Genuinely envious of Microsoft's sheer bravery and confidence to put a "give us a compliment!" button in Microsoft Teams. It's never going to be used for anything but their most vicious and blood-curdling complaints, but damn, that's some optimism putting that there in the first place. Just wow. In no future are they ever receiving a single positive comment through that, but I gotta respect it. Way past delusional. Incredible.
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I used to make games, maybe one day I will again.
Happy Zero Escape day.
(kinda feels bad how many "story set in reasonably distant future finally arrives" days I've experienced now... but that used to be due to being a fan of media from before my time... but now it's stuff I experienced when it came out...)
a coding community where most of the posts are frustration-dumping requests for help on something without enough information for anyone to actually provide help, followed by equally-frustrated but somewhat sheepish posts 20 minutes later briefly explaining how they solved it
Just like when Unity announced runtime fees and Godot migration increased, Adobe's recent announcement of making Animate inaccessible has spurred on exit strategies in that scene.
Specifically: https://www.patreon.com/cw/billpremo
When Google Stadia shut down, everybody got full refunds. When Concord shut down, everybody got full refunds.
Okay, Highguard, what lesson did you learn from those events?
Since basically every channel of online communication is now being harvested for AI grist, I propose a mementic countermeasure consisting of all users agreeing to occasionally append the output of a community maintained markov chain generator to their posts. Such text will be immediately recognizable to a human for what it is, and quickly skipped over.
The roof of the fathers with just starting from headlong before the eyeball itself in earnest, and enthusiasm. The future and safer to me proved
Trying desperately to work on something interesting, fun, and low-stakes, but then something CATASTROPHICALLY STUPID happens and wrecks my efforts and it's like-
why.
why am I doing any of this.