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3 days until the Valentine's Update.

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And people are going to quickly develop a quality filter and actively want to avoid this kind of slop. So what’s the point, then? Saying you paid a machine to make 2000 novels in a year that you were too much of a coward to put your given name on? lol lmao

This is especially strange because profit is the assumed motive but in that case how much is someone paying up front to do this? I think people want the human touch in romance, the marketing you’d expect from a publisher, and maybe even the chance at film/tv adaptations. None of this happens w/ slop

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

dont really know what this feature is called in blender but i definitely want it to be in material maker

i am at once both unc and pops

5 Days until the Valentine's Update.

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brother this the only "substack" I'm interested in

I'm still looking for full-time or contract work – I'm a narrative design generalist with credits on multiple shipped titles. I focus on taming the complexity of narrative systems, writing prose, and leading narrative teams.

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New Game is verbing its way onto Nintendo Switch!

Caves of Qud mutates onto the Nintendo Switch, February 16th!

From my art/lorebook Age of Rot

oh my days

no?

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

messing around - painted in photoshop.

expected nothing less

I note saying that I believe that even if you think you have no artistic skill, I'd rather see your effort than your A.I.

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

we should just *ill anyone who makes c*ntent for cont*nt’s sake like this

just k*dding mods

even the box is tough as hell

it bears repeating;

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

saw a headline that avowed and TOW2 “underperformed” and — i’m just one guy — for me i /wanted/ to play these games but there are faults i place much further up the hierarchy, far above obsidian’s head, as to why i didn’t

Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.

In case you missed yesterday, Notepad++ auto-update mechanism was hacked and was delivering backdoored versions for a couple months. Tons of devs use this, uninstall completely what you have, search for the sus files mentioned in article and only download from official site

oh yeah? they’re putting ai into orbit now? let me get my stomp rocket

this reminds me of … Fotonica I think is the name (from Santa Ragione IIRC) but cheerier in its palette :)

Or the more recent cosmic smash VR game

but yes hell yes I would play this

still can't believe we got multiple game soundtracks last year with old school techno and prog trance on em. 2 hours (!!) of absolute bangers on here

ooooph wow yeah that completely changes the game in a way i’m not sure i love

You use Churches mainly for reviving (at least in early game)

Is auto revive after battle an option or mandatory default?

One of the biggest friction points in DQ7 at churches is “hello my son” and then having to patiently flowchart to saving instead of reviving so you don’t miss your stop imo