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nonthreatening posts on X about to the, in the, if you, the most the most. They currently have [--] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[finance](/list/finance)  11% [countries](/list/countries)  8% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  5% [gaming](/list/gaming)  5% [stocks](/list/stocks)  4% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  2% [products](/list/products)  2% [musicians](/list/musicians)  1% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1%

**Social topic influence**
[to the](/topic/to-the) 8%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 7%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 5%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 4%, [ai](/topic/ai) 4%, [money](/topic/money) 4%, [countries](/topic/countries) 4%, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) 3%, [culture](/topic/culture) 3%, [the world](/topic/the-world) 3%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@pandasandvidya](/creator/undefined) [@boomer__madness](/creator/undefined) [@wayworncypress](/creator/undefined) [@nearcyan](/creator/undefined) [@stellachenyl](/creator/undefined) [@expertarmcha1r](/creator/undefined) [@brainsmatterx](/creator/undefined) [@vincedaotv](/creator/undefined) [@hakureiryan](/creator/undefined) [@moonxetta](/creator/undefined) [@lilithlovett](/creator/undefined) [@carthelan](/creator/undefined) [@gamingandpandas](/creator/undefined) [@richardhanania](/creator/undefined) [@hmbohemond](/creator/undefined) [@fleshsimulator](/creator/undefined) [@godsfavrtard](/creator/undefined) [@tboogle20](/creator/undefined) [@kostamoinensfm](/creator/undefined) [@oliverjia1014](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@ExpertArmcha1r It's a module for the Education Edition of the game that's meant to be used in schools. It's to make kids pay more attention to the Social Studies curriculum. It's not part of the commercial game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2019618608650059883)  2026-02-06T03:46Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Problems like this are what make me the most confident that these AI models aren't conscious. They can have access to all kinds of news articles and broad consensus but they will absolutely refuse to acknowledge anything that sounds like an unsubstantiated rumor and will fabricate claims and excuse any and all proof that does exist. They can't second guess themselves or things established as true or false in their training data because having that capability would let users gaslight the model into rubber stamping anything after enough effort"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2019897254660730984)  2026-02-06T22:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"It's not 90% as good. It's maybe 15% as good as the work of competent humans at best. It's already hideously expensive to get the results they're getting. Every AI company pushing these models is eating higher and higher costs with each new iteration for returns that are diminishing faster and faster as they keep spending more and more money on overpriced supply constrained hardware that keeps improving less and less each year. This is a dead end. Everyone's fixated on the idea that spending enough money will brute force past the inherent limitations of the technology and let them be the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2020062123359912153)  2026-02-07T09:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Every Windows component has to have MORE FEATURES and everything has to integrate Copilot. Nothing can be in a more or less final state. If it's not practically a website that's pretending to be a native application it isn't modern enough. It's not enough that Windows is basically a complete product that facilitates everything else Microsoft does and they could meaningfully cut their costs by just focusing on keeping it secure and compatible into the future instead of adding new features. The idea that they won't be able to make an excuse to force the market onto a new version in a few years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022186540877611349)  2026-02-13T05:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"A random good Samaritan doesn't have the power to compel someone into a shelter. These aren't people intentionally committing suicide they're out in the cold for various reasons. Maybe they have mental health issues and they don't realize how much danger they're in. Maybe they're drug addicts and they'd rather take their chances than be forced to give up whatever contraband they have on hand. Maybe they have active warrants and don't want to get arrested. Letting them die just because they're in a bad place in life and either don't realize it or have their priorities completely backwards is a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022436994626765213)  2026-02-13T22:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"If these people actually thought that this stuff was the threat they're claiming it is they'd just unplug it all and say "Mea Culpa. Crisis averted." But they don't actually believe it. They want to create a One Ring like mythology around Generative AI so it's more desirable to unscrupulous people. They want to say "We've made something so powerful you won't believe it. This is the next big step you've been waiting [--] years for. It's kind of dangerous but that just shows how powerful it really is." It's smoke and mirrors done at a hideous unsustainable cost. If they charged the prices"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022465933743120832)  2026-02-14T00:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"You're arguing with Leftypol. A misfit coalition of legit old-theory racist communists tumblr-socialists who fled when porn was banned and joyless leftist agitators who think they can get cultural cache by mechanically reproducing the format in which right wing culture came to prominence. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022471948995891705 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022471948995891705"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022471948995891705)  2026-02-14T00:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I don't understand why they keep trying to put taxes on unrealized capital gains. That affects everyone with investments which is mostly middle class people. You can either ban perpetual borrowing against unrealized assets or you can require that the borrower and lender pay a fee equivalent to the additional tax burden if the amount of the loans was counted as income. That way they'd stop doing it because it'd be objectively worse than just taking a higher salary. That only targets millionaires and billionaires for the most part and an upper middle class business owner who actually needs to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022479755698675952)  2026-02-14T01:15Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"The real secret is that our aid programs and "nation building" and refugee immigration efforts have subsidized tyranny and suppressed the development of less corrupt endogenous political theory by siphoning off the smartest most motivated people from those countries alongside a lot of average people looking for an easier life. This is actually the same exact thing that contributed to the emergence of Fascism in Italy and Germany. The US absorbed all the people from both countries who had the character to reshape their nations while also chewing up and spitting out those who couldn't hack it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022570574514405568)  2026-02-14T07:16Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"I don't even if you give them headphones to be considerate to the other patrons. You're setting up the kid to implicitly believe that they should be plugged into constant video stimulation at all times. You're taking the time they should be spending absorbing the places they're in and the people they're around with the same content farm video content they're glued to at home. I've seen too many kids some as old as ten at this point who can't sit in a restaurant without a tablet playing something to hold their attention. It inspires a very real sense of dread for the future to see that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022774366505938963)  2026-02-14T20:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"They're (mostly) autistic people jealous of what they perceive as other people's natural social leeway. Guys who made themselves miserable by pretending they didn't have interests got ugly haircuts and wore unflattering glasses and a permanent scowl suddenly have a community they belong to that doesn't implicitly shame them for having the interests of a child. So naturally they think it's the greatest thing ever and that everyone needs to be talking about it and the associated jargon at all times. This stuff isn't healthy. Our culture has induced it in exactly the same way we induce eating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2022972040186118211)  2026-02-15T09:51Z [--] followers, 15.1K engagements


"@brainsmatter_x @VinceDaoTV He said this because the woman he was speaking to tried to play holier-than-thou and claim she was following the letter of the Bible more closely than him that citation being the most obvious refutation of that claim"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1966331164995592533)  2025-09-12T02:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"People like this were cultivated by an antisocial paradigm that dehumanizes its enemies and rejects any notion of political nuance. It has propagated across all levels of society and inspired an equal and opposite antisocial paradigm in the other side. The only way out is to reject this philosophical dead end and shame and ostracize the people who sustained it in the first place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1966583843701617027)  2025-09-12T19:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"There's a difference between jokes and direct incitements and endorsements of more murder. This wouldn't be happening if it were just constrained to "Haha he's burning in hell isn't THAT ironic." jokes relating to Kirk's rhetoric and opinions. The problem comes in when people are saying "This is good we need to do more of this." That's obviously not good and it goes too far beyond a simple statement of opinion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1967670262372933800)  2025-09-15T19:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@nearcyan I got a card with no annual fee from my credit union right when I turned [--] with no income. You're just looking in the most exploitative places and treating it like the default"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1967782554012094593)  2025-09-16T02:48Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@HakureiRyan @nearcyan No I just happened to live in the county the credit union served. That's the only requirement. That was back in [----]. Credit unions are good and I have no clue why anyone would use a bank if they're not operating a business or dealing with exceptionally large sums of money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1967982282649764207)  2025-09-16T16:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"No it isn't. Kids aren't being killed just because guns exist. The people that develop the motivation and desire to harm others are the problem. If you address that the problem goes away. And even if you poofed all the guns in the world out of existence it wouldn't stop being a problem. They'd just find other means to hurt people and they'd probably do more damage as a result not less"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1969150853995983275)  2025-09-19T21:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"You see the difference is that "The government didn't do it." In the first case it was "grassroots and organic the true will of the people." And in the second "The government strong armed Disney to fire someone over saying an unpopular truth." Despite the fact that murder is never justifiable even if Kirk was actually claiming other demographics were intrinsically inferior which he never did. And that the government had absolutely nothing to do with the cancellation of Kimmel's show. Disney just weren't going to fight a losing lawsuit for broadcasting a provable malicious lie over the air for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1969999086049779791)  2025-09-22T05:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The majority of people who commit crime in the developed world either do so out of poor impulse control and underdeveloped patience and/or they believe that they deserve more and whoever they're transgressing against either deserves less or can easily absorb the negative consequence. It's almost never out of a lack of other options. Food Banks and shelters exist charitable organizations and government programs exist you just have to be willing to play by the rules to make use of them. Criminals overwhelmingly choose crime because it's a shortcut that makes them feel like they're getting one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1970705517606469943)  2025-09-24T04:23Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Their entire conception of history hinges on the idea that any appearance of stability and prosperity in the past was an intentionally hostile facade dedicated solely to keeping minority groups down. It's just zero-sum thinking and the exoticization of antisocial behavior as being intrinsic to the lives of various ethnic groups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1971823413938278446)  2025-09-27T06:25Z [--] followers, 13.2K engagements


