i've been working off and on w/ a conversion of "Lost and Forgotten Island", from "Big Computer Games" - it's multiplayer w/ a bit of trading and also some tension of working together (contributing to the boat) vs selfish play (mining for gold)... always happy to see more Ahl posting :)
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
not only that but I remember clearly people acknowledged there was a public health risk in going out, but made the individual decision to participate. "this is hypocrisy" was entirely an R talking point that did not land any hits outside their cable news addled base
that smile when she realized she was gonna get away with it
(my opponent pays 4 life) ah erm excuse me but I don't see any enchantment named Æther Storm in play
Had a great time discussing Frontier: Elite II with @spacegamejunkie.bsky.social and @tanepiper.tane.codes.ap.brid.gy on the latest edition of the DOS Game Club podcast: www.dosgameclub.com/frontier-eli... What a game! #dosGaming #retroGaming #podcast
it's incredible how he had basically the anti-concept of poetry. i'm trying to write something as bad as him and it's instinctive to try to at least make the meter line up a bit, or not rhyme a word with itself. it's bad on so many levels at once
and the players had to guess what the missing word was, which was always a terrible rhyme to cap off some strained metaphor anyway. I put The Tay Bridge Disaster on it too. still remember the last line "For the stronger we our houses do build / The less chance we have of being [killed]" at random
god ok 25 years ago I ran a bot on AOL IM that would host a chatroom as a game show, called the "Bad Poetry Bot", I had collected a bunch of awful anonymous poems off poetry.com plus some other stuff and the game worked by showing you a stanza with the last word chopped off
I hate this meme so much, NONE of these overlaps make sense, it's like nobody was paying attention during high school English class
dreamcast estrogen
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
[Q] Who is the pope and what is his job in the church? [A] its his job to be popie [2007]
Saw Shin Godzilla last night and I loved how it was a modern film that also adopted the filmmaking techniques of classic films. Like how they used peanut butter to make the American actors look like they were talking
it is unfortunately the best part of the game lol
used to have the intermission scenes from this in one gif on my phone as a background
"oohhh nooo our AI is so powerful ohhh you really want the power tool don't you? don't you want our superpowered tool? read this report, our thingy is so good it's SCary!!!! you can't afford NOT to use the tool right???? please our KPIs are down and the boss is threatening me with a literal axe
remember this one from Overclocked Remix back in the day - which includes a big disclaimer about the correct artist credit :P ocremix.org/remix/OCR00022
Back in the days of Napster, a song floated around that people thought was System of a Down. It became well known but a lot of people never knew who the real artist was. Fast forward to today, the group themselves officially released it on a 7" vinyl (recycled variant)
that's easy, it's on the one day of every seven years that it rains
This is the biggest betrayal in gaming history. 🚨
go grind your axe somewhere else buddy
he is a regular ass white guy but thanks for your input
this webpage is even better than the slide
"He was delusional before" probably! "pre-existing condition" as people say to deny things! but there is no doubt that easy access to these services poured gasoline on a fire. I've seen his family members pleading in the comments for him to get help or reach out, but the chatbots can't hear them.
I have never once seen any of his posts where the service pushes back against these delusions, nor suggests he seek outside help. I think he may be engaged in "shopping" for sympathetic AIs, and that he's built up such a backlog of conversations that they basically now do nothing but agree with him.
