Cowser the Khelinace

⚠️ SCAMMERS IN DMs!!! ⚠️

For anyone unaware, be on the lookout for these types of DMs. They pretend to be the official Bluesky team and say that your account is temporary on hold, prompting you to click a link to complete a verification process. DON'T CLICK THE LINK! BLOCK AND REPORT THESE!

A classic painting of a dark-haired, bearded man in a black over-shirt: *receives salary* "I should stick to my budget this month" The sneaky skeleton behind him, whispering in his ear: "My Lord, are you not the master of chaos? The unstoppable force of nature? The world is ablaze, spend thy coin and spare no expense this day, for there is no promise of tomorrow."

"Repost this if Trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons" Trans folks with Samus Arm Cannons, and a big one on a trans flag banner.

ilona-mushroom on tumblr: "Not socialist in a "l won't have to work" type of way but socialist in a "I'll still be working but I won't be worried I won't make the rent" type of way. In a "billions won't be hoarded by one person" type of way. In a "janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably" type of way. In a "the sick and elderly will be cared for" type of way. In a "no child should work" type of way." saga-news-and-fandom: "In the "my illness won't condemn me to an early, ignominious death" kind of way." marzipanandminutiae: "in a "everyone who wants to have children will be able to afford that" type of way"

"If you see an ICE vehicle, "DO NOT" cut at least two of the wheel's valve stems. This would prevent the vehicle from driving, as they only carry one spare." Very irresponsibly, the image shows someone cutting off the valve stem of a truck tire.

a video game is being played with the character agi ALT: a video game is being played with the character agi

SURPRISE!

Random Thought:
There’s always the saying of “You never know what you truly have until it’s gone”. For artists/creators, that happens too many times. Let those creatives know you appreciate them and their work while they’re still here.

A little bit of love can go a long way in life.

If they do this it’s gonna be a Blue Tsunami next year

I'll go sharpen the guillotines!

....but she is a kid.

You can spend 4 years as president doing absolutely nothing but binge netflix and refuse to talk to people/travel
and you would still not be nearly as bad as the current mfer

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

We are not complaining because we are afraid of it, we are complaining because it looks like dogshit and it's everywhere!

This is as polite as I can be about AI 😭

new Shantae 7th game entry in development

An edited tweet from Coffee Spoonie that reads: I want to be extremely close about: I never *don't* want to be asked about my OC it is never a bad or inappropriate time for OC questions I will never be displeased by questions about my OC at no point in my life will I ever be like "no thank u, i don't want to talk about my character right now"

real and true

I honestly kinda wish they didn't reveal the Legendary Machines (and hope there's a secret third one they didn't).

Whelp. It happened. Someone fed my art into Gen * A * I *

Genuine question, do you think your VSH maps would get more traction if Quickplay as it was right before Meet Your Match was reimplemented?

Arena_afterlife was working on community servers flawlessly, even with 100 players! I’ve spent weeks making sure the tech is stable, but the discrepancies between Community and Casual, something I had no way to test for, caused things to break. Same was with VSH. If Casual is here to stay, I wish the community creators had access to testing things in advance under the Casual ecosystem. Sure, the community is taking notes on how Casual probably works post-mortem, but if we’d be able to test and debug things as they’ll run in Casual before the update goes live, things would be much more stable! Perhaps, maybe Valve could give the update participants access to a test build of the game before the update goes live, so that we could ensure everything is good to go. On an adjacent topic, modern TF2 maps are made using community-made tools, which Valve, for understandable security reasons, can’t use. We could, hypothetically, bypass many of the engine limits using those tools while remaining compatible with the game, but since Valve insist on compiling TF2 maps on their end, we have to keep our maps compatible with the outdated tools Valve haven’t touched for over a decade. There’s also a handful of engine bugs that could be bypassed if a map could be compiled using community-made tools, but alas. This means that if the community mappers could send Valve the compiled result after testing it on the Casual infrastructure, rather than Valve having to compile the map out of the source files on their end, we’d have higher quality, more optimised, and more stable maps. In fact, this is how it was handled for CS:GO. And it’d also avoid the bummers like missing textures, missing payload carts, or mp3 audio cache getting corrupted. You have no idea how vigorously mappers polish and double check their work after being selected but before the update goes live. In addition to that, Casual sv_pure settings introduce asset loading related bugs on community servers they do not happen.

To chime in on #TeamFortress2 malfunctions conversation:

Most community-made maps and gamemodes go through extensive testing during development... using the community server infrastructure, and with the creators having full control over the compiled result

Yes, TF2 breaks and here's how to fix it

8 years ago, Jungle Inferno was released, the last major update for TF2, bringing new features, weapons and QoL improvements.
Could the upcoming MvM update finally break that streak, or will Valve just let it continue?

It doesn't matter if Matchmaking isn't addressed. It has been broken ever since Meet Your Match, and unless we make enough of a stink to rot Valve's nose, they will allow it to decay into unplayability.

#BringBackQuickPlay

A poster showing a weeping skull wearing a red hat. The skeleton is holding a smartphone that is showing no comments, shares, or likes, as though no one is interacting with its posts. The text on the poster reads "This account does not feed trolls. Block and move on."

"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :("

Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART!

Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any!

🚫 Don't argue with them!
🚫 Don't quote them!

✅ #BlockAndMoveOn

Aren't you tired of being nice?

Don't you just wanna go capeshit?

dude if i asked some guy for gas money and he said yep what a concept i could use a little change myself id show him just how quick the years can stop coming

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity “Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that ever...

so, I got a bit sick of people asking me about generative AI and @yarnspinner.dev, so I wrote some LinkedIn-style (sorry) thought leadership on the matter

hey.paris/posts/genai/

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This came to me in a dream

#art

PSA: Please do not buy bunnies as gifts. They are A LOT of work.
🌱They have specific diets, and if they are not followed you will end up with vet bills out the ting tang.
🫡 They are cute but mostly NOT cuddly. They can become aggressive which is not not a fault just nature. 1/