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Indie game generalist at Aetheric Games some of the time, and game dev lecturer at Edinburgh College other times. Undercover, queerly neurospicy nerd, attempting to infiltrate the normals with a big coat and a fake moustache. https://aetheric-games.com
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if Deanna Troi can do it then anyone can
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I deleted my answer because I realised I had the problem backwards. 😅
You'd probably need a formula to count the occurances of each, and then make a plot of that. =CountIf, I think?
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Defo. We've got the "I can't do until it's too late, but then I slay it anyway" thing going on.
But as a neurospicy teacher of neurospicy teens, I'm seeing the genAI users among them are only mastering the first part and not the slay.
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To paraphrase something I read somewhere yesterday, LLMs learned how to apologise from internet apology posts, and that 100% checks out.
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If you need the details of the source, it's this: store.steampowered.com/app/734120/B...
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(If it matters, this is from my short game Bonbon, the section where I force the player to sit still and listen to me read them a creepy bedtime story for like 3 whole unskippable minutes. You have my full permission to use it as you like.)
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(Watching in person is totally different for me. It's useful and fun! But on stream, it's too anxiety-provoking.)
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I can't stomach it.
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I've also seen ads that show the genAI getting something very wrong and the user uncritically accepting it. I think it's like spelling/grammar mistakes in a scam email - an idiot filter.
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Had dinner in a small Greek restaurant, literally back-to-back with Simon Pegg. It was crammed.
After, the waiter said he didn't know who he was but he knew he was very famous in the UK. This was in, like, 2004? So he wasn't that famous. Methinks someone had exaggerated a bit.
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Dunno Steve. That sounds like some gender essentialism to me. Women can swing their dicks around just as much as men can be caring and empathetic. If we had less Mars and Venus talk, we'd be a step closer to freeing *everyone* from the oppression of patriarchy, including men.
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I doubt this is the answer, but you reminded me of On The High Marsh, one of the stories in Tales From Earthsea. It has a few similarities.
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I am deep into at least three projects that should all really be past the "do not percieve me" stage, and yet
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strange consonance... I was literally planning to look this guy up today after he was mentioned by some podcast lads talking about The Repairer of Reputations.
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I think if you work out a new set-up, and replace the punchline, this joke could be great.
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it wouldn't be polite to say... :D but GDScript is definitely to be read in the same tone as "Material Function" (MF) in Unreal
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The SH2 remake was an excellent example of what a modern remake should be. It improved some things that needed it, and made some difficult design choices. People will complain about anything.
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I feel like even as far back as space year 1990, these big thinkers should have known the difference between feminism and misandry.
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Don't know whether mom is alive or just gone, but maybe she has a new husband, and Jareth has more in common with him than with dad.
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I espouse the metaphorical reading that Jareth is an older boyfriend that her parents don't approve of.
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also, I just second using labellers/moderators in general.
@skywatch.blue is another strong rec
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seconding this ☝
I very rarely see any on here
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Pearls before swine.
(I'm the swine.)
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well, this is clearly a picture of the Lob Angeles Cruft-vow
totally different thing
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Race isn't the same thing as genetics, ya dingus.
A clever boy like you ought to know that race is a socially constructed discriminant, much like that big number you're flapping around there.
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damn, that could actually work!
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If my opinion is "these people should be eradicated," and yours is "nah leave them alone," are we gonna meet in the middle? What does that mean? Eradicate half of them, or half-eradicate all of them?
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Oh, I forgot to include "actively generating cash and future income for extremist and hate-driven campaign groups." That too, yeah?
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What, you mean they should all be "getting paid, whitewashing their reputations, creating false equivalence, and demonstrating tacit approval of transphobia," all at the same time?
And you're saying this with a rainbow in your profile pic?
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If you hold that all evil deeds are inhuman, then you're saying that true humanity is incorruptible. That's how you end up with people thinking that whatever bad things they do can only be right, or even that people who do otherwise are sub-human.
You punch the nazi to make them stop.
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Who said it wasn't? I don't think that
[recognising that cruelty is perpetrated by people who have been corrupted by systems of oppression]
&
[doing something about it]
are mutually exclusive. Stopping fascism, or any kind of harm, will only go so far if you're not willing to examine its causes.
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Look! Lifeforms have emerged in my universe and evolved into 100-300 game dev contractors. As their creator, I will allow them to contribute to my solo project.
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Yep. Cruelty is the point, but even the world's worst person thinks their cruelty is necessary.
It doesn't excuse/justify their actions, but if we can't see the monster is made of humans, that's bad for *us*.
Can't fight back if you're caught in the despair trap. *That's* the point of the cruelty.
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