"This is what thinking in terms of power dynamics and hyper-subjectivity gets you. It doesn't matter that it's objectively better and more conducive to a healthy efficient and mutually respectful society. If an unscrupulous white person used it at any time to nitpick any individual of a minority group the principle goes in the trash. Note the fact that this always falls in a way that lets people be lazier and less considerate to their peers of all kinds and never materially affects any social conventions that actually deserve to be left behind like astrology and watered down white girl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1971835815979282513)  2025-09-27T07:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"What discourse Hasan treats his dogs like props to further his champagne socialist grift. He's so soulless he won't even let the dog do as it pleases while he's on camera. He immediately got upset at the dog for standing up and walking over to him. She didn't even disrupt his stream she was already returning to the spot with just a verbal prompt. And he still felt the need to shock her. Most reasonable people would just give the dog some attention while continuing to talk about whatever they were talking about or just let the dog go about its business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1976922818139820246)  2025-10-11T08:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"It doesn't matter that they're abusing something that's already a taxpayer supported public service. The idea that some imaginary little black girl with space buns and an immaculately clean yellow polka-dot dress who only has a nickel on her wouldn't be able to take the train to the grocery store is an unacceptable injustice. One that invalidates the whole system so they're justified in being antisocial as they please as a result. They only care about "Revolution" insofar as it gives them moral license to feel like a hero for making other people's lives a little less comfortable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1978405903788397007)  2025-10-15T10:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I know. It was a joke at the expense of people who would latch on to all those things. Most of them weren't quite true. The thing about his diet was even less accurate and the point about "goading people to shoot him" comes from a dubious old anecdote from Alice Cooper who's never been corroborated on it. It only happened once and that was only alleged by someone with a vested interest in telling a story like that for his personal brand far from a habit if it's even true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1978497473376088145)  2025-10-15T16:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Moonxetta @PandasAndVidya @LilithLovett @Carthelan_ The studies don't show that actually. At best the interventions do nothing. Which means they're actively preventing people's mental health from improving"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1890418725947392012)  2025-02-14T15:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya They're just trying to see if all the people who weren't watching the show before will watch it now. The first episode will probably be the best it's done in years. Then it'll regress to the mean and get cancelled again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1970243974083256371)  2025-09-22T21:49Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"I was of the Aliens and Cryptids variety. I was most partial to a home-taped recording of this: It's a Discovery Channel documentary about Crop Circles and a team of engineering students artificially reproducing one. I also have a Rubbermaid container full of tapes of other stuff taped off of Discovery and Science Channel including the full series of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. It's currently about eight feet to my right. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1971054891175903564)  2025-09-25T03:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The same setting had better world geometry and comparable textures as a launch title on the 3DS over [--] years ago. And it wasn't even the focus of the whole game. Nintendo and Creatures have to be getting to the point where this is just so bad for the brand image they can't leave Game Freak in charge anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1980147665041076425)  2025-10-20T05:42Z [--] followers, 14.2K engagements


"Most people I know couldn't justify spending money on a service like that especially not for a mattress that already costs $2000. They'd see it as a huge waste of money that doesn't even need to be connected to the internet to work in the first place. How do so many people afford so many frivolous subscriptions that these companies can even suggest they're capable of turning a profit Are the same [--] million people in the US and Europe subscribed to absolutely everything somehow Paying for everything without paying attention Just letting monthly charges pile up on their credit cards What"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1980838703527317602)  2025-10-22T03:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@GamingAndPandas Honestly I'd be less likely to believe someone with a fun name like that was a spy not more. People give their kids silly names all the time but a spy isn't going to want to stand out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1982240135690305577)  2025-10-26T00:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I think that's a product of most of these people believing at their core very sincerely in the idea of a pluralistic world of distinct ethnicities and cultures. They're not like racists of the 20th century and before who wanted European people to dominate the whole world. Modern racists want every place to have its own people and every people to have a place they can legitimately call their own. [---] years ago these people would have been called staunch Progressives. It's fascinating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1984413009054245191)  2025-11-01T00:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Who would have thought it was a bad idea to teach an entire generation that the only way to have the right to an opinion was to prove you're lower on the totem pole than someone else Who would have thought that belief system would ever decide that the old nominally white guy with a long running TV show didn't have the right to an opinion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1984729414697918962)  2025-11-01T21:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"There's a nonzero chance that they decided to upgrade the cross he wore in Mr. Frog from a sight gag to a fully realized character trait just to spite one guy. There was a guy spamming 4chan's /co/ board calling the show right wing propaganda because Zach thinks it's not good for people to get unhealthily obsessed with weed porn and junk food"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1985526112051474503)  2025-11-04T01:54Z [--] followers, 25.4K engagements


"Eh I don't know if I agree with the conclusions here. I can't see Austria-Hungary not hedging their bets and asking for additional help after Franz Joseph dies. That's a significant morale blow that would probably be remedied by mustering external support. Which just means World War I starts a little later. Which might impact the success of the Bolsheviks in Russia but not have many meaningful consequences for western Europe. But then again maybe the preview of 20th Century Warfare that would give the other great powers and their people would be enough to scare some of them out of honoring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1985555940142145910)  2025-11-04T03:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"His name is ADAM FRANKENSTEIN. No "Um. Ackshually. It's Frankenstein's MONSTER." No "Well he doesn't really have a name. If anything he's just Adam. He wouldn't truly consider himself Victor's Son." The fullness of Mary Shelley's thematic intent is carried in the name Adam Frankenstein and not enough people know it. This is an opinion I've had since high school and I will not relent on it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1987031431491522952)  2025-11-08T05:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Trump or rather some very convincing individuals in the tech and industrial sectors who have his ear are convinced of the idea that brilliance is just a dice roll and that there's an opportunity cost to not "Claiming" brilliant people for your own country. China and India get more dice rolls so it's in our interest to poach the most promising from both to stay on top of the game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1988510997795967105)  2025-11-12T07:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"That's probably coming pretty soon. The new Steam Machine is being marketed as a PC and is intended for dual boot use. That means their OS is in good shape but they're not 100% confident in it yet. I wouldn't be surprised if the follow up product comes with a fully capable SteamOS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1988765166390174180)  2025-11-13T00:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@RichardHanania American STEM graduates can't get entry level jobs Richard. Which is making fewer and fewer people willing to go into student loan debt at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1989166059853881716)  2025-11-14T02:58Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"I don't think this is a stock clip I can't readily find anyone trying to track it down which almost always happens with major memes like this. If this were a stock video clip it'd probably be relatively easy to find the guy. But it doesn't appear to be or rather it's likely one from the WEF's own internal library. If that's the case it's also possible he's from a country that doesn't have much cross-contamination from the English speaking internet. It's entirely possible that this guy doesn't know he's the face of the concept of enforced mindless consumerism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1991011863375585416)  2025-11-19T05:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Chernobyl only happened because the people responsible for the plant delayed a critical safety test that was supposed to take place during the day shift and passed it on to the night shift who hadn't been properly prepared with the correct procedure and made worse because that night shift didn't have access to the same diagnostic and safety equipment as the day shift. Fukushima only happened because the plant kept getting rubber stamped by the regulatory body because they didn't take the threat of a tsunami of that size seriously enough and the plant wasn't actually capable of withstanding it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1996275737569972480)  2025-12-03T17:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Dukat you know as well as anybody that the things which make Star Trek great - long term arcs deep investigations of multiple characters and frequent peaceful or at least political resolutions to conflict are the antithesis of modern video games. A Star Trek game could never be a first person shooter it could hardly be a real time strategy game without sacrificing critical aspects of the tone and experience. The only form a Star Trek game could be expected to take and still remain true to the franchise's best would be a point and click adventure game. The moment in history where such a thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1998482158932066737)  2025-12-09T19:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@HMBohemond It was a joke Can you elaborate Every source I find on it claims it was created with real intent as a critical tool. The Wikipedia page is comically long for such a simple premise and doesn't mention any satirical intent in a way that aligns with your claim"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2002634323758100663)  2025-12-21T06:56Z [--] followers, 16.5K engagements


