Huh? I’m not saying the past was better, I’m saying the present is better. Stardew Valley is still #25 on the Steam top seller 100. Balatro, Factorio, Rimworld, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur, all proper no ai/nft/blockchain grift products by decent studios in the top 100. The top 2 spots are free-to-plays with various monetization schemes: Counter-Strike 2 & Dota 2. Not my cup of tea, but nevertheless: they’re from Valve. Valve is not exactly known for embracing genAI. It’s simply not gaining traction in the gaming world at the same speed it’s creeping up into Ubisoft & EA.
Because these specific two are growing increasingly irrelevant to the medium and they’re outliers compared to other studios. They’ve both been infamous for years for their exceptionally scummy practice. They’re literally the worst.
Come on y’all, would you lay off the gatekeeping. Some of us still think the free web’s a good thing, lest we all end up in a walled garden hellscape. JavaScript is therefore needed if we’re being pragmatic. Just transpile it from TypeScript if you’re too stuck up for dynamic languages building something big.
Similar “free-space optics” systems have been tested since the late 1990s, but past attempts were limited by weather conditions and fragile alignment systems. Taara claims its devices overcome many of those limitations with improved beam tracking and more resilient design.
They claim they’ve overcome that hurdle though, as per the article.
Is this a gay sex pun? Can’t I just say “gay sex”? I’ll just go and say gay sex.
I’ll cook some tuna salad and some kind of pasta ham dish tonight for the family. Cooking two meals for everyone to be happy and to get some varied leftovers for subsequent lunches.
I’m trying to not actually care about being known for anything in my life. I just wanna live it, no minmaxing.
I don’t care about driving and everyone/everything is trying to make me feel bad about it.
I want repairable things but nobody seems to care.
You sure are spending plenty of attention on defending that you don’t have attention to spend on this. We all vote with our wallets. There’s no opting out.
Bold move to still do hypocalypse after years of shoving chatbots into every single product possible and having no apocalypse to show for (or at least robopocalypse).
thank you so much for taking the time and for the kind words and for the video I was pretty curious of where the image came from it’s a lovely song Synthpop’s my cup of tea :3
Things have been weird at work and now I’m stuck in a downtime that’s killing me. I will therefore proceed to kill some time by making shit up based on this picture. I’m sorry. Y’all don’t have to read it really.
the alpha bet
It’s often stated that 1994 marked the end of History. I’ll not revive the pedantic (pathetic?) debate here whether the actual moment aught to be recognized as September 16th’s Ariel School sighting or as October 11th’s landings. This post is about what happened after, whatever that means today.
Humanity has experience with misunderstandings. What with languages, cultures and whatnot. The Babel tower myth and such. Trying to figure out what the cat wants. I’m hesitating to even mention conflicts between men and women out of pity for that miserable tired trope. Cynical resignation would more often than not be the best course of action; might as well get a laugh out of it before the shit hits the fan. I’d argue humanity had no clue how deep, how fundamental, how essential an utter absence of understanding could feel until now.
There was a sense of panic in the newsrooms attempting to cover the event as no image could be captured of the vessels despite their presence across the globe and in large numbers. There was no fancy electromagnetic whatchamacallit shenanigans going on. It just wouldn’t happen. Every single camera on the premises would fail to function for what was established in the coming days to be perfectly valid reasons. Literally millions of devices manifested over the course of a few hours various malfunctions mostly caused by manufacturing faults, as if by a coincidence of ludicrous proportions. A few hundreds were accidentally dropped.
I propose that the first to go try and meet them were the diplomats. You might think “Ha! You’re bonkers! There hasn’t been an actual diplomat for decades!” What if they retroactively “unhappened” just like a million factory fuckups “retroactively happened” on October 11th? Alright. Second were country officials. Yes, countries. In 1994. Sure I know about the great UN One Universality treaty but I don’t buy it. I mean come on. I can’t stand my own neighbour and you’d have me believe at some time in the second half of the twentieth century all country officials resigned in unison and collectively abolished frontiers? I don’t care that it’s textbook History. It’s not human.
Try and return to a normal mindset. One from before. Don’t you see it? How can you explain this eerie lack of communication attempts? Why is nobody going to knock at their door and say hello? How strange is it that our whole strategy hinges on last Thurdsday’s event at L’Olympia? A French childhood educator reading the alphabet in front of a packed audience? Is this really how humanity scientifically establishes understanding with an advanced alien species? Is that really our best bet?
While I was studying 25 years ago every student had bought an education version of Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 at the local shop, which was less than a 100$. In the meanwhile everybody was sharing a cracked copy of Adobe Photoshop since the only license available was upwards of 600$. They absolutely did that to themselves.
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I assure you it’s much easier gaming all day without touching EA or Ubi than it is rejecting gmail on a storefront.