Matt

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

the fact that this has remained a staple in jeopardy memes forever does more to illustrate the two americas to the americans who don't believe 2 americas exist than any of the structural things that prove it better

Throwback to this gem

it used to just be that people didn‘t know what good looked like, but now they simply don’t care. people have been roasting that graph all day and it’s still on the training site

I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution

forgot the most important of the genre

I'm starting to feel like one of the biggest issues with generative AI is that it's outsourcing problem solving, knowledge, and creativity, as something we simply don't value anymore in humans

by design, even. this is the goal

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okay finding out they laid off patrick miller on top of this is like. the biggest doom signal imaginable

screenshot of a banger Superbowl ad tweet: cj @TOS_Violator. 9/11/21 the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard 177 14.5K 112K

good time to bring back this all timer:

Again it is world defining ironic that people took a slim majority win a low turn out election as a culture-changing moritoruma that America Is Like This Now only for everyone up to and including the Super Bowl to go no

"soon, anyone will be able to generate a movie/book/video game/podcast in seconds!" keeps running firmly aground on "even if there was an audience for this uhhhhh content, which there isn't, why would they buy your thing instead of just generating their own?" and it's funny EVERY time

bad art tools are often the ones that don't consider these use cases. They are often interested in automation to a fault. But the result is nearly always wrong, or unsuitable, or at best merely extremely boring. Because if you automate the Thought out there is no room for Art to be made.

Man the "gamergate destroyed society" ppl have been vindicated like a zillion times over the past year

nobody is immune to criticism but all the clowning on highguard feels way more mean-spirited and almost gleeful or celebratory than critique would be. feels even weirder coming from other devs who i can only assume are pretending like they don't know how this happens

idk anything about wildlight other than what's on their page but they are a remote studio with 100+ people launching their debut game into 11k+ negative steam reviews mostly because of the meme bandwagon from what i can see. hard to imagine that's a deserved outcome and i don't see any humor in it

organized, unseen, unpaid labor acting rapidly and effectively? yeah that'd be women

why some people be mad at me sometimes they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep on remembering mine. Lucille Clifton

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

“like McDonald’s or Palantir” is so funny, everyone in my orbit should expect me to work this into my regular bits

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

Excerpt from On The Internet by Hubert Dreyfus. Key paragraph reads: “But the vision of a worldwide electronic agora precisely misses the Kierkegaardian point that the people talking to each other in the Athenian agora were members of a direct democracy who were directly affected by the issues they were discussing, and, most importantly, the point of the discussion was for them to take the responsibility and risk of voting publicly on the questions they were debating. For Kierkegaard, a worldwide electronic agora is an oxymoron. The Athenian agora is precisely the opposite of the public sphere, where anonymous electronic kibitzers from all over the world, who risk nothing, come together to announce and defend their opinions. As an extension to the deracinated public sphere, the electronic agora is a grave danger to real political community. Kierkegaard enables us to see that the problem is not that Rheingold's 'electronic agora' is too utopian; it is not an agora at all, but a nowhere place for anonymous nowhere people. As such, it is dangerously distopian.”

I really think Hubert Dreyfus nailed this in On The Internet (2002) and I’ll keep posting this page until everyone has seen it. Key para in alt text.

Excerpt from Wild Dogs (p. 139): I spent years not painting. Not doing something takes up as much time as doing it, more perhaps because your failure to act takes up a lot of space in your thoughts. It takes up all your thoughts, really. Years of not painting drove me crazy. How would I ever know how good I could have been? Perhaps all my best painting would have happened in those years of not painting. What if not painting had destroyed my gift forever? On and on it went like this, day after day, night after night. I walked from room to room, trying to drive these thoughts out of my head, and all that happened was that I tired myself out with the pacing, and the loneliness whistled around me, and I ended up sprawled on the couch, drinking again. I’d wake up in the morning feeling groggy and sorry for myself and facing yet another day and night of not painting.

Trying to relax with some reading only to have Helen Humphreys come out the gate swinging 🫣

Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.

It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

Natural talent is nothing compared to the ability to keep making shit long after everyone else has given up

If history cares enough to look back at the nerdzis’ obsessive hatred of Sweet Baby, history will be utterly baffled by such an embarrassing grudge.

It might be the stupidest of all their manufactured outrages, one of the most clear cut examples of them getting mad at their own imaginations.

isn't it wild how we actually live in a world with cyberpsychosis, but instead of being able to get cybernetic limbs it comes from a chat program that "yes ands" too hard

This. Realising in my mid 30s that my brain basically took to the task it was given, and maybe I should not give it the task of obsessing about every potential negative outcome, saved my life. Not true of all brains etc etc, but I could have had a far more chill 20s if I’d gotten there sooner

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible

in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping