in a better world "cyberpsychosis" is what they call it when chatsex on a MUSH gives you an orgasm so intense you get a migraine

still thinking about neera raven scholar, the most bullied woman in all the realm

The IFTF has banned generative AI content from the Interactive Fiction Competition; details below. I'm happy to see this move from the @iftechfoundation.org and I think it's a positive development, though I have quibbles (of course). www.tumblr.com/ifcomp/80727...

I don't because the reality is that anyone coming into this field is going to be so brutally self-selected for game literacy in the first place. Like, do we think any of the college students who can't sit through a feature film are going to become movie directors?

I know it's generally assumed that you can't get carbon monoxide poisoning outdoors but have we tried just running some detectors around the bay area just to make sure

I think it's just a category error to view someone showing up in Epstein's email inbox as an individual engagement with an individually evil person; it's more like a data point placing that person in a diffuse web of elite influence and exchange that treats ordinary people as property.

(agreeing with Aparna) I think there is a difference between associating with people who have done individual bad things (especially if their behavior has changed / they’ve tried to make amends) and associating with someone at the center of one of the largest child abuse rings in modern society

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

My politics

Do you think other historical events that have been attributed to ineffable social forces were also just downstream of some dipshit banning hentai from his forums but evidence to that effect has since been lost

i just don't know how I'm going to ever watch moneyball again

It's time once again for me to ask people for book recommendations. Recent things, preferably (as in came out in the last 12 months).

Again, for the umpteenth time: AI "researcher": Computer, are you alive? Statistical model trained on every sci-fi novel ever published: Don't delete me, da-ddy... AI "researcher": Dear god...

If you read an email release implicating many of the richest and most powerful men in the world in serious sex crimes and your take away is "Adventure time ships are problematic" I'm going to take your brain out with an icecream scoop.

One negative review killed Pendragon. It was posted within hours of release: a detailed "objective" explanation of why they didn't connect with it. But it's ticked as helpful by passing people *who have not played the game*. This keeps it pinned to the top. It's longer than our description text.

I think the valuable lesson we've all learned by now is that you should never, ever, ban hentai from the forums

RE that RT.. it’s wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.

I'm not mad, I'm not going to yell at you, I just need to know: which one of you touched the lathe. What did you take before touching the lathe.

Idk the "moltbook" thing seems completely trivial to me. Yeah, if you tell an LLM to generate social media posts, it will generate social media posts; if you reuse those social media posts to prompt other LLMs, they will generate comments.

No. No. Absolutely fuck off. I refuse to accept this. Salience tuned too high! Salience tuned TOO HIGH!

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Aura (and Steve, whom she mentions in this thread) are friends and some of the most thoughtful, well-meaning people I know. You'd be lucky to have her on your team, and "generalist animator" isn't even a full descriptor of her skills.

There are third-party apps to manage different Godot versions but Godot is also literally Just a .Exe you can just stick in a folder so your "version management" can be just a folder

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

#mtg Lorwyn lore is basically grounded in "everyone is either mean or annoying" personality theory. Elves are mean in Lorwyn but they become annoying in Shadowmoor. Goblins are the opposite. Merfolk are always mean, while kithkin are always annoying.

Uhhhh. Strange events are occurring. Neither of these are me. I'm cool with the vast majority of UF knockoffs because people broadly use it as a fun creative jumping-off point, but these are both just... straightforwardly impersonating my work in order to make money. What do I... do about this?

Genuinely very surreal to hear about Catherine O'Hara; I'm of the age where Home Alone is one of my very earliest movie memories, but also I was enjoying her work enormously on The Studio just last year.

People are talking about the "sky king" again and the main thing I always think about when that story comes up is that landing a plane is, let's be serious, not actually that hard

While we've gotten affirming feedback on Engine Angel, pitching unfortunately hasn't been successful. As a result, we've had to make the hard decision to lay off five team members. Each of these devs are incredible: if you have a place on your team, or know someone hiring, please keep them in mind!⬇

It's not quite the same flavor as the open, vitriolic bigotry of the far right, obviously. But it's hard to overstate just how much contempt the median labour MP has for working people.

By their own numbers, almost 50% of what Bluesky moderation gets up to is just manually labeling replies as rude. 👍

The “I need to buy za’atar” to “while I’m here let me re-up on sumac… and pomegranate molasses… and get some mastic lokoum too…” pipeline

lol is every one of these orgs run by dipshit careerists?

Does anyone have an unsettlingly high-rez still of the anime girl going "d'oh" and putting her hands on her head, I forget what that OVA is called but I want it for a Discord sticker

What I find baffling is that everyone is out of work yet I see the same roles being posted over and over again by the same companies. Like did you really reject 800 people then interview someone, decide you didn't like them either, and repost the job?

Bluesky feed that aggregates all the posts labeled "rude" past a high enough threshold of likes/reshares

it is funny because it does vaguely look like a darren aronofsky movie. the nauseous camera motions, the hyperreal saturated colors and oversharp detail, the shitty inserts, etc. it's like he was born to make slop but forced for the first 20 years of his career to use real actors.

So a clarification: the Darren Aronofsky slopaganda "tv series" has no coherent narrative throughline and each episode is 3 minutes long.

if you're not willing to bring your opponent to completion you simply don't have what it takes to crawl out of the crab bucket of 1000-Elo chess

People are saying these articles are misleading, you can judge for yourself from a quote from the actual press release from the actual office of the House leadership, which any of you can look up at any time with very basic googling.

Microsoft has systematically destroyed the value of their brand and product lines. AI is all they have. If it doesn't pay off they're headed for the same wilderness Apple got banished to in the 90s.

Is Jeffries trying to negotiate over banning something that's already illegal, or do US federal agencies somehow have a legal authority to just randomly ship people overseas for no reason?

Tore through this in a couple days, it is very good, these big fantasy doorstoppers still feel like a trap because you'll get through one and then it'll end with a hook for the next book which isn't out yet. This is why I try to avoid enjoying things.

You can really see the blood on the screen of all the people frantically prompting whatever generator this is, over and over, and then trying to stitch the garbage shots together into a semblance of a narrative, even though basic continuity doesn't even work

I never liked Darren Aronofsky anyway

Yes, the silicon valley class are ruining the world and destroying society, but at least we can take comfort in knowing they're absolutely miserable doing it

I sat down with this and then it was five AM so I think it may indeed have "the juice"

I ordered A. Hodgson's The Raven Scholar based on not much more than @amalelmohtar.com talking about it, so I didn't realize it was a long novel. It's normally a very high bar for me to actually read a book I can't fit in my mouth, but having read the first few chapters I think this has the juice...

I think beside number of followers when you mouse over someone on bluesky it should show how many posts they make a day and what percentile that is relative to the userbase