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Unpopular Opinions and (Friendly) Rant thread

Summary: Giannysmag thins that you are stinky and he says that he is going to make your mom his wife so that he can tell you to go take a bath for once
Correct this is exactly what I meant ☝️
The coldest take of today

VS

The coldest take in history
I'd say they're about even in terms of coldness, with maybe my take being a little hotter by virtue of there still being a lot of people willing to defend ai. With gacha games even those that play them (which I would never ever do) will usually admit they are pretty exploitative
 
Correct this is exactly what I meant ☝️

I'd say they're about even in terms of coldness, with maybe my take being a little hotter by virtue of there still being a lot of people willing to defend ai. With gacha games even those that play them (which I would never ever do) will usually admit they are pretty exploitative
And I glad they are. But honestly, I kinda feel bad for some (not every) ai bros. They try to push some "unusual" opinions out of spite, out of sheer mysanthropy some people may have caused in them (they could be bullied, abused in the past and etc), some are even form bonds with ai, only because people hated and rejected them or even worse - they thought they were, while it wasn't the case
 
And I glad they are. But honestly, I kinda feel bad for some (not every) ai bros. They try to push some "unusual" opinions out of spite, out of sheer mysanthropy some people may have caused in them (they could be bullied, abused in the past and etc), some are even form bonds with ai, only because people hated and rejected them or even worse - they thought they were, while it wasn't the case
I think it has to do more with ego and the feeling of being on the casp of some big technological advancment (when in reality they are just promoting a start up called PoopyShitPeeAI67)
 
I think it has to do more with ego and the feeling of being on the casp of some big technological advancment (when in reality they are just promoting a start up called PoopyShitPeeAI67)
Pretty sure they are way more common than those who I described. I just kind of get such image of them through lots of videos like "reacting to r/defendingAI", where some of them seem to be miserable. And I also have a friend, who was way too socially reliant on AI out of loneliness and overall society being way too hostile towards them for nothing but existing (I'm glad they are overcame that addiction and now became way more social)
 
"reacting to r/defendingAI"
Ah I see what the problem here is. It comes down to simple difference in platforms you see, on Twitter everyone is an egoistic grifter while on Reddit everyone is suicidally depressed so naturally the ai bros of each site will reflect thus
 
Rant incoming:

It is truly incredible to me how in the last 5ish years that generative ai has been a thing only bad things have come out of it. I cannot think of another technological advancment that has literally nothing positive going for it. Let's just go through a list of all the shit AI has accomplished:

  • Stole art from countless digital artists and made it easy for talentless hacks to flood every corner of the internet with dogshit ai images, making the lives of artist (a group that was already struggling massively financially) just that much harder
  • Companies using voice generation to use the voices of dead actors/singers
  • Companies started implementing AI in literally every service, app and device imaginable making practically everything 200% more annoying to use (when me and my family where planning our trip to Turkey my dad had to call our service provider to give us international data for the trip and, I kid you not, it took him 7 hours to get through their dogshit AI assistant before finally getting in touch with a human)
  • Because companies implemented ai into absolutely everything countless workers (literally hundreds of thousands in the US) have been laid off and replaced already, only for the companies to then realise that AI is complete dogshit at regualr work tasks so thye just discharged a bunch of their workforce for nothing
  • Sora (rest in piss) and other video generating AI flooding the internet with brainrot slop videos
  • Grok allowing people to remove the clothes off of anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on Twitter, as well as dropping the apps collective iq by 50 points (they started out with an iq of 30)
  • AI therapists/girlfriends/whatever that have literally driven people to kill themselves
  • More recently Openclaw made creating bots and spam infinitely easier than before
  • AI datacenters consume enormous amounts of water in a world where there is already an evergrowing drinkable water crisis
  • AI datacenters tearing apart the local communities they are built near by releasing toxic gases, poluting water supplies, massively increasing electricity bills
  • The AI bubble where ai companies and Nvidia are constantly buying and investing in eachother in a loop worth hundreds of billions of dollars when none of them are actually making a profit
  • Since AI datacenters buy all these cpus. their prices have shot up to the stratosphere
And this is all just the shit that is already happening and I can probably think of more that just aren't coming to me rn. For what you can await in the future we got:
  • Video generating AI becoming even more scarily realistic than it already is which will have the side effect of making video evidence useless since anyone could generate an image of you commiting a crime (among many other side effects)
  • The AI bubble poping which will most likely tank the US economy (since GDP growth without accounting for AI companies was only 0.1% in 2025) which will drag the rest of the world economy down with it and considering we are already going through a crisis with the whole Iran situation, I'm pretty certain we'll be seeing a recession worse than 2008 within the next few years
  • AGI and whatever other dystopian scifi bullshit comes along with it
I know most of this isn't news to any of you, hating AI is literally the norm online, but all these thoughts have been bubbling (hehe) up for a while
The only benefits that can PROBABLY come out of it is AI doing tasks faster or more easily than humans + probably being capable of storing and transmitting more data and accessing more parts of the Internet simultaneously faster than humans could + machines possibly performing better than humans in certain aspects of life like intelligence, strength, speed, lifespan/span of existence, etc (That's if we let them also automate machines that are currently controlled by humanity) but all these are most likely outweighed by the detriments you stated they have.

