Movies and video games are ridiculous accomplishments. A team of people wanted you to feel something so badly they built an entire world for you to inhabit; adjusting every detail of how that world is presented to help you feel the same way. It's one of the most human things we do. I love it
I recall a poetry prof from another life, who said that you're not a writer if you don't love words, and I don't think you love words if you're letting a computer pick them for you.
the Budweiser wassup guys call to us from a lost society
most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.
Came here hoping someone else's brain immediately started playing the song when reading the OP. 🙏👍
Oops, finger slipped and I reposted this random Dune fact.
People like to pretend in indie game dev that some areas of the project are more creative than others, but EVERY area requires creativity.
Obviously art/writing/music are creative, but so is coding. Marketing has to be creative, and so does community management.
You have to be creative everywhere.
Sometimes I take a break from being incredibly angry about all that’s going on to just be sad and grieve for a while. It’s like CrossFit.
Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"
Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again
“You want it to be one way, but it’s the other way” could be the defining phrase of our era
Douglas Adams said it best:
“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.
Look at my opposition party dawg
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free
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at last we have invented the computer that draws paranoid conspiratorial connections, from Unberto Eco’s classic Do Not Become Addicted To The Computer That Draws Paranoid Conspiratorial Connections
Oh scratch that, I'm a 4! As for my reading comprehension skills...
I would be absolutely chuffed to get up to a 6, but I'm thankful I at least have a 2 under my belt 🤷♂️
i cant believe giving all the money to the job destroying machine that doesnt work and putting huge tarrifs on goods while sending the gains to offshore accounts didnt work
So this Anthropic study found that using AI coding tools made people learn less, debug worse, and didn't make them significantly faster at all.
Funny how these supposed amazing AI benefits never seem to show up in studies.
New! Unity code snippets for a UI Toolkit-based Software Cursor that works with Gamepad and Mouse simultaneously 👍
The job of "influencer" has always struck me as the very deepest circle of hell. It's basically a *recipe* for burnout & mental illness. It's just so dystopian that young people see it as one of the few viable remaining careers.
if you don’t live in a temperate climate you might not know that during heavy snowstorms the snow particles can reflect light and fill even the darkness of night with an eerie luminance some old-timers still refer to as the Shovelman’s Gloaming
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
One big problem with the world is how few people in power I can imagine sitting down and reading a book
Super mario bros movie : generic kids movie held up by cameos and references Original mario bros movie with bob hoskins : avante garde cyberpunk film about a dystopian capitalist society bent ln genociding inferior species, brought down by two blue collar men
You know what tho
really the only way humanity is still here all these glaciations later is that tribulations do not end us entirely, too many of us faced with the very end of ropes go fuck it we ball
And to be clear I don’t think that means an entire generation is screwed or full of bad people, in fact I think a lot about the kids who are trying to do their best and be moral in a world that teaches them to be immoral