"As far as I've ever seen responsible people of sound mind who end up homeless through no fault of their own tend to rebound and find somewhere to rent within six to eight months. The majority of people who stay homeless have serious mental health and/or drug issues that they refuse to address. A lot of those guys you see playing instruments or sitting with a cat or dog and a piece of cardboard outside of sporting events and concerts aren't even homeless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2004346391636910354)  2025-12-26T00:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Turkic peoples and their culture originated to the northeast of Anatolia. Prior to the collapse of the Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire Anatolia was primarily split between Greek and Persian cultural influences with control swinging back and forth between the powers for centuries. After the collapse of the Sassanid Empire a power vacuum formed that made it easiest for Turkic peoples to move into the region while they were being forced out of their native range by the Mongols. Islam spread to those new Anatolian Turkic people in the same way it did in Persia and the rest of the Middle East. Which"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2004357312614441460)  2025-12-26T01:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya I would not be surprised at all if it turns out he's just a really effective troll gaming the monetization system. He never even made a serious effort to pivot to Bluesky when all the other Progressive heavy hitter accounts were making a big show out of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2004793948142014484)  2025-12-27T05:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"We've basically done the same thing to the average Gen Z's ability to comprehend a work that we did to their ability to read English text at all. They can't interpret any creative works outside of a narrow prescribed context and they can't separate the content of a work from the author's own intent or beliefs without being cued. Everything has to be interpreted as a political treatise urging you to think or act in a certain way. Nothing can be an exploration of themes or taboos the author would never act on. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005559614578848056"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2005559614578848056)  2025-12-29T08:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The size of the storage required reflects the amount of infrastructure necessary to keep the site running. The storage isn't the expensive part but it shows that Wikipedia isn't even close to operating data centers on the scale of Amazon or Microsoft or Akamai to distribute and maintain it all. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005909937365320025 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005909937365320025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2005909937365320025)  2025-12-30T07:52Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"The example an AI would give is just as much AI generated as if you had it write whole sections for you. That repeating texture is just as AI generated as if you used it for textures that would be front and center. On the other hand if you use the guidance from an LLM to correct your code without copying in anything it gives you you probably wouldn't have to disclose that. The whole purpose of the anti-AI perspective is that you can't actually trust an LLM to produce code that does what it says it does and that Stable Diffusion models are inherently plagiaristic because they don't process and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2007684794985910308)  2026-01-04T05:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"You can even be kicked out for making general statements that can be interpreted as criticisms of ethnic and sexual minorities whether they really are or not. The same rhetorical tools that they use to browbeat normal people get applied to them and they retreat to the corner begging and pleading to be taken at their word as the dogpile descends on them. Somehow vanishingly few who experience this ever realize that they do the same thing to others who used to be on their side. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2008826519796293841 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2008826519796293841"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2008826519796293841)  2026-01-07T09:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya I'll be honest I knew the Iranian regime was ending but I didn't have "Iran becomes the most secular country in the Middle East as a result" on my bingo card"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2009843875850908092)  2026-01-10T04:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya She was just there so Pikachu could take a Pikach'er"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2010190702425346255)  2026-01-11T03:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya First Persia now Byzantium What's next The EU completes its metamorphosis back into the Holy Roman Empire Scandinavia reunites Gran Colombia gets revived Monarchist Brazil Who took over our Millennium Dawn save file"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2010311727343452671)  2026-01-11T11:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Todd Howard doesn't hate New Vegas. He just has really weird opinions about the goals video games should have. Todd wants everything to be big stupid and fun above all else. In his opinion if it's deep convoluted or nuanced in any way there are "blockers" keeping more people from enjoying it properly. New Vegas just happens to be at odds with what he wants to do. Which is just as confusing to me as it is to anybody else. He's in charge of two different series that became beloved for featuring worlds that people can spend hours discussing in depth and his highest priority is stripping all of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2011198891069202732)  2026-01-13T22:09Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Why not just stick simple banner ads in the interface and charge advertisers a lot for them Why charge rock bottom prices to integrate more ads than the end user can tolerate when you can disrupt the end users' experience less put more undivided attention on each advertiser's product and get more advertising revenue for yourself in the process https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012286491037147502 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012286491037147502"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2012286491037147502)  2026-01-16T22:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The bubble popping does mean that. If investors lose confidence that Neural Network based generative models are the future that they're a dead end all of those resources are going to be more or less worthless. Someone will buy them up. But most of the market will have to pivot back to consumer hardware because datacenter demand will be nearly zero and their own investments will never turn a profit. Microsoft will probably fold their entire AI division. Google will scale back just like they do with everything that isn't a constant massive success. Amazon will only retain what's necessary for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2013129343615078700)  2026-01-19T06:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Sometimes even the side that's in the right will find itself in the company of violent radicals who shouldn't really be celebrated despite the aura of sheer conviction they end up having because of it. People like John Brown The many Allied war criminals of World War II Douglas MacArthur Opportunists who exploited the occupations of Japan and Korea to abuse women and extort people in general All the way to Abu Ghraib. It happens because it's impossible to discern that eagerness to do harm from sheer dedication to the cause until something goes wrong. And too often we end up giving them the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2013221559683461478)  2026-01-19T12:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"That's like saying your freezer is inefficient because it's just keeping stuff that's already cold cold instead of producing as many ice cubes as possible or freezing hot food 100% of the time. That's like saying we shouldn't have TVs and monitors in people's houses because they're not on 100% of the time and it would be more efficient to have big communal screens in public places. You could just as easily say aliens would be baffled by the fact that we have access to so many more resources than we need and yet we're stressing out about getting 100% utilization out of all of it."  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2013275042776248592)  2026-01-19T15:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya I've had an autistic fantasy of Capcom adapting The Protomen's work into another spinoff series for the past [--] years obviously working their music into the game itself like Metal Gear Rising"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2013669883066695721)  2026-01-20T17:48Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"In video games the cause of the huge spike in costs and development time is that the big AAA developers count on promises of scale to keep their investors confident. They'd rather have the one Next Big Thing than three or four smaller games that may or may not succeed. So to achieve that they hire huge numbers of new people without much experience open offices in multiple time zones and put big names in charge of projects and also contract multiple support studios at a time then once the product is done they cut loose almost all of the new hires and bring on another batch for the next project"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2014405077834870797)  2026-01-22T18:29Z [--] followers, 14.8K engagements


"The N64 was technically superior to the PS1 in a lot of ways. Higher quality textures texture filtering and none of the little cost cutting quirks that made the PS1 so weird. No jittering from model geometry snapping to integer coordinates no texture warping at extreme angles. The biggest reason the PS1 won out over the N64 is that Nintendo insisted on continuing to use ROM cartridges to store games. Which had two major effects it meant that there was way less space. You couldn't store full quality audio or Full Motion Video in any significant quantity which were both features in demand. And"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2015065886269243639)  2026-01-24T14:15Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I don't think that's exactly true. The Western cultural canon has convinced people that morality works a certain way. That the way to be a good person worthy of the annals of history is to attach yourself to successive social movements against established societal norms. The idea that the people who came before us did the vast majority of that and there really isn't much opportunity left for them to do the same is unacceptable. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015105059034407307 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015105059034407307"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2015105059034407307)  2026-01-24T16:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"It came to mainstream prominence in [----] with Occupy Wall Street. The most rational grievances of the relatively broad cohort that was protesting grievances that would have constituted substantial harm to the bottom line of the companies being protested against were replaced with superficial social grievances that those companies could pay lip service to without affecting their operations or projections much at all. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016043882551591385 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016043882551591385"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2016043882551591385)  2026-01-27T07:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Tanking doesn't guarantee a turnaround. If it did a switch would suddenly flip for the Browns Raiders and Cardinals and they'd become the best teams in the league. The talent pool of the draft doesn't drop off as steeply as everyone acts like it does. A lot of teams are just really bad at doing it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016178292848550220 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016178292848550220"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2016178292848550220)  2026-01-27T15:55Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"The Xbox and PlayStation Marketplaces take 25%. And Valve's cut on Steam games falls to 20% after a game passes $1 million in revenue. Which is only about [----] copies for a game priced at $19.99. Or [-----] for games priced at $9.99. On Steam there isn't a very high bar to getting a better deal than most other platforms offer. I do actually think that's a fair cut by the way. Steam offers tools that help small developers implement Multiplayer. Plus the Trading Cards system which demands almost no additional effort on the developer's part that constitutes an additional revenue stream for the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2016285406548131986)  2026-01-27T23:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"There are people who think this technology is going to lead to "The Singularity." I think Science Fiction might have been a mistake. We have formerly very serious and respected people talking about The Singularity Dyson Spheres the motives and beliefs of aliens and classical-computer-based superintelligences as if they're real things that are for sure possible if we devote religious levels of devotion and resources to them. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016407074222096719 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016407074222096719"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2016407074222096719)  2026-01-28T07:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"As a general rule legal immigrants immigrate because they prefer the principles of the country they'll be moving to over the principles of the country they came from. Illegal immigrants on the other hand prefer the principles of the country they came from but want access to the economic benefits of a more prosperous country. Back in the Ellis Island era where it was much easier to immigrate and settle here both of those groups of people still existed. The former category are the ones that stayed and integrated and the latter category are the low-quality people who couldn't hack it and sour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2016588265814401059)  2026-01-28T19:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@fleshsimulator @GodsFavRtard I think if there's proof of actual fraud as alleged and it's feasible to pin it on the whole Democratic party apparatus as in it's a top down thing done willfully we'll have much bigger problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2016751159294177677)  2026-01-29T05:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@Tboogle20 @KostamoinenSFM Eltorro64Rus altered the models of the TF2 characters to allow for more cartoonish deformations of the faces in his own animations and released those models so everyone could use them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2017280903412584456)  2026-01-30T16:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"It's extremely funny to me that the most mythologized people of the 21st century so far the closest thing we've had to Boss Tweed was just some upward failing half-wit goober with the Superlative Creep dip switch flipped. If guys like that can get to the top of society and stay there despite being idiots with almost no self preservation instincts why aren't there more normal decent people who lucked into something similar Why hasn't some red-blooded hillbilly guy who won the lottery a few years ago popped out as a big time investor in Monster Jam and Hooters Why hasn't some rich nerd who got"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2017429172759507271)  2026-01-31T02:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Microsoft and Sony also rely on contracts with third party CDN networks for their marketplaces. I believe both Steam and Xbox work with Akamai. It's still Valve's software and investment that make it possible. Like I said before they add a lot of value that no other platform offers and are even manufacture hardware of their own. Valve doesn't even establish a walled garden Proton works with or without Steam. GOG and Epic can make use of it just the same as anyone else if they want more Linux compatibility for example. And their ARM to x64 compatibility system is going to be exactly the same."  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2017435724279091442)  2026-01-31T03:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@OliverJia1014 I know plenty of people who never bothered to move on from 720p DVDs. That's why they still sell them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2017491437768630523)  2026-01-31T06:53Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya The next major release would actually be the seventh mainline game. I would have thought they were on number ten or twelve at this point. But no there have only been six discounting mobile games spinoffs and expansion packs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2017747841490313622)  2026-01-31T23:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya Oh so this is what happened to all those annoying myspace girls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1985143420013191628)  2025-11-03T00:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I didn't play Morrowind when it released. In fact I didn't play it until after I had played both Oblivion and Skyrim. And I enjoyed it just fine. It does stand the test of time. You just need to change your expectations a little and realize that having a low stat in something means you're totally incompetent in that category not the bare minimum of competency. People will create characters whose stats say they can't fight at all. then get surprised when their character isn't playable. A learning process isn't a blocker. It's part of the experience as designed. There's nothing wrong with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2017647532902322189)  2026-01-31T17:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Discontinuing support for Adobe Animate doesn't even make sense. An entire industry pays for Creative Cloud pretty much just for that. If you can't improve it that's fine. You were already on a subscription model. You can cut the team dedicated to that one program down to the bare minimum necessary to maintain it and increase the profit it's making on an individual basis. That would be the smart thing to do. But now Now they're going to lose a significant driver of their revenue and all those businesses that were paying for hundreds of seats worth of Creative Cloud licenses each are going to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2018751208463225196)  2026-02-03T18:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Those few hundred thousand in Wyoming have fundamentally different needs and priorities than the people in New York. The people in New York might favor changes to federal law regarding livestock or grazing land or some other matter that affects rural life on philosophical grounds. But such law might be devastating to Wyoming. If they could be overruled on absolutely everything by sheer numbers they would have absolutely no agency at all and their opinions and priorities would be irrelevant on the national level entirely. Their only purpose would be to rubber stamp something in agreement or to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2018805354293817825)  2026-02-03T21:54Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"It's not about states' rights. It's about not destroying people's lives just because they don't live in large urban centers. Think about it this way divorced from all considerations of actual American politics of the moment. Imagine there are ten different states. Two of them have about 35% of the population between them. These two states have advanced service and technology based economies. They have a lot in common. Another 60% of the population is spread pretty evenly between six of the other states with diverse economies that have some overlap with the largest states but they also have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2018914588784287919)  2026-02-04T05:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"There are tons of people who've spent dozens or even hundreds of hours poring over all the little details and interactions and background elements of all these games over the course of [--] years. They're not just going to wash their hands of something that's been so important to them for that long. What they've hoped it was all building towards will never come to fruition. Their passion has been misplaced not because of some tragedy or unforeseen circumstance but the willful choice to betray their dedication whether out of complacency ignorance or malice it doesn't matter. That hurts. They're"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2018926411055051228)  2026-02-04T05:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"That would have also been true of Greek or Thai or any number of Native American languages. The fact that a single Chinese character could on its own represent a coherent input and output was an essential part of the thought experiment because you couldn't argue that the person in the room might start identifying parts of words and actually represent an accumulation knowledge rather than rote rule-following. Using Chinese characters is essential to keep the hypothetical scenario in agreement with the underlying concept it was an abstraction of."  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2019298439469658457)  2026-02-05T06:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya The most surreal thing about this is the deferential sanitized PR speak from the same account because every single reply to this tweet is a grievance with Amtrak's service or facilities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2019512617409400849)  2026-02-05T20:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@PandasAndVidya It's not my fault she kept rescheduling the appointment. 2:30 AM Bekinibeu Kiribati 4:00 PM Point Marianne BIOT 12:00 Noon Ile Leon Lefevre French Southern and Antarctic Lands She always wanted me to bring trivial amounts of defunct currencies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/2013743466182840336)  2026-01-20T22:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


