1984, "The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing" The very first thing David Foster Wallace published, and essentially also the last I have no words quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wall...

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

A constant message from fascist leaders: "our opponents have gone so far that we no longer need to restrain ourselves from violence." You could find a conservative saying roughly this every single day for the last 30 years, somewhere on RW media. It's a constant drumbeat & permission structure.

heuristics work splendidly here: if you quote Elon Musk maybe stop a moment and consider it's a whole lot of bullshit? Nah, just make a big mess. No one understands what is going on.

Two things, really: 1- the clouds, obviously. You can't even pretend this wasn't photoshopped. 2- HUSSEIN Obama (hint, not American) When the source is so obviously biased, literally everyone learns not to trust it. This type of message FAILS even with his supporters. The rest is just trolling.

for fuck's sake, how does it even work? I don't even have control of what I equip anymore? Every item worn is automatically max level? If this isn't optional, it utterly destroys the game for me. Just delete the MMO and make it into a visual novel.

having a strong suspicion that FFXIV new system of synched item levels will destroy my manual way of switching jobs to avoid outleveling content in 2026 I still have to actively fight game design, just to play in the intended way

The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...

>Dawntrail talks about moving on and stop clining to memories > next expansion has a 30 y.o fucking series that ended in the 90s

bluesky working intermittently now status page says everything's fine even the reporting tools are broken now

shareholders love it, though that's the real problem being openly racist makes you really popular

it's not just games, and it's not an exaggeration saying that AI has brought a very tangible technological recession

oh, it's the day of Shapez 2 big update, in a couple of hours quite the sleek game design for a near-perfect automation game

my proposed policy for AI would be built to be radically disruptive: feel free to use it, but anything it touches is automatically flagged non-profit and licensed in the public domain

they keep winning

Priceless post from the official White House social media

The funniest, most telling part is Trump's repeated use of "it is said" when he's the only one saying so, fabricating himself the saying being said. One example where your own egoism grows so large that schizophrenia comes in to heal the void that was left. A true circumference of own reality.

education vs slavery

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

says the cockroach

merry go round, precisely as expected

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

modern civil strategy of "doing nothing & waiting" works splendidly for the expectation of problems being solved, lol never expect anything to change if your strategy amounts to waiting yes, things will get a whole lot worse

"a lot of things" the language of scientific proof

lol, the "new" world

if anything, boring

ink prices doubling, among all other things

I wouldn't pick rhetoric as one space that needs defending if you start your e-mails with redundancy, then maybe better not write them

More seriously, be wary of trillion-dimensional spaces. As long as they are the same model, the teacher model teaches the student model to prefer owls simply by transmitting sequences of numbers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a... The postmortem of the *last* big outage shows that it was because they DOS'd themselves through vibecoded slop.

They're calling it the best democracy ever. www.ft.com/content/7529...

how the hell generated subtitles could keep up with the beginning of this video? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjKh...

yeah, but it's also plainly false. If you haven't noticed services go up in cost.

AI crash won't likely happen, all eggs are in one basket, there is no counterpoint, reality has ruptured it won't be a series of crashes, it will only be a big, final one, and quite abrupt

once again Tesla and Bitcoin point to a compound problem we won't survive this

Trump is just the major symptom of a worldwide mental disease (which is very obviously not the "woke mind virus", but a similar product of epistemic reversibility)

one blunder after another

what a surprise, eh?

it sounds an exaggeration, but there are games where the combat gameplay is SHORTER than the death animation of the enemies

Bluesky has been fighting reginos for almost 3 hours.

among other things: AI is completely destroying game modding spaces, there is no going back

Shouldn't be anymore a surprise that Trump wins every "loss", that he can do and say anything he wants, no matter how extreme, and it gets immediately normalized. That the world has largely embraced this "abnormality." And there's no opposition whatsoever, no initiative, not even a "strategy."

indoctrinated to obediently die

nice rant lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...

graphical tiles were a mistake

Only, tiny, survival chance for humanity is a hard stock market crash, and only if it happens very soon. Unlikely to happen in general. The compound probability is essentially zero.

well, if Elon Musk could claim his salute was not fascist, then it's a well working pattern you can and will deny the obvious, since truth has left human culture. The only purpose here is offering a strategy. All funny until you realize the same is being used for the war with Iran.

i don’t think it is wrong to questions decisions made in game development. if i made a game about a chicken exploring chicago, i would have to answer why i chose a chicken and not any other animal or even a human. questioning the decisions a dev may make is just part of game development.