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Watching Summer Games Fest?
Looking for a slower chat, and positive games-loving humans?
Velora / Kick / Twitch
Youtube / BEAM
Me and @Andrep433 will be live on them all!
Although we are doing a 2K DualFormat stream on twitch. Crisp Strimmers.

Zigarot 1d ago

3 indie games that you should know about, which one excites you? Wishlist it!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1540720/Forgery_Craft/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1805110/Solarpunk/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2004680/Voidling_Bound/
#ForgeryCraft #SolarPunk #VoidlingBound #indiegames #gaming #fyp #thankyou

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Zigarot 6d ago

So many apps freak out, desktop environments hate it, but it's the premier way to view email, web content, and stack many small landscape windows

Zigarot 6d ago

Vertical Second Monitor is ahead of it's time.
#frontierPCExplorer #landscapeIsForNormies #MyNeckHurts #siriRemindMeNotToWallMountItTooHigh

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Zigarot May 28

To be clear, I'm not anti-"AI". Machine learning is great, and has been advancing for over 50 years. It's this corporate greed mandate that's ruining what is otherwise an amazing breakthrough (transformers) in machine / deep learning. I study engineering because of it.
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Zigarot May 28

Of course, medical software companies have a vested interest in your privacy, but in a world where medical records are leaked quite often, it's just another avenue of vulnerability, especially when some model providers use the data to "improve the product" lack transparency.
2/3

Zigarot May 28

Went to the GP, signs all over saying they were using "AI scribe" for note taking. Couldn't find that product, but found that there is no regulation for scribes yet. https://www.racgp.org.au/running-a-practice/technology/artificial-intelligence-ai/artificial-intelligence-ai-scribes
The wild west of "get our AI systems out now, no matter how sensitive the data is".
1/3

RACGP - Artificial intelligence (AI) scribes

An artificial intelligence (AI) scribe is a tool that can automate parts of the clinical documentation process for a medical practitioner

Zigarot May 27

Some interesting demographic data here, average age for games. As you might expect, us old grumps like our singleplayer strategies, while younguns enjoy them some friendslop. I wonder if that will transition with age, or if it's a tech availability thing - https://open.substack.com/pub/gamediscoverability/p/how-old-are-your-players-and-does

How old are your players, and does it matter for discovery?

A seldom-discussed angle. Also: some thoughts on agentic data access & the latest news.

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Zigarot May 23

You ever enter to experience a video games convention? You can do so from your own PC, in arguably one of the coolest experiences that happens each year... and it's this weekend! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4356840/Endix/

Steam：Endix

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Zigarot May 21

RE: bullet heaven (vs survivors-like) as a tag. I have come to agree that bullet heaven is a apt term. In bullet hell, you are dodging a screen full of particles. In bullet heaven, you are seeking to make a screen full of particles. But then we call it soulslike, not staminaRPG

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