Kinda ironic in a way, in the process of trying to make stuff that can surpass it and make life easier for it, humanity is screwing itself over and potentially screwing all of life over as well.

I genuinely would want to discuss more with you in general about life (and probably also the Universe as a whole) cause I want to know what your thoughts are on other living beings and other existing stuff beyond humanity and what could be in store for Earth and the rest of the Universe as well.

People already made timelines for not just the past and present but also the potential future on Wikipedia welp.

Honestly feel like other living beings (at least a few certain types of them) can technically be considered more successful than humans in certain ways (population, size, ability to survive otherwise inhospitable environments, lifespan, etc etc)... and technically even our own creations, scientific or artistic, are inherently also made out of resources from Earth and the Universe and will thus possibly outlive us all too.

Additionally all of life, including humanity, despite our abilities, is ultimately still dependent on Nature or Earth itself as well as the Universe as a whole. (All that we have created is ultimately us merely utilising Nature's/Earth's resources which in turn are technically generated by the Universe itself, and conversely, there's very little we can do to stop natural events, let alone cosmic events, from significantly affecting our existence or even determining whether we continue to exist or are destroyed.)

Instead of blindly being nihilist or anthropocentric, I'd want to believe we should be trying to figure out how to make the state of existence of all that coexists alongside us (or, for now, given our limitations, the lives of all other living beings alongside humanity at least) better.
 
Anything around Vapourrrr has been an utter disgrace from the staff body and the fact that anything below perma ban with no appeal is even being argued speaks volume. Only on VSB can over half of staff members vote for a deserved perma ban and still get outruled because he "helps out uwu".
 
Anything around Vapourrrr has been an utter disgrace from the staff body and the fact that anything below perma ban with no appeal is even being argued speaks volume. Only on VSB can over half of staff members vote for a deserved perma ban and still get outruled because he "helps out uwu".
There is a strong double standard here sadly. What is supposed to be the most obvious choice is somehow complicated for no good reason. Shame.
 
Rant incoming:

It is truly incredible to me how in the last 5ish years that generative ai has been a thing only bad things have come out of it. I cannot think of another technological advancment that has literally nothing positive going for it. Let's just go through a list of all the shit AI has accomplished:

