The fact that it’s the “politics of AI infrastructure” and not “Rising costs of living and health issues” Is one of the big keys People are tired of being seen as secondary to inanimate objects

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

Just figured out the basics of procedural mesh generation in godot and the urge to procedurally generate all the things now is intoxicating.

Just a regular reminder: open table means open table. I've had people not able to make it I've had people leave mid session. I've gone on "bio break" and had people not come back. I've called sessions off because I wasn't feeling up to running them. All of that is fine and welcome.

Honestly, at this point the main thing stopping me from moving my home computing to Linux is I have all the ADHD and executive function is not part of my subscription package.

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LRT: If y'all have any clothes/textiles folding knowledge, resources, hacks, tips etc, please feel free to send them to me. I'm so bad at it and I hate doing it, lol.

Y’all are gonna learn somethin today 😤😤

I know that I should probably just be making small games and such to develop my skills and release things at the same time. My brain just doesn't do that. It refuses. So instead I seem to have entered a cycle of starting projects I'll never finish and abandoning them in series.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

*opens game* *You prob want a controller notification* *Play thru prologue. Conclude I want a controller. Switch to controller. Don't quite love the bindings, go to options to remap.* *Can't remap controller bindings, only keyboard bindings.* *confused_face.jpg*

Just realized I don't have a pinned post on bsky yet. *Smiles awkwardly at the camera* Hello, I'm Blaine. I'm mostly on here for (indie)game dev stuff and ttrpg stuff, but I've got the ADHD so I'm also interested in basically every art or crafting hobby ever, and a million other things besides.

Me: *gets home, relaxes on the couch for an hour to recover from sitting upright at work all day. One of my cats comes and jumps on my lap.* *Migrates to my PC to play some games. The other cat immediately jumps on the desk and climbs into my lap* Me, to cat: what, are you taking turns now?

As an art enjoyer who has paid for a few commissions sometimes: DON’T SAY ANYTHING IN THE COMMENT THING WHEN YOU PAY THEM! You don’t have to, it’s not required, just don’t do it. Payment Platforms are being EXTREMELY shitty, don’t get an artists account banned, just shut up.

Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."

I’ve had maybe four (???) freelance gigs fall through over the last month with nothing lined up. If anyone needs art pls consider me! my portfolio is on naladraws.com if you have disposable income and want to help me pay my bills this month, I’ll put links in replies. #mutualaid

Free game idea: A factory/automation game, but it's tied to a mech war game. Build up the factories and go down the tech tree to make and support your own custom fancy mech design to fight in the space war.

There is a parallel in country songs to the master disciple relationship in xianxia but it is inherently entangled with vice. See Kenny Rogers' The Gambler and Bill Currington's people are crazy. In this essay I will 🧵

Random thought: We do a lot of abstraction of reality and imagination in ttrpgs, but we don't do as much abstraction of ttrpgs and their components themselves, in general.

Creature ranching game that's also a factory game but it treats the creatures with respect so you have to balance taking care of the critters with building your factory or your zap rabbits won't charge your batteries and the flood frog will shut off your plumbing.

Fuck yeah, Portland frog guy. Fuck yeah.

Michigan Avenue right now.

@opensketchbook.bsky.social Look, I'm not saying it's a good playbook, but I think there's something there. I think the crux of it is the isekai express got isekaied?

Honestly does not compute for me at all. Who the fuck did they interview, sports gamers? Probably COD gamers tbh. I buy at least two games a month, easy. They're just not triple A or probably even double A games so I guess the media doesn't notice/care.

The "Blue No Matter Who" crowd gets it exactly wrong on two counts: 1. Solidarity is built from the ground up and solidarity is what builds coalitions and movements 2. Asking marginalized communities time and again to sacrifice their needs in the name of the greater good has diminishing returns

Gonna talk a bit about my WIP because I'm in the mood, even though I know how my ADHD works means it has a good chance of not being finished ever. Hazard of having my brain, I guess. Anyways. On to the concept. Wait. That's too much. Let me summarize. I've got a tri-part thing going on here.

