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I'd rather not get a glimpse into that mirror 
Ok - This is hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJACkKbN-Eo - NVidia's DLSS 5 video got copyright claimed from a random Italian TV channel who used their content in one of their videos, and retroactively filed a claim against NVidia for stealing THEIR content - And YouTube accepted it.
NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games is coming later this year. DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.
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RIP Fry's
Micro Center is infinitely better than Fry's ever was
They even have an on-site 'build your PC here' station
i am not spiritually able to walk into microcenter without buying something
It's been over a decade but Micro Center is BACK in Santa Clara, California!! This much anticipated return is a huge glow-up from its predecessor and we can't wait to show it off.
From the moment you walk in, you realize why Micro Center is often called "tech heaven", "a toy store for adults", or "the best computer store in the world". With ov...
last time it was a racing sim steering wheel
i was on ssh session
Needs a password 
I got a joke on it but i will probably get banned 
Here goes the sirens
Yup
How is amazon not upset about this
***** that’s mine i using this every where
try shutdown now
Fry's had the wow factor. Microcenter has "sales associates" wanting to shove their sticker on everything.
Fair, but at least the employees do know what they're talking about
Loooooool
Not at yours? Mine was always turbonerds.
Mine employs dipshits
You could smell the authenticity, in the PC building section.
I walked in and asked if you want to place your sticker on everything please grab me x, y, and z. No questions. Fucking 30s later, are you sure you want that setup, you know you get x% more performance. No, and no more questions or I'll let someone place stickers over your stickers.
Cold
I wanted in and out. Normally I order online for pickup, but for some reason I couldn't get an item or two.
One does not simply in and out at micro center.
I do.
No matter what I'm there for, I'm at least gonna go waste an hour looking at mechanical keyboards
picked up a keychron the time before last time
gud thock
i stay away from that place now
Also got a keychron, with durock T1
I miss my ducky 
I miss my zealio
I was there a couple weeks back, and hoping to snag a cheap 60%, but holy crap the prices have skyrocketed
I have a mode sonnet keeb with golden pandas
it's a soul devouring hobby if you ask me
I pay the price gladly
Very expensive hobby for what it is
It was more affordable the last time I was at micro center. I didn't expect keyboard prices to rise with the ram/storage.
The cheapest 60% was like $120
with gross cherry reds
Keychron c3 is $50 on Amazon
No address to ship to 
LCD tan will do
Sounds like a solid feature idea
Final
good morning HTB
From CA ?
nope
Nice
🥲
Good luck!

is there a way to avail for HTB Business if i'm it's just for 1 person?
Can i crash at ur crib in a year and a half or so sado
hmm
Hopefully ill get a better home with extra place by then yeah
how much time does it take for a review on academy's module to appear?
I think its a minimum of four seats
really? that small? like only for the super ultra basic HTB Business one?
imagine how fun it would be to triage tickets at work and to triage tickets after work lmfao
What type of cable is used to connect components within a local area network for high-speed data transfer? answer to this will be ethernet cable but this answer is showing incorrect
router
but router is a device not cable
oops i thought you typed what it connects to
fiber optic cable is also incorrect answer
try typing ethernet without the 'cable' part
or specify the cat
i heard tht rats arent too fond of cats
We reconciled
ntpdate worked?! I repeat ntpdate just worked oO
it was not before?
thanks buddy it worked
it didn't but this time it worked flawlessly and I find that suspicious
Why don't I have a fucking embed?
sounds like ur skill issue
¯_(ツ)_/¯
always has
lowest is 3 at 250/month/user
Hello all
sup
you're hacking
probably
Oh I have embed
old UI error: no active targets
new UI: something went wrong
what should I first start to follow on htb before starting the very easy machines followed some online courses before but most easy machines use some knowledge I dont have
Get Started with the HTB Beginners Bible: https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/learn-to-hack-beginners-bible
Where is rat?
ive been 2 years into this sh!t and im still struggling at the easy machines lol
is it true that some people have work related to hacking?