  • Stole art from countless digital artists and made it easy for talentless hacks to flood every corner of the internet with dogshit ai images, making the lives of artist (a group that was already struggling massively financially) just that much harder
  • Companies using voice generation to use the voices of dead actors/singers
  • Companies started implementing AI in literally every service, app and device imaginable making practically everything 200% more annoying to use (when me and my family where planning our trip to Turkey my dad had to call our service provider to give us international data for the trip and, I kid you not, it took him 7 hours to get through their dogshit AI assistant before finally getting in touch with a human)
  • Because companies implemented ai into absolutely everything countless workers (literally hundreds of thousands in the US) have been laid off and replaced already, only for the companies to then realise that AI is complete dogshit at regualr work tasks so thye just discharged a bunch of their workforce for nothing
  • Sora (rest in piss) and other video generating AI flooding the internet with brainrot slop videos
  • Grok allowing people to remove the clothes off of anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on Twitter, as well as dropping the apps collective iq by 50 points (they started out with an iq of 30)
  • AI therapists/girlfriends/whatever that have literally driven people to kill themselves
  • More recently Openclaw made creating bots and spam infinitely easier than before
  • AI datacenters consume enormous amounts of water in a world where there is already an evergrowing drinkable water crisis
  • AI datacenters tearing apart the local communities they are built near by releasing toxic gases, poluting water supplies, massively increasing electricity bills
  • The AI bubble where ai companies and Nvidia are constantly buying and investing in eachother in a loop worth hundreds of billions of dollars when none of them are actually making a profit
  • Since AI datacenters buy all these cpus. their prices have shot up to the stratosphere
And this is all just the shit that is already happening and I can probably think of more that just aren't coming to me rn. For what you can await in the future we got:
  • Video generating AI becoming even more scarily realistic than it already is which will have the side effect of making video evidence useless since anyone could generate an image of you commiting a crime (among many other side effects)
  • The AI bubble poping which will most likely tank the US economy (since GDP growth without accounting for AI companies was only 0.1% in 2025) which will drag the rest of the world economy down with it and considering we are already going through a crisis with the whole Iran situation, I'm pretty certain we'll be seeing a recession worse than 2008 within the next few years
  • AGI and whatever other dystopian scifi bullshit comes along with it
I know most of this isn't news to any of you, hating AI is literally the norm online, but all these thoughts have been bubbling (hehe) up for a while
The only benefits that can PROBABLY come out of it is AI doing tasks faster or more easily than humans + probably being capable of storing and transmitting more data and accessing more parts of the Internet simultaneously faster than humans could + machines possibly performing better than humans in certain aspects of life like intelligence, strength, speed, lifespan/span of existence, etc (That's if we let them also automate machines that are currently controlled by humanity) but all these are most likely outweighed by the detriments you stated they have.

Kinda ironic in a way, in the process of trying to make stuff that can surpass it and make life easier for it, humanity is screwing itself over and potentially screwing all of life over as well.

I genuinely would want to discuss more with you in general about life (and probably also the Universe as a whole) cause I want to know what your thoughts are on other living beings and other existing stuff beyond humanity and what could be in store for Earth and the rest of the Universe as well.

People already made timelines for not just the past and present but also the potential future on Wikipedia welp.

Honestly feel like other living beings (at least a few certain types of them) can technically be considered more successful than humans in certain ways (population, size, ability to survive otherwise inhospitable environments, lifespan, etc etc)... and technically even our own creations, scientific or artistic, are inherently also made out of resources from Earth and the Universe and will thus possibly outlive us all too.

Additionally all of life, including humanity, despite our abilities, is ultimately still dependent on Nature or Earth itself as well as the Universe as a whole. (All that we have created is ultimately us merely utilising Nature's/Earth's resources which in turn are technically generated by the Universe itself, and conversely, there's very little we can do to stop natural events, let alone cosmic events, from significantly affecting our existence or even determining whether we continue to exist or are destroyed.)

Instead of blindly being nihilist or anthropocentric, I'd want to believe we should be trying to figure out how to make the state of existence of all that coexists alongside us (or, for now, given our limitations, the lives of all other living beings alongside humanity at least) better.
By the way, we're bringing aimbots to real life.
The #1 record holder with the 4km kill used a drone to help him achieve the shot. (As for longest shots on any target, there was a team that achieved it manually on a steel target at 7.1km, specifically 7108.546 metres, but that's beside the point.)
There's also smart guns in real life too.
 
