[–] 4 points 9 months ago

Source cited by a number of media articles is a substack called Popular Information. They say it can be found via the federal contract procurement system but I wasn't able to find any results for ice that were actually warheads. I didn't search exhaustively but I am not sure exactly what they're referring to since armor is also under the category that includes ordinance. There's a link in the article for searching the database, maybe someone can find it.

https://popular.info/p/ice-boosts-weapons-spending-700

They should probably link to the guided missile contract somewhere directly in the article. Primary sources are key in this shit show.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Interesting, I didn't even know there was a book. The article you linked mentions the film writers said the book was meant to be ambiguous and they wanted that same angle for the movie. I found it hard to not think Bateman was completely detached from reality by the time he gets to the ATM, though I thought it was at least somewhat believable to that point iirc.

    The movie (and book I guess) seems to be told from the perspective of Bateman (he narrates and is in almost every scene) so I thought it seemed up in the air if anything was real or just his imagination. I took from it that he himself definitely cannot tell what is fantasy and reality and you were along for the ride with his perception. His murders and their aftermath were pretty outlandish ie dragging the body bag with a huge blood trail past the doorkeeper, the collection of bodies that all mysteriously vanished overnight, the overdramatic helicopter spotlights into his windows during the meltdown phone call, etc. I think the only realistic murder really was the hobo where he could just leave the guy there. And if some were fake idk why any of them would be real.

    I have the image of Bateman being just permanently aloof and fitting the 'dweeb' description his lawyer gave while nothing happened but him staring off into the distance daydreaming/hallucinating all of his batshit fantasies or maybe scribbling ferociously into his calendar.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    The wild thing to me about anyone idolizing the character in American Psycho is that it's all but outright stated outright that the guy lives in wonderland and hallucinated all of his wild power fantasies except maybe being rich. He's outright called a dweeb by his lawyer at the end once he has a complete mental breakdown. It's like someone idolizing Nicholas Cage's character in Vampire's Kiss.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Would be cool if Nintendo just made games instead of being a patent troll that rereleases the same 10 games over and over again.

    I don't see why anyone buys their shit except for nostalgia at this point.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    For sure, thus why I said it's a pipe dream. We can dream though, maybe we will figure out some kind of solution one day.

    I maybe could have worded my comment better, people definitely should not actually assume they are talking to real people all the time (I don't). But there should ideally be a place for people-focused conversation and forums were originally designed for that purpose.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think when posting on a forum/message board it's assumed you're talking to other people, so AI should always announce itself as such. That's probably a pipe dream though.

    If anyone wants to specifically get an AI perspective they can go to an AI directly. They might add useful context to people's forum conversations, but there should be a prioritization of actual human experiences there.

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