Learn something with me come on
also suggest to check out htb academy before the labs then
well
i mean not all the easy boxes are easy
yaas
ight
can I not learn only with machines

you'll have a much more enjoyable time if you don't rush into machines
i dont know if its weird to say but i find the house lizard and small rats cute
so with what should I start,academy?
u can from the retired boxes but not from the active ones if u currently lack the skill to complete those. u can take the vip plan to get access to the retired machine which will also have some walktrough which u can read or watch while doing those
publishing walktroughs of active boxes is not allowed
so u wont find them
If you're a complete beginer to cyber security, you should not start from any machine
Active or retired
You can try, but if you don't know what you're doing, you're not going to complete a box. You can try to learn things on your own, as there's plenty of free material all around, but if you don't know what to search for, it doesn't do you any good that it exists on the internet. The academy is the way to go.
alright will do that
It will mess you up
You can follow a writeup
But if you don't know what was going on in the writeup
It's pointless
i personaly did a easy thm box like at the start of my journey, ven before knwoing wht MAC stands for, did it by seeing a vid and suddenly i understood abt the common tools we use and the usage mainly nmap,gobuster,linpeas,enum4linux and shits
Tools are useless too if you don't know what the tools actually do
understood abt the common tools we use and the usage mainly nmap,gobuster
(did specify 'usage')
You can use nmap and "understand" the results, but if you don't know what a port is, you're not getting very far
thts basic IT
oh ye i forogt to mention tht too, my bad
@swift canyon it is always useful to start with basic IT stuffs beforing diving into cybersec
beleive me this alone will make u progress twice as fast
well, also because pentesting is not an entry level career
It's like trying to learn calculus before you learn algebra
u like calculus?
i never learned basic arithmetic
seems like u missed some fun stuffs
whts 2+3
What's 1 + 1?
if I use TCP the machine isnot reachable and with udp vpn this error what to do
I was going to abandon computers for math/physics
true
i was one click away from option to pursue pure math in my college application when filling some forms the previous week
Sounds like you have bigger issues than the VPN
I would like to know why a CS degree requires Calc II
i love math like 2 + 2= 4 not more than that
I am also an avid math enjoyer
I hadn't decided which way to go. I do like pure math, but I figured I need both anyway, and I'd figure it out mid-degree.
Sorry 5
I guess CS is like abstract applied mathematics
wht are ur current options which u have on ur ind?
2 + 2 doesn't equal 4. 2+2 = 6 bc there are 3 2s. (2) + (2) + the 2 twos. So 2+2 = 6.
I abandoned the degree. Ended up getting screwed over by a law change like a week before I was supposed to start classes, that invalidated my SAT.
ye its actualy fun but when u think abt the unemplyment ratio
Computer Science (CS) graduates currently face one of the highest unemployment rates among recent college graduates
, estimated around 6.1% to 7.5% in 2025-2026, ranking among the top fields for unemployment. This spike is due to a tech slowdown, overproduction of degrees, andAI reducing entry-level hiring.
Yeah I know. It’s quite sad but makes sense.
sounds shit
I switched my degree from Cyber to CS with a minor in Cyber
so wht action did u take
Yeah. Essentially, the college offered their 'own' SAT, which still qualified legally, but did not have the writing portion. I got in at the worst time, where the law switched over just as I was supposed to start, which required a certain 'score' for SAT, to qualify. Since I was missing 1/3 of the test, even if I had gotten a perfect score before, I would be disqualified.
Nothing. Found out I had a kid coming, and ended up being a stay at home dad.
Nah, got into regular IT after.
I went from computing to cyber 
htb latest commit comment be like: fix next lesson page not returning to the top 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️
1/3 = [✓][ ][ ]
If u cant solder a charging port ur not getting into CS 
I switched mine when I realized the Cyber degree taught more about networking and how to use tools rather than what is actually going on behind everything
That's literally what's going on behind everything
Cyber Security has absolutely nothing to do with cool hacker stuff
Sorry
I mean I was more into the actual Science of everything
Cyber Security is cool without the cool hacker stuff
When you turn a hobby into an occupation, you start hating the hobby
😢
Yeah that’s fragile ground to tread on
Damnnnnn, what a nice twist
*More like I have intrinsic interest in this and don’t need outside motivators or incentives to work in this industry
But you will
Not as the primary at least
Much of what we did was networking, IT, cloud, core concepts and such, but the material dedicated to pentesting is what I (unsurprisingly) enjoyed the most.
