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My housemate accomplished something wild

I started off my day by replying to a random ask w/ this and it has gotten a lot of people in the notes very disappointed to find that it is with the human adult characters and not just the mobile suits . Sorry.

水玉と月光 / Polka Dots and Moonbeams

There was a period where almost everything I listened to gave me a recruitment ad for the Australian army and it never stopped being jarring

Metaphor did a slightly better job, but I’m not sure either of them fully thought out how real time field combat would change encounter/dungeon design

Field battles removing the risk of getting forced into combat if you touch an enemy also just makes it so easy to run past anything. I remember farming some materials/chests in Daybreak 2’s Marchen Garten and enemies posed zero threat of starting a fight as long as I didn’t stand still for too long

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

This means that no matter what anyone says, keep shitting on AI.

If companies see it as bad publicity, the technology is dead in the water.

Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety

もっとおどろおどろしい影にしようと思ったけど
それが猫の影であることの意味と良いシルエットを思いつけなかったのでシンプル増殖猫に

I beat the true ending of ZeroRanger. What a fucking experience. I adored it.

One of the most satisfying challenges I’ve ever overcome in a video game. I may be shmup-pilled now.

nighttime oddish #art #pokemon

An image of two face shaped earths about to kiss with the text "OH SHIT!!! I accidentally grew older and realized it's actually much cooler to love as much as you can"

Huge success!!🎉💗🎊💞🎉💖🎊💕

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

anything can be art. nothing you enjoy needs to be validated by a critic or the court of public opinion. and i wish people wouldn't entangle their own identities from the things they consume. but we've gotten to this point bc of so many different factors and it feels like we're never going back

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

But I would argue even minimal interactivity is meaningful. A linear visual novel’s interactivity just amounts to how much text is displayed on each click/button press, but that controls the entire pacing of the story in a different way to a book, where you get an entire page worth of words at once

idk, like there’s an acknowledgement that films can use the specialties of other mediums it incorporates without delegitimising themselves, so I’m not sure why we need games to meet some threshold of meaningful interactivity before we consider them good examples of the medium’s artistic potential.

When a movie is mainly good because of its script or acting, we don’t act like it’s a failure of a film, or should have been a novel/play. But if a game has too much text or too many cutscenes people immediately jump to writing off the interactive side of it. Why?

If you still fret about the validity of the medium as art then you’re still in a shower argument with Roger Ebert decades after he’s not only left the room but gone through the pearly gates. As a wise man once said “Who care”

I spent a lot of time digging deep to find the right words to speak at my dad’s funeral. The idea that if you have a low enough literacy level, what I did was indistinguishable from a machine spitting out semi-random words breaks my brain a bit. Like, how can you not tell the difference?

Something that will haunt me forever is my mum saying the LLM written obituary of my dad on a scam website her sister found was “very well written.” Like, I noticed immediately it was barely coherent garbage that didn’t know the first thing about his life, but she couldn’t tell.

Thats Wataru Yamaguchi (The clay artist)'s Cat Chi-Chan who appears in the Japanese version on the Time Capsule treasure replaced with a dog in the localized version of Pikmin 2

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

Never underestimate Nintendo’s willingness to drop something like that on a random Tuesday with zero fanfare