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Before, Gorbiriel lamented that he had to wait longer than reviewers to be disappointed. Now he has begun to lap at that darkwine, drawing from it a dark strength. Or… rage, at least. He plays games for the Art, in the way some do things for the 'gram. The art is basically killing him.

I think it’s possible that someone could have a good time with Wolverine. Personally I was bored after a few hours. Eventually I was skipping cut scenes to get to the game and then I realised I wished I could skip the game parts too. Personally I have found Onimusha to be much more entertaining. Both games are combat focused but Onimusha actually feels interesting and fresh whereas Wolverine feels like they are still just ripping off the combat from Arkham which was fun but was also almost 20 years ago. It was fine in Spider-Man where swinging around New York was actually the game but Wolverine feels like a massive downgrade to me. 

Let's go over a few things.

1. If OpenAI or Anthropic breaches another company's systems, even if no money changed hands, these are Federal and State crimes. Currently, these narratives are being deployed essentially as a mode of advertising to "pump those numbers." This is why I don't believe anything remotely like what they describe occurred. At all. In any way. They are, in plain terms, "lies." Lies in the context of an IPO are called Securities Fraud - now the SEC is involved. It's astonishing what we're being asked to believe. Listen to these pinchy-faced fucking weasels talk. You would only endure these transhuman idolaters if you thought there was an upside. For you.

2. When they say shit - and they do say shit - like "there's a greater than ten percent chance our product will kill all humans within the next decade," you black bag the leadership of these companies. Again - this is how you know it's a bag pump; an op. First it was like, "Yup, we're spinning up a Jobpocalypse." I guess that stopped moving the needle, huh? A machine that recreates the conditions for feudalism? Every one of its thoughts manufactured, in part or in whole, by the disenfranchised? There's no way to overstate the hideousness they proudly emit. Now it's like, yeah, our Demon Engine might kill your kids - the ones we didn't kill already I guess. It's not serious, I'm sorry. It's Doctor Doom shit. Except in this case, Doctor Doom isn't a techno-sorcerer with Diplomatic Immunity. It's a guy who works in an air-conditioned office whenever he isn't telecommuting or warping capital markets with every breath. Black Bag.

3. Let's say we do need National AI to do battle with the AI of foreign adversaries - sounds like a great anime. If it's as crucial as we're being told, if we stand on the precipice of some great invisible conflict - like the "spirit war" my Church used to rail about - none of it would look this way. They would seize these companies via Eminent Domain, just as they did in World War II. If they did the shit these people say they do, it's not like fucking Coca-Cola. If they can batter any system or kill the world or any of this shit they aren't normal companies and they wouldn't be treated with the deference they are. They're already a cartel, clearly, which gives the government even more potent tools. Fucking come on.

4. All the hokey, handwavey parts of Cyberpunk that you just accept - the origin story of the neofeudal, technocratic state - you always wonder what that looks like. How the interests converge, how they're allowed to converge. I can tell you.

It looks like this.

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I could look up the etymology of the term in the last panel, but I can't imagine why I would. What a fucking delight! Why would I ever want to know the specifics? Every moment I turn it over in my mind reveals rich new contours.