(Are we out of the yearly window for ludonarrative dissonance discourse? Am I allowed to post this?)
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I also think this is true of sports, especially spectator sports. A professional hockey game is a story generator. The story of a hockey game emerges from the interactions of the players' performances.
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Gameplay, but I think this is really a false dichotomy. The gameplay IS the story; games are a story generation medium, not a story presentation medium, and I think trying to use them as a presentation medium tends to be inefficient.
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My kingdom for a goddamn article that says how to do something in a piece of software and not a YouTube video
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I had one of those exam nightmares last night about taking an exam that I didn't study for, but this one was unusual. I dreamt that I got an email seemingly from the university saying that my exam had been rescheduled, but the email was wrong and it actually hadn't, so I was there on the wrong day!
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I've seen a recurring sentiment that code formatting is something that should be automated so that you don't have to think about it. I think that's probably fine for new code, but I'm wary of it in big legacy codebases because it can make the line-by-line history of a file harder to access.
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It turns out you can very easily amuse a baby by putting a coin in an empty metal coffee can and swirling it around so it makes a swooshing noise
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If you are an outsource company and you write to me and I don’t reply, and you write again and use the line “silence looks like a sign of consent” with a smiley face just fucking know I will never engage your services because that is super gross
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I also struggle with this idea because I'm very used to the idea that it's rude and hostile to directly tell someone you don't want to hang out with them anymore ever, and declining invitations repeatedly is a polite way to communicate that instead
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This is something I continue to really, REALLY struggle with, because If it were me, I would *not* want to be invited if I previously and specifically told them that I had a reason that I couldn't come. Being invited to the thing would make me feel unheard and ignored, not valued and welcomed.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Hahahaha I JUST got the "Blue Prince" = "Blueprints" pun. After like 33 hours of playing it. How am I like this 😆
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I have two major problems with Blue Prince so far:
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2. I can't talk about the problems with Blue Prince, because of what kind of game it is
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2. I can't talk about the problems with Blue Prince, because of what kind of game it is
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What brain do I have if I grind whole beans and make pour-over coffee every morning, but I don't buy expensive beans, I eyeball the amount of beans I use, and ALSO my coffee doesn't taste bad to me? Is it *me* who has the bad taste? 🤔
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Just to restate my stance.
1. I have seen several projects collapse due to forcing artists to use GIT for art assets.
2. Artists need instant sharing of latest by timestamp, never merges.
3. Art resource files are massive. PSD files, Substance files and Zbrush files are hecking huge...
1. I have seen several projects collapse due to forcing artists to use GIT for art assets.
2. Artists need instant sharing of latest by timestamp, never merges.
3. Art resource files are massive. PSD files, Substance files and Zbrush files are hecking huge...
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The actual story is a lot less dystopic than the headline. I hate to say it, but this kind of thing might actually make running exciting enough for me to take it up. Especially if there's a scoring system and leaderboard for the "prey" 😂
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I wonder what I'll end up writing in this. The cover is so pretty that I almost don't want to sully it
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Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Just answer them yourself.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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I don't know how niche this one is, but: if your friend opens up to you about something in private, you do not by default have their consent to share it with other people. Not even your romantic partner(s). That's THEIR secret, not yours, until they say otherwise.
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