I dunno, I feel like if posting cat pics was my job, I'd be okay with that.
Intrinsic semiconductor ( sry tht wht came to my mind right now, u are giving me nostalgia of my highschool)
Wht Abt rat pics then
The purest kind 😎
What if posting catpics was your job, but it also included bureaucratic paperwork to explain what a catpic was and tbe type of cat, and post a set number or pics per day, and also somehow make sure you meet a target amount of engagement on your posts, if you don't do any of that, you'd lose you job?
I have a very important question btw
I was thinking about selling my house and all my parent property to buy a cat
Is that a good idea?
Or should I also sell my cousins property too?
Depends on the breed I guess
It's one thing to like to computers, but it's another thing to work for a company and follow stupid ass rules and write "professional" reports
you could sell your cousins' cat to buy a cat
Completely takes the fun away
to each their own I guess
An interesting idea but I cats are superior to humans so I don't think I can do that , ( atleast with their cats
)
I thoroughly enjoy it
Ain't reading all tht
There are fucking personal emails on that post
Serious rule break
Or comprise others privacy or share sensitive details of others without their consent
<@&861185840277487616>
U took the chance from candy. It would have been his 2nd time using the serious rule break
Looks like i missed something
Yeah
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I once used it for someone to answer my question in modules lol
What did the guy say
Hmm

I can send it to u in DM if u give me 3 million dollars
a bunch of trash llm output but also had someones email, indicating it was possibly details about a real org
Bots
My fucking god dude, now u stole an opportunity from me too
U aren't getting any cats dude
I copied that text for forensic analysis too
*for educational purposes only
pretty sure it was, the domain resolved at least
Tf does this mean
Bro dont put pictures of me
Bruh
My chance

😨
What
Haha
We are not Anonymous 😭
Got full output for free 🗣️
Gng
You come in here
And call people who won’t help you do illegal shit
Useless
My god, you’re stupid
Ye I can understand the frustration mate but we have to keep the talks legal in this server
Bro i barely get help in legal things
Oh he is gone

If you think this person is a pedo report the the authorities which I am sure is not us
He is gone bruh who are u talking to
Aura loss
I didn't ask
If u had any in the first place tht is
Cry at the corner with me then
Ill post illegal stuff so yall have a fun chat
*no comment
Imagine being replied to with @NOT SERIOUS RULE BREAK
I can't even make up a laugh for this bro. I'm so sorry
Getting old
True
I'm 18 but still
We gonna buy a farm
We gotta retire
Im 21 but yeah
Ye at a japanese countryside with those traditional houses to live in
With wooden bowls 
😃
Cyber security people dreams be like:
So true
Never to touch a technology again in the future
How shitty
How ironic
🤣
Hacker 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️
They were there even before the universe was created bruh
Get better academy experience use the firefox addon new-htb-ui-fixer
probably, which module
ive seen it in multiple modules. one im in rn it password attacks -writing custom worlists and rules and theres multiple
ai slop fr fr
ive never seen a human use an emdash before AI
thats an ancient module, def before ai
some modules are pretty old, like 4 years+
"Bleeding edge vulnerabilities" they say 🗣️
I guess u cant learn the new without learning the old first ?
That was around before CPTS was released, and that didn't come out until september of 2022
You can see the module publish date on one of the screens
unless the visual update got rid of that
Brooo BYOVD is pretty fucked up 😂😂
A staff member told me her browser has been acting funny for a bit. Figured browser hijack... this staff member had 3 trojans. 
Hi guys
You guys know the hype about openclaw.. we know they have security gaps (prompt injection). I am here to ask what do you think in general about it?
Did anyone try openclaw here?
Not looked into LLM harnesses much
I am currently trying it in a lab environment and it works pretty well. I want to know what is the current opinion from cybersecurity apart from screaming "prompt injection vulnerable" pretty much like every ai bot you use..