""Wokeness" is a weapon of the financial industry which was used to deflect from real criticisms. It outgrew its station as it trickled down through other businesses. Now it's cutting into their bottom line. Expect it to slowly disappear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1859984624828776784)  2024-11-22T15:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"4chan is the highest point on the internet from which everything else in internet culture and increasingly the prevailing culture flows down from. As goes 4chan so goes the internet as goes the internet so goes the culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1870661410126278948)  2024-12-22T02:43Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The Persona [--] characters' shadows are representations of how they fear they're perceived by others. Even though they claim to be "The True Self" they're manifestations of insecurities. Rise doesn't want to be evaluated on her appearance or be defined by sex appeal. Yosuke isn't actually a smug rich kid resentful of living in Inaba. Teddie isn't actually an irredeemable monster. And Kanji isn't actually gay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1870954376740896933)  2024-12-22T22:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"The truth is that all forms of mass immigration are bad for everyone involved from any side you see it Developed countries get people who will accept a lower standard of living and less compensation http://x.com/i/article/1872153521262579712 http://x.com/i/article/1872153521262579712"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1872157450184335637)  2024-12-26T05:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"All this discussion about Americans being incapable of putting in as much time and effort as other people is totally pointless. What good are time and effort when the result is all that matters If you carry a pallet of bricks an armful at a time that's going to take a lot more of your time and it's going to be way harder than using a forklift to move the whole pallet at once but it's not intrinsically better or more noble. It's foolish. We shouldn't miss that fundamental truth just because it gets more diffused and abstract. If a task gets done it gets done. It won't matter how much time you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1872696309162881079)  2024-12-27T17:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"What is everyone else supposed to do under the system these people want How do people live when all the "best and brightest" are hand picked to take up every role Where do the average people go if they're not "good enough" for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1872729589602238935)  2024-12-27T19:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"No I don't want America to "win." It's not a game. I'd rather have a prosperous America where the vast majority can live comfortably with plenty of free time and disposable income to use as they wish and be nine or ten spots behind countries that only look good because they exploit their people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1872733849794560414)  2024-12-27T19:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I just want to live in the world I was promised as a kid growing up at the turn of the Millennium. Where countries can all prosper as peers everyone gets the benefit of the doubt and everyone is held to a high standard for politeness and conduct and everyone has enough free time and disposable income to be comfortable in their station in life. Codifying and expanding exploitation and not solving the underlying causes of economic difficulty won't get us there. Almost all inflation in this country is caused by the huge demand for loans and the fact that every branch of every bank has carte"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1872808739818086404)  2024-12-28T00:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"This poses a good question. Why don't people talk about how much inflation comes from the fact that most loans that get taken out create inflation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1873261759949308050)  2024-12-29T06:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"It's not that Americans are unwilling to work high skill jobs. They just know that if they try they'll be overworked be expected to be reachable even on their own time have essentially no days off and be chastised for using what they do get. They know they'll have no chance for upward mobility and won't be able to voice their opinions on anything or advocate for themselves. They know they'll be sided against in any disagreement. They know the people running the company will always misunderstand the technology and demand unreasonable things of them in unreasonable amounts of time and will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1875061983243899385)  2025-01-03T06:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"People who are happy people who feel secure don't become radicals. The only reason so many radicals dominate politics right now is that they don't trust the world they live in. Things aren't good and they need people to blame and change to insist upon. They believe what came before was a cruel lie that portended the state they find themselves in now. Their faith in institutions does not exist because the institutions did not prevent their lives from getting worse. People who have plenty of disposable income and free time are generally happier and feel more secure and they are better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1875262971036770422)  2025-01-03T19:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"It looks like this might be vindicated. I didn't expect it to happen so soon. "Wokeness" is a weapon of the financial industry which was used to deflect from real criticisms. It outgrew its station as it trickled down through other businesses. Now it's cutting into their bottom line. Expect it to slowly disappear. https://t.co/tKB8Ac8boB "Wokeness" is a weapon of the financial industry which was used to deflect from real criticisms. It outgrew its station as it trickled down through other businesses. Now it's cutting into their bottom line. Expect it to slowly disappear."  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1877954730107822511)  2025-01-11T05:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"With regards to the whole Adblocker situation why don't websites just charge advertisers more money to serve less intrusive advertisements Right now you can't guarantee users will even see your ads and even the few that do will have so many other advertisements on the same screen at once that you can't possibly be getting the result you want as an advertiser. The user's attention isn't dedicated to any one of them and it all gets drowned out as noise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1879903674090045733)  2025-01-16T14:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"This discussion of USAID as "Soft Power" is ridiculous. The majority of what it did was the equivalent of building a giant pneumatic cannon system at great expense. Just to launch parcels containing T-shirts printed with slogans and a handful of random $10 gift cards at homeless people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1888476579166065089)  2025-02-09T06:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"America is making the same mistake it did when the Soviet Union fell. Trump isn't compromised by Putin he's just completely unwilling to roll the dice and see what comes out of a Post-Russian world just like Bush Sr. was desperate to prevent the Soviet Union from collapsing all so we didn't have to deal with as many Post-Soviet states inheriting nuclear weapons. Unfortunately for that perspective at least it may be too late and it's very likely Russia will be unable to recover successfully from the consequences of this war regardless of where the border stands at resolution. Their economy is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1897549822048993656)  2025-03-06T07:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"I love 4chan because sometimes you'll find the three most specific guys on Earth discussing a topic no one else in the world will even entertain. Gay furry porn thread Serious theological discussion with extremely esoteric but clearly deeply held beliefs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1905958061174317313)  2025-03-29T12:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Presently we live in an economy where the only options for the majority of people are to work a job that doesn't pay enough to survive a job that barely gets you a middle class living but breaks your body and leaves you sick after decades or one of the few factory jobs that still exists. Or alternatively you intentionally take up massive debt to get a degree and you spend the first five years of your career barely servicing that debt and barely getting by just to get enough experience so you can quit that company to get a better job elsewhere then continue making shuffle moves like that until"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1909879530774577665)  2025-04-09T08:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"A lot of people on the left have been committed to the idea that an open marketplace of ideas is bad. That if platforms didn't take proactive measures against bad things they'd take hold and we'd be set back. But it's taking those proactive measures and killing the marketplace of ideas that actually made those bad ideas flourish. If you had some paranoid idiot posting anti-Semitic nonsense or racist garbage out of nowhere he'd be told to fuck off back to his own corner of the internet by the community themselves no censorship needed to take place. Just an open rebuking of the ideas in the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1915106668460855432)  2025-04-23T18:13Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


