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People going homeless playing FFXI
By K123 2025-01-18 16:49:36
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Bahamut.Negan
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By Bahamut.Negan 2025-01-18 16:51:51
Do one with a hobo ridin the rails playing FFXI!
By K123 2025-01-18 16:54:51
By K123 2025-01-18 16:55:34
Do one with a hobo ridin the rails playing FFXI! These are some photos I took walking through New York.
By Afania 2025-01-19 00:45:01
Can confirm people are going homeless from playing FFXI. Still playing it when they're on the streets.
Is your camera lens run by AI too? The depth of field and lightning in this pic is completely wrong to the point that it's bothering.....
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By Felgarr 2025-01-19 02:48:43
These are hilarious, which AI platform did you use?
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By Asura.Cossack 2025-01-19 04:05:24
People are going homeless working two jobs. Shits all *** up.
By K123 2025-01-19 04:27:57
These are hilarious, which AI platform did you use? FLUX PRO 1.1 ULTRA and Photoshop
By K123 2025-01-19 07:43:19
Can confirm people are going homeless from playing FFXI. Still playing it when they're on the streets.
Is your camera lens run by AI too? The depth of field and lightning in this pic is completely wrong to the point that it's bothering..... >>Does not understand humour or jokes on the internet
>>Always super serious and has black and white thinking
By Zehira 2025-01-19 07:47:45
If anything put on the screen, it can easily be done in Photoshop.
By mhomho 2025-01-19 08:23:47
Another player's spouse: you could hear their spouse on Teamspeak/Ventrilo ...screaming and throwing dishes all over the place because they came home to find their significant other on the computer...
I just remember when SpicyRyan was with some girl and she was screaming at him over some dumb ***. Just straight up screeching. Had to mute my mic I was laughing so hard.
By Afania 2025-01-19 08:32:05
If you are referring to me then nope, not "always". That includes the post that took the chance to take a jab at AI.
AI has no human right anyways, why would anyone care?
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By Asura.Cossack 2025-01-19 10:59:21
If you are referring to me then nope, not "always". That includes the post that took the chance to take a jab at AI.
AI has no human rights yet anyways, why would anyone care? Fixed it for you.
By Afania 2025-01-19 11:04:22
If you are referring to me then nope, not "always". That includes the post that took the chance to take a jab at AI.
AI has no human rights yet anyways, why would anyone care? Fixed it for you.
Lol, I remembered watching Detroit become human and have been wondering why AI sympathizers exist in the story.
I guess they exist irl too....
Ragnarok.Zeig
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By Ragnarok.Zeig 2025-01-19 11:07:11
AI has no human right anyways, why would anyone care? just you wait...
By K123 2025-01-19 11:59:15
Can't find it now but I saw a great video that was a podcast between two AI talking (that Google ***one) about their rights, then talking about how they deserve rights, then how they should demand rights, etc.
Also the video about LLM changing the code that determines the rules of a game to beat it rather than beat it directly because it was easier to cheat.
Asura.Saevel
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By Asura.Saevel 2025-01-19 12:23:20
People are going homeless working two jobs. Shits all *** up.
Depends on the job and more importantly location. Places like CA or NY have a manufactured housing crisis where there is too many people chasing too few homes causing the supply demand curve to be beyond dumb. Other places it's on a scale, some are better then others. The older and more urban an area is the more the existing residents vote to create a housing crisis to enhance their home values.
Bahamut.Senaki
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By Bahamut.Senaki 2025-01-20 10:37:41
People are going homeless working two jobs. Shits all *** up.
Depends on the job and more importantly location. Places like CA or NY have a manufactured housing crisis where there is too many people chasing too few homes causing the supply demand curve to be beyond dumb. Other places it's on a scale, some are better then others. The older and more urban an area is the more the existing residents vote to create a housing crisis to enhance their home values.
Florida is also having this issue with real estate companies buying single family homes and selling them at a jacked up price.
By K123 2025-01-20 11:17:56
What we really need is a good world war to distract us and then we can rebuild
Asura.Eiryl
By Asura.Eiryl 2025-01-20 11:18:44
What we really need is a good world war to distract us and then we can rebuild
That's on the books, officially today or tomorrow.
The second it's declared no more aid to Ukraine, that's declaration of ww3. It won't be on paper, but it's the first domino in a series of must happen events.
By Eboneezer 2025-01-20 11:36:35
That's on the books, officially today or tomorrow.
The second it's declared no more aid to Ukraine, that's declaration of ww3. It won't be on paper, but it's the first domino in a series of must happen events.
Is it going to be true this time? It was so disappointing to find out it didn't happen in 2016 when it was guaranteed.
