r/whenthe • cock • 14h ago

the daily whenthe I hate that this is real

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u/playfulpecans send me pictures of your cat 13h ago

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u/Healthy_Fig_5127 12h ago

According to Epic Games, they vibecoded the entire launcher just so they could try and be better than steam.

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u/LookItVal 12h ago

in what world is a quickly cobbled together vibe coded product the best way to compete with the largest, most tested and used game launcher for PC games? who thought this was the solution?

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u/Mordeczka123 12h ago

apparently everyone will use your launcher if it opens 1 second sooner than steam

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u/Madara1389 5h ago

This is the same company that thought

  • paying for timed exclusives would court people from Steam rather than annoy everyone (as if they didn't see the backlash to EA's launcher)

  • offering free games that amount to 80% indie nobodies and 20% AAA games from 5+ years ago is comparable to the Steam Summer, Autumn, & Winter Sales.

  • people would want to abandon their years old Steam libraries for any reason

  • offering a lower take on games published to EGS would make developers stop publishing their games to Steam (having games on both isn't an option)

  • suing Steam when none of that worked and accusing them of being as bad as Microsoft or Apple would win people over

Epic is run by morons who think throwing more money at their perceived problem would solve it, but the reality is that it's a self-inflicted problem that no one else believes needs to be solved; the EGS isn't taking Steam's marketshare. I don't care and no one who isn't financially invested in Epic should.

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 12h ago

What does that have to do with Kirk?

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u/Dr_SexDick 11h ago

Charlie Kirk’s face was used in so many memes that machine learning algorithms (that use internet memes as part of their data set) are more likely to generate faces that look like him. A ghost in the machine if you will.

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 5h ago

Only in y’all’s memes like I’ll grant you people keep making memes that say that cause for some strange reason they want that to be the case but that’s not true

Also stop and ask yourself why is that being celebrated or laughed at or memed or whatever by anyone on the left?  The right isn’t gonna give a shit that Kirk has been immortalized in the machine and will he forever remembered and the people in charge of these AI’s won’t care cause they are right wing too

Why would someone on the left want that tho?  Kirk is dead he can’t feel this isn’t actually him trapped like some sci-fi story or his ghost so why then?  I feel like this is a bunch of ex fans of Kirk who turned left cause they hated Trump like nick fuentes fans who turned.  Cause only people like that would care this much about Kirk or his reputation

Everyone else was perfectly fine letting him be forgotten and no him needing to be memed so the history books don’t forget how evil he was is not an excuse or else the same would be being down for Crowder but it’s not despite him doing the same campus debate bs and yet he is being forgotten and allowed to have no influence 

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u/Dr_SexDick 4h ago

I’m telling you what happened, not agreeing with it. I also would’ve preferred if we just forgot about the guy.

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 4h ago

Oh my bad then

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u/Healthy_Fig_5127 11h ago

People fed Charlie Kirk into AI generation models so much that it is easy to get his face to appear accidentally. It's also a long running joke that his soul is trapped in these Data centers as a form of hell.

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u/Dick-Fu 11h ago

What is it with people giving these half-ass explanations?

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u/Ancient-Box-9136 7h ago

Apparently people are saying that Kirk images have been fed to ai so much that a little influence from those pictures is added into everything the ai makes

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u/PlingPlongDingDong 8h ago

Its AI generated also Charlie Kirk remember?

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u/SLimon001 Sub-World Cup Champion Fan 11h ago

happy cake day

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u/Healthy_Fig_5127 11h ago

I half assed it?

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u/Chaincat22 11h ago

The post is about charlie kirk, vibecoding doesn't say on its own what that has to do with charlie kirk

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u/SllortEvac 11h ago

Kirk is like the most AI’d into things person

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u/Healthy_Fig_5127 11h ago

Thought it was common enough knowledge to leave out. Considering how long Charlie Kirk being inside data centers has been a meme, I interpreted the vague posting to be about Epic Games instead.

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u/Working-Cabinet4849 8h ago

Then what does it have to do with Charlie Kirk?

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u/Healthy_Fig_5127 8h ago

Cause Charlie Kirk has been used in so much AI generated material that it can easily produce him without being prompted. It's akin to having his soul trapped in every single AI datacenter.