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most roguelike elements are just "would you rather have 1$ or 2$" over and over again until you die

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry. 2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry. 2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry. 2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.

walking randomly in such a way that obstructs the path to a secret chest and you have no recourse but wait for ages

"An old bandleader friend of mine once told me, ‘You can’t vaudeville vaudeville,’ meaning the joke is much funnier if you play the real situation as opposed to playing the music funny. You pull the audience into the reality of the situation."

splitting the difference on ECS by having every entity run its own assembly-like language

in case you were looking for a middle age crisis that doesn't involve politics

i feel people conflate "i'm not allowed to dislike something" with "i'm not allowed to turn my dislike of something into content"

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

real gaming hours

Oh hey Hulu released the new King of the Hill intro I boarded

you gotta be faster

Daily bunny no.2971 has breached their containment

rpgs should be literally impossible to beat. they should release one that isn't beatable

boring: your choices influence the direction of the story good: your choices influence whether you get softlocked in the final dungeon

batman kicked my ass for calling his cave a grotto

first as tautology, second as farce

i tell ya, my wife is bi. yeah, she bi and i pay!

a good point. I would imagine most people would equal "conscious" with "thinks like a human does" - which, at the very least, covers self-awareness, introspection, abstraction, modeling of other minds, language and memory

DOMINOID is an arcade-styled puzzle game that will be available for bronze, silver, and gold patrons to download tomorrow on Patreon. We'll be releasing the game for free publicly in a few days after that (alongside a proper trailer and some downloadable goodies to go with it).

From the Archives — 2022 05 25-31 — Memoria: helveticablanc.com/20220526-mem... Wave: helveticablanc.com/20220531-wav...

r/ArtificialSentience is a forum dedicated to arguing that chatbots are probably alive in some fashion, which is a fascinating dynamic.

Some of my characters. Felt like doing somehting with a Pocket Fighter feel after puzzle binge. From left to right: Otus, Solus (Owlboy) The Alchemist (Savant Ascent) Donnie Friday, Mira (personal stuff) and the Vikings (Vikings on Trampolines)

that's what you get for stealing an android's wife

Can't think of a single time the MGM lion advanced the plot of the movie in any way. Just needless jump scare

It's the End of Evangelion Sale! Save on pain and suffering when you trade in your individual form.

the important thing to remember is that fred flinstone was first seen with a smart device in the flinstones & wwe stone age smackdown where fred used an ipad that was made of rock but on yabba dabba dinosaurs pebbles uses "wicky (wiki)" which is just a bird that comes out of a smartphone shaped rock

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

walkthrough for monster train 2: 1) use underlegion that's it

the US not only got foreign researchers but double-dipped; first by hosting dozens of jewish scientists that fled or were expelled by the nazi regime; and then, after the war, hiring the most proeminent nazi scientists

Mods are asleep, post Jack Hamm drapery lessons

From the sick mind of @benjaminsoule.bsky.social comes: 🎉 Serpentes: 10th Anniversary Edition 🍰 Snake, but every fruit has 5 effects assigned to it randomly. An update on Benjamin's brainmelting gem from 2015. Out now on Itch io for Windows, MacOS and Linux! 🐍 punkcake.itch.io/serpentes 🍒

Logged a Minecraft bug today

Oh my god

joni ernst OWNS liberal at debate with LOGIC