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the number of places you can eat at went from like 99% of restaurants to like 97% because of vegan places opening up. youre not a victim here.

this is where millennial optimism comes from. now its just millennial naïveté unfortunately

another day in rfk’s america

am is a must for driving in the mountains of ca during the winter

the Effective Altruists / Effective Accelerationists / Rationalists that started OpenAI and Anthropic are cult members anyways. Rolling Stone reported this in 2024. WIRED reported about the murderous sect in 2025.

the guy who made the rounds last week about the 10% chance of killing us is one of the key figures in the Rationalist movement. his fear is stemmed in religious fervor, not socioeconomic equity.

these people have always been deeply unwell.

ive personally found LLM coding to be pretty effective if i adhere to very strict “engineering best practices” like TDD, good documentation, thorough API design, systems design, etc.

im very afraid that the next generation of software engineers will never develop the skills needed to make the most out of it because they skipped the rudiments of good software engineering.

to me it feels like playing jazz without learning scales. it’s possible to be an incredible jazz musician without formal training if you’re a savant… but you’re probably not.

it doesnt really adhere to any pixel grid. many pixel artists also dont adhere to a grid, but ai REALLY doesnt.

if you’re just trying to play old games, nearly all of them are capable enough to run emulators up to ps1. pick the one that supports the controls you want or is in the form factor you find the most comfortable.

so many people on r/retrohandhelds fall into the trap of turning these shovelware devices into their hobby and owning like 15 of them. you need one… the rest are e-waste.

pyre was a wild swing and i love it for that. there’s no other game like it. wizard basketball visual novel that tries to convey the bittersweetness of letting go and moving on?? incredible stuff

a friend of mine sent me a video of dystopian fiction, he was saying something like “ai is gonna be so cool” and i got so angry

in broad strokes youre right, but the palworld designs are so egregiously ripped off.

ive done this on small parts with an AMS and it works well for snug joints, except on a single-nozzle setup the contamination weakened the part too much. if you have multiple nozzles, this is a great idea IMO

witchfire is in early access but it’s a single player extraction shooter that kicks ass. gunplay on par with bungie imo

vscodium is pretty toothless compared to the first-party vscode builds. i forget the exact details, i think i was having issues with the dev container plugins not working at all.

i’ve been using zed.dev with all of the AI features turned off and its been nice. it’s probably a matter of time before they enshittify too, but for now i’m enjoying it.

imo this and the enshittification of games are symptoms of the same root cause. games are too big and expensive now. one auteur on a 1000 person team can’t have the same level of impact as one auteur on a 10 person team. they definitely have fewer opportunities to develop their reputation/skill/style on big teams

yes, i think flappy bird had a really elegant onboarding/tutorial:

1. main menu screen, tap to start
2. the tap flaps the bird
3. you fall to the ground, learning that you need to repeatedly tap to fly
4. before any obstacles appear, you get some time to calibrate your rhythm
5. obstacles start appearing and the game starts

if it helps, iirc the image on the right was made in a circlejerk subreddit making fun of chuds, but then it got taken seriously by real chuds on twitter

this is an impossible question. mmbn has unique gameplay and a grassroots pvp scene. mmz is the mega man 2d platforming formula perfected.

no depressed millennial has any self respect to begin with

i dont think any journalist, especially a technology journalist, should be using AI summaries in any capacity as part of their research. i’m glad he owned up to it but this should be a career damning event.