grrgyle
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- Comment on The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory 4 hours ago:
I remember waiting for my parents to drive by street lights so could unpause and kind of make out the screen. Really I was just walking Link around the beaches of Koholint collecting rupees until I maxed out. Then I’d buy lots of bombs and stuff, use those, then repeat the process.
Sigh. Good times…
- Comment on Hey.. 2 days ago:
Good guy brain
- Comment on Socialist megacorps 2 days ago:
You know what I say we try it. If democracy’s so great, why don’t we get a vote at work?
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 2 days ago:
It felt weirder to me a few years ago. But over time a just vaguely identifiable character for 2010 to 2019 has emerged when I think of that decade.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 3 days ago:
Found one: codeberg.org/mister_monster/YouTube2Peertube
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 3 days ago:
Same until I got a bicycle
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 3 days ago:
I like to read until I hit a noun, then look to see what community this it was posted to, then kinda riff it from there.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 3 days ago:
It’s also always been the way that the people who actually clicked the link get to come into the comments and be frustrated at us for being legitimately wrong.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 3 days ago:
I can kinda see it, though he’s not my cup of tea. I like my videos a bit more essay-like and a bit more serious mode.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 3 days ago:
Even just mirroring.
Is there a tool already that makes it easy to upload to both? Idk, I haven’t uploaded a video since like the 10s
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 3 days ago:
Pour one out for the back of my calves. Every summer I forget.
- Comment on Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not. 4 days ago:
Yeah that level of pain is not normal.
Apparently sometimes they just go away, or so I found out when I took running back up ( middle aged), so that’s something.
There might be treatments, too idk. Shin exercises help.
- Comment on Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not. 5 days ago:
Shin splints. I thought running just hurt, and we all had to put up with it.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 6 days ago:
TIL I look quite a bit like 2 LA cops in particular
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 week ago:
Yeah! It’s like just considering these things is fun and enriching. You might let yourself get swept away in the fantasy a bit, but ultimately you’re telling yourself different stories.
So they only ever feel like stories, and not like, a whole to paradigm that you’re going to flash your BIOS with rofl. Just maybe run it in a sandbox/cgroup and see if anything actually fun or inspiring comes out.
Pardon the opaque metaphors.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 week ago:
And writing, particularly editing, requires considering multiple possibilities and disregarding the bad ones.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 week ago:
Yeah I remember loving all that conspiracy, X-Files, Umberto, past lives, lost cities, etc etc — all that stuff. But scratch at any of it and it’s always some of the dullest, unimaginative reactionary bullshit just a hair’s width below the surface.
Not to stereotype, but reminds of prison where everyone complains about capitalism without actually using that word (probably different now), but talk to them for more than 30 minutes annnnnd yup that’s antisemitism again. Fucking hell.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 week ago:
Not everyone who doesn’t understand ai is a troll, and there are legitimate reasons to want to avoid using it, even when it is useful. I’ve got you both tagged as “cool” on my client so I’m assuming you’re both capable of chillness.
Not to high horse you, but maybe a little bit; the internet is a nice place when you don’t immediately assume trolling because someone disagrees with you.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 week ago:
Oh my god that’s so cool I wish I’d thought of it. It’s similar to this idea I’ve been mulling over about a world where areas are fixed/dynamic based on how certain people are about them. But that is a better implementation than anything I sketched up.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 week ago:
Also look at how FB et al can’t even keep themselves from tracking you all over the internet using all kinds of clever engineering engineering beyond plain cookies.
If it actually becomes ubiquitous, the ability to tie all the anonymous impressions to one person is too tempting for surveillance ghouls.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 week ago:
Thank you. For once I don’t have to be that person.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 week ago:
Spicy, but I love that take
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 week ago:
Yeah really. They should be more like campuses funding a hundred small teams each trying to make something they’re individually passionate about. Hell, even give them the IPs to play with and see what they come up with.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 week ago:
Fear of failure becomes self fulfilling, yeah. You get so worried about making the wrong move and losing money that you can have your spotlight stolen by a challenger doing it fresher for 1/10th the budget.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 1 week ago:
Read the article, you say? What a radical notion.
- Comment on Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough 2 weeks ago:
Could also mean being too loud.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s just meaningless factoids to me now.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 2 weeks ago:
My theory is that it offers a simple scapegoat …
That’s my intuition too. In my experience, adopting AI mostly has lead to marginally faster MVPs, balooning sloc in PRs, and an explosion of wildly unqualified people applying for tech roles and sometimes even getting them.
It’s a better kind of nihilistic business story to say that LLMs have been so disruptive, that people are getting fired, rather than investors are scared and greedy and are just being guided around by vibes and their amygdalae right now.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 2 weeks ago:
What you’re doing is the secret sauce already, you’re just missing luck. Obviously take whatever job you need to pay rent in the meantime, but if you keep it up then I think you’ll get something eventually.
It is the worst time in all of history to be a software developer looking for work, so don’t internalise it.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 2 weeks ago:
I think we’re going to see a big shift towards small to medium IT/dev companies, and a ton of freelancers. I’m one of those, because I’m about to start doing IT work for businesses in my small town.
My friend is a townie, and he does this. Actually, we’ve been musing about putting our lot in together, since I usually work for the corp outfits, except I can’t find fuck all lately in the 9-5 realm.