Im ready on my cyber, to fight evil and darkness
DAFUQ
Someone cloned nmap in rust, becuase why not make shittier software
it's the rust tradition
Scans all 65k ports in 3 seconds.
Full scripting engine support. Automatically pipe results into Nmap, or use our scripts (or write your own) to do whatever you want.
Adaptive learning. RustScan improves the more you use it. No bloated machine learning here, just basic maths.
The usuals you would expect. IPv6, CIDR, file input and more.
Automatically pipes ports into Nmap.
65k ports in 3 seconds?
I understand rust and concurrency but that's just not possible.

I smell bullshit.
It never said it gave accurate results
cpts verified rat seems to be greening every day
non cpts verified rat seems to be blueing every day

like a -T5 nmap scan
i cant find the family guy gif of peter saying everything at once
I bet that many of the vibe coded things have some deep vulnerabilities
You think it is bad now, but when he first released it all it did was actually call NMAP directly. He got bullied so bad for it that he had to try and at least make it do something itself
Rust?
Wait what
Is that even a coding language
nod
The rusty kind
Sucks too much
It ends its scan with actual nmap output
Rustscan is evidence that it doesn't need to be good, just call it ferox this or rust that and a bunch of potentially trans or furry individuals will flock to it
No idea why you felt the need to specify identity
Feroxbuster is pretty great though just saying
?????
Fits though ngl
Not really, it's pretty much the most popular meme for rust lol
Okay now see that one makes sense
Yeah, I was gonna say, it's the common rust meme lol
Im gonna have to remember to load up FL studio at some point
I know who created this actually
we’ve talked, it is faster, but very noisy and can break systems if they are old
bars
so? lol
I actually think its good for machines
I hate you /j
Fruity loops? Gonna make bangers to go along with that baby stockmarket game? 
I always look at the nmap output at the end
Why not just use nmap
cuz
rustscan will first find all ports faster
then, it will to -A on the ports it found
so overall faster most of the time
It is really not that much faster than a comparable NMAP scan, and it is also less likely to find open ports in an unstable environment. Which depending on what you are paying for with HTB, is pretty likely
i'm not wise enough to recognize what you're implying here
Care to explain to a smoothbrain
Big issue I suppose is that Rustscan is fast from default, while NMAP, you would need to read the docs to find all the necessary options to get to a similar function
everyone says the same
meme
Am I the only one who doesn't need a fast nmap scan? I do a bog standard nmap at the start, just to get open ports, and then I run detailed nmap scans on existing ports while I poke services.
I have never come back from poking to have my nmap unfinished
the meme that vibe coding everything is going to lead to software that will be faulty in some way or another?
i was under the understanding this is a recognized happening
could be interpreted both ways 
still can be done manually
W/e
U can do a lot of things while waiting for nmap
wait until a massive data breach happens due to some piss poor ai integration lol
Thanks for this, I was about to test that out against something like a half opened t4 full port scan with nmap
Good afternoon
I would say it is happening, but I think a company could burn a few thousand more tokens and it wouldn't be much of a concern
What's another dried up river in the Amazon
I detest the comparison. reddit is the cesspool of the internet
Who needs them, am I right?
Also GPUs and Ram, you dont need that anymore now adays right?
Me, working an incident
Should the DPAPI Backup keys for the domain be compromised, the recommendation is to create a new domain and migrate users to that new domain. If a malicious actor is able to gain access to the DPAPI backup keys, it's likely that they have acquired domain administrator-level access to the domain and have full access to its resources. An attacker may also install other backdoor systems in the domain with the level of access that they now have, hence the recommendation to migrate to a new domain.
Bro got owned
Nah they're just fucked
Like it's just over lol
That's so amazing to me that their domain is just lost now
“What is that a gang sign?” - Kermit the Frog
They lost the domain expansion, cooked beyond belief. No one has ever done this before, except of course satoru gojo
Theres something fundamentally wrong with that design
It's unavoidable
What happens when a domain admin forgets their password?
