Just for the average gamer who still doesn't get it. QA isn't just playing the game. It's playing the game in every conceivable way and all the ways you don't think of.

Check it out, four way movement with proper animations. It's profligate in its use of sprite bitmaps, but it does work. I need to figure out a good way to load sprites that never change into 0xD000-DFFF, that'll double my sprite bitmap space.

the one way I’ve gotten decidedly more small-c conservative over the last decade is the degree of contempt I have for adults who don’t comport themselves as such.

If agentic coding is so good, isn’t it worth the companies investing in offsetting the horrible environmental damage they’re doing?

In a really perverse way, the core of so many of these AI discussions is the question of what it means to live a fulfilling life, and yet it’s the question they seem most terrified of answering.

Okay, LLM/AI boosters. Explain to me like I’m a competent engineer why I should be happy about things like Claude and Codex. Because I’m currently strongly against agentic programming.

Progress: First coherent sprite animation on screen.

I don’t need to worry about AI deskilling me. I can forget what the fuck my code does all on my own.

You can honestly say you've had a solid day in retro computing if pulling off a molex connector caused a substantial loss of blood on the edge of a vintage 90s computer case

Don't see any politicians talking about it these days, but this country desperately needs UBI.

Got to tell you, I'm surprised at how well ChatGPT's image generator does "dark fantasy" art-like graphics product (I refuse to call it art because without a human involved it can't express anything). Picture one: The card "Balance" from Magic: The Gathering's "Alpha" set.

IBM OS/2 Warp ☺️

contrary prediction: 2031 will be almost indistinguishable from 2026, with the majority of changes being in the space sector, and in political and economic realms, and none will significantly involve AI, except perhaps due to the economics of bubbles and irrational exuberance, not takeoff

im kinda shocked indies dont use prerendered backgrounds aesthetic more. you can get like 90% of the benefits of high fidelity for a tiny fraction of the actual work, since you only need to make it look good from the one angle

"the combat in classic jrpgs is bad all you do 99% of combats is mash attack" yeah. its fucking chill bro. i dont want to have to pay attention and pull off epic clutch gamer wombo combos. i want to push button, defeat dude, get little xp treat, and occasionally enjoy some dialogue or cutscenes

If you are against LLMs and forced to use them at work, I would like to know about your experience. What do you use it for, how do you use it, what do you do with the output, what’s your workflow? Do you feel productive? Do you resent being forced to use the thing?

Look. I think AI is as trustworthy as a daycare run by Jimmy Savile, but we cannot convince people to not use it by abusing and insulting them.

I am now more tired of people complaining about AI than I am of people using AI. This is the opposite of how it’s supposed to be, and it’s all the fault of the relentless negativity and persona insults hurled by abolitionists. I don’t even like the fucking thing and I’m exhausted.

I just cleaned my glasses and now everything is too sharp.

"What’s so impressive, is that our culture has almost implied over the years, that men who like grown women are the freaks and perverts." jameelajamil.substack.com/p/ah-shit-we...

Still short of dopamine and reassurance that I’m not batshit crazy, but I got pizza.

I want dopamine. And pizza. And validation that I'm not going fucking crazy. No, I don't expect you to give me any of those things. But thank you.

The tech is here, and works. People are going to use it. Much as I think human art is better, for a lot of cases, this level of product is good enough. I do know what it feels like not being able to make money using your skills, though. Nobody will hire me to do what I'm good at.

Gotta tell you, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, or just living in a different reality than everyone else. Both sides of the LLM/genAI issue are right, and both sides are wrong. I think this based on what I see and experience, not what I'm told to think.

Actually, this will probly be useful for some folks: The "90s Nickelodeon soundstage" design aesthetic DID/does have an official name: "Wacky Pomo" ('postmodern'), it was essentially the "youth advertising+everything" outgrowth of a late-80s interior design movement called "Memphis Milano"

No, no no. I will not get rabbit-holed into making a Motif widget that embeds Chromium Embedded Framework.

A lot of The Discourse™ is giving "I think your actual stance is probably right, but you're being a gigantic arsehole about it so nobody wants to listen to you" these days.

anyway codeberg.org/popeyeotaku/...

[sigh] Now I'm bored and lonely. Wife away for the night. Still, I shouldn't complain too much. I have more than some.

"Why didn't Nintendo ever revisit the design of Zelda II??" Because they were waiting for a cool-af transbian furry to do it for them: store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/... #GameDev #EnigmaHeart #Steam #Zelda #Zelda2

i been doing a lotta work on me projeck TO PORT A 1970'S UNIX TO SYSTEMS LIKE THE COMMODORE 64 and it's finally coming together -- fucking got booting into a real shell, and debugging the kernel rn >:3 but now i gotta work lessk on it cuz i keep getting into a roll and then suddinly i skipt a meal

I do not, habitually, use LLMs or generative AI for anything. I'm not opposed to the tech per se, I'm just not willing to give money to people like OpenAI and Anthropic because they're bad actors. But it's on my mind today, so it's what I talk about.

Subjectively, both AI boosters and AI abolitionists have the same motivation: They want to help. This is interesting to me.

All the arguments are valid, but we are still left to contend with the fact that this shit exists, and people want to use it. If you want to change that, it's going to take a lot more effort than "Butlerian Jihad" memes and calling people "sloppers".

The most hilarious part of this whole LLM/AI mess for me is this group of people who scream bloody murder about other people using "their" prompts. Something about that just tickles me.

Never in my whole life have I seen an issue that divides techies as deeply as "AI". Not even emacs vs. vi compares. And there are legitimately smart, well-meaning people on both sides of the issue. And here I sit, just looking for clarity, wanting to know what is, not what people say is.

Terrific. Fucking car needed welding work. $350 down the tubes. So much for February being an easy month.

How do we run projects in an age when any rando contributor might be using LLMs to generate code?

I learned to program because programming is cool, it empowers the programmer, it lets us solve problems we otherwise could not. I did not learn to program to "produce value" for some middle manager's bonus cheque.

I don't want to generate endless volumes of clip-art and kind-of-working code. I want to solve interesting problems and be respected for it.

The more you shame people for using LLMs, the more they're going to do it just to spite you. This is what I mean about "productive" versus "unproductive" attitudes.

im not a linux evangelist but people post on here weekly like "i miss when computers were more like the early 2000s and had basic software and i didn't have to pay attention to all the flashiness and complexity and updates" girl what you desire is running stable debian on a spare thinkpad

Why is it that I and others seem immune to "AI psychosis" where others develop it almost immediately?

wow uh it did not take long for the vibe to shift from "my coworkers all use claude and they keep developing crap that doesn't work" straight into "my coworkers all use claude and they keep developing serious psychological issues"

the most productive people at my current company lightly use claude code or codex for minor refactoring, writing tests, and busywork that is well defined. the most detached from reality people are running gas town and giving agents plain english feedback on PRs.

First four Sentinel 65X Developer Edition boards have been fully prepped for shipping. May I say that the process of shipping to the USA sucks ass?

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.