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how'd you get started?

or the arctic, for that matter.

one would imagine that a more suitable first step, and you can probably find a scientific base in Antarctica that could actually use the compute.

one of my more esoteric game dev takes is that there's an untapped niche for turn based games that let you menu as fast as you can think in a rhythm game flow state-like manner (this is a stealth selling point for DQ HD-2D and Octopath 2).

Escape from Ever After is that but for action commands

(i'm going to look really stupid if 20 reddit threads are wrong and they actually do)

it's my understanding that companies may have to manually approve stuff not costing money and that they don't want to do that, but I believe there's a way to make the split 100:0.

I uploaded a clip from helluva boss for personal listening and IIRC someone from the team marked it as free to monetize (I didn't, but conceivably could have).

looking back at it now someone else has apparently tried to claim it under a presumed false copyright claim they don't have the rights to.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

The character on the cover of Bravely Default 2, who is not the same character as Gloria, floating ominously reading her journal while the strips of dress and ribbons that form her clothes waft in the air in a Gacha Mage Portrait fashion. In the background are the night sky, white trees, and purple grass.

#bravelydefault2 bravely default 2 spoilers
local librarian (2022)

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Happy New Years!

did you know that there's a cottage industry of people that resell the expensive high end chairs when a company goes out of business?

www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Finder is lowkey the real Mac killer app

the way her description of the chain of events contrasts from bsky's suggests that either bsky is lying (in which case she would post logs) or that she is emblematic of the stereotypical user/gaslighter who lies or omits truth after catching the hammer.

@safety.bsky.app claims sarah was suspended for 72 hours for a post stating "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die."

accepting that both sides may be concealing pertinent evidence, for so long as bsky team is not lying about her writing (see below) I can't find reason for anyone with community moderation experience to sympathize or trust her here without much more disclosure.

it's been a fascinating parallel (orthogonal?) representation of political polarization.

once a topic has been sufficiently charged posting becomes too pithy and engagement optimized for many otherwise willing participants.

the simplest (maybe too simple?) generalization I have seen is to treat it like a n-dimension pachinko machine

prompt = where you drop the ball
activation blocks = the pegs

pegs take the previous output and the seed into account in order to determine where to send it next.

if you expect to lose because they understood it more maybe, but it's easy to rationalize that the other person is merely better at making their points, or that you are undertaking the arduous task of arguing a truth most people don't want to hear.

Hey guys, bad news about my upcoming appearance on Brightsiders. On the one hand, I wish this would have happened before I got on the plane and missed my brother’s wedding. On the other hand, we don’t hold grudges in the Bright community. It’s not what Daryl and Nick would have wanted.

I kind of mess with the Trails take on the idea where internally the central religious authority knows that 90% of their stuff is fake but they're so old they aren't actually sure which 10% is real.

The ideal candidate would have been born into the seat of their forklift like a Mongol horseman

do you have any recommendations on that? Outside of what you've linked thus far?

this is the most in depth piece I've seen on the subject and the first one to really square the circle on why tech CEO's keep over-embellishing the electricity demand. It's not about the raw amount so much as them being impatient and mad that stuff takes time. blog.giovanh.com/blog/2024/08...

Tom Clancy

day 30 of playing umamusume:

"You like Tiz, don't you Agnès?" (BRAVELY DEFAULT)

the way the HD renders having idle animations that move like vtuber rigs is really unsettling

i think a key belief here is that "worse things aren't possible," that the bottom can't fall out, and that is a huge big if, and by acting like it can't they're increasing the chances that it does *dramatically*

UKIE responds to adult games being pulled from Steam and itch.io after pressure from payment providers "We believe payment providers and platforms alike should have confidence in trusted age rating systems"

UKIE doesn’t seem too pleased with payment processors in the Steam / itchio / Collective Shout situation. Sounds like they feel MasterCard & Visa are de facto questioning PEGI’s credibility

www.gamesindustry.biz/ukie-respond...

Currently on the phone with Visa

Instead of starting with a complaint, I approached this as a Confused American Consumer who doesn't understand why they can't buy things off a website they use

The call center rep immediately asked if it was about Steam/itch

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Itch comms and payment handling have long left something to be desired, rather infamously so. Thus it was sadly almost guaranteed something like this would go badly, given the general pattern. You're pretty much on point.