Something has to be in place for that scenario
Otherwise someone forgetting their password would lock out a domain forever

So, they guy who compromised the domain can just keep resetting the password and take control
indefinite
Yes
Windows is such trash its actually crazy
Man that is rough
Ts why I use Linux
Multiple barriers should have been in place protecting this
I promise you the barriers were not there lmao
Most likely not
L2 Soc Analyst stating the obvious btw /j
Bro logged in once and noticed he was DA
I promise you lol
I have YET to see privilege escalation occur in the wild
It's almost been two years now
Sneezing is now a privesc vector
Darn it
@molten bobcat you can expect more of this with the increase of AI slop
I got you buddy
Gotta be hacker rank or higher
Why thank you my good friend
Ah
any tips for interview
Kermit needed to expand his domain I had to help
Stand proud Sukuna you were strong
job security 
So they say 
Cloud whats your take on windows kernel security
Is that an opinion I'm supposed to have ready to fire?
Some companies may be downsizing now in favor of AI, give it a couple of years and business will be booming again. Someone needs to repair the AI slop
This feels like a test question I didn't study for lmao
been at it for a while and discovered a lot of crazy shit I would've never known 😂
Oh I know and have found some similarly hilarious issues on some tests from devs I know are vibe coding. But I think at a certain point more burning and more money is all that is needed to deal with some of these things.
More money? They're already burning money lol
U talkin to me ?
Just keep burning. That is how the AI wheel spins
Yes lmao
I'm a blue teamer it's not often I'm interacting with the kernel
Why not
What's there for me to see
I mean thats still security just not on the normal level
Unsustainable
The kernel is how software talks to hardware, attackers need to attack software first
Unless yall dont operate at that level
We don't typically, no
Think of it like ocean depth
Most activity is gonna be near the surface
But the kernel is the ocean floor lol
can't face corporate consequences if the country collapses first
I mean if software is too restrictive they go deeper
similarly how HV cracks were introduced when level 0 became a problem
A better job? /j
the US wins the AI race, but stops being the US in the process 
Ye ye i get it
I mean da and kernel are two very different cases
Ones local compared to the other being not local
Well is the kernel for attackers not a path towards system?
Ye it is but that still limits you to that system itself
DA is local admin of all hosts in the domain
It's a larger permission set than system on one host
Unless y'know
It's a domain controller
Oh I'm just saying that
Getting system on a DC
Is more valuable
As it unlocks the rest of the domain
No lol
What else then
DC Sync
The domain controller itself is what's performing the encryption for every account
Lol
Including the domain administrator
Krbtgt is owned
A local admin cant dc sync when it itself isn't a dc

This only occurs in environments with more than one domain controller
That just means I can get to your DC faster
discord controller 
Whats all this talk about kernals
do hackers eat alot of corn?
I live in it
Oh so you mean lsass dump gives you krbtgt which then gives you dc acess
No lol?
I meant I ain't a AD genius either
I mean yes I guess it does
but your name is cloud how can you live in corn at the bottom of the ocean
What in the world is this comment
Are there clouds at the bottom of the ocean now
You tell me, youre the cloud
there is water at the bottom of the ocean
the krbtgt hash is only stored on the domain controller, not on other workstations
He's got a point..
so you can lsass dump but you wouldnt get that
Its stored in lsass memory too if im not wrong
Yeah krbtgt dumping is how you maintain persistence over a compromised domain
Which can be dumped if im system is that right ?
Ye
There
It's in LSASS
Ye
He finally got it
Otherwise one compromised workstation = entire domain compromised
It lives there happily stamping tickets and encrypting them
And when u say DA are you referring to delegated admin or domain admin ?
domain
Ye cause delegated one is a perm
hello, i want to ask if i use the student subscription , how many cube i'll get ?
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District Attorney
Dumb analogy
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also what about the case when the workstation is a domain joined user
Decisive aporia
Retired content
MapViewOfFile2 and MapViewOfFile3 exist... has microsoft just given up on function names?
I buy HTB Academy annual plan, can i use 25$ of season reward for it??