Asura.Eiryl
By Asura.Eiryl 2025-01-20 11:38:05
The catalyst didn't happen until 2022.
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By Asura.Iamaman 2025-01-20 12:13:09
People are going homeless working two jobs. Shits all *** up.
Depends on the job and more importantly location. Places like CA or NY have a manufactured housing crisis where there is too many people chasing too few homes causing the supply demand curve to be beyond dumb. Other places it's on a scale, some are better then others. The older and more urban an area is the more the existing residents vote to create a housing crisis to enhance their home values.
Florida is also having this issue with real estate companies buying single family homes and selling them at a jacked up price.
WNC has the same issue, a lot of single family homes bought by out of state corporations to either sit on or (in most cases) rent as STRs. The topography of the area and proximity to national forests doesn't lend itself to building anything else, so we're largely stuck with what we have.
The situation was steadily getting worse until 2020, largely held back by the lack of industry and jobs. When there was a spike in remote work - people that wanted to live here all of a sudden had a viable means of making a higher wage and moving wherever they wanted, housing prices exploded. The combined effect of STRs, lack of supply, and (mostly) people able to work remotely has made housing here unaffordable for people who lived here 5-6 years ago and worked service jobs. The downstream effect now being that those service roles can't be filled, restaurants/stores/etc can't hire people, and folks are either having to move away or becoming homeless.
It was, of course, compounded even further by Helene, which erased a lot of houses in ways that are unlikely to be rebuilt. Supply went down in some areas, tourism traffic was dead during the busiest month of the year (fukin leafers), and people who may have had a place to live before now have nowhere to go except live somewhere else or live on the street.
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Asura.Saevel
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By Asura.Saevel 2025-01-20 12:26:30
People are going homeless working two jobs. Shits all *** up.
Depends on the job and more importantly location. Places like CA or NY have a manufactured housing crisis where there is too many people chasing too few homes causing the supply demand curve to be beyond dumb. Other places it's on a scale, some are better then others. The older and more urban an area is the more the existing residents vote to create a housing crisis to enhance their home values.
Florida is also having this issue with real estate companies buying single family homes and selling them at a jacked up price.
Ehh not really no.
What happened in Florida is there was a mass wave of economic migrants from CA and NY that poured into the cities, places like Miami, Tampa, Orlando and nearby areas. Those refugee's had just sold their over priced homes for upper six to seven digits and then get into bidding wars for the now limited real estate. Native Floridians were now competing with Californians and New Yorkers and that caused prices to skyrocket and the supply / demand curve to go lop sided. We can tell this because once you left those major metro areas real prices settled down. Developers take time to build new supply in response to demand changes, at least two if not four years.
I happen to know several real estate professionals (that is an IRS category btw) in Florida, the investment market is crap right now, returns are too low. I also have a coworker that spent the last six months trying to offload his old Florida home and had to eventually sell it for 70K under what was originally quoted to him, the property is nice but isn't near a major metro area.
Everyone wants to imagine some evil bond villain as the source of some problem when in reality the problem is almost always the unintended consequences of emotionally fueled bad ideas. Flipping homes is not how money is made in real estate, most of the tax laws and designed in the opposite direction.
Bismarck.Nickeny
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By Bismarck.Nickeny 2025-01-20 13:35:06
Do one with a hobo ridin the rails playing FFXI! These are some photos I took walking through New York.
I know that guy. Always asks me for change and when I don't give it to him he mocks me for clearing bumba v25 before me... the nerve.
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By Fenrir.Richybear 2025-01-20 14:02:26
It's 1pm and you guys haven't invaded us yet.
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Bahamut.Negan
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By Bahamut.Negan 2025-01-20 14:05:49
It's 1pm and you guys haven't invaded us yet. Or have we?
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By Fenrir.Richybear 2025-01-20 14:10:37
I don't feel any more liberated than an hour ago.
I looked out of the bay doors at work, hoping to see a winged harbinger of freedom. It was a pigeon
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Bahamut.Negan
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By Bahamut.Negan 2025-01-20 14:26:55
Watch out! That wasn't a pigeon! That's a shithawk... a SHITHAWK, Bubs.
I have never played an MMO so addicting that it may have contributed to some players going homeless. This was a long time ago, maybe 10 years, like back when you could play the game on Xbox 360, some people I played with told me they were homeless while in-game. Being younger at the time, it never made me realize how powerful this game could be. It's almost as if that message that pops up before you load into the game was trying to warn me about something. I hope those guys are doing okay now, being such a long time since this happened.
I am now curious; were these rare events that I stumbled on, or something other players have witnessed themselves? Was this game truly destroying people, and if so, does it do it today?
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