Anything around Vapourrrr has been an utter disgrace from the staff body and the fact that anything below perma ban with no appeal is even being argued speaks volume. Only on VSB can over half of staff members vote for a deserved perma ban and still get outruled because he "helps out uwu".
Honestly a permaban would be better for him as well. That stream of messages on his wall was genuinely disturbing, the dude clearly has some issues and being allowed back in here will probably only make it worse
 
Honestly a permaban would be better for him as well. That stream of messages on his wall was genuinely disturbing, the dude clearly has some issues and being allowed back in here will probably only make it worse
Who is vapourr and what have he done?
 
Who is vapourr and what have he done?
It all started ages ago when he joined the wiki and started scaling Tokyo Revengers and Lookism. He made bs calcs that made no sense and wanked the verses hard, though his main focus was on TR. He was incredibly rude and used fallacies like no other so he got banned eventually.
Then the sockpuppet accounts started which we did well to hunt down and the attitude of TR fans got the verse locked down.
He took time to learn how to do socks more properly and ended up making the Vzearr account. He integreated into the wiki well, not giving himself away outside of a few suspicions. He made it into staff and thing were going well...and then he confessed to being a sock and that he confessed because he wanted to apologize for lying.
He got banned for a while but released under the pretense that he changed. He ended up working on TR again and got it unbanned, only to become aggressive and dismissive of people immediately and then he went on a psychotic tirade on several people's profiles and got permabanned.
 
It all started ages ago when he joined the wiki and started scaling Tokyo Revengers and Lookism. He made bs calcs that made no sense and wanked the verses hard, though his main focus was on TR. He was incredibly rude and used fallacies like no other so he got banned eventually.
Then the sockpuppet accounts started which we did well to hunt down and the attitude of TR fans got the verse locked down.
He took time to learn how to do socks more properly and ended up making the Vzearr account. He integreated into the wiki well, not giving himself away outside of a few suspicions. He made it into staff and thing were going well...and then he confessed to being a sock and that he confessed because he wanted to apologize for lying.
He got banned for a while but released under the pretense that he changed. He ended up working on TR again and got it unbanned, only to become aggressive and dismissive of people immediately and then he went on a psychotic tirade on several people's profiles and got permabanned.
I'm disappointed in him, he seemed pretty chill when I talked to him and thought he just lost his temper one time in RVR, but unfortunately it was a pattern
 
I'm disappointed in him, he seemed pretty chill when I talked to him and thought he just lost his temper one time in RVR, but unfortunately it was a pattern
He's either a pathalogical liar or a deeply troubled person. Either way, he shouldn't be here.
 
Rant incoming:

It is truly incredible to me how in the last 5ish years that generative ai has been a thing only bad things have come out of it. I cannot think of another technological advancment that has literally nothing positive going for it. Let's just go through a list of all the shit AI has accomplished:

