Josh Caratelli

That sounds rad. Have fun!

Help please! If you were hosting a LAN for 6 friends, what are your must play games?

Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.

Please vote and help @yarnspinner.dev have proper hardware to keep making your lives easier.

Freespace 2 is still best in class for space dogfighting simulators.

Also, it has one particularly memorable mission briefing that will forever secure its status as a horror game. 😱

Yess legend!!!! Very well deserved

Thanks for the write up! Glad you folks had a rad time

Beautiful! It's on my list to visit some day. How have you found it?

I love this crime story because you immediately figure out the weapon used was floating point precision, but the perpetrator was someone unexpected!

I've only just bought Heat and I'm excited to try it out!

Hard agree, I'd *almost* say it was a mandatory watch for engineers about the level of quality and follow through I'd expect.

He was pretty early on in his career too, not like you need to be veteran to do that level of work!

What a delightful video about the history of the windows task manager (ignore the click baity title)
youtu.be/yQykvrAR_po?...

So excited for you legend!

At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.

Silly me thought piracy was a crime

Romain is an art god and if you’re sprucing up your portfolio it would be valuable to take all of his advice

Love this <3

Yeah I'm super curious behind the thought process also!

Also the guy didn't need to stop watching, he could have just turned it down.

I just don't think we need to all hear pimple popping videos mate.

I finally did it. I turned to the guy loudly watching videos on the train and asked:
"What are we watching?"

Immediately turned it off. A nearby aunty gave me the nod of approval.

Condolences to you and the family mate. He was well loved and the best <3

Everyone should check out The Florist, not just because cool people are working on it because they're making a cool game too. (Also scary for you horror nerds out there)

FINALLY!

That sounds good to me!

The real answer probably is cozzy lives forces a lot of people to and that's a bummer.

I'm sure it's the result of the cost of living, but it's a shame no one gives themselves permission to suck at things anymore.

You don't need to be the best at your hobby or make it a side hustle.

Thanks legend!

Happy birthday to me. The birthday hat is a big hit.

Every servo out in woop woop has world building like this btw