Lunar Advent

I have my problems with the whole ‘womyn are goddesses and moids are rape-apes’ rhetoric (I am a tranny, and thus in feminist circles can be, at best, woman-until-it-is-convenient-to-rape-ape-ize-and-witch-hunt, obviously I have a problem with it), but you can’t counter that by, basically, lying.

These men may be

Lying grifters, who respect women’s opinions so little it troubles them not a wink to be presumed a rape-ape,

deeply self-loathing and believing themselves to be, if not a rape-ape, then certainly tainted by being a member of the rape-ape sex and thus deserving of flagellation, because they see most men as rape-apes,

sincerely respectful of what they see as women’s self-defense, or

yes, as you say, predators advertising themselves

Deep self-loathing about this is something that I feel quite a lot, and as a cis man, I'd say that I get treated about the same in feminist circles as your description of trans people's experience, except they're never wrong about my gender. I know that's facetious as hell, but my point is that I don't really have any rhetorical shields to hide behind when my treacherous and overly beleaguered brain starts internalising this shit. I had a truly spectacular meltdown a couple of years ago when someone I know sent me a YouTube video deconstructing the reaction of men to the whole Man vs. Bear thing and asked for my opinion. BUT. If I did, at my low points, fall back on 'all men are X,Y,Z' type generalisations to cope with how I felt, that was still wrong of me. My self-image problems are my own, and I do not give myself that as an excuse to paint all men with the same brush, even if I don't end up believing it for very long.

Point 3 may actually be the most insidious, because it's the one that appeals to the intersection of radfems and Facebook mothers, the idea that this stuff NEEDS to be believed because women are better off safe than sorry. But that's not true. The point of this rhetoric is not to make women safe, but to make them scared. That's why you get all sorts of made up memes like keeping your keys in between your knuckles when walking home at night (absolutely doesn't work) or "I found this random ID lying around and I got so scared, stay safe out there" (the implicit fear is that the ID itself is coated with fentanyl or something as a kidnapping attempt, so that a well-meaning citizen picks it up, loses consciousness from the drug making contact with their skin, and then they get carried off I guess). and EVEN THEN, if you are genuinely just mistaken, you are still tarring an entire gender with a single brush. At best, it's not grifter behaviour, but it is contributing towards someone else's grift.

A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create a plan to take over the development studio and force out its founder, according to court records.

The Monday ruling details the bizarre story. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is the studio behind the 2018 underwater survival game Subnautica. The company has since been working on the sequel, Subnautica 2. In 2021, South Korean publisher Krafton bought Unknown Worlds Entertainment for $500 million and promised to pay out another $250 million if Subnautica 2 sold well enough.

Krafton’s internal sales projections for Subnautica 2 looked great, and looked like it would be on the hook for the additional $250 million. In an attempt to avoid paying this, Krafton CEO Changhan Kim turned to ChatGPT for help avoiding paying the developers the $250 million bonus. “As Unknown Worlds prepared to release its hotly anticipated sequel, Subnautica 2, the parties’ relationship fractured,” the court decision said. “Fearing he had agreed to a ‘pushover’ contract, Krafton’s CEO consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate ‘takeover’ strategy.”

Kim partnered with Krafton Head of Corporate Development Maria Park and the company’s legal team to work out options. He toyed with finding a reason to fire the founders. According to court records, Park pinged Kim on Slack and told him that attempting to avoid paying the bonus would be legally risky. “Hi CEO . . . it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause,” the Slack message said according to court records. “Therefore, there isn’t much that we can practically gain other than punishment with a simple dismissal alone, whereas I am worried that we may be exposed to lawsuit and reputation risk.”

But the CEO would not accept defeat. “And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help,” court records said. “When the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be ‘difficult to cancel,’ Kim complained to Park that the [payout] was a ‘contract under which we can only be dragged around.’”

Kim pressed the chatbot for an answer. “At ChatGPT’s suggestion, Kim formed an internal task force, dubbed ‘Project X.’ The task force’s mandate was to either negotiate a ‘deal’ on the earnout or execute a ‘Take Over’ of Unknown Worlds. They looked to buy time,” court records said. “Kim sought ChatGPT’s counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a ‘Response Strategy’ to a ‘No-Deal’ Scenario.”

This was a piece of ChatGPT’s “Project X” for Krafton:

“a. Preemptive Framing - Repeat that protecting quality and fan trust is the highest priority, undermine the ‘Large Corporation VS. Indie’ framing b. Securing Control Points - * Lock down Steam/console publishing rights and access rights over code/build pipeline through both legal and technical aspects. * For the earn-out freeze, keep room for negotiations through provision stating ‘immediate removal if specific development results are achieved’ a. Systematic materials for legal defense - Prepare contract interpretation memorandums, log all communications, seek external consultation b. Team retention - Operation of retention packages for key personnel and rapid backfill pipelines in anticipation of resignation/departure scenarios c. Two handed strategy - Create a structure that allows for both hardball (Legal+ Finance) and softball (Support/Incentives) approaches so moderate factions within Unknown Worlds can push for compromise.”

Kim followed ChatGPT’s advice rather than his lawyers’ advice, according to the court records. The first step was posting a message on Subanutica’s website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to “secure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy.” He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the game’s original creators and entered into a legal battle with them.

I think it was pretty clear that I was having sex with multiple anonymous partners under the full moon while drenched in the blood of the innocent to conceive the antichrist who will depose Jesus from his throne and reign the Earth in eternal agony, like we were all supposed to be doing.

We were hanging out yesterday and she kept complaining not just about the humiliation of having to be a beginner area random encounter, but also about how her whole thing just doesn't work against weak opponents: She steals moves from the party and then uses them against them, but she's only stolen dogshit beginner moves as of late, and it's getting to her. She stole [Aimed Shot] from a beginner Archer. [Aimed Shot]. Yeah I sure fucking hope you're aiming if you're using a bow. She also stole [Shield Bash] from a Brawler. Congratulations, you are using the shield as intended. She just up and left when she stole [Heavy Slice]. Didn't even give them loot.