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Bill 1d ago

@Texan_Reverend I'm guessing you've seen this, but if not, just letting you know. 🙄

Bill 1d ago

deer witch 2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yurisizov/116240441023829664

Your reminder that realism is not a universal creative goal. In fact, realism is rarely the most important art goal, even when it hits the list.

Anyone telling you a machine’s realism matters more than human agency and human choices in creation doesn’t understand what they’re working (read: fucking) with.

This is soul crushing.

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Bill 5d ago

@glyph You do what you can. I made my line "directly embedded is what gets me off of the stuff", because otherwise I'd go insane trying to find solutions to the problem.

same

don't forget: pain is temporary, but duke nukem is forever, doom is eternal and halo is infinite.

reminder that Archipelago exists and is absolutely incredible:

https://archipelago.gg/

it lets you create “multiplayer games” where you and your friend play two completely different singleplayer games and find items for each other in your games

for example I could be playing Doom ‘93 and instead of getting the super-shotgun and a soulsphere, I might find the PokeFlute and some rare candies for my friend playing Pokemon

and then they might be exploring a cave and find the BFG and the red key for E1M4

I can’t believe that something like this can exist. and there are a surprising number of supported games too

Archipelago

Bill Feb 17

J. L. Westover Feb 17

Secret Panel HERE 🌼 https://tapas.io/episode/3729169

Bill Feb 14

AJ Sadauskas Feb 14

Recently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.

And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.

I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.

But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.

Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.

Which is increasingly a rare thing online.

Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.

What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.

And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub

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Bill Dec 15

@esbylion Because Windows is getting noticeably worse as time goes by? With the potential to brick your computer out of nowhere as these shitty AI-coded updates get sent out.

You don't even need to do a full switch if you don't want to. You can have multiple partitions with different OSes on them (that's my current setup, for the very few things I can't do on Linux). Options are good in case of emergencies.