One of the major challenges here is that due to my in-laws’ car accident, I’m basically doing primary childcare around my picketing shifts, so I’m not only losing out on my regular paycheque, but am also unable to do freelance work for secondary income. Never gonna get that money back.

these are some good cartridge labels, I feel

The best thing about Bluesky is subscribing to a managed blocklist. Keeps things interesting tranquil, if you like that sort of thing.

NEW: The FTC is removing blog posts, authored by Lina Khan, including some that articulate the potential risks that commercial AI tools pose to consumers.

Ichiban sign spotted at No Kings protest in Chicago

Extremely rare b-roll footage of an Electronics Boutique in late 1994 or early 1995. Enjoy it! I found this among 40TB of files from Digital Pictures' archive.

This week's Cult Films on Kanopy selection will having you saying Woo! As in John Woo. See this acclaimed action filmmaker's BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990), without ads or subscriptions, through participating libraries and universities. www.kanopy.com/product/bullet-in-the-head Available: 🇺🇸|🇨🇦|🇦🇺|🇬🇧

Hey narrative folks my team is looking for a narrative designer to come work with me in Iceland! If you have solid storytelling fundamentals, some technical experience, and live ops or adjacent experience, we are looking for someone like you! careers.ccpgames.com/en/postings/...

Look, I can't lecture others for enjoying low brow entertainment. I literally own a copy of Van Helsing the game based on Van Helsing the hit movie. But if the limit of your creative imagination is "hit TV show, but with famous dead actress instead", I beg you to go and engage with some actual art.

#fsharp peeps, how long do you tend to allow your F# files to get? Do long files bother you as much as it would in other languages?

Not sure how to go about buying old games? How much to pay? What condition they should be in? Heck, what you should be buying in the first place? Let me help: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/09/07/t...

As much as I hate both-sides-ism, mainstream Democrats really are Republican-lite - and it remains true no matter how extreme the right gets.

All future TikTok posts to be made to the backstop of Yakety Sax.

Their commitment to making sure I never see this movie is commendable

Reminder that Bluesky has an Instagram-like app called Flashes which shows multimedia posts from your feed. Depending on your feed, it can be pretty cool. With mine, I find it highlights video game posts, art and pixel art.

Chilling on the weeping blue atlas cedar #nature #garden #gardensky

One thing that often catches me off guard is, even if you expect someone to have compassion on someone else because you think they would relate, you can’t under estimate the tendency of pulling up the ladder after oneself.

I try to keep a pretty zen feed that’s mostly video games and art seasoned with occasional intelligent commentary on current events and Aidan is a staple.

Haven’t you heard the news lately? Seems like we’ve been living some times in a purgatory. - Nujabes, Luv(sic) Hexalogy (2015)

Educational thread:

The pinnacle of all gifs is the Robert Redford nod.

Saw Howl’s Moving Castle in the theater again today and this exchange will always be my favorite: Sophie: “Is it [the warship] the enemy’s or one of ours?” Howl: “What difference does it make?”

When you are a Swift developer, every day is Christmas!

We ate at a sports bar tonight. My daughter was watching a TV and occasionally really giggling - even though the audio was a specific game. Eventually we realized she was watching a cartoon (Bobs burger? Or a similarly drawn show) and matching the show with the game audio. 🤣

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Still can’t believe Nintendo never Remastered Metroid Prime 2 and 3 before the release of 4 😂

Random game Saturday. I’ve been enjoying these releases for original hardware.

I wrote a reflection on building an agentic AI into a serverless system grounded in functional principles without betraying the architecture that came before it. #fsharp is really the star of the show and we leaned very heavily into it. (I still hate gen AI) blog.bencope.land/agentic-ai-b...

Very interesting article on the damage a rogue localizer can do to a game as Silksong's Chinese release sits at 52% positive - the translator not only shared a bunch of info pre-release, breaking NDA, the localization itself was highschool-flowery. A wild read. www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/20...

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

I opt, rather, for being a mature adult who refuses to indulge in such a childish, reductionist view of reality.

I just used the Bluesky app on my iPad and am amazed at how profoundly crappy it is. How is this even possible? Even a hello world Flutter app can adapt to an iPad screen size. Is React Native really that shitty? I just don’t understand what framework could even produce something this bad.

Now to push through the Death Stranding 2 post game to get that sweet Platinum. Often my least part of a game, just it’s always nice to have the closure that a platinum gives.

This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

realistic Star Trek

The Japan-only Cowboy Bebop game for PS2 has just been fan translated by SONICMAN69.

In late game Death Stranding 2, you really start to miss the days when you were delivering orders to The Data Scientist.

I could use this headline to salt an NYC pretzel

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

I’m one of those folks who actually prefer dubs because I love and respect the work that goes into localization. I think with most things people use AI for, there’s an artisan somewhere being displaced (at a lower quality). Very few uses are actually doing mundane things that no one wants to do.

🤔 What’s a good term to describe someone who gives more concern to the word used to describe the destruction of women, children, hospitals, water supplies and all means to support human life than to the ethical responsibility to care even a little bit about the unspeakable human suffering.

The thing about genocide is if you have to ask whether it’s happening then whatever is happening is so fucking bad that it doesn’t much matter what word we use to describe it.

Made a post last year and I repeat what I said. I wish the average person would get as outraged over AI and machine translation as they seem to over AI art. Both are art. Both take skill and years of study/training.

Before playing, I put on the 90’s commercial for the kids to get them psyched up.

I realized the other day that this gem from my childhood was recently reproduced.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

It’s wild how some people become richer than god by vomiting out the most mundane first-day-of-kindergarten science fiction ideas while many of the best science fiction writers of the generation can’t afford to write full time.