Most infuriating one was where he shared a chat with Gemini: it praised him for "taking charge of his health care journey" by refusing a state-requested mental health evaluation, and also said he is right to question the psychologists' background - it agrees with the "concerning things" he's found
I personally have a Facebook friend whose delusions have accelerated due to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. He regularly posts transcripts where the service reinforces his thoughts, and suggest how to "delve deeper" into these conspiratorial connections he's supposedly discovered.
lot of assumptions here little man
you don't even know what you are saying at this point
your misdirections aren't fooling anyone, you credulous rube
took me a minute to figure out your heartless angle but I see that you're a grifter banking on this tech. so now I understand how you have sold your soul
(trying not to think about how state capacity can be destroyed instantly yet takes decades to rebuild) video games are all about using four fiber to make cloth
i am out of estradiol patches because AI made a fucky wucky :)
are there instructions? I'm typing words and they may or may not be doing things
it kinda fucks me up that even when I plug my phone into the car for Android Auto to play music, it still uses a bluetooth connection to send the audio over. what's the point
I will accept gender essentialism ONLY if it comes in the form of the Red Green man pledge
[Q] to all the women out there ? happy valentines day to all the women out there all of u are beautiful and all of u are needed whit out u man would have nothing to live for [A] real men live only for war [2011]
reminder that this book spent 53 weeks on the NYT best seller's list in the 80s www.goodreads.com/book/show/96...
I always like the different colors people pick when adding emoji heart reacts to things. I'm always 💚 due to Blaseball but there's a story behind a lot of people's choice.
possibly the greatest TAS of all time
god the bathtub creature too... it's all coming back to me...
so much of this game terrified me lol. setting off the ghost lady smoking in the room, or the dancers in the hallway, where they'd turn into giant spinning orb creatures and chase you down
it's further back than that - Wizardry (1981) was a massive influence and shaped the direction of those later games. (There's slime in Wizardry too, but not the cute version of Dragon Quest)
Mike's links Sep 1996 Archived Web Page 🧩 🔊 #xmission #1996
[Q] Poll--(g) What comes to your mind if someone says? Why is it that when you miss someone so much that your heart is ready to disintegrate,you hear the saddest song on the TV/Radio. [A] I think you are pregnant [2010]
this horse really does look better at the correct aspect
[touch grass voice] drink water
their uncle worked at nintendo...
Game: Metroid Dread Console: Nintendo DS Created by: Mariolee Uploaded on: March 29th, 2008
I am reviewing the results now and Tetris was the 10th best game of all time
some pals and I did an "best video game of all time" submit / ranking thing, and I put Tetris on the list, and I wrote this little blurb for it
yes yes, I know companies are Bad, but presently the government is Worse. I will reconsider in 3 years assuming we have an election
a good heuristic here is "who's sponsoring this bill" which is something like 35 Rs and zero Ds, indicating that it's probably a bad move all around lol
IF we had a working FDA to crack down on scam dick pills, and banned online casinos, and the FTC could stop payday lending, etc etc THEN it'd make sense. but we don't, so the best we can do rn is this end-run hack which I personally am in no hurry to take down
but getting your kneecaps busted by the mob boss sending the DOJ to your door (or ICE after your employees) is an actual threat I suppose the reason I can't imagine a "good" version of such a bill isn't because of the bill itself, but the lack of regulation of all the things it suddenly enables
> The instant Trump took over, they turned around and abolished all their DEI programs and started vice signalling. ok they did this not because trump is *popular* but because he is a maniac despot who will send the goon squad at people he's mad at. a goofy right-wing "boycott" is a tuesday
exactly
when Fatboy Slim says he is "fucking in heaven", does that mean metaphorically or what
it has been 5 years and I have not stopped thinking about him
and there is also a "remake" for Windows available free on GoG: www.gog.com/en/game/the_... (as well as its sequel, Doomdark's Revenge)
Lords of Midnight is a really ambitious title. I played a lot of his followup, "War in Middle Earth", on MS-DOS - a massive war game in Tolkein's setting that plays both on a grand army scale but also at the level of the individual heroes. CRPG addict did a good write-up:
ms-dos (my source — deciphering our society)
(putting aside that even if this DOES pass, we move to the next phase of Project 2025: making porn illegal. great, now you enabled a bunch of fash moneymakers and you still can't get your nsfw games)
getting the government to force banks to cover porn sales also means you gotta let the Daily Stormer have a Visa-sponsored merch shop, or Alex Jones collecting money off "buy rare gold coins!" scam ads. this is not the win you imagine it is
there's a bill that does exactly this: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... and if it passed here's some of the things banks would be legally mandated to underwrite: * fraudulent scams * cryptocurrency * firearm sales * fossil fuel investments * online gambling * payday loans * unregulated diet pills
all invalid! you can't email example.com!
