wouldn’t look like a camera to most people at the time. If anything they might think it’s some weird led sectioned number display or remote signal receiver.

Idk if they ever did have cameras in boxes or maybe just specific targets they were targeted to observe. However the modern use of the tech has done nothing to dispel the idea that business or government wouldn’t do such things. In fact it’s quite the opposite and made these stories more believable to me.

Both the French and German languages have been around a while and it seems they’ve developed a term or word for almost every situation known to man.

That great comeback you thought of 5 minutes after the situation was over that’s French it’s L’Esprit de l’Escalier meaning the wit of the staircase.

Then there’s the famous German word that describes feeling hot in another’s suffering or misfortune that’s Schadenfreudes

Yet in English we struggle sometimes to find words or terms that fit a situation. We can always look to the French or Germans for it at least b

Listening to his music the album 808’s & Heartbreaks seems to show signs of him starting to become paranoid publicly. By the 2013 album “Yeezus” he’s declaring himself a god. But even “Black Skinhead” from 2010’s MBDTF shows signs he’s become hostile towards society. Idk man. I was a big fan of his first three albums and 808’s is his Magnum Opus imo. For all its simplicity it is a complex album with deep themes and strong melodic beats that are minimalistic yet effective. What do you all think? Idk where but somewhere it all went wrong for the guy and things seemed to spiral for a while. Last o heard he was trying to walk back a lot of the most egregious stuff he’d said and done but man it’s wild. He could have been remembered as one of the greatest rappers to love but his legacy will forever be tainted by his anti Semitic and anti Black rhetoric the naxi song and all that stuff. What a shame mental illness took him so far off course.

Debt collector called from coffeeville ms and woke me up. I only answered because coffee was in the name. LoL. My brain was like coffee yes please.

I’ve been an Oliver tree fan for about 5 years now. I had all his music on Apple Music added to my library. Today I went to go listen to a tree song and it’s gone. Also Mr. Tree has had its spelling changed. Prior to Oliver’s death it was spelled MrTrEe which made me wonder if MTE held hidden meaning. Now all the splitting branches songs are gone and MrTrEe is now Mr Tree. Any idea why? I suspect it has to do with legacy and ownership rights but it sucks to have some of his music disappear.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yXg\_-2fpg-s&t=118s

When did they take down the online version. You use to be able to roll a quest in the website. There was a boulder on the page and then you clicked it and it loaded the section then rolled again to get your quest and any modifiers you may have rolled. Now it’s only available as a book or pdf.

I really want Morton’s list to catch on. It’s clever and fun but people wont pay what they’re asking for it if they’ve never played it. They do have a 13% version to try it out but I really think it should just be an app that can be synced between players and then every rolls to see who’s quest master.

As a child in the 70’s/80’s and a kiss fan during the satanic panic era of backwards messages. Well I decided to look for backwards messages in Destroyer and I did find one but I don’t believe it was intentional just a happenstance of syllables sung in reverse.

The backwards part comes from the song do you love me. If you play the course backwards you hear what sounds like Emily and as a child I was convinced the song was about a woman named Emily.

I know in my heart that’s never happening by my brain don’t want to accept it’s not just another one of Oliver’s cringe edge lord gags. My brain want to believe we get new Oliver tree records and merch but the truth is the ride is over.

Our Alien boy is gone. Turbo has burned out, we’ve cried out last cowboy tears. I’m so saddened by his passing. He was such a talented fool. I say fool because he was our court jester doing dumb stuff to make us laugh like painting himself sonic blue head to toe, building the worlds biggest scooter, all the goofy YouTube and TikTok interviews he did. He was great on the H3 podcast. He was always doing something clever or silly or amusing. He was one of a kind and the kind of one you’ll sorely miss.

Rip Oliver Tree.