Yup
My partner calls me Yakub sometimes
some real Yakubian conduct in here
not even able to comprehend this
Oh God it's a rabbit hole of crazy people levi lol
Yacloudian
did a quick google search right now
Yakub is the father of all people
if the user is domain joined, you can enum bloodhound
Yacoobian
if you can elevate to local admin, then you can elevate to system and itll be less of a pain in the ass
hack into my leg massager remotely
too late , i already used telepathy to do so
it does not even have radio waves
I just logged into a massager alright, but i think its in a place devoid of light...
Foul
oh really
IT’S VIBRATING
Yes yes
Maybe hes playing chess
it’s vibrating 😈
i bear your son
how abt i u send me ur social sec no (KIDDING)
I want daughters
same
ok that’s it i don’t want to get banned
Your sons will become daughters if you dont have daughters, so its a win win
Are they clownfish?
not like tht bruh
Hello?
Everytime i go anywhere i specifically observe the gender ratio of employees
Tabby impressed
its not like they arent given equal opportunity tho
🏳️⚧️
"We are an equal opportunity employer" is nonsense
u do not have special reserved seats on top of the regular ones there?
for women tht is not men
Anyways its not a topic i want to get into, just a sad realization
Kroger does an excellent job at this
By eliminating positions?
.. by hiring the disabled..
ye the topic can get intense if not careful . always best to not debate on sesitive topics like this
Oh yes we should turn every institution into good will
gov gibs must be sweet
So that’s why I don’t shop at Kroger /j
Not what I said, what I meant is that they didn't discriminate against the disabled when hiring
Which is a good thing, disabled people deserve to have jobs and lives like the rest of us
As an executive i agree (and i make more money than i pay them from the taxes and i look good to the public)
I'm okay with win win scenarios
can i have some .
pls
its brath!
They get a paycheck and get to smile at folks and have some purpose
What do you unlock with the student monthly plan?
That they would otherwise not have
Just ganna dissapear into rapture with my boys and hopefully we dont invent anything that uses adam
All tier 1 and 2 modules
we will be chill
That's a strong fuckin word, hopefully
Carrying up the rest of that sentence there
Andrew Ryan
Yeah but i dont really think andrew was a bad guy
hello
I like how nuanced bioshock was
What
If you think it was nuanced, you weren't following along. It was directly trying to show you the consequences of his actions lol
BioShock was as nuanced as a giant fucking sledgehammer
What?
Shock is literally the name
The only reason rapture specifically fell was due to discovery of adam
Bro, rapture is literally falling apart with blood crazed maniacs..
And no, it was not
lmao what
It was due to the unchecked ethics of the scientists and capitalists what
Did you not listen to any audio logs at all??
Go watch a 12 hour documentary on bioshock please
The whole game was a direct critique of libertarianism
bioshock was gud propaganda tbh
who needs ethics in science
sounds like a new tech
The plastic surgeon literally went insane and kept saying "what more is there to do but sculpt and sculpt and sculpt until the job is done?"
Adam had no part in his madness
It only enabled it
BOGGED
O
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The plastic surgeon realized he could mould peoples skin like clay with adam
so he went too far
YES, AND THE LESSON IS
They were already going too far.
and what does restricted power do?
is it completely true?
Id rather make progress than stagnate
Okay okay so he's on Andrew Ryan's SIDE
what is progress
He WANTS to experiment on little girls
I'd rather make slow progress, than crush the majority of the population
once you pop you cant stop
Y'know for progress
Yeah i think andrew ryan was a cool character in the bioshock series
Brath genuinely didn't save a single little sister and it shows
Because they lived under horrible conditions
Someone's a hypocrite
most people would break under the circumstances he was in
sleeping an hour more than the previous day
Who cares? You'd rather progress than stagnate
Go watch a 12 hour bioshock documentary
no gods and kings, only men
men are lovecraftian horrors
Rapture was peak
is it false?