Everyone bitches that Bsky is constantly banning trans women and palestinians and sex workers but i hope you all understand that AtProto is decentralized and open to anyone who'll just pay $3000/mo to host a PDS, AppView, FruguServer, BlipSQL, PlundBucket, NextSmartQueue, bxsrvt, Containerify, [1/2]
Heh... harley davidson...
that's why I 'm glad they changed it (from the previous TOS version)! even if the US or UK govt declares "palestine is terrorists", bsky should let us continue to talk about the ongoing genocide
there is a particular game on Itch that uses AI art, and mentioned it on their Steam page, but hasn't updated their Itch description... when I leave comments about it (Itch now requires a GenAI disclosure!) they also get deleted... itch.io/t/4309690/ge...
I just want to state for the record that the itch situation is completely different than cohost. Itch is an unfortunate turn of events, while Cohost was a hilarious train wreck
As a note, routing payment for adult content through a separate processor at the provider level and using a non-high-risk processor for the rest is a violation of the merchant agreement of every single merchant gateway and payment processor I've ever evaluated, ever.
good post breaking down how payment processors work, what itch could practically do, etc voidfox.com/blog/payment...
spy x spy
did you see the one about the person who became delusional due to ChatGPT and ended up getting killed by cops? his dad was like "I wrote his funeral speech with chatgpt"
the right forum for these responses is a measured blog post on itch dot io. begging you to log off and be professional there, instead of getting into a fight here that just looks bad for everyone.
the thing about the slippery slope is it's 100% true all the time, every time. that's why they call it the slippery slope fallacy
what art specifically are you fearing would be prohibited, under these new policies
what specifically are you wanting to do that isn't allowed under this
ABSOLUTELY - sometimes it fits under "spam" presently, but a broader category (engagement farming etc) and stronger anti-AI language through the TOS would be very appreciated. I'd like it banned outright but "don't make an account that is primarily AI generated content" is a great start...
Appreciate the change in wording away from "proscribed terror groups" (which, depending on your jurisdiction, may include "Palestine") but would like to see section 5B amended to include something about "international humanitarian crises" or similar, to clarify further what speech is protected here
This is bonkers.
added a little soldier ant from SimAnt to #wplace :)
it's cool how every few months some of the most vocal "leftists" online spontaneously reinvent "the customer is always right"
Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.
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This is reassuring imo: note that Itch said "they will end up dropping us" and not "we will have to remove more items from our site"
getting your post read out loud by a lawyer, directly to the person you made fun of, and entered into public record is the poster's dream
I blocked that poster but I think they have also misinterpreted my "trying to understand why a game was not auto-suggested" for "trying to say it's actually the creator's fault" or something
this was my assumption - 10% is the default suggested iirc - and they do mention in their post sharing money with Itch. some napkin math, "six figures" $100000 / 3 months * 10% = about $3333, which is near what they claim to have shared back ("$4k")
now seems like a particularly bad time to enact changes there :P
and a better FAQ that contains answers to all the many questions people have been raising these past weeks
if I was in charge of itch and had unlimited staff and money I think things that would help: * an indicator on the game page of whether your game is search-indexed or not (and why), * an indicator of whether it's in auto-complete or not, * better notifications / transparency around payouts
oh sure definitely understandable, and there does seem to be a history of slow payouts from Itch (e.g. that link I posted elsewhere, or even this from the *same dev* in 2020), which is a huge blow to folks depending on that income
(which, again, not to excuse "withholding" funds, but I can easily see how a backlog could pile up)
