This, unfortunately.

Imagine Dragons seems like the new Nickelback, to boot. Feels like everyone's going to bandwagon against anything they do.

Pretty tired of "fantasy people being racist to each other" in my fantasy games.

Class war infighting isn't fantasy.

Show me people communicating and banding together and being NICE to each other while we all fight the dragon hoarding all the gold. That's fantasy.

All of my favorite games are 7/10 games.

Final Fantasy XI
Outward
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Project: Gorgon

The only exception now is Final Fantasy Tactics. The PSX release has some 7/10 "difficult-to-recommend" issues, but TIC is just perfection in a box.

There are two types of 7/10 games:

- Competent but uncompelling
- Compelling but incompetent

The former are forgettable, and the latter are timeless masterpieces adored by the niche that clicks with it.

It's awful.

LLM context "harness" is clearly being used as a noun. The idea that a stack of canned prompts can keep it from doing harm is laughable.

Maybe someone thought they were being smart and trying to double-play "harness" as a verb to utilize potential.

CEO challenged us to show our claude code plugins.

I'm stuck in the "show me all your vscode extensions" phase of performative LLM configurations.

I learned the new in-group definition of "harness" earlier this week and none of these people seem to grasp that it's just a stack of canned prompts.

Workshopping a theory:

If your art makes masc men feel safe being vulnerable (crying), they will bond to it and cherish it forever.

See:
Final Fantasy VII
Expedition 33
Fullmetal Alchemist
Where the Red Fern Grows
... actually most dog stories
Every war movie with climactic death(s)

Reddit screenshot of a thread in r/beetlemoses subreddit asking for best “beetle moses faces”. Example included is a screaming frog from one of my comics hahaha

Two more faces, shocked Tiktaalik, person happy they don’t have work because the Cloverfield monster is wrecking the city

Bewildered swordfish being caught by little girl, oblivious big headed shark looking over its shoulder

Fisherman gobsmacked at rare squid in horrific fit, hyena staring at his friend in class

Great thread happening rn on r/beetlemoses right now

I make money.

None of it from gamedev, mind you.

It's gross. Just an awful hellscape where misinformation is monetized.

I, for one, love the hell of the content mill and engagement algorithm pendulums. No positive feeling can be allowed to live.

Did you know that Tears of the Kingdom is actually bad and everyone hates it?

Dragon Quarter in underrated speaks to my soul. Wild Arms XF in criminally overlooked and Lufia 2 in retro omg.

For existing daily engineering work, I have seen and produced workflows that improve both rigor and velocity, but nothing at a scale that even vaguely merits the insane amount of resources propping it up.

The recent stuff with Mythos is emergent capabilities that exceed any human experts in the field of security.

It's finding security vulnerabilities humans couldn't expose, but those CVEs wouldn't be a concern if the tool didn't exist.

"Solving a problem we created" isn't a point in their favor.

Ikr. Like the things has viable use cases in code. Testing is one of the worst.

But devs hate writing tests, so they gleefully abdicate.

The number of times I hear my peers in SWE say they're making an LLM responsible for automating tests...

You mean the thing that's famous for:
- expect(true).toBe(true)
- echo "Tests passed successfully!"

You're making that thing responsible for our testing infrastructure?

Frieren floating in mid-air at night with a giant moon behind her. She's wielding a large staff.

One in eight anime men believe they could defeat Frieren in a match duel.

Same! I love them so much it was one of the first things I made for mine. I'm going for something a little more BoF3 with mine, where it's a screen used semi-regularly during play.

But are you Dancing Mad?

I still think about this game a lot, for some reason. Have you played it recently? I can't remember enough to know if the nostalgia I have for it is merited.

I've considered replaying it many times.

As someone who still dips into FFXI on a near-annual basis, Project: Gorgon is one of the best experiences I've had with an mmo in the last decade.

Esoteric and confusing, full of horizontal progression, and grindy in a meditative way.

Thank you forever for this Phoenix Wright analogy. Now I can just imagine him yelling "Objection!!!" every time a conversation goes this direction, and it will feel a million times better.

As much as DPS reads as a dick-measuring metric to me, the one that icks me most is "nuker" for mage classes.

Americans treat this really awful word with stupid levity, and on a game server shared with actual Japanese players, of all places.

FFXI was my first, and it only predates WoW by 1 year for western audiences. I only technically played EQ as a little girl. Probably never logged more than 8 hours on it total.

Am old. Can confirm.

This is what they were called in FFXI, too. And EQ, even? I have assumed that DD was the norm until WoW meter addons standardized DPS as a competitive metric.

"DPS" has already read to me an acronym rooted in dick-measuring because the first place I encountered it was WoW raiding.

Sorry for long multi-post. I have clearly given this a lot of thought. 😅

I could tell some of them were afraid they might not like it and it would hurt my feelings, and that fear colored every minute of their time with it.

How you engage with art changes everything about how it touches you, and something about the IRL friendship made it impossible for them to immerse.

None of them showed any disrespect.

For some, I think they wanted to enjoy it, but because they know me and respect me they felt obligated to experience it in some unnatural way that doesn't reflect how they read strangers' works.

I tried really hard to understand why none of my irl friends enjoyed reading it, because it was discouraging. Beta readers called it the next breakout debut. It's an awesome book, and only one draft shy of being fantastic.

But irl friends never made it past the first 8 chapters.