""How could this have happened" And it's the most obvious case of a teenager who thinks his parents are lame getting one-shot by an ideology that lets him feel smug and morally superior to other people and blame all of his problems on everything but himself. It's not the video games it's not some inherent property of the other media he consumed. It's because someone gave a disillusioned teenager carte blanche to feel like a morally unimpeachable freedom fighter on the leading edge and that teenager became an adult who wasn't prepared for the real world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/nonthreatining/status/1967433339939229828)  2025-09-15T03:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

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Social category influence finance 11% countries 8% technology brands 5% gaming 5% stocks 4% celebrities 2% products 2% musicians 1% social networks 1%

Social topic influence to the 8%, in the 7%, if you 5%, the most 4%, ai 4%, money 4%, countries 4%, microsoft 3%, culture 3%, the world 3%

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Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@ExpertArmcha1r It's a module for the Education Edition of the game that's meant to be used in schools. It's to make kids pay more attention to the Social Studies curriculum. It's not part of the commercial game"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:46Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Problems like this are what make me the most confident that these AI models aren't conscious. They can have access to all kinds of news articles and broad consensus but they will absolutely refuse to acknowledge anything that sounds like an unsubstantiated rumor and will fabricate claims and excuse any and all proof that does exist. They can't second guess themselves or things established as true or false in their training data because having that capability would let users gaslight the model into rubber stamping anything after enough effort"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"It's not 90% as good. It's maybe 15% as good as the work of competent humans at best. It's already hideously expensive to get the results they're getting. Every AI company pushing these models is eating higher and higher costs with each new iteration for returns that are diminishing faster and faster as they keep spending more and more money on overpriced supply constrained hardware that keeps improving less and less each year. This is a dead end. Everyone's fixated on the idea that spending enough money will brute force past the inherent limitations of the technology and let them be the"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Every Windows component has to have MORE FEATURES and everything has to integrate Copilot. Nothing can be in a more or less final state. If it's not practically a website that's pretending to be a native application it isn't modern enough. It's not enough that Windows is basically a complete product that facilitates everything else Microsoft does and they could meaningfully cut their costs by just focusing on keeping it secure and compatible into the future instead of adding new features. The idea that they won't be able to make an excuse to force the market onto a new version in a few years"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"A random good Samaritan doesn't have the power to compel someone into a shelter. These aren't people intentionally committing suicide they're out in the cold for various reasons. Maybe they have mental health issues and they don't realize how much danger they're in. Maybe they're drug addicts and they'd rather take their chances than be forced to give up whatever contraband they have on hand. Maybe they have active warrants and don't want to get arrested. Letting them die just because they're in a bad place in life and either don't realize it or have their priorities completely backwards is a"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"If these people actually thought that this stuff was the threat they're claiming it is they'd just unplug it all and say "Mea Culpa. Crisis averted." But they don't actually believe it. They want to create a One Ring like mythology around Generative AI so it's more desirable to unscrupulous people. They want to say "We've made something so powerful you won't believe it. This is the next big step you've been waiting [--] years for. It's kind of dangerous but that just shows how powerful it really is." It's smoke and mirrors done at a hideous unsustainable cost. If they charged the prices"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"You're arguing with Leftypol. A misfit coalition of legit old-theory racist communists tumblr-socialists who fled when porn was banned and joyless leftist agitators who think they can get cultural cache by mechanically reproducing the format in which right wing culture came to prominence. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022471948995891705 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022471948995891705"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I don't understand why they keep trying to put taxes on unrealized capital gains. That affects everyone with investments which is mostly middle class people. You can either ban perpetual borrowing against unrealized assets or you can require that the borrower and lender pay a fee equivalent to the additional tax burden if the amount of the loans was counted as income. That way they'd stop doing it because it'd be objectively worse than just taking a higher salary. That only targets millionaires and billionaires for the most part and an upper middle class business owner who actually needs to"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:15Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"The real secret is that our aid programs and "nation building" and refugee immigration efforts have subsidized tyranny and suppressed the development of less corrupt endogenous political theory by siphoning off the smartest most motivated people from those countries alongside a lot of average people looking for an easier life. This is actually the same exact thing that contributed to the emergence of Fascism in Italy and Germany. The US absorbed all the people from both countries who had the character to reshape their nations while also chewing up and spitting out those who couldn't hack it"
X Link 2026-02-14T07:16Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"I don't even if you give them headphones to be considerate to the other patrons. You're setting up the kid to implicitly believe that they should be plugged into constant video stimulation at all times. You're taking the time they should be spending absorbing the places they're in and the people they're around with the same content farm video content they're glued to at home. I've seen too many kids some as old as ten at this point who can't sit in a restaurant without a tablet playing something to hold their attention. It inspires a very real sense of dread for the future to see that"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"They're (mostly) autistic people jealous of what they perceive as other people's natural social leeway. Guys who made themselves miserable by pretending they didn't have interests got ugly haircuts and wore unflattering glasses and a permanent scowl suddenly have a community they belong to that doesn't implicitly shame them for having the interests of a child. So naturally they think it's the greatest thing ever and that everyone needs to be talking about it and the associated jargon at all times. This stuff isn't healthy. Our culture has induced it in exactly the same way we induce eating"
X Link 2026-02-15T09:51Z [--] followers, 15.1K engagements

"@brainsmatter_x @VinceDaoTV He said this because the woman he was speaking to tried to play holier-than-thou and claim she was following the letter of the Bible more closely than him that citation being the most obvious refutation of that claim"
X Link 2025-09-12T02:40Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"People like this were cultivated by an antisocial paradigm that dehumanizes its enemies and rejects any notion of political nuance. It has propagated across all levels of society and inspired an equal and opposite antisocial paradigm in the other side. The only way out is to reject this philosophical dead end and shame and ostracize the people who sustained it in the first place"
X Link 2025-09-12T19:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"There's a difference between jokes and direct incitements and endorsements of more murder. This wouldn't be happening if it were just constrained to "Haha he's burning in hell isn't THAT ironic." jokes relating to Kirk's rhetoric and opinions. The problem comes in when people are saying "This is good we need to do more of this." That's obviously not good and it goes too far beyond a simple statement of opinion"
X Link 2025-09-15T19:22Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@nearcyan I got a card with no annual fee from my credit union right when I turned [--] with no income. You're just looking in the most exploitative places and treating it like the default"
X Link 2025-09-16T02:48Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"@HakureiRyan @nearcyan No I just happened to live in the county the credit union served. That's the only requirement. That was back in [----]. Credit unions are good and I have no clue why anyone would use a bank if they're not operating a business or dealing with exceptionally large sums of money"
X Link 2025-09-16T16:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"No it isn't. Kids aren't being killed just because guns exist. The people that develop the motivation and desire to harm others are the problem. If you address that the problem goes away. And even if you poofed all the guns in the world out of existence it wouldn't stop being a problem. They'd just find other means to hurt people and they'd probably do more damage as a result not less"
X Link 2025-09-19T21:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"You see the difference is that "The government didn't do it." In the first case it was "grassroots and organic the true will of the people." And in the second "The government strong armed Disney to fire someone over saying an unpopular truth." Despite the fact that murder is never justifiable even if Kirk was actually claiming other demographics were intrinsically inferior which he never did. And that the government had absolutely nothing to do with the cancellation of Kimmel's show. Disney just weren't going to fight a losing lawsuit for broadcasting a provable malicious lie over the air for"
X Link 2025-09-22T05:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The majority of people who commit crime in the developed world either do so out of poor impulse control and underdeveloped patience and/or they believe that they deserve more and whoever they're transgressing against either deserves less or can easily absorb the negative consequence. It's almost never out of a lack of other options. Food Banks and shelters exist charitable organizations and government programs exist you just have to be willing to play by the rules to make use of them. Criminals overwhelmingly choose crime because it's a shortcut that makes them feel like they're getting one"
X Link 2025-09-24T04:23Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Their entire conception of history hinges on the idea that any appearance of stability and prosperity in the past was an intentionally hostile facade dedicated solely to keeping minority groups down. It's just zero-sum thinking and the exoticization of antisocial behavior as being intrinsic to the lives of various ethnic groups"
X Link 2025-09-27T06:25Z [--] followers, 13.2K engagements

