erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social
Games for computers. Just finished ☄️Go Mecha Ball☄️: https://t.co/DzRqWvFIVR
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roko's vaselisk
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Behold!
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(It emulates real well, though! I've been playing it on Deck and it hates me as much and as hard and as good as ever)
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I will do it for 20 quid an hour if that's what it takes
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(I don't actually hate The Apps that much because they work for me, but I do despise the principle behind them of making human relationships something you consume, the way they've become this ambient qualification scheme that very nearly preclude organic encounters, the commoditization of the self)
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On a sort of macropsychosexual level, a lot of tech makes sense as 5D revenge of the nerds, the most prominent example being how Tinder and all the other dating apps just utterly and completely shattered dating and romance and turned it into a dog-eat-dog sexual marketplace hellscape for monsters
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What if computer was friend and not enemy 🤔
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Imagine how many businesses are gonna blow themselves up, tailspin into PR quagmires, just totally alienate their customers and audiences because the dime store Pat Batemans at the top finally get to spew their unfiltered worldview onto eyeballs accustomed to more refined and rounded horseshit
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ECS works, for sure, it's just a question of whether it is particularly useful as an overarching paradigm. I don't mind it, but it solves a very particular class of problems that not every game needs solved.
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Yeah, just got back in the saddle
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Aye, congrats! Will have to check out the trailer after work ❤️😎
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Dette har ekstremt sterk bestemor-energi
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Eh, we don't really have a functional www any longer, everything is just a shittened up fork of an open-source protocol used to access some totally commoditized service. What websites do I use? BlueSky, the orange site, uh ... yeah
It's over, man, we fucked it up. Time for a new dream.
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Oh, and if you are tempted to think "yeah but why would media undermine its own credibility by publishing absolute fucking horseshit", remember these are the people who decided to give away everything for free, then pivot to video and now have to write 50 pieces a day about Trump and Musk to survive
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The idea that it's somehow sophisticated or intellectual to have an opinion about every-goddamn-thing even as your sources of information are known purveyors of absolute fucking horseshit is another myth that really ought to be investigated a little bit more closely. You can just shrug too, it's ok.
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There's a tendency for even critical people to be selective about what they consider absolute fucking horseshit in media, and I suggest that you should be careful about that. You don't need to have an opinion right away. You can wait for critical dissent to appear and even for scholarship to emerge.
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The media is pretty aware that the PR drivel they're pushing at your eyeballs is complete and utter tripe, but it doesn't matter, because it's cheap material that generates engagement and buys them relevance and authority. Consider what other topics and issues offer similar incentives and benefits.
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Kind of fascinated by modern Hearthstone because it's a timed resource-optimization puzzle with huge uncertainty margins due to heavy-handed randomity. It's a game that operates on a statistical scale, and that's kind of its charm, so I think it works. It's a game of skill over time, not every time.
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To add to this, film producers appear perfectly able to read a script and tell that it'd make a decent movie, but most people outside dev are unable to judge a prototype. I get that paper pitches are unviable, I agree, but the business side of games appears strikingly unable to extrapolate.
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Self-funding what amounts to a vertical slice. If more funding partners would have the competence to review greyboxed games with in-place but unpolished gameplay, everything would be so much more straightforward.
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plus i am 100% certain that there will not be bad outcomes at all for the debilitatingly disabled once 65% of the population identifies as disabled because they are bad at something, no way trivializing and redefining disability as failure to consume as per personal preference or aspiration
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Gonna need a neck brace to stop my head shaking after reading that take. New standard for galaxy brain shit.
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👌
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Greit, har et helt enkelt og konkret spørsmål: Hvilket formål tjener det egentlig å heve seg over andre land og stater? Hva oppnår man? Hva er det ønskede utfallet?
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Jeg synes ikke vesten har allverdens moralske autoritet lenger. Vi har sveket prinsippene vi forfekter for å opprettholde stadig mindre vellykkede økonomiske og politiske doktriner, og heller enn å konfrontere disse problemene velger vi å etablere eksterne fiendebilder så vi kan forherlige oss selv.
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Det må være behagelig å besitte slik moralsk klarhet.
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Det er nokså usofistikert å drepe dem, langt mer praktisk å sørge for at de som støtter statlige overgrep flyter til toppen og blir toneangivende i den offentlige diskursen. Uansett er vi nok enige i at Russland er et utrivelig sted — spørsmålet er om vi egentlig er så mye bedre.
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Ikke for å være vrien, men betyr det at NRK, BBC og andre statlige kringkastingskanaler også er suspekte og bør unngås av for eksempel akademikere?
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just level up a few times and you will soon evolve into portly
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🥲
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I doubt a serious racing sim afficionado has a wheeled racing seat. In the case of "gamer chairs", they're an offshoot of racing seats, and their origin just might be "hey what if we plop this racing sim seat on castors and sell it to nerds?"
Even Herman Miller got into the game, albeit tastefully.
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(Feels like the pernicious effects of Digital Foundry, who should stick to doing videos about optimized settings for low and mid-range hardware and stop pretending they have any fucking clue about anything else, and PARTICULARLY end their habit of dwelling on incidental prop texture resolution)
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Is this really a meme now? I've started getting served vids on YouTube by charlatans who rabble-rouse with technobabble and pretend that real-time graphics is somehow regressing by cherry-picking peak baked lighting and comparing it to early ray-tracing. Are actual game developers falling for that?
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The international version is a real hidden gem! I don't know how I ended up owning that in the late 90s, but I did and boy did that leave a mark on angsty alienated dark and brooding mid-teens me. Also introduced me to Aphex Twin by way of At The Heart Of It All. Thank you, Trent Reznor <3
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👏👏👏