did you know LLMs use weird/unintelligible language in their reasoning trace? yes? maybe? well this post dives deep into almost every theory of why that is absolutely fascinating

boy does it ever

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Would be fucked up if you looked at your baby and it said 1/50 over their head, implying a pikmin is intending to abscond with them

In terms of what's actually happening here, there's no writeup in English, but it seems closely related to this TAS: tasvideos.org/7170S Basically, FF2 RNG is seeded from uninitialized ram, and it *seems* Dr Mario is used just because the value it leaves there manips a rare battle and drop.

After some discussion on this topic, we were able to figure out how to make boo blocks actually stay still as they spawn. This way, their disguise ACTUALLY works - a bit crazy that we've been designing levels with them where this isn't the case for 25 years! #smw #romhacking

so, one of my favorite bugs in SMW has to be the way Boos work. basically, when they spawn in, their initial direction isn't initialized properly so they always face right, causing them to "turn" to face Mario on-spawn particularly noteworthy because makes Boo Blocks misalign and become obvious

finally, some Good Code crates.io/crates/fibon...

I try to mostly follow people on LinkedIn who are unafraid to shitpost on main

I found a speedrun category where you have to film yourself going to mcdonalds right before the final boss. yes, it's a playstation game, no it's not a sonic

SOUP IN 4K

accidentally caused Nano Banana's system prompt to leak, but in a fun way

new blog post! why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? i put llama-3.3-70b through its paces with the logit lens to find out, and explain what the logit lens (everyone's favorite underrated interpretability tool) is in the process. link in reply!

FILENAME 【silversafer_01.mid】 DATE CODE 【2002】 SIZE 【149 KB】 TITLE 【Silver Surfer - Stage 1】 DATA SOURCE 【Niconico】 SOUND SOURCE 【Roland SC-88Pro】 DATA CREATOR 【brr890】 COMPOSER 【Tim Follin】 DSP 【TMIDI Player】

Hey everyone! The Cryptodex is back! Here's a new article, which is an introduction to the creation order of Generation III, and a bird's eye look at the creation order, as best as I can figure it out. lostpokedex.weebly.com/generation-i...

last day of aol service was tuesday. eternal september ended after 11,353 days....

Rock Band 4 will delist on October 5, 2025 - "the original licenses for the core soundtrack are expiring" DLC are delisting too www.resetera.com/threads/rock... Rock Band 4 Rivals Bundle is $9.99: US PSN store.playstation.com/en-us/produc... Xbox www.xbox.com/en-us/games/...

New video up about a recently discovered glitch with U-Turn! I also investigate why this glitch happens and why this move has so many weird issues. My shortest video yet so no reason not to click it!! youtu.be/xwWE0Tsx2cA

I get this, but also stories that unashamedly mash up different decades (for story or aesthetic reasons) kick ass though

A pretty cool thing we noticed in SMW: youtu.be/tCeWKYcK0As

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

i just made a cool video

Fun fact, using the nonstandard extension of having a trailing unused array changes the size to be 0, so putting something inside the struct can shrink it! struct foo { int trailing[]; }; Now sizeof(foo) is 0, comment out the member and it's 1 (assuming C++).

there are only 3 characters on a team, including yourself, so if one person gets killed, only two people can be the bad guy: you, who did not do it, or the only other person who is alive lmfao

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Wow, an unreleased Virtual Boy game has been preserved and released to the public: hiddenpalace.org/Virtual_Leag... It may "only" be a baseball game but this is a big deal because VB has a library of no more than 22 official games. Afaik this is only the 2nd time a VB prototype game has been found.

The Super Mario 64 source code lists names for Mario's footstep sounds. The list starts off normal but becomes poetic with names like "Footsteps in the Fallen Leaves" and "More Than Anyone Else in the World". It turns out the names are actually taken from a 1994 dating simulator.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

incredible

after extensive wind tunnel testing and analysis, I've concluded that airplane mode is a complete scam. it doesn't change the phone's aerodynamics in the slightest.

when cloud services hound me to pay for the 50th time

thinking about big rice

Moral: there was a scuba man

You know a novel is going to be good when it opens up with “hello nerds: yes I know about inflation, please shut up about it”

The characters in Mega Malamar's reveal and teasers are based on NPCs in Legends Z-A. They did a great job recreating the outfits and looks.

BUT SHE’S GOT A NEW BOOK!

BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you

don't even get me started on the "X shape and Y shape" guy I'm so mad that it came true

Danganronpa 2.... 2!

Extremely funny that they did this two generations late, therefore requiring a dedicated accessory, instead of just doing it on the 3DS

Wanted to kill time, but damn, that clock got hands

there is a reason why i spend so much time fighting with people who think that the only way out of this is violence

A cake hits the floor. Suddenly, this message appears: "The staff ate it later".  The exact origin is unknown, but the phrase may have started when viewers complained about watermelon being wasted in a skit on the show "Gaki no Tsukai".  Read more now (or later) ➡️ w.wiki/DgLG

[Star Wars Outlaws] It seems that the game shipped on a Game Key Card because the data transfer speeds of standard Switch 2 cartridges were too slow for Ubisoft's quality target. Outlaws was originally built to run on platforms with fast SSDs.