  • Stole art from countless digital artists and made it easy for talentless hacks to flood every corner of the internet with dogshit ai images, making the lives of artist (a group that was already struggling massively financially) just that much harder
  • Companies using voice generation to use the voices of dead actors/singers
  • Companies started implementing AI in literally every service, app and device imaginable making practically everything 200% more annoying to use (when me and my family where planning our trip to Turkey my dad had to call our service provider to give us international data for the trip and, I kid you not, it took him 7 hours to get through their dogshit AI assistant before finally getting in touch with a human)
  • Because companies implemented ai into absolutely everything countless workers (literally hundreds of thousands in the US) have been laid off and replaced already, only for the companies to then realise that AI is complete dogshit at regualr work tasks so thye just discharged a bunch of their workforce for nothing
  • Sora (rest in piss) and other video generating AI flooding the internet with brainrot slop videos
  • Grok allowing people to remove the clothes off of anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on Twitter, as well as dropping the apps collective iq by 50 points (they started out with an iq of 30)
  • AI therapists/girlfriends/whatever that have literally driven people to kill themselves
  • More recently Openclaw made creating bots and spam infinitely easier than before
  • AI datacenters consume enormous amounts of water in a world where there is already an evergrowing drinkable water crisis
  • AI datacenters tearing apart the local communities they are built near by releasing toxic gases, poluting water supplies, massively increasing electricity bills
  • The AI bubble where ai companies and Nvidia are constantly buying and investing in eachother in a loop worth hundreds of billions of dollars when none of them are actually making a profit
  • Since AI datacenters buy all these cpus. their prices have shot up to the stratosphere
And this is all just the shit that is already happening and I can probably think of more that just aren't coming to me rn. For what you can await in the future we got:
  • Video generating AI becoming even more scarily realistic than it already is which will have the side effect of making video evidence useless since anyone could generate an image of you commiting a crime (among many other side effects)
  • The AI bubble poping which will most likely tank the US economy (since GDP growth without accounting for AI companies was only 0.1% in 2025) which will drag the rest of the world economy down with it and considering we are already going through a crisis with the whole Iran situation, I'm pretty certain we'll be seeing a recession worse than 2008 within the next few years
  • AGI and whatever other dystopian scifi bullshit comes along with it
I know most of this isn't news to any of you, hating AI is literally the norm online, but all these thoughts have been bubbling (hehe) up for a while
As a software engineer who use VSCode for his work, AI does actually lessen my workloads. No longer you would need to search some random and hard to search Stack Overflow thread for your problems, CoPilot often give a solution (not always optimal but still can be built upon and optimized by myself) that works.

You would often to see memes of how people freaked out to be replaced by AI. While software engineers and programmers are disappointed that the AI actually over hyped and can't actually replace their (hard and thankless) jobs.

I don't think that these AI should be used for commercial creative works, but for works like me? Godsend.
 
As a software engineer who use VSCode for his work, AI does actually lessen my workloads. No longer you would need to search some random and hard to search Stack Overflow thread for your problems, CoPilot often give a solution (not always optimal but still can be built upon and optimized by myself) that works.

You would often to see memes of how people freaked out to be replaced by AI. While software engineers and programmers are disappointed that the AI actually over hyped and can't actually replace their (hard and thankless) jobs.

I don't think that these AI should be used for commercial creative works, but for works like me? Godsend.
Fair enough, obv AI has a lot of positive uses that I am simply unaware of but as a whole I think it's fair to say it's been a massive net-negative on the world
 
Fair enough, obv AI has a lot of positive uses that I am simply unaware of but as a whole I think it's fair to say it's been a massive net-negative on the world
I think generative AI may be a massive net-negative, but it's also worth pointing out that it's been revolutionary in various scientific and medical fields.
 
Rant incoming:

It is truly incredible to me how in the last 5ish years that generative ai has been a thing only bad things have come out of it. I cannot think of another technological advancment that has literally nothing positive going for it. Let's just go through a list of all the shit AI has accomplished:

