I keep seeing people going "Oh, data centre power usage is only a fraction of the grid. We spend so much more water on farming!" Now 1) we should be pushing for more efficient crops and agriculture methods. That's good stuff. But 2) WE FUCKING NEED FOOD TO LIVE. YOU DON'T NEED AI FOR ANYTHING.

ROM COM DRAMA BOMB DAY PART TWOOOOO

We are LIV. Also LIVE. But spoiler alert, we're all named LIV now.

the community is accepting donations via etransfer to [email protected] you are supposed to put your full name in the comments so they can issue you a reciept.

A useful thread for those in the US (and Canada in case things spread)

Was it last week Carney said that our climate goals had to take a back seat to the pipeline he wants to build? Elbows up, kids. It'll protect you from the fire.

Start your week off right. Still slots available for Monday and Tuesday.

Start your week off right. Still slots available for Monday and Tuesday.

You LOVED Welcome to Mount Port from @gamechanger.dropout.tv - have you ever wondered "What if someone improvised a full length musical like that, but not at all like that, more like dramatic and about a group of terrible people running from the devil?"

On average? Ferelden. There is one place in the Free Marches that puts them to shame, but the rest of the region is just fine. Orlais has fantastic potato dishes, but not fries.

One more slot open for tonight! Next week is wide open for anyone looking for a game.

Did you know this years ENNIEs judges were 100% white and 80% male? Anyway unrelatedly here's the application to judge next year ennie-awards.com/judge-applic...

Periodic reminder: there are now 2 avenues for trans Americans to move to Canada without work or marriage: Do you have Canadian ancestry? Get the proof and claim your Canadian citizenship! If you are an American citizen, you can apply for asylum! Safe 3rd does not apply to you!!

I don't get an article when I'm wrong.

I've been fiddling with a system in my head, largely just a resolution mechanic, and I have slowly been refining it to realize that it's the Havoc Engine. I'm just pulling the setting off of Eat the Reich and adding a layer of obfuscation by using tokens instead of dice.

Only the friends I made through it, and that's enough.

Congrats on the Ennie nom! @justinsirois.bsky.social @plusoneexp.bsky.social @moreblueberries.bsky.social @vidityavoleti.bsky.social @dngnclub.itch.io @panictable.bsky.social @possibleworlds.bsky.social @pandiongames.com

"AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it." @godotengine.org gets it. 👍

One more bump

Coming back around for the morning crowd

Hey, all! I'm starting up on StartPlaying with a few one shot sessions of Eat the Reich. If you want to be a vampire and fuck up some Nazis (and who doesn't?), links below. July 8: startplaying.games/adventure/cm...

None of the AI products for text, image, or video generation have actual value. All can and should be replaced by competent people. Signed, a PhD physicist whose degree was on machine learning for medical imaging

Can everyone stop talking about actual plays as if they're all video, a huge amount are audio only and some of you that make APs completely ignore that with the way you post about actual play

📢 CASTING ANNOUNCEMENT! So happy to say I can be heard as both Beatrix Spiritsinger & the Swamp Prophet in @mopefulgames.bsky.social @team17.com’s new game, Wardrum! If you love rhythm games and roguelikes, it’s made for you! So grateful for the opportunity 🥰❤️ #voiceacting #castingannouncement

They can take the invisible fist of the market and shove it right up their logo.

I'm running two games, one after the other, and then releasing them interwoven. Kill the Reich is going to be run as written, smashing up Paris to kill Nazis. Night's Black Agents runs 50 years later to trace through the wreckage and eliminate any residual threats.

If the cost of living keeps going up I'm going to have to switch from LGBTQIA+ to LGBTQIA with ads.

Philosophers: But if you have replaced every part of this ship with a new piece can you still call it the Ship of Theseus? Me, sitting next to them at the oar: Less talk. More Rowing.

Tapping the sign again… 😑

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Well folks it’s time roll up those sleeves and bully for the good of all once again because the idea literally anyone could be recording literally anything in secret is not it

It is a fallacy that anonymity creates negative behavior on the internet. Anonymity levels the playing field between white dudes and everyone else, so white dudes perceive spaces that allow anonymity as more hostile. Anonymity protects everyone else.

Get over here

Help me beat Connie (also help the rest of my team for round one I guess).

You can donate levels and boons to individual players/parties, and when we hit certain milestones everyone gets a boost! As in previous years, certain donation rewards will only be available during live gameplay, to keep things chaotic. tilt.fyi/9YprGiFLpD

🚨🚨🚨DONATIONS ARE OPEN 🚨🚨🚨 This year's stream "All for One" is PVP with a twist: each round will feature one “villain” fighting against the rest of the party. The One™ will start out at level five, with their counterparts starting at level one. tiltify.com/@unpreparedc...

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FRs... Donate: tiltify.com/@jesthehuman... the first $250 donated is matched by @boguscheesecake.bsky.social Join @djmalenfant.bsky.social @lauratutu.bsky.social @jemaginative.bsky.social @vampirehimbo.bsky.social @jemaginative.bsky.social and me tonight at 5:30 PDT

You just got pegged…as a person who likes TTRPGs and is pro trans rights…so what if you came to my Triangle Agency charity stream at 5:30 PDT supporting Trans Lifeline 👀 🔗 below

Sure, make me fight the one known for Godkiller. Shouldn't be a problem.

The reason space is cold is because there's no atmosphere to maintain heat in a location. Everything is radiative. You are only being warmed by the bit of sunlight that hits you. That also means things in space can only cool by radiating heat. There is no atmosphere for thermal transfer.

This should keep you happy, @aramvartian.com

8:30 ET, folks!

Stop giving Hasbro your money.

Reminder: fuck Lords of the Fallen and their chud devs (also their previous games were generic and bad)

Remember when you were a kid and you'd be like "Well, my mom could beat Sonic in a race even if he had a car!"

Round 3 is here with: @stelllajo.bsky.social as Scary Milly @abzkelly.bsky.social as Kix @yoits8bit.bsky.social as Valentine @blackwaterdnd.bsky.social as Nepentha @afluffygoomba.bsky.social as Uro Phantastica with @ameliasom.com as our DM Round 3 will run from 2-3:30pm CT on June 13!

"CharacterOS is compelling because it unlocks a bigger creative canvas while addressing a real challenge in AI: the unauthorized use of content," said Chris Cocks, CEO of Hasbro. Ok. So, unauthorized content was a major issue with AI, but I think you missed the point, Chris.

You know how studios just won't advertise their movie with a queer lead, or they give you a woman as the lead, then release against the biggest box office pull of the season? That's what Frank the gelatinous cube feels like to me. We already did this with Forspoken. Please don't.

"We can't raise taxes on the wealthy. They'd leave." "I know it'd potentially decimate our population, but the petition got so many signatures! We have to separate." -Conservatives

Legitimate question: Why does D&D keep giving species different long rest timings? I get the point of interest from a role-play perspective, but it feels like mechanizing something that doesn't have a practical in-game impact, especially with the way the game is played currently.