"This is what thinking in terms of power dynamics and hyper-subjectivity gets you. It doesn't matter that it's objectively better and more conducive to a healthy efficient and mutually respectful society. If an unscrupulous white person used it at any time to nitpick any individual of a minority group the principle goes in the trash. Note the fact that this always falls in a way that lets people be lazier and less considerate to their peers of all kinds and never materially affects any social conventions that actually deserve to be left behind like astrology and watered down white girl"
X Link 2025-09-27T07:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"What discourse Hasan treats his dogs like props to further his champagne socialist grift. He's so soulless he won't even let the dog do as it pleases while he's on camera. He immediately got upset at the dog for standing up and walking over to him. She didn't even disrupt his stream she was already returning to the spot with just a verbal prompt. And he still felt the need to shock her. Most reasonable people would just give the dog some attention while continuing to talk about whatever they were talking about or just let the dog go about its business"
X Link 2025-10-11T08:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"It doesn't matter that they're abusing something that's already a taxpayer supported public service. The idea that some imaginary little black girl with space buns and an immaculately clean yellow polka-dot dress who only has a nickel on her wouldn't be able to take the train to the grocery store is an unacceptable injustice. One that invalidates the whole system so they're justified in being antisocial as they please as a result. They only care about "Revolution" insofar as it gives them moral license to feel like a hero for making other people's lives a little less comfortable"
X Link 2025-10-15T10:21Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I know. It was a joke at the expense of people who would latch on to all those things. Most of them weren't quite true. The thing about his diet was even less accurate and the point about "goading people to shoot him" comes from a dubious old anecdote from Alice Cooper who's never been corroborated on it. It only happened once and that was only alleged by someone with a vested interest in telling a story like that for his personal brand far from a habit if it's even true"
X Link 2025-10-15T16:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@Moonxetta @PandasAndVidya @LilithLovett @Carthelan_ The studies don't show that actually. At best the interventions do nothing. Which means they're actively preventing people's mental health from improving"
X Link 2025-02-14T15:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya They're just trying to see if all the people who weren't watching the show before will watch it now. The first episode will probably be the best it's done in years. Then it'll regress to the mean and get cancelled again"
X Link 2025-09-22T21:49Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"I was of the Aliens and Cryptids variety. I was most partial to a home-taped recording of this: It's a Discovery Channel documentary about Crop Circles and a team of engineering students artificially reproducing one. I also have a Rubbermaid container full of tapes of other stuff taped off of Discovery and Science Channel including the full series of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. It's currently about eight feet to my right. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0oO6WvTxiN0"
X Link 2025-09-25T03:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The same setting had better world geometry and comparable textures as a launch title on the 3DS over [--] years ago. And it wasn't even the focus of the whole game. Nintendo and Creatures have to be getting to the point where this is just so bad for the brand image they can't leave Game Freak in charge anymore"
X Link 2025-10-20T05:42Z [--] followers, 14.2K engagements

"Most people I know couldn't justify spending money on a service like that especially not for a mattress that already costs $2000. They'd see it as a huge waste of money that doesn't even need to be connected to the internet to work in the first place. How do so many people afford so many frivolous subscriptions that these companies can even suggest they're capable of turning a profit Are the same [--] million people in the US and Europe subscribed to absolutely everything somehow Paying for everything without paying attention Just letting monthly charges pile up on their credit cards What"
X Link 2025-10-22T03:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@GamingAndPandas Honestly I'd be less likely to believe someone with a fun name like that was a spy not more. People give their kids silly names all the time but a spy isn't going to want to stand out"
X Link 2025-10-26T00:17Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I think that's a product of most of these people believing at their core very sincerely in the idea of a pluralistic world of distinct ethnicities and cultures. They're not like racists of the 20th century and before who wanted European people to dominate the whole world. Modern racists want every place to have its own people and every people to have a place they can legitimately call their own. [---] years ago these people would have been called staunch Progressives. It's fascinating"
X Link 2025-11-01T00:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Who would have thought it was a bad idea to teach an entire generation that the only way to have the right to an opinion was to prove you're lower on the totem pole than someone else Who would have thought that belief system would ever decide that the old nominally white guy with a long running TV show didn't have the right to an opinion"
X Link 2025-11-01T21:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"There's a nonzero chance that they decided to upgrade the cross he wore in Mr. Frog from a sight gag to a fully realized character trait just to spite one guy. There was a guy spamming 4chan's /co/ board calling the show right wing propaganda because Zach thinks it's not good for people to get unhealthily obsessed with weed porn and junk food"
X Link 2025-11-04T01:54Z [--] followers, 25.4K engagements

"Eh I don't know if I agree with the conclusions here. I can't see Austria-Hungary not hedging their bets and asking for additional help after Franz Joseph dies. That's a significant morale blow that would probably be remedied by mustering external support. Which just means World War I starts a little later. Which might impact the success of the Bolsheviks in Russia but not have many meaningful consequences for western Europe. But then again maybe the preview of 20th Century Warfare that would give the other great powers and their people would be enough to scare some of them out of honoring"
X Link 2025-11-04T03:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"His name is ADAM FRANKENSTEIN. No "Um. Ackshually. It's Frankenstein's MONSTER." No "Well he doesn't really have a name. If anything he's just Adam. He wouldn't truly consider himself Victor's Son." The fullness of Mary Shelley's thematic intent is carried in the name Adam Frankenstein and not enough people know it. This is an opinion I've had since high school and I will not relent on it"
X Link 2025-11-08T05:36Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Trump or rather some very convincing individuals in the tech and industrial sectors who have his ear are convinced of the idea that brilliance is just a dice roll and that there's an opportunity cost to not "Claiming" brilliant people for your own country. China and India get more dice rolls so it's in our interest to poach the most promising from both to stay on top of the game"
X Link 2025-11-12T07:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"That's probably coming pretty soon. The new Steam Machine is being marketed as a PC and is intended for dual boot use. That means their OS is in good shape but they're not 100% confident in it yet. I wouldn't be surprised if the follow up product comes with a fully capable SteamOS"
X Link 2025-11-13T00:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@RichardHanania American STEM graduates can't get entry level jobs Richard. Which is making fewer and fewer people willing to go into student loan debt at all"
X Link 2025-11-14T02:58Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"I don't think this is a stock clip I can't readily find anyone trying to track it down which almost always happens with major memes like this. If this were a stock video clip it'd probably be relatively easy to find the guy. But it doesn't appear to be or rather it's likely one from the WEF's own internal library. If that's the case it's also possible he's from a country that doesn't have much cross-contamination from the English speaking internet. It's entirely possible that this guy doesn't know he's the face of the concept of enforced mindless consumerism"
X Link 2025-11-19T05:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Chernobyl only happened because the people responsible for the plant delayed a critical safety test that was supposed to take place during the day shift and passed it on to the night shift who hadn't been properly prepared with the correct procedure and made worse because that night shift didn't have access to the same diagnostic and safety equipment as the day shift. Fukushima only happened because the plant kept getting rubber stamped by the regulatory body because they didn't take the threat of a tsunami of that size seriously enough and the plant wasn't actually capable of withstanding it"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Dukat you know as well as anybody that the things which make Star Trek great - long term arcs deep investigations of multiple characters and frequent peaceful or at least political resolutions to conflict are the antithesis of modern video games. A Star Trek game could never be a first person shooter it could hardly be a real time strategy game without sacrificing critical aspects of the tone and experience. The only form a Star Trek game could be expected to take and still remain true to the franchise's best would be a point and click adventure game. The moment in history where such a thing"
X Link 2025-12-09T19:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@HMBohemond It was a joke Can you elaborate Every source I find on it claims it was created with real intent as a critical tool. The Wikipedia page is comically long for such a simple premise and doesn't mention any satirical intent in a way that aligns with your claim"
X Link 2025-12-21T06:56Z [--] followers, 16.5K engagements