  • Stole art from countless digital artists and made it easy for talentless hacks to flood every corner of the internet with dogshit ai images, making the lives of artist (a group that was already struggling massively financially) just that much harder
  • Companies using voice generation to use the voices of dead actors/singers
  • Companies started implementing AI in literally every service, app and device imaginable making practically everything 200% more annoying to use (when me and my family where planning our trip to Turkey my dad had to call our service provider to give us international data for the trip and, I kid you not, it took him 7 hours to get through their dogshit AI assistant before finally getting in touch with a human)
  • Because companies implemented ai into absolutely everything countless workers (literally hundreds of thousands in the US) have been laid off and replaced already, only for the companies to then realise that AI is complete dogshit at regualr work tasks so thye just discharged a bunch of their workforce for nothing
  • Sora (rest in piss) and other video generating AI flooding the internet with brainrot slop videos
  • Grok allowing people to remove the clothes off of anyone who has posted a picture of themselves on Twitter, as well as dropping the apps collective iq by 50 points (they started out with an iq of 30)
  • AI therapists/girlfriends/whatever that have literally driven people to kill themselves
  • More recently Openclaw made creating bots and spam infinitely easier than before
  • AI datacenters consume enormous amounts of water in a world where there is already an evergrowing drinkable water crisis
  • AI datacenters tearing apart the local communities they are built near by releasing toxic gases, poluting water supplies, massively increasing electricity bills
  • The AI bubble where ai companies and Nvidia are constantly buying and investing in eachother in a loop worth hundreds of billions of dollars when none of them are actually making a profit
  • Since AI datacenters buy all these cpus. their prices have shot up to the stratosphere
And this is all just the shit that is already happening and I can probably think of more that just aren't coming to me rn. For what you can await in the future we got:
  • Video generating AI becoming even more scarily realistic than it already is which will have the side effect of making video evidence useless since anyone could generate an image of you commiting a crime (among many other side effects)
  • The AI bubble poping which will most likely tank the US economy (since GDP growth without accounting for AI companies was only 0.1% in 2025) which will drag the rest of the world economy down with it and considering we are already going through a crisis with the whole Iran situation, I'm pretty certain we'll be seeing a recession worse than 2008 within the next few years
  • AGI and whatever other dystopian scifi bullshit comes along with it
I know most of this isn't news to any of you, hating AI is literally the norm online, but all these thoughts have been bubbling (hehe) up for a while
The obnoxious part is that AI can be an incredibly valuable tool for the right work, like managing corpus, organizing data, analyzing information, etc.

But the companies that sell it are insistent that it's a magic wand that will perform any miracle we desire and sold it under that premise and the pressure that if you don't use it as well, you'll lose a lifetime chance and fall behind those who do use it. So in the end everyone just uses it for the well know slop.
 
Some of the dragon ball supporters are really annoying in how they handle some threads, the moment someone makes a big downgrade thread or a controversial one their immediate response is to just spam reaction images, saying how this'll never pass and such and such, resulting in bloating the thread/adding nothing of value to the discussion and just being annoying, all while they wait for someone else to actually respond to the CRT
 
Some of the dragon ball supporters are really annoying in how they handle some threads, the moment someone makes a big downgrade thread or a controversial one their immediate response is to just spam reaction images, saying how this'll never pass and such and such, resulting in bloating the thread/adding nothing of value to the discussion and just being annoying, all while they wait for someone else to actually respond to the CRT
For the record, people spamming memes on CRTs is something you can tell staff about, it's derailing.

We can delete the posts and hand out warnings if needed.
 
For the record, people spamming memes on CRTs is something you can tell staff about, it's derailing.

We can delete the posts and hand out warnings if needed.
The latest thread involving that did get that treatment. Previous threads didn't even when staff were involved, I'll definitely let staff know the next time that happens for any thread
 
The latest thread involving that did get that treatment. Previous threads didn't even when staff were involved, I'll definitely let staff know the next time that happens for any thread
Certain staff are, let's say, less strict than others. Or perhaps just less willing to pull the trigger.

At the very least, if you let me know I'll handle it (if I'm available).
 
Another hot take - I think we should scale toon force merchants (like SpongeBob, Timmy Turner, Woody Woodpecker and etc) or any other character that have way too many outliers like that "at least [their weakest outlier or the most consistent range of feats], [their highest feats] at most/at their peak"
 
Another hot take - I think we should scale toon force merchants (like SpongeBob, Timmy Turner, Woody Woodpecker and etc) or any other character that have way too many outliers like that "at least [their weakest outlier or the most consistent range of feats], [their highest feats] at most/at their peak"
Because, you know, it's so hard to scale a character/verse that don't gives a shit about consistency, logic, continuity and etc and just does things because he can/can't do it at the moment. It's also makes them more interesting, since things IRL is not really consistent either. On a good day you could do 10x more than average, and at worst you could even barely leave your bedroom since you got sick/tired/don't feel like it, so I think there's nothing bad if we scale inconsistent/toon force characters in ranges, rather than one specific tier
 
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