The term "dark matter" means, more accurately, "whatever the hell explains why observations of distant galaxies don't match the predictions made by current theories of gravity and relativity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯". As a species, we have a serious pathology against just admitting there are things we don't know.

It makes me so angry that baldur’s gate won every single game of the year award in existence, but if it had been an indie game it would not have been allowed on the any storefront or funding platforms.

this originally started out as a bug but then i figured - why not let the user swap between painting all shared hard-normal verts at once OR individually for crispier edges! (actually so happy with the radial segments that rotate to match the position of each vert face lol 🥵)

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normal, sane people: i've had one idea once, which i cherish in my mind like a tiny, beautiful gem. i will take any suggestions to alter it as a deep personal criticism people in creative fields: ok here's six ideas. let me know if you'd like to chop two in half and sew them together i don't care

I picked of Heroes of Hammerwatch II in a recent humblebundle and was very unhappy to find that it used a tiny pixel font with no other options. So I looked into it and found out it was possible to fix by creating a mod, and so I did. Check it out here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

@humblebundle.com Is the new Humble Choice UI this month intended to be confusing? Why is it so unobvious how to just buy the bundle? And on that subject, what was with the previous change that made me click so many times before I could buy the whole thing? Do you want to sell bundles or don't you?

You do not hate the administration enough, that rounded up a bunch of rowdy boys and let them loose in the china shop

Doin some stylistic exploration of a settlement sim game idea I'll never have time to properly work on

Anyone looking for a software developer? My patience for putting up with bullshit and office politics has just about been totally exhausted, but otherwise I'm very good at what I do.

So I've been hearing about "Longtermism" as the hot new thing among so-called effective altruists. Essentially a utilitarian view that any present harm can be justified by hypothetical good that it might do for a vastly higher population of people in the future. Longtermism, meet Doomsday Argument.

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The best part of Star Wars has always been the Extended Universe of games, novels, and comics. Disney dumping the EU for the sequels instead of loosely adapting it and building upon it is the primary deciding factor in why Star Wars wasn't a gigantic multi-billion success like the MCU all over again

Really says something that those (extremely implausibly) asserting that "LLMs might be conscious" do not have "and therefore must never be commodified" as their immediate next talking point. Humans are frothing at the mouth to believe their new robot slaves are intelligent enough to know suffering.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-4 #smbc #comics

You're telling me a vibe coded this website?

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

when GitHub reached 89% uptime and we were like "oh my god, they've finally achieved zero nines of reliability" the reply guys all thought they were geniuses for saying "I see a nine right there!" anyway the uptime has continued to fall, and it is now well outside the Reply Guy Margin

Gently annoying broody hens is a good way to get them to leave the next and get their hormones back to normal levels. It's also a good instrument.

Quick mini-tutorial on how I drew a pineapple 🍍 #pixelart

I don’t mean this in any kind of doomerish way but if your computer app won’t stop talking about goblins when you don’t want it to and you can’t understand why, you should just not release it until you figure out to fix that. There used to be pride and craftsmanship in this business.

People are saying this is dumb engagement bait but I think it’s pretty good :-) if nothing else, it’s interesting that there’s a thought experiment that can convince massive swathes of people that you are morally required to gamble your life in odd situations

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a white or black button. All who press the black button die. However, if for some reason more than 50% of people press the black button, the gods intervene against this bizarre mass suicide and nobody dies. Which button would you press?

Today I have heard of the "red / blue button dilemma" and I have a very strong opinion about it.

In case you’ve never heard of #Oklab or #Oklch: among other benefits, they help smooth out transitions between colors. You won't get muddy gradients on your particles or unintentional spikes in brightness (aka value). Oklab was developed by @bottosson.bsky.social. 🙏

Something instead of nothing

i don't know how to parody this anymore

Lately I've been getting into modding Vintage Story a little bit. Check out Stoneworks, my newest mod that I just got to a finished-enough state to share along with the 1.22.0 version drop, in which I added concrete and a whole bunch of other Vanilla+ type stuff: mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/47094

More Gen 1 resprites

More like the aforementioned thing. This video is a chatbot doomer propaganda segment which gives far too much credulity to marketing bullshit, riding in on some clickbaitly-titled but ultimately shallow commentary on US politics like a Trojan horse. This time with the involvement of Stephen Fry.

I think folks like this need to ask what their SBMM systems are really optimizing for. Is it really that players *in general* are only happy when they get close wins? Or is it that you've engineered a system that oppresses and pushes out everybody else, and you got stuck with the Gamers (TM)?

I actually think this is very good to shine a light on a very serious problem with online multiplayer PvP games using matchmaking systems, and why I've tried and absolutely positively cannot be bothered to play them, how they are pushing out the same players who used to thrive in dedicated servers:

Shoutout to Procompsognathus, the dino who delivered karmic justice to John Hammond

never forget Are you Watching..?

Fun fact: I'm a dev with background in English, NLP, ML/AI. If there were 1 sane business person in the LLM hype wave, somebody would've offered me a bazillion dollars to work for them by now. But of course...it's all about the journey (fleecing investors), not the destination (useful ethical AI).

Get you a journalism outlet that can't correctly spell "iniquities" in the transcription of a faux-Biblical quote.

Recently in major news sites publishing lies: The Guardian published a blatant lie about what a "study" found. The link is to a BMJ article which discusses children using computer voice interfaces to LLMs. It claims absolutely nothing of the sort. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm pivoting to drama (not really, I hope): youtu.be/9dXqf5CRH5U

Thankfully, no one was hurt. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Over halfway through ‘The Boys’ season 1. How the fuck did ANYONE think Homelander was an actual good guy?!?! Like, all those people who apparently felt betrayed in later seasons…..I can only imagine what that is, but…..those motherfuckers braindead.

Here's the thing: Democrats already know who can win. They know which policies are popular with voters and which candidates are vocally in support of those policies. They're going to throw a billion dollars into trying to prevent those candidates from becoming the nominee.

Thankfully, no one was hurt.

This is by no means a unique pathology for execs of tech businesses. Or of any business that involves technical/engineering expertise. (See: Boeing, Intel.) This is just the guy being noticed and talked about right now. They flourish the same reason LLMs do: Folks *love* to be told confident lies.

I *DARE YOU* to make a BETTER LUDUM DARE! You have 3 years! Until then, we got 6 more events to run! LETS GO! PS: I chose the word "scheduled" for a reason. I will step in if needed, but I'd like to hang up my apron after we say goodbye in October 2028 (April 2029?). #LDJam Looong blog post here:

Buddy are you kidding? Is this just marketing in disguise? These are selling points. I genuinely want one now.