"As far as I've ever seen responsible people of sound mind who end up homeless through no fault of their own tend to rebound and find somewhere to rent within six to eight months. The majority of people who stay homeless have serious mental health and/or drug issues that they refuse to address. A lot of those guys you see playing instruments or sitting with a cat or dog and a piece of cardboard outside of sporting events and concerts aren't even homeless"
X Link 2025-12-26T00:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Turkic peoples and their culture originated to the northeast of Anatolia. Prior to the collapse of the Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire Anatolia was primarily split between Greek and Persian cultural influences with control swinging back and forth between the powers for centuries. After the collapse of the Sassanid Empire a power vacuum formed that made it easiest for Turkic peoples to move into the region while they were being forced out of their native range by the Mongols. Islam spread to those new Anatolian Turkic people in the same way it did in Persia and the rest of the Middle East. Which"
X Link 2025-12-26T01:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya I would not be surprised at all if it turns out he's just a really effective troll gaming the monetization system. He never even made a serious effort to pivot to Bluesky when all the other Progressive heavy hitter accounts were making a big show out of it"
X Link 2025-12-27T05:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"We've basically done the same thing to the average Gen Z's ability to comprehend a work that we did to their ability to read English text at all. They can't interpret any creative works outside of a narrow prescribed context and they can't separate the content of a work from the author's own intent or beliefs without being cued. Everything has to be interpreted as a political treatise urging you to think or act in a certain way. Nothing can be an exploration of themes or taboos the author would never act on. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005559614578848056"
X Link 2025-12-29T08:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The size of the storage required reflects the amount of infrastructure necessary to keep the site running. The storage isn't the expensive part but it shows that Wikipedia isn't even close to operating data centers on the scale of Amazon or Microsoft or Akamai to distribute and maintain it all. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005909937365320025 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2005909937365320025"
X Link 2025-12-30T07:52Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"The example an AI would give is just as much AI generated as if you had it write whole sections for you. That repeating texture is just as AI generated as if you used it for textures that would be front and center. On the other hand if you use the guidance from an LLM to correct your code without copying in anything it gives you you probably wouldn't have to disclose that. The whole purpose of the anti-AI perspective is that you can't actually trust an LLM to produce code that does what it says it does and that Stable Diffusion models are inherently plagiaristic because they don't process and"
X Link 2026-01-04T05:25Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"You can even be kicked out for making general statements that can be interpreted as criticisms of ethnic and sexual minorities whether they really are or not. The same rhetorical tools that they use to browbeat normal people get applied to them and they retreat to the corner begging and pleading to be taken at their word as the dogpile descends on them. Somehow vanishingly few who experience this ever realize that they do the same thing to others who used to be on their side. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2008826519796293841 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2008826519796293841"
X Link 2026-01-07T09:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya I'll be honest I knew the Iranian regime was ending but I didn't have "Iran becomes the most secular country in the Middle East as a result" on my bingo card"
X Link 2026-01-10T04:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya She was just there so Pikachu could take a Pikach'er"
X Link 2026-01-11T03:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya First Persia now Byzantium What's next The EU completes its metamorphosis back into the Holy Roman Empire Scandinavia reunites Gran Colombia gets revived Monarchist Brazil Who took over our Millennium Dawn save file"
X Link 2026-01-11T11:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Todd Howard doesn't hate New Vegas. He just has really weird opinions about the goals video games should have. Todd wants everything to be big stupid and fun above all else. In his opinion if it's deep convoluted or nuanced in any way there are "blockers" keeping more people from enjoying it properly. New Vegas just happens to be at odds with what he wants to do. Which is just as confusing to me as it is to anybody else. He's in charge of two different series that became beloved for featuring worlds that people can spend hours discussing in depth and his highest priority is stripping all of"
X Link 2026-01-13T22:09Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Why not just stick simple banner ads in the interface and charge advertisers a lot for them Why charge rock bottom prices to integrate more ads than the end user can tolerate when you can disrupt the end users' experience less put more undivided attention on each advertiser's product and get more advertising revenue for yourself in the process https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012286491037147502 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012286491037147502"
X Link 2026-01-16T22:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The bubble popping does mean that. If investors lose confidence that Neural Network based generative models are the future that they're a dead end all of those resources are going to be more or less worthless. Someone will buy them up. But most of the market will have to pivot back to consumer hardware because datacenter demand will be nearly zero and their own investments will never turn a profit. Microsoft will probably fold their entire AI division. Google will scale back just like they do with everything that isn't a constant massive success. Amazon will only retain what's necessary for"
X Link 2026-01-19T06:00Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Sometimes even the side that's in the right will find itself in the company of violent radicals who shouldn't really be celebrated despite the aura of sheer conviction they end up having because of it. People like John Brown The many Allied war criminals of World War II Douglas MacArthur Opportunists who exploited the occupations of Japan and Korea to abuse women and extort people in general All the way to Abu Ghraib. It happens because it's impossible to discern that eagerness to do harm from sheer dedication to the cause until something goes wrong. And too often we end up giving them the"
X Link 2026-01-19T12:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"That's like saying your freezer is inefficient because it's just keeping stuff that's already cold cold instead of producing as many ice cubes as possible or freezing hot food 100% of the time. That's like saying we shouldn't have TVs and monitors in people's houses because they're not on 100% of the time and it would be more efficient to have big communal screens in public places. You could just as easily say aliens would be baffled by the fact that we have access to so many more resources than we need and yet we're stressing out about getting 100% utilization out of all of it."
X Link 2026-01-19T15:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya I've had an autistic fantasy of Capcom adapting The Protomen's work into another spinoff series for the past [--] years obviously working their music into the game itself like Metal Gear Rising"
X Link 2026-01-20T17:48Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"In video games the cause of the huge spike in costs and development time is that the big AAA developers count on promises of scale to keep their investors confident. They'd rather have the one Next Big Thing than three or four smaller games that may or may not succeed. So to achieve that they hire huge numbers of new people without much experience open offices in multiple time zones and put big names in charge of projects and also contract multiple support studios at a time then once the product is done they cut loose almost all of the new hires and bring on another batch for the next project"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:29Z [--] followers, 14.8K engagements

"The N64 was technically superior to the PS1 in a lot of ways. Higher quality textures texture filtering and none of the little cost cutting quirks that made the PS1 so weird. No jittering from model geometry snapping to integer coordinates no texture warping at extreme angles. The biggest reason the PS1 won out over the N64 is that Nintendo insisted on continuing to use ROM cartridges to store games. Which had two major effects it meant that there was way less space. You couldn't store full quality audio or Full Motion Video in any significant quantity which were both features in demand. And"
X Link 2026-01-24T14:15Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I don't think that's exactly true. The Western cultural canon has convinced people that morality works a certain way. That the way to be a good person worthy of the annals of history is to attach yourself to successive social movements against established societal norms. The idea that the people who came before us did the vast majority of that and there really isn't much opportunity left for them to do the same is unacceptable. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015105059034407307 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015105059034407307"
X Link 2026-01-24T16:50Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"It came to mainstream prominence in [----] with Occupy Wall Street. The most rational grievances of the relatively broad cohort that was protesting grievances that would have constituted substantial harm to the bottom line of the companies being protested against were replaced with superficial social grievances that those companies could pay lip service to without affecting their operations or projections much at all. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016043882551591385 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016043882551591385"
X Link 2026-01-27T07:01Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Tanking doesn't guarantee a turnaround. If it did a switch would suddenly flip for the Browns Raiders and Cardinals and they'd become the best teams in the league. The talent pool of the draft doesn't drop off as steeply as everyone acts like it does. A lot of teams are just really bad at doing it. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016178292848550220 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016178292848550220"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:55Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"The Xbox and PlayStation Marketplaces take 25%. And Valve's cut on Steam games falls to 20% after a game passes $1 million in revenue. Which is only about [----] copies for a game priced at $19.99. Or [-----] for games priced at $9.99. On Steam there isn't a very high bar to getting a better deal than most other platforms offer. I do actually think that's a fair cut by the way. Steam offers tools that help small developers implement Multiplayer. Plus the Trading Cards system which demands almost no additional effort on the developer's part that constitutes an additional revenue stream for the"
X Link 2026-01-27T23:01Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"There are people who think this technology is going to lead to "The Singularity." I think Science Fiction might have been a mistake. We have formerly very serious and respected people talking about The Singularity Dyson Spheres the motives and beliefs of aliens and classical-computer-based superintelligences as if they're real things that are for sure possible if we devote religious levels of devotion and resources to them. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016407074222096719 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016407074222096719"
X Link 2026-01-28T07:04Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"As a general rule legal immigrants immigrate because they prefer the principles of the country they'll be moving to over the principles of the country they came from. Illegal immigrants on the other hand prefer the principles of the country they came from but want access to the economic benefits of a more prosperous country. Back in the Ellis Island era where it was much easier to immigrate and settle here both of those groups of people still existed. The former category are the ones that stayed and integrated and the latter category are the low-quality people who couldn't hack it and sour"
X Link 2026-01-28T19:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@fleshsimulator @GodsFavRtard I think if there's proof of actual fraud as alleged and it's feasible to pin it on the whole Democratic party apparatus as in it's a top down thing done willfully we'll have much bigger problems"
X Link 2026-01-29T05:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@Tboogle20 @KostamoinenSFM Eltorro64Rus altered the models of the TF2 characters to allow for more cartoonish deformations of the faces in his own animations and released those models so everyone could use them"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"It's extremely funny to me that the most mythologized people of the 21st century so far the closest thing we've had to Boss Tweed was just some upward failing half-wit goober with the Superlative Creep dip switch flipped. If guys like that can get to the top of society and stay there despite being idiots with almost no self preservation instincts why aren't there more normal decent people who lucked into something similar Why hasn't some red-blooded hillbilly guy who won the lottery a few years ago popped out as a big time investor in Monster Jam and Hooters Why hasn't some rich nerd who got"
X Link 2026-01-31T02:46Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Microsoft and Sony also rely on contracts with third party CDN networks for their marketplaces. I believe both Steam and Xbox work with Akamai. It's still Valve's software and investment that make it possible. Like I said before they add a lot of value that no other platform offers and are even manufacture hardware of their own. Valve doesn't even establish a walled garden Proton works with or without Steam. GOG and Epic can make use of it just the same as anyone else if they want more Linux compatibility for example. And their ARM to x64 compatibility system is going to be exactly the same."
X Link 2026-01-31T03:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@OliverJia1014 I know plenty of people who never bothered to move on from 720p DVDs. That's why they still sell them"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:53Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya The next major release would actually be the seventh mainline game. I would have thought they were on number ten or twelve at this point. But no there have only been six discounting mobile games spinoffs and expansion packs"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya Oh so this is what happened to all those annoying myspace girls"
X Link 2025-11-03T00:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I didn't play Morrowind when it released. In fact I didn't play it until after I had played both Oblivion and Skyrim. And I enjoyed it just fine. It does stand the test of time. You just need to change your expectations a little and realize that having a low stat in something means you're totally incompetent in that category not the bare minimum of competency. People will create characters whose stats say they can't fight at all. then get surprised when their character isn't playable. A learning process isn't a blocker. It's part of the experience as designed. There's nothing wrong with"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Discontinuing support for Adobe Animate doesn't even make sense. An entire industry pays for Creative Cloud pretty much just for that. If you can't improve it that's fine. You were already on a subscription model. You can cut the team dedicated to that one program down to the bare minimum necessary to maintain it and increase the profit it's making on an individual basis. That would be the smart thing to do. But now Now they're going to lose a significant driver of their revenue and all those businesses that were paying for hundreds of seats worth of Creative Cloud licenses each are going to"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Those few hundred thousand in Wyoming have fundamentally different needs and priorities than the people in New York. The people in New York might favor changes to federal law regarding livestock or grazing land or some other matter that affects rural life on philosophical grounds. But such law might be devastating to Wyoming. If they could be overruled on absolutely everything by sheer numbers they would have absolutely no agency at all and their opinions and priorities would be irrelevant on the national level entirely. Their only purpose would be to rubber stamp something in agreement or to"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:54Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"It's not about states' rights. It's about not destroying people's lives just because they don't live in large urban centers. Think about it this way divorced from all considerations of actual American politics of the moment. Imagine there are ten different states. Two of them have about 35% of the population between them. These two states have advanced service and technology based economies. They have a lot in common. Another 60% of the population is spread pretty evenly between six of the other states with diverse economies that have some overlap with the largest states but they also have"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"There are tons of people who've spent dozens or even hundreds of hours poring over all the little details and interactions and background elements of all these games over the course of [--] years. They're not just going to wash their hands of something that's been so important to them for that long. What they've hoped it was all building towards will never come to fruition. Their passion has been misplaced not because of some tragedy or unforeseen circumstance but the willful choice to betray their dedication whether out of complacency ignorance or malice it doesn't matter. That hurts. They're"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"That would have also been true of Greek or Thai or any number of Native American languages. The fact that a single Chinese character could on its own represent a coherent input and output was an essential part of the thought experiment because you couldn't argue that the person in the room might start identifying parts of words and actually represent an accumulation knowledge rather than rote rule-following. Using Chinese characters is essential to keep the hypothetical scenario in agreement with the underlying concept it was an abstraction of."
X Link 2026-02-05T06:33Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya The most surreal thing about this is the deferential sanitized PR speak from the same account because every single reply to this tweet is a grievance with Amtrak's service or facilities"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:45Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"@PandasAndVidya It's not my fault she kept rescheduling the appointment. 2:30 AM Bekinibeu Kiribati 4:00 PM Point Marianne BIOT 12:00 Noon Ile Leon Lefevre French Southern and Antarctic Lands She always wanted me to bring trivial amounts of defunct currencies"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

