teeeckskay.bsky.social
linguist, feminist, pop sentimentalist. sad singer, witch fiction writer, game designer, seldom fighter / oldschool tx melee player, protect our scene 💚💜🖤
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when i saw the flag in that game, it was like *oh* this game wants every single player to feel the way that i feel whenever i drive i-10 & 71 between houston & austin & see the flags multiply month over month. it uses that flag as a subtle signal of a sort of lurking horror meant to be universal
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—my standing opposition to "USA" chants in spectatorships & communities that i'm tied to, plus my general lack of love for US-nationalist imagery since childhood had hit a new ratchet point.
anyways, the imagery & symbols register as an active threat to everyth i care about tbh—idt "ick" covers it.
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the sparing of confederate imagery is what made me specifically take note, but the replacement with the normal stars & stripes rly hit me tbh.
there's additional context with elongated american flags used in Control to signal a somewhat sinister entity, but i think AW2 just landed at a time where—
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when commentators react to the same lil stuff that i react to it makes me :3
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People will resist ICE in various ways and i promise you nothing scares the state more than when the people who aren't out there throwing rocks at ICE trucks support the people who do.
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i feel like skull three rly captures the sensation of living here & now
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the table that darkrain kneed
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tripling the amount of curly parsley in the meat mix i think was really the breakthru on flavor here, it's soooo good
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yo that's the—wait a minute...
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big same. & especially cos my other game when i started competing in melee was quake, which obviously FPS is primarily online & i've also been close to the FGC over the years where they had their netplay migration long before melee's, like... there's really SO much you can tell is directly connected
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i work in public libraries; stamps are v cute & also authentic. we love stamps
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(that is, ik n0ne is joking but i wonder if he actually knows this about KJ64, cos i've met like 2 melee players in 20 years who do)
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i've been saying the bird could do it for years tho, so it's nice he got a set on the board this weekend. even saw ledgedash jumpshine pay off, which is an option i'm constantly reminding falcos about cos it's way underused vs assertive positioning
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:3
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it's an Abundance™ thing; ezra klein's been peddling fantasy in interviews about how Houston & Austin have "solved" housing via building deregulation—without any real knowledge of infrastructure, econ & life in these cities—to paint CA & NY as backwards losing to a red state on an ez one-facet issue
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@pipsqueaktv.bsky.social you're probly the biggest one here i suppose
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an LLM at its very theoretical best (& this is far beyond what a widely-available commercial chatbot is doing right now) can represent *some language* using ✨other language✨. with no concept of thinking, believing, feeling, remembering, information or meaning.
how can everyone believe in that
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you often agonize & are forced to settle for what you hope will be interpreted closely to what you are trying to express. you even tailor that expression based on the audience that will be interpreting it, using different words, tone, register. and you see your language fail & imperfectly succeed.
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it can't be worse than wong on wcg ultimate gamer but i also don't wanna be enbarrassed about melee by looking
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&& when you read smth like this www.politico.com/news/2025/05... how can you possibly care if someone exaggerates or even lies about some volume of water metaphor to try & dissuade LLM usage
it's all very deactivating to see i guess
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& there's even this growing (well-meaning?) trend laundering "don't spread misinfo" sentiment to "get real" about LLMs having use cases & the criticisms of environmental-cost-per-query being flawed, etc. when like the biggest misinfo is the entire concept of LLMs specifically outputting information
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like i'm noticing that everyth i read obviously makes me feel bad & sad & angry & a variety of negative things, but this is probly the only thing that makes me feel a particular type of hopelessness & there's not rly anyway i can see to like filter & mute around such an amorphous topic
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it just causes me misery to constantly see how even among diehard anti-AI ppl, *everyone* believes that LLMs like.... retrieve & even synthesize information. that "asking" gr*k if its core prompt has been tampered with gives you an "answer" & not like "plausible text". that battle is so fucking lost