I have played every single game multiple times bro
imagine having a life
We even got a great look at how ugly rapture was, during the Bioshock Infinite DLC
So have I
its called you sit on your fat ass all day anyway get real
not happening bro
you can multitask
stares at phone
im online right now cuz i was doing calisthenics and had to take a break
why is moon not in color 
yes away from the computer outside looking at the mini computer
nah nah
where's the cheese?
no color on moon because no artifical color added to space cheese duh
the computer is all there is
i read books, workout, go out for jog , go for a ride etc
talk about waste of time... reading. Audio books were invented man. You can feed your dungeons and dragon fanfiction into an llm and get a full blown epic audiobook now
I feed white papers into llms and make audiobooks daily
I can't believe the BioShock ragebait still
Its not ragebait
I know you don't think it is
and yes i have tried audiobooks but i just cant get the same focus as reading the books, maybe bcz i still havent coped with it
idk
But BioShock is the harshest criticism I've ever seen of progress over ethics
If it makes you mald thats on you, i think the creation of rapture is fucking rad
audiobooks are too slow
Sure, the entire concept looks good on paper
That's true for
Quite a lot of things
Not really, most people read to kinda let their imagination run and it's an art form on it's own. It really depends on what your goal is and what you're pursuing
But BioShock explores how that would turn out in practice
i may be a r*tardmaxxer but bioshock was actually based
progress is great, and bioshock's criticism is based on nonsense "hurr if we dont stop we'll shoot lasers out from our fingers"
Terrible argument
That's.. not the critique
I thought Bioshock was about slaughtering small girls, and that was the lesson 
The critique is that with unchecked power people corrupt and twist. They become tyrants and monsters.
It would happen under any form of control systems
at least rapture let you do what you wanted, even if it did get out of control
There wasn't supposed to be a control system in rapture, remember?
it happens regardless
guy escapes communism
things end up "worse"
yea okey
No rules, no limits
at the direct cost of the poor
It wasn't freedom for all - it was freedom for some
au contraire
Everyone stopped pulling the chain brath.
Well i am flawed in the fact i think my society would self govern too
same with checked power.
cuz for a guys power to be kept checked there should be a more powerful entity and it will go on till there is the most powerful whos power is not unchecked
Nah Bioshock wasn't about power. It was slaugher
it was law of the jungle
I actually love the story of BioShock a lot
Adam was literally just an allegory for money lol
You spend it at vending machines for gods sake dude lol
Ah but we do have a couple ATM of pressure on all sides lol
its quite literally the argument that the rich eat babies
It's literally just scifi wild west underwater with cosmic horrors
greatest genre blend in vidya
They had money in rapture
It's used as currency in the game
As well as money
The ones with the most Adam are the strongest and most powerful, yeh?

cloud are you a communist perchance 
God no
Again, go watch a guy make you listen to every audiobook and compare it to philosophy books. And yes I know the studio was critiquing, but i can still extract unique perspectives from what they were trying to show
and i love it
easily one of the best trilogies ever
Your unique perspective is that Andrew Ryan was the good guy

I didnt say he was the good guy
I think you are in love with the idea, of Andrew Ryan
'darth vader was actually good'
Griffith didnt do anything wrong
Dude you are really digging deep
It's BioShock you're supposed to!
I just liked Andrew Ryans vision
Sure, but BioShock is an exploration how the road to hell is paved with good intentions
eh when there's dialogue in games you just click on space as fast as you can to get rid of that nonsense and get back to murdering
I'm sure Andrew Ryan wanted to share his vision and save the world
#general message this you
But it had flaws that he chose to ignore.
yeah but i dont really like to think of anything as good or bad
struggle, challenge, and rise to struggle again
Griffith allowed that cycle to continue. He's based
it just is
Andrew Ryan has conviction
Not sense.
He's sure it's going to work out the way he planned.
He didnt like the red tape of the world restricting humanities progress, I can get behind that
Sure
And that's why you and thousands of people flocked to rapture
And died at the bottom of the ocean
If anything frank fontaine really corrupted shit
Oh for sure
and he is rightly named
based on Ayn Rands "the fountain"
her first book
he is a manifestation of that
Isn't there a giant statue of Atlas when you get down to rapture?
