Tried Octopath Traveler 0 for the first time yesterday. For a series that has included some brutal revenge character stories, so far this game doesn't do that good a job selling that aspect of it. Rebuilding the town is interesting at least.

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Statler: I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. Waldorf: I'm crying at how bad this show is! Both: OH HO HO HO HO HO HO!

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There is value in everyday practical knowledge, just as there is value in analysis and deeper thinking. The idea that the two are mutually exclusive has no value.

And people wonder why I am so ardently against AI-generated content...

remember to always live your life such that the muppets do not sing a song insulting your morals

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2. They are disastrously bad for the environment, both in a global warming sense and in the materials needed to keep these data centers running (ie water) 3. Using these validates the cost of the first two and will inherently cause people to lose their livelihoods to make a worse product

There's so many discussions around E33 and Larian about when it is and is not okay to use LLMs, and most arguments miss the fundamentals points why they are inherently bad. 1. They are trained on databases of material that were not paid for, art and work that is not compensated

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As much as I'd love to gloat over the stupidly blatant redactions of the Epstein case files released, I suspect there's a bigger problem brewing.

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Hi. It’s December. I know money is tight. I know it’s the holidays. I’m so fucking exhausted and tired of existing to subsist. If you can give, anything helps and I do mean anything. Spreading word helps too. 💖💚 #transcrowdfund #helpsky #disabilitycrowdfund 💕💸 #mutualaid #transpride #pride

The 70s definitely happened.

Seems I stumbled onto another YouTube AI screwup. To explain, I sometimes watch MLB clips on YouTube. I know not everyone will be familiar with baseball, but all you need to know for this is that quite a few MLB players come from Spanish-speaking countries and thus have names that indicate such.

Hi Fuck AI and fuck Larian Where are my fellow human creatives at, share your work so I can repost the hell out of it if you post AI on my timeline I hope all the garbage you generate is poisoned by Nightshade

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Just looked at the new Yearn romantasy book platform/store, and wondering how they expect to launch a startup into a market that is already struggling to make sales. Don't get me wrong: we do need more alternatives to the likes of Amazon. I'm just not sure how far this can go given...everything.

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I realized a few years ago that I will never run out of ideas; I will simply run out of time and die. What I don't have is money. I'm disabled, queer, lower income single parent with dozens of unpublished manuscripts, songs, musicals, paintings, hundreds of draft ideas. FUND PEOPLE.

pls repost n donate if u can, half the state is under water due 2 a category 5 atmospheric river completely flooding us out n we r homeless…. its been days with no help at all. literally anything helps, tysm 😭🫶💕

New #WriterBeware blog post: per a report by @publisherslunch.bsky.social, Amazon's new gen AI-powered "Ask This Book" feature for Kindle is, in effect, an "in-book chatbot" writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k...

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don't claim it. doesn't matter that it's free. Don't.

I declare my cat Time Person of the Year, because I'm clearly far more qualified to make the decision than whatever jokers chose this route. (Screen clip taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Pe...)

Alright, @itch.io, I know messages and such can get lost in the shuffle, but half a year of radio silence is beyond ridiculous. If you want to convince people to stop setting your revenue share to 0%...well, this ain't it, chief.

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Raising an eyebrow at Hollywood's unions complaining about how Netflix buying Warner Bros will shrink the film market, deflate wages, ruin everything, etc. As if Paramount (the expected frontrunner in the bidding) wouldn't have also done much of the same, just without as many theater closures.

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Happy thirty-third birthday to the game that literally changed my life. I looked into learning Japanese because of this game. I have helped raise over $200,000 for charities with this game. Thanks, Final Fantasy 5. You're so cool.

ICYMI stock up on your fantasy books 😁😁

Tis the season, so let the holiday music commence.

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...and if you wonder why I keep calling it "unintelligent artifice"...

First, anyone who uses unintelligent artifice was never my "client" to begin with. Second, there's so many marketing cons that historically went with this strategy. "Success can't happen without our help" and such. Third, this is extremely insulting to wolves. On their behalf, I demand an apology.

So, I got the doc to put in a referral for a formal ASD/ADHD diagnosis and folks, please buy my books so I can afford to pay for it. I will love you forever. All sales appreciated. Handy link at linktr.ee/Calling33 📚 #writingcommunity #WriterSky #authorsky #writerlife #books #ReaderSky

Two things can be true at the same time. Thread to follow.

The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games. It can literally be a life changing events. When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game. Wild

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While I do get what people are going for when they call it a "K shaped economy", I'm not sure that's the shape that would show up on graphs of discretionary consumer spending or such. Maybe it would be something more like a P shape. 🙃