Uematsu is right frvr.com/blog/iconic-...

gonna echo that the board of rubycentral is made up of volunteers and not evil warlords. shopify on the other hand,

this is how you know it's a winning technology

with smwcentral and its api back up, ramekin setup should be working again, specifically ramekin pack --update

i keep saying it but imagine obama '08 running on "fuck you, i don't owe you shit, the war is good, guantanamo bay is fine, hillary's corporate ties were great actually, you gotta vote for me cuz you have no choice". do you think things would have turned out the same

*Disney's* catalog isn't big enough. *Disney*, which has been operating since 19-fucking-23, does not have enough material from its 102 years of existence to do what these things are supposed to do. Are you really gonna let something *this* useless replace your own creative brain? (3/3)

For the record, this is why I've generally not entertained any discussion of "ethically trained agentic/generative technology". Like, speaking about ChatGPT or Midjourney or stuff Like That, you literally have to feed it as much shit as you can to make it work. It's just how it works. (1/3)

thinking about how so many open source projects have now have CLAs that require you to sign in triplicate with your government name. https://aus.social/@voltagex/115256330901714875

as much as I agree with the sentiment, I can't help but feel that getting paid by them is a Faustian bargain where suddenly large corporations ALSO own what little of the digital commons remains.

i must not create #vent . #vent is the community killer. #vent is the little-discourse that brings total obliteration. where the #vent has been created there is nothing; only dead discords remain.

"hey, would you be okay with adding a #scream -at-people-as-they-try-to-help-you channel to the discord? it'd be great for discussing heavier subjects and letting people vent about emotional stuff"

if i had ever given a talk about integrating mcp into your rails app i would simply change my name, move to a new city, and never tell anyone about it ever again

"it takes 3 years in canada to get citizenship" but you forgot to add the extra year just waiting for the government to do its job

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

having what is turning into a rly dumb week, if u wanna grab a cpl bandcamps or pass my music along to the coolest wealthiest person u kno, that would be pretty rad

come to canada

listening to my favourite albums from back in the day "I wonder if these artists have put out new stuff since then??" look it up one disbanded, one dropped off the face of the earth, and another just makes hans zimmer "cinematic" bwaaaah soundtracks now sadcat

golf but you have to walk back to the hut between shots over par like, games are supposed to get harder if you're good at them, not if you're bad at them that's like a log curve when you want an exponential if it's about skill

instead we have a system where - the difficulty setting is highest at the beginning (no bonuses, no lives) - doing challenges unlocks easier gameplay as a reward (extra lives, extra stamina, extra firepower) - don't like it? have you tried grinding? well you're gonna try it and like it

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

i think one of the things missing from the games difficulty discourse is the notion of allowing players to practice a challenge i loved celeste because i could actually practice the hard parts! hollow knight on the other hand specifically prevented me from practicing with easy but tedious runbacks

I've had it confirmed to me by an ex-Sierra Online staffer that Ken Williams mandated that during the height of their point and click adventures that they contain at least one puzzle that was impossible to solve without calling up the Sierra hint line. CRPG clue books were a lucrative sideline.

"If you claim difficulty is sacred, remember that its earliest form was capitalist exploitation wrapped in machismo. There's no artistry here, just economics." Another banger article from Alli, and something I've discussed from time to time, too, with regard to clue books and hint lines.

Perfection.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee. She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”

every "centrist" columnist who moans about Blueskyism is like, "Look, if twitter was clearly a huge con job to fool people into thinking that everyone is more conservative than they actually are, don't you think I'D NOTICE? I'm not an IDIOT!"

No particular reason

i think the bit of hubris i'm missing re AI use comes down to some persistent beliefs in our culture, namely that: * the mind isn't real and can't hurt you * your ability to reason is not generally affected by the world around you * you are generally aware of everything you do and think

YA THINK???

(and if you've ever wanted to do soundtracks for smw romhacks, you might try my project Ramekin!) codeberg.org/jneen/ramekin

have YOU ever wanted to make SNES music? songs that could play on a real console?? well guess what - you can!! and you can even do it from the comfort of your favorite DAW. version 2.0 of my SNES Chiptune Guide is out now, updated and fully overhauled on its own website: samplemance.rs/snesguide/

Turns out it was a bad idea to fund little armies that hate you in every locality

Republicans won't vote for Republican Lite. You know who else won't vote for Republican Lite, leftists. Democrats have been doing Republican Lite policies almost exclusively for the better part of a decade now, and its only cost them votes, not won them any.

the phrase "political violence" is very strange to me because isn't a state essentially a management system for properly allocating money and violence

Fucking incredible to lose to a sundowning racist gameshow host, one of the most humiliating political defeats in American history, and then put out a book like "no no no, you guys got it all wrong, I hate trans people too!"

The quote with more context:

this was one of those thing where the world just happened to be good. like, its easy to drive passive speakers in this context. it just takes the littlest amplifier. overthinking this into a situation where you have to carry and charge another damn battery was one of our greatest fumbles

okay but rubygems.dog is $69 canadian dollars

the people that run bluesky would rather be running threads. they want wendy's to be epically clapping back at denny's on here so bad right now

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rubygems dot xyz is like 20 bucks

in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad" rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast

breaking news: rubygems is now omakase

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