bruh
and Atlas shrugged is Andrew Ryan
I remember a giant golden statue
Is it just of Andrews Ryan's face
Atlas shrugged is the entire thing bioshock is critiquing
Well, libertarianism as a whole, but with references to the book
I really really loved BioShock 2
I did too, which explored religion, political intrigue, democracy
You can't critique Atlas Shrugged
it's right. True. The system cannabalizes itself to persist
You wont find me defending columbia by the way
The concept of rejecting your fate, rejecting your birth
And found family
Putting ideals to or against what rapture was misses the point. Hence the name "rapture"
God I love the good ending of 2
Columbia was theocracy, which was a fair bit different
Holding hands on your hospital bed with the grown up little sisters you saved
God you have no clue how little pity I had for anyone on that floating hellscape
The moment I saw "Irish bathroom only"
Oh my fucking god
Lock and load boys booker is cleaning up this shit
Morals are for people who cant afford an apt in New Gaza's Trump Tower
I'm in love with the time traveling scientist husband and wife characters
Those two were so good
They were cool and they are why bioshock 4 cant happen
Finishing each other's sentences and stuff
No, he doesn't row
So cute
I want bioshock 4 that takes place on a space station, in retro soviet style
Oh my God yessssss
deep space?
But y'know, you can't open a window
dead space
peak
the synapses finally connected
Less horror dead space I think
dead <~> space
Bird flu? Yeah they do that
i think soviet era dead space would be sick
Brath if you're about to tell me The Marker in Dead Space was morally correct
I'm gonna kill you (in RuneScape)
to be fair, he never made a morals argument
It was a giant rock lol
Well cloud you have to understand i am a simple man who just doesnt want to be restricted by people who know less than me
so unless it fits that bill
i have no opinion currently
i dont do anything for money or power
This is literally the marker lol
i dont remember that thing
Wasnt deadspace about what happens when hyper religious zealots control things?
its been a long long time
Oh, oh God no
i thought it was a critique on alien
Dead Space is a Horror movie
like the wayland company
It's not a critique on them
Lol
If anything the word you're looking for
Is homage
Inspired by
Americans will spend hours arguing the morals of video games while bombing little girls in the name of wanted war criminals.
ah okay
Alright bro how the fuck am I supposed to stop any of that
well im sure they have deep rooted political bullshit there too
Lol
Not really no, the game just kinda ends really badly for all life as we know it
It's pretty bleak
All i know i would probably not enjoy being in that space shit at all, i would rather be isolated on a planet digging holes like a deep rock galatic guy
Building cool tech with my homies
dead space is a bunch of lunatics that become twisted by the marker in their desire to be attached and in the space of something greater. It was a direct nod to man's desperate desire to maintain contact with our perception of the divine and to illustrate what that turns us into in the process
obvioulsy its a more hopeless interpretation
finds the marker heh nothin personal kid
This is fair
You have to understand (for the 100th time) i do not desire power over people i just want to be left alone with my boys
thats my most basic philosophy
I was just meme
If i cant go build a log cabin in the woods with my brothers and drink beer and smonk weed and shoot guns, what is there to live for
ironically, the war in Iran is a religiously motivated war
dead space was right about everything
trust me thats why i just wanna be left alone, i dont support the psychopathic status quo who tells me i am too irresponsible to own a howitzer cannon
that I BUILT
brath for pres
I fully support ahmed and his clock invention, he definitely deserved to go meet the president
fuckin genius
I remember this
next time you order something from amazon, ask yourself
Wasn't it during Obama's presidency
what would ahmed do
yes
it was when i knew the people in power truly knew nothing
that was my awakening moment
"Three lawsuits filed by Mohamed's family; all dismissed"
that's so rough
good job
It handles the web app just fine but not the mobile or tv apps
Reee..
I'm unsure if I can have a solution for that
you can pluck the strings of the people in power and they all contain different soundbytes
I mean this is why greater nations were just pilgrimages of people fed up
but there is no more of that until the satellites fall
not a fan of clown world
i dont want to get ruby ridged by growing my own horticulture in the woods
if the gov isnt making money off any proceeds you could be making expect a visit from the DEA or the delta boys
honks
Grows own strawberries
gets raided
the debt isnt going to unhemmorage itself
Uncle Sam needs YOU
It's hard to live ones life constantly worrying about things I cannot change



