ok, time for Leyndell. i'm trying to do the main causeway proper, every enemy in order, and i already killed one of the tree sentinels

Elden ring update: i'm doing night's sacred ground. my character grew up on the surface but is of a Nox lineage, and i'm doing a run where i am not fighting any Nox. you can do mimic tear but i may run into some things i /can't/ do in this area.

wow, this external view of stage separation is beautiful. www.nasa.gov/video-detail...

Making LLMs the substrate of computer programming feels of a piece of "entire economy is gambling" to me

maybe instead of war, the USA could just have a department of losing and recovering airplanes nonviolently and also dropping them into the sea off of aircraft carriers.

in a weird little dead end canyon in the Leyndell outskirts, there is a one-off sculpture of a young woman holding an androgynous child. the woman is missing her right arm- this is Malenia and Miquella. it's as if Marika had this commissioned, then hid it? a private place for contemplation.

elden ring update: i'm doing the shaded castle and then volcano manor, i think, and radahn whenever i feel ready. i'm also picking up a few incantations and working on a cross naginata and raptor claws.

the caves and mines in elden ring are just so good.

publicly traded game companies is such an idea. i have an idea, instead of making sound long term plans which benefit our employees, the integrity of our work, and that of our company, let's have a bunch of fickle parasites make all our long term decisions for us.

oh this is neat- a generated mound of rubble (as masonry?) which, when you detect creatures or undead on it, is revealed to have several skeletons in it.

i'm doing more moving today, but this morning i'm playing a little frogcomposband. i'm doing daemon / nature (planning on building for staves / wands). i just returned to town after hitting depth 5. i found some sort of magic cloak, metal shield, and trident. rolled a pink naga in the thieves' den-

in Elden Ring, why do Rennala's reborn have candelabras with only the outer two candles lit? the only thing i have associated with that off the top of my head is the bident, which is associated with the underworld.,

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

look how much mei loves paper bags lately.

the other lens on this is that you can design cat food bowls to encourage and facilitate emergent cat behavior.

oh my gosh i am so excited that i get to replay shadow of the erdtree. how magical that it exists. i'm absolutely not hurrying- i am taking my time with everything. but how wonderful to have that to look forward to.

Elden Ring lore thread: one thing which is really interesting, which i haven't heard anyone talk about, is that Elden Ring seems to have a connection to the concept of Adam Kadmon. [spoilers follow]

the expectation that everyone be a content factory which runs on clockwork is a toxic fantasy. let's push against that! let's support one another not acting like tiny corporations! posting 2 or 11 or 99 year old drawings! not posting for months or years for reasons (or no reason)!

dectus. i haven't done Radahn yet though- i think i want to trigger that and do that fight before going to Leyndell.

the lighting + color work in this game is so good sometimes.

another weird Elden Ring lore topic, which i don't have any answers for: the revenants have four arms, Ranni's doll body has four arms, and the marionettes around Raya Lucaria have four arms. i'm not sure what's going on there.

Elden Ring lore thread: one thing which is really interesting, which i haven't heard anyone talk about, is that Elden Ring seems to have a connection to the concept of Adam Kadmon. [spoilers follow]

elden ring update: i finished Raya Lucaria, and i did the beginning of Millicent's quest. now i'm doing the castle of the Redmanes, and i plan to at least getting up to the Radahn checkpoint (i don't know if i can fight him yet).

oh! i'm doing a dex / faith build and i wasn't even farming for this.

naga

quick poll, has anyone /had/ windows work well with bluetooth anything? i never have. it's so unreliable i only use wireless devices with their own receivers. i can't remember the last time it could connect to a speaker.

naga

working on nagas. they're pretty close to done! there's an easter egg / pun for folks who are historical armament nerds.

i'm looking into getting drive (which i use for project backup) working on linux. so am i correct in understanding this to be different than windows, in that it's actually directly using cloud storage instead of syncing local directories? linuxvox.com/blog/google-...

Some lovely purple octocoral from Wake Atoll #okeanos 2016, #octocoralFriday about 445 m

i am moving to a different room in the same house, which might not sound like a lot of work to some people, but i have a ton of art supplies etc. so it's more like setting up storage + a study + a bedroom. but the new room has much better light for my plants, and is larger, and rent is the same.

good news- i am pretty close to $1000! thank you everyone, the difference between close to the line and slightly above it is huge, emotionally.

flat earthers: that photo of the earth is faked me, considering the difficulty of writing weather simulation:

there's a flippant "well why are you a writer if you hate writing" sentiment going around, and i want to add some complexity to that. making art is work! we make art when we feel great, when we're tired. when we're disabled, when there is a fascist takeover of the government,

the USA is committing war crimes.

fun map gen idea: make a soup of atomic generation algorithms, eg crunch out distance from a point, make a line, etc.. then run karl simms style parallel testbeds + genetic fitness algorithms to solve for multi-step procedural ways to do various things.

magazine screenshot (1989) archive.org/details/beep...

Thomas 22. this is incredible. it's quite unusual for a Christian text.

searching for thomas 22 and the internet really wants me to study thomas the tank engine series 22 instead

life is pain -> one cannot inhabit the realm of subjective experience without experiencing subjectives

tonight's movie is 'nightflyers' (1987)

the feeds from the onboard cameras are /so/ low quality, but as a silver lining there have been a lot of good glitches.

launch in 10! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

the aesthetics of the artemis ii launch stream leave a bit to be desired, but i'm curating furiously over here and there was just an amazing sequence. this severe shot of the gantry (?) and two successive feed glitches.

i would love to see a record of all the meetings with the Trump administration where they patiently explained what a trans-lunar orbit is.

aah i love space science. i'm so excited.

there's a flippant "well why are you a writer if you hate writing" sentiment going around, and i want to add some complexity to that. making art is work! we make art when we feel great, when we're tired. when we're disabled, when there is a fascist takeover of the government,

does anyone have links to writing about the forerunner species trope? i feel like it's politically interesting that that idea is so prevalent.

oh my gosh they're go again?? my heart.