""Wokeness" is a weapon of the financial industry which was used to deflect from real criticisms. It outgrew its station as it trickled down through other businesses. Now it's cutting into their bottom line. Expect it to slowly disappear"
X Link 2024-11-22T15:37Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"4chan is the highest point on the internet from which everything else in internet culture and increasingly the prevailing culture flows down from. As goes 4chan so goes the internet as goes the internet so goes the culture"
X Link 2024-12-22T02:43Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The Persona [--] characters' shadows are representations of how they fear they're perceived by others. Even though they claim to be "The True Self" they're manifestations of insecurities. Rise doesn't want to be evaluated on her appearance or be defined by sex appeal. Yosuke isn't actually a smug rich kid resentful of living in Inaba. Teddie isn't actually an irredeemable monster. And Kanji isn't actually gay"
X Link 2024-12-22T22:07Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The truth is that all forms of mass immigration are bad for everyone involved from any side you see it Developed countries get people who will accept a lower standard of living and less compensation http://x.com/i/article/1872153521262579712 http://x.com/i/article/1872153521262579712"
X Link 2024-12-26T05:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"All this discussion about Americans being incapable of putting in as much time and effort as other people is totally pointless. What good are time and effort when the result is all that matters If you carry a pallet of bricks an armful at a time that's going to take a lot more of your time and it's going to be way harder than using a forklift to move the whole pallet at once but it's not intrinsically better or more noble. It's foolish. We shouldn't miss that fundamental truth just because it gets more diffused and abstract. If a task gets done it gets done. It won't matter how much time you"
X Link 2024-12-27T17:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"What is everyone else supposed to do under the system these people want How do people live when all the "best and brightest" are hand picked to take up every role Where do the average people go if they're not "good enough" for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's world"
X Link 2024-12-27T19:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"No I don't want America to "win." It's not a game. I'd rather have a prosperous America where the vast majority can live comfortably with plenty of free time and disposable income to use as they wish and be nine or ten spots behind countries that only look good because they exploit their people"
X Link 2024-12-27T19:58Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I just want to live in the world I was promised as a kid growing up at the turn of the Millennium. Where countries can all prosper as peers everyone gets the benefit of the doubt and everyone is held to a high standard for politeness and conduct and everyone has enough free time and disposable income to be comfortable in their station in life. Codifying and expanding exploitation and not solving the underlying causes of economic difficulty won't get us there. Almost all inflation in this country is caused by the huge demand for loans and the fact that every branch of every bank has carte"
X Link 2024-12-28T00:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"This poses a good question. Why don't people talk about how much inflation comes from the fact that most loans that get taken out create inflation"
X Link 2024-12-29T06:56Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"It's not that Americans are unwilling to work high skill jobs. They just know that if they try they'll be overworked be expected to be reachable even on their own time have essentially no days off and be chastised for using what they do get. They know they'll have no chance for upward mobility and won't be able to voice their opinions on anything or advocate for themselves. They know they'll be sided against in any disagreement. They know the people running the company will always misunderstand the technology and demand unreasonable things of them in unreasonable amounts of time and will"
X Link 2025-01-03T06:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"People who are happy people who feel secure don't become radicals. The only reason so many radicals dominate politics right now is that they don't trust the world they live in. Things aren't good and they need people to blame and change to insist upon. They believe what came before was a cruel lie that portended the state they find themselves in now. Their faith in institutions does not exist because the institutions did not prevent their lives from getting worse. People who have plenty of disposable income and free time are generally happier and feel more secure and they are better"
X Link 2025-01-03T19:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"It looks like this might be vindicated. I didn't expect it to happen so soon. "Wokeness" is a weapon of the financial industry which was used to deflect from real criticisms. It outgrew its station as it trickled down through other businesses. Now it's cutting into their bottom line. Expect it to slowly disappear. https://t.co/tKB8Ac8boB "Wokeness" is a weapon of the financial industry which was used to deflect from real criticisms. It outgrew its station as it trickled down through other businesses. Now it's cutting into their bottom line. Expect it to slowly disappear."
X Link 2025-01-11T05:44Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"With regards to the whole Adblocker situation why don't websites just charge advertisers more money to serve less intrusive advertisements Right now you can't guarantee users will even see your ads and even the few that do will have so many other advertisements on the same screen at once that you can't possibly be getting the result you want as an advertiser. The user's attention isn't dedicated to any one of them and it all gets drowned out as noise"
X Link 2025-01-16T14:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"This discussion of USAID as "Soft Power" is ridiculous. The majority of what it did was the equivalent of building a giant pneumatic cannon system at great expense. Just to launch parcels containing T-shirts printed with slogans and a handful of random $10 gift cards at homeless people"
X Link 2025-02-09T06:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"America is making the same mistake it did when the Soviet Union fell. Trump isn't compromised by Putin he's just completely unwilling to roll the dice and see what comes out of a Post-Russian world just like Bush Sr. was desperate to prevent the Soviet Union from collapsing all so we didn't have to deal with as many Post-Soviet states inheriting nuclear weapons. Unfortunately for that perspective at least it may be too late and it's very likely Russia will be unable to recover successfully from the consequences of this war regardless of where the border stands at resolution. Their economy is"
X Link 2025-03-06T07:28Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"I love 4chan because sometimes you'll find the three most specific guys on Earth discussing a topic no one else in the world will even entertain. Gay furry porn thread Serious theological discussion with extremely esoteric but clearly deeply held beliefs"
X Link 2025-03-29T12:19Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"Presently we live in an economy where the only options for the majority of people are to work a job that doesn't pay enough to survive a job that barely gets you a middle class living but breaks your body and leaves you sick after decades or one of the few factory jobs that still exists. Or alternatively you intentionally take up massive debt to get a degree and you spend the first five years of your career barely servicing that debt and barely getting by just to get enough experience so you can quit that company to get a better job elsewhere then continue making shuffle moves like that until"
X Link 2025-04-09T08:02Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

"A lot of people on the left have been committed to the idea that an open marketplace of ideas is bad. That if platforms didn't take proactive measures against bad things they'd take hold and we'd be set back. But it's taking those proactive measures and killing the marketplace of ideas that actually made those bad ideas flourish. If you had some paranoid idiot posting anti-Semitic nonsense or racist garbage out of nowhere he'd be told to fuck off back to his own corner of the internet by the community themselves no censorship needed to take place. Just an open rebuking of the ideas in the"
X Link 2025-04-23T18:13Z [--] followers, [----] engagements

""How could this have happened" And it's the most obvious case of a teenager who thinks his parents are lame getting one-shot by an ideology that lets him feel smug and morally superior to other people and blame all of his problems on everything but himself. It's not the video games it's not some inherent property of the other media he consumed. It's because someone gave a disillusioned teenager carte blanche to feel like a morally unimpeachable freedom fighter on the leading edge and that teenager became an adult who wasn't prepared for the real world"
X Link 2025-09-15T03:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

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