The Dungeon Crawler Carl series really has no reason being as amazing as it is. On the surface, it should just be a silly set of books. The Earth has just ended because of aliens and a chunk of humans are fighting for their survival in an AI-controlled dungeon. OK, there's our TTRPG conceit.

But... then you realize you are reading a critique of capitalism and the horrible things it makes us do to survive. Suddenly, you care about silly characters. Characters you realize aren't nearly as silly as they let on.

I will also say, that the audiobooks are _amazing_. They are largely done by the one narrator, and folks thought he was using other actors without giving credit. I'm going to do the print reading too, because I know there are aspects I've missed with the audiobooks. (The audiobooks aren't really abridged, but there's at least one author's note that was left out of the audiobook).

I'd definitely recommend reading and/or listening to the DCC books.

Just had a brilliant insight, went to investigate further and it just... evaporated from my mind.

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https://old.reddit.com/r/rit/comments/1s3b3a0/extremely_obvious_ai_generated_email_for_the_new/

RIT's desire to chase any latest fad they think they can squeeze money out of donors and students with continues.

It's both pathetic and appropriate that it seems someone at RIT just asked chatGPT to write the email announcement for them.

https://github.com/cpan-authors/IO-Tty/pull/41/changes

So this asshole: https://github.com/toddr

Created an account to launder his Claude AI slop code: https://github.com/toddr-bot

So now an OpenBSD porter updates IO-Tty and it only compiles with clang. Not GCC. Neither the ancient GCC in base nor GCC 15.2.0 in ports.

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