"AI is sentient because it mimics our behavior" bro you are a bronze age peasant who thinks your shadow is a demon

Lol fuck no.

Personally, if we're simplifying things to the extent of keyboard shortcuts, I'd rather think Ctrl+Z is more appropriate, as impossible as it may be.

Wait, what? I haven't actually bought anything this steam sale so far. Honestly that's rare for me. I usually pick up something that I've been waiting for a bit of a sale on or a random deep cut I might enjoy pretty quickly.

For those who are not Extremely Online: Jay runs BlueSky. Jay has altered + ignored site rules to let Jesse Singal, a J.K.Rowling level transphobe without the cash, post here. Jay has been dodging "Have you banned Jesse yet" for a while. It blew up (again) over a waffle post. And NOW..... (1/3)

Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.

This is important. Please boost, so the people know their rights.

On my usual schedule (not really at all usual), I feel like I'm due for a new profile pic. The problem is, I kinda just really love the one I have. So I think I'm just gonna keep it for now. This has been: much ado about nothing. Thank you for your attention.

The worlds richest people aren't investing in "AI" because it makes for useful tools and profitable companies, but because they think someone is about to create general artificial intelligence in the near future and they want to get there first. They are *immune* to "AI doesn't work" arguments.

Y'know what? It's giveaway time! Been a while. Like and repost this post, be entered to win one of two You Are-themed decks. the dungeon and the tavern! Giveaway of one deck happens at 50 reposts. Both decks at 100 reposts! Let's go (and back the Kickstarter!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/san...

The older I get the angrier I get about the things that I wasn't taught in school.

Hello, therapist? Yes, I'm not dealing well with all of the everything happening everywhere all at once all of the time. Do you have any openings for the rest of forever? I have health insurance. You've got openings? Great! What do you mean you're not in network!?!!?!?!??!???

I rely on Kickstarter to fund my work. Without it I would not make enough money to live every year. I stand with @kickstarterunited.org Let Kickstarter management know that they need to respect their employees wishes, and agree to a new contract. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Hm. I just read a post talking about Kickstarter exclusive stuff for ttrpgs and the idea that we could, actually, just make and sell things regularly. And, I agree. It would be great if we made and sold things normally, but I don’t know that the market super exists for that, and here’s why: 🧵

This is how we're doing so far! The TL;DR is, a Social Insurance issue prevented me from taking a loan, and tuition + all the books and supplies has been expensive. If you've got a coin to spare for this trying-hard-to-be-a-paralegal witcher, do toss one my way. If not, signal boosting is golden.

Chotiner: so youre saying you have a "WIP"? Me: yeah, and Im really excited about it! Chotiner: and how has that worked out for you historically? Me: well... I mean... Ive got ADHD, so you know how it is, but... Chotiner: but you feel good about this one? Youre fully engaged? Me: well, yeah...

What the Ezra Klein brigade always misses is that if the only way “we can all live together” is to sacrifice the rights and dignity of huge swaths of Americans to appease far right reactionaries (who won’t be appeased anyway)… we actually can’t all live together!

There is a term for people who tell you to abandon your morally & logically sound principles in exchange for mass appeal; enemies.

Read this. Grid System 101: A Beginner's Glossary share.google/IXnS6usQrVjc...

As it happens, I had to get my credit card replaced just before the start of the month due to damage and that's the card that had 90% of my subscriptions on it and I haven't activated the new card yet so Im getting cancellation notification emails. Very convenient boycott timing for me, honestly.

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cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Tell them its trapped etc, but an extra tip: tell them who notices and, if its something class/knowledge background related, how (Without a roll) The rogue notices traps for example. But the person that read a secret journal and didnt share it with anyone picks up on the dungeon lord succession.