Honestly ashamed of tennessee on many levels. There are good people and allies here, but there are a lot of two-faced bootlickers and the state government is utterly fiendish.

I have waited entirely too long to transfer to a proper source control and not having everything stitched from flash drives and emails.

Another day, another follow because i clicked a post about trumps crimes or tech dystopia. But all I really want to click on is pretty pink and green jellyfishes that look colored n64s.

Something I've noticed dealing with latent misogyny. We all know about qualified women being talked over, but what about if they are not qualified? How do they protect themselves? Men are just allowed to have opinions by birthright. And they don't need college degrees to play the victim.

I subjectively believe clownfish are better suited for captivity than most commercially bred freshwater fish. They're incredibly tough, have huge appetites, and their hosting/homing instinct means they aren't bothered at all by being in a box. That and they still have strong genetics.

The idea that gay people are something you have to be "ready for" or that they would result in therapy is vile and hateful. It treats some people existing as an "issue" where some parents think they have a choice in the matter.

Dracula is a metaphor for generational trauma in the series, but ecclesia fully committed to the theme. It conveys what not having a "normal" robs from a person, and the dread of having to live on and find it.

Narrowing this down was hard. It had to be something that had a meaningful impact, and was worth revisiting.

Shrimp therapy

This templating/language is kind of ridiculous. I wonder what they were thinking.

Got them to take food from tongs. Probably going to have fish or shrimp for dinner often just so I can share a few tiny slices of the fresh meat.

Playing through this again. Learning again why it resonated with me so much. It's like an oil change for my creative engine.

I get the appeal of roguelikes, but I much prefer an intentionally sculpted experience that respects my time and attention. The fact that this needed to be a disclaimer means that in the public eye, procedural content has reached a saturation point.

support our troops

BB: trailer shown on 2008. Lovingly crafted into a masterpiece final version by 2017. 2xko: announced on 2019. First public version on 2026. Game is barely started, let alone finished. The developers are legends. The money/resources were unlimited. What the hell happened?

$150 spent at a local store vs ordered online. The local coral is established and strong. The other one might be recovering, or it might be dying. I don't know.

Video games are basically forcing functions pushed to an artform. Maybe what ebert didn't understand is that they reverse the dynamic of media to its consumer. A movie simulates theater performers, a game simulates a live audience.

A subtle enshittification that affected me was that the ps5 controller hurts my hands specifically in fighting games, but ps5 games require it for no reason. So I had to buy ps4 versions to keep playing. I'm just really done with how malicious products are toward their users.

Huge lesson ive learned in leadership. Every person has an innate sense of what a good job is. Nobody starts up Mario bros, jumps into the pit and thinks "this is what im supposed to do." This intuition just sometimes gets crushed by bad structures and bad tools.

There are grains of truth to the infamous "fighting games are bad products." Essay. I loved playing strive, but I dropped it because the whole player experience is sonic 06 level unacceptable and convoluted. Major step backward from their previous titles.

Selectively breeding shrimp for deep sapphire blue.

There isn't such a thing as politically neutral. The word for somebody who sides with fascists *some* of the time, to get a *balanced* perspective from *both sides*, but still postures like they are chill and not a bad person is: Fascist.

For real though, is there any literature at all about TCG design, or is basically 90% of the written word on the subject "Making Magic"? If you're designing a system with mana, you have decades of dos and don'ts. If not, it looks like you have to reinvent everything.

I wonder how piranhas act in nature, let's check youtube... * AI slop * Channel using them as a prop for what is clearly animal death p*** but it pretends to be educational. * TV documentaries that try to make it "badass." There's basically no way to get an honest view of the animal.

Every card from release, tons of sets, and immediately put you against AI opponents with dozens of full-power decks. The AI attacks and blocks correctly. It even let's you buy playsets of your starting cards immediately. Gold standard. No other digital tcg port quite nailed it like this afaik.

When south park shits on global warming, and legitimizes right wing ideas, then a decade later laughs at themselves about it and makes an anti-trump season; There's nothing neutral about it. They treat harming our lives with misinfo like the setup to a joke.

So many obnoxious ai coding ads.

Melee straight up unironically believes this. It's beyond stupid. Imagine if gg tried to ban anything better than a ps1 pad for 30 years.

Americans: We don't want to learn the metric system. Also Americans: I have no way of visualizing this number, so let's convert tree ice to golden retrievers.

"Trade up" challenges are really crass. I would go so far as letting your kid do it is bad parenting. The obsession with cardboard equity is already gross, but competitive panhandling for it is completely disgusting.

How is mentally cleanse when not working.

A disturbing part of game design is looking at a mechanic or design so good it makes you wonder how many decades of learning you will need before you can create something on that level.

Random super petty pet peeve, but the "O" in "OC is almost always redundant in context. "My OC" If it's not "O", then it's not "your" C! You can just say "character"! URGGLGLG

I happen to have contacts in most areas of the tabletop and collectibles industry. This unfortunately burdens me with information that's upsetting specifically to some pokemon collectors. Like, sorry dudes. I promise I'm not contributing to the fights at walmart and costco.

Why are you PH testing that werewolf what is this

My angels have so much energy and curiosity. I never look at them without being enchanted. They are quite aggressive, but the wide space, thick plants, and crystal water keep them very comfortable. They get along well.

My office baby.

Dear pokemon romhack creators: Backporting every modern mechanic is like watching titanic and saying "this should be updated so the characters have smart phones." It's a really lame take.

You know those novelty jelly beans that taste like mold and farts? AI has added that excitement to the old activity of copying and pasting random code you found.

I've played a ton of card games competitively, including control, for most of my life to establish BG for this take; "Counterspell" has been a net negative for the long term design of M;tG. The card should never have been printed, and that mechanic never a part of blue's identity. #magictcg

Bsky does something other socials haven't for a while. It provides little windows to see updates on normal people living, and not just people that are basically professional updators. Being heard shouldn't need to be a job that you aspire to.

That flow state when everything works first try. The idioms all make sense. Every line feels like a tetromino coming down for a full clear. And soon the module will become a black box containing magic elves that can handle any input.

I run into a lot of AI bros. They want exceptional qualities to become obsolete so that their mediocrity will be more valuable. Of course I repeatedly disappoint them. It's an advantage for me, though not a welcome one.

I'll never understand the snide bitterness old people have toward how young people connect with each other. They built the divided world that young people have to live in. Also maybe they do value tangible in person experiences, fogeys are just unaware because they are the ones disconnected.

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the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy

I've kept a lot of fish and I think bettas are actually very fragile and frail fish. It saddens me how weak their genetics are and how small health problems or senescence can quickly cause them to suffer even with best possible husbandry. No pics. I dont want to show a dying pet. #fishkeeping

Imagine enjoying cooking good food and wanting to sell it, but you're competing with restaurants that feed you droplets of switch cartridge flavor for free in the hopes that you pay them to stop. This is what it's like to try to sell joy in a world that expects freemium mobile gaming.