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game dev. Middle-aged ASD diagnosee.
Writing credits: Hellgate: London, Shroud of the Avatar, La Mulana EX

日本語もおkだぉ

NC native

personal account where I am probably mean
I'm probably blocking you, so get it all out of your system

githubhttps://github.com/bferguson3
demos and jamshttps://barelyconsciousgames.itch.io/
old dev bloghttps://barelyconsciousgames.blogspot.com
old c64 tutorialshttps://c64mac.wordpress.com/

Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/activists-are-designing-mesh-networks-to-deploy-during-civil-unrest/

Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.

VICE

tired: ranting about hades

wired: replaying transistor for the 11th time

Any fans of Dragon Quest about? I have this official metal slime phone charm/screen cleaner (still sealed) that I got around the time of DQ8's launch and I was wondering if anyone (in the UK) would like to trade it for something interesting/cool amstrad related? #dragonquest #dq #gaming #trade #jrpg
Oh boy, the Mansplaining Olympics are wild this year.
I watched a YouTube video of someone using Vibe coding to make a game with AI. 45 mins in and it was running but spewing out error after error. The presenter finally went in an fixed the errors by hand requiring a lot of time and knowledge. I watched the whole thing like someone staring at a traffic accident.
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Here's Jerry Wayne Longmire's sketch from his tictok, which I managed to download. Enjoy!

Luigi is charged as a terrorist for tagging a CEO, but a man who targeted 3 individuals, including 2 senators, is not charged as a terrorist.

Do you guys see it now? Yet?

HURR DURR I PLAY PC GAMES WITH UNCAPPED FRAMERATE BECAUSE IM SMART
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@beep me too, hayao miyazaki, me too
@kayserifserif he speaks for you, for me, for so many of us

@beep "AN INSULT TO LIFE ITSELF!"

Never truer words spoken

#HayaoMiyasaki #AI

@Lazarou @beep
Naps are crucial for balance.
@beep the best nap of his life, while AI work
@beep Two guys who have no idea why people don't use AI, published a few pages from a deep dive into all the people who have gone mad and become suicidal when ChatGPT convinced them the world isn't real and they can jump off buildings.
@beep name.one person who uses "#AI" unsarcastically...
@beep That's an insulated bubble headline if I have ever seen one.
I would assume the article is LLM slop, because the fictional writer would be someone who uses LLm slop for everything.
@beep today in the final middle-school exam a student of mine has brought the exact first four lines of the boilerplate AI answer of a google search for that topic. Sadly, neither google nor the student had any idea that the paragraph the AI had vomited had nothing to do with the painting they were supposed to write about. It just so happened that the title of that painting has very different meaning in different context (I know, wild). Neither the student nor the AI seemed to care.
@beep embrace the future (enshittification through incompetence)
@beep @nullagent Reminds me of the Iraq War WMD discourse. No, not “everybody”, silly groupthinking NYT.
@beep: That headline is a rare exception to Betteridge's Law, even if I suspect from the source that it's a defence of LLM slop.
@beep I don't need to read for 9 minutes to answer that question lmao