Wandering Adventure Party

@grass@freeradical.zone I can think of a couple of games which do this well, like Doki Doki Literature Club, where "play throughs" are really just meta-stages of narrative development. But in general a lot of games that do this only change the last few scenes of the ending, or bury it so deep into the game that it's still a problem.

@grass@freeradical.zone in general I but don’t like going through the same 10 hours of content to reach a different place. It’s just to pad out length and it feels pretty disrespectful of my time, on top of being … boring. I know undertale has a meta reason for it, but for most games it’s just an unfun waste of my time.

The master’s philosophy serves the master’s interests. I suspect many of our deeply held beliefs are well crafted to keep certain people on their thrones.

Despite billions in losses, we still have not learned that null pointers, or things like them, are bad. We deserve our fate.

Oh hey cool, a “small web” stumble upon tool. Immediately lands me on AI slop…if your site is requires a large language model to do the writing, it is not part of the small web. It’s part of the slop web. ​:ferndisgust:​

I think the miss with DLSS 5 over just AI stuff is that this will be really expensive tech. The demos I saw were running on a pair of RTX 5090 GPUs. One was handling the game rendering, the other was dedicated entirely to running the DLSS 5 AI model. NVIDIA was upfront that there's still significant optimization work to do, and the plan is to ship DLSS 5 running on a single GPU when it launches later this year.I don’t see how nvidia reasonably gets to that performance without significant cost increase or degradation. It’s not like they’re going to give it to us for free. And I think people are about ‘tapped out’ on what they’re willing to spend on cards. The people I knew who used to build ‘megarigs’ all build mid-range rigs now, because the cost has overtaken them. If no one has the hardware for this feature, it won’t drive sales. I kinda think we’re entering the nadir of powerful home machines. Everyone is going to be scaling back, not up. PC gaming manufacturers will have to stop assuming that users will just keep paying every other year for power and performance.

Sometimes I really want to sit down with an author and ask them questions about their work. With The Murder at the Black Car Cafe I want to ask:* why is 15% of the book a painful explanation of the mystery trope we’re about to experience?* why is every scene just the protagonist interrogating exposition fonts?* why is everything tell, not show?* Did you know that the Sherlock-Holmes style narrative structure was already about 50 years past its pull date by the 1970s?* did you really have to kill the cat?* Wouldn’t it be cool if half of the interrogations wasn’t framed around a witness, telling a story to the constable, telling the story to the detective, telling the story to the narrator, telling the story to us?* What are these “shameful western clothing” you go on about? Do you actually know? All we know is it’s “loud”. It’s weird when we get exact descriptions of the Japanese styles. * why the maps? They don’t ever seem important * did you know you can just say Yokohama? Everyone knows what Y— means. I mean I dropped around half way through so maybe I would have gotten more answers if I continued…

This being “The murder at the black cafe cafe” by Seishi Yokomizo. Which I would obviously not recommend.

Recently I've been somewhat fascinated by the concept of a Paccekabuddha. To vastly oversimplify it, it's a one whom independently achieves liberation without the aid of teachers; someone who finds the Dharma even in an age without buddhas (teachers) because the dharma exists all around, always, even when no one realizes it. They find it for themselves alone, not to teach it.I'm not really concerned with the exact doctrinal definitions of this concept or coming up with some stupid ass bootstraps brobuddhism. I don't think we're quite in an age without teachers or dharma or whatever you want to call it.But Christian, buddhist, whatever, I feel like everyone I encounter feels a certain... distance from those teachers. Their moralities don't match up, they know they have to ignore specific things, and add others. Almost everyone I know is dissatisfied with the general-public expression of their professed creed and it feels to me like they're being being forced (often against their will) into a negotiation with their spiritual beliefs.By which I mean: it feels like many people are on an individual path of liberation. They don't see a dharma in what their fellows profess, but aren't necessarily looking to spread something different. They're on their own, sorting through modern concerns, ancient texts, new texts, and the like. Essentially, on the path of an almost Paccekabuddha, just following whispers towards something they can live with that isn't orthodox, but still liberating. There's probably a more coherent and poignant thought there. I can't make it.

Also because of how it's written, its almost impossible for you to know if you're in compliance. It's whatever the city official feels is reasonable, which basically means "Who do I side with such that they stop calling me out here?"i.e., you're in compliance until someone complains. Which is shit.

@yon@sakurajima.moe I guess. I was raised with a 'What you don't know not only can hurt you, but probably will as you stumble upon it in the dark' attitude with regards to the law. I find reading it as boring to read as anyone else does, but satisfying in a due-diligence way. Also: The police are often stunningly ignorant in the law. Many of them have a 'penalize first, let the courts sort it out' attitude.

I was browsing municipal codes of cities where people I know live. As you do.After review...Many people I know are out compliance with their city's codes ​:btr_ryo_lurk:​ Luckily for them, I ain't a snitch.

Not only did you say you wanted to meet in the morning at ~11PM yesterday, you then proceeded to be late.

Just a reminder for newbiesFedi people like to control their engagement a bit more than on other platforms. So you’ll see a lot of people require follower reviews. At the least: Have a profile and some posts for a vibe check. Engage a little with the locals.

I think I've encountered my first book that I think was written by AI. I won't name it because I can't be certain.I can just hear the prompt used in the work. The narrator repeats things within the same context, like "I heard voices from behind the door [middle middle middle] and as I approached, I could hear voices beyond the door". This could be bad writing if it didn't happen so often. The narrator also follows an extremely formulaic paragraph structure. Action, then pithy analysis. "People did the thing. Smart, polished. Just like ...". It's uncanny valley as fuck. I also think the structure of 'Old X, new world, the same principles applied" is a trigger for me.Luckily this book cost me nothing, but I am kinda depressed by the whole thing.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club Yep. Constant problem with this person and their family. They often want to do stuff, but they struggle to put it in the books and communicate it. So it's always "Hey, want to do X" on super short notice, putting me in a position where I have to drop everything or they get butthurt for not participating.... So in general I have a stated 'if you don't give me 24 hours notice, the answer is no" policy. Unfortunately this time I actually really want to do the thing their asking, and we've been talking without commitment about it for a couple of weeks. I'm just really annoyed since I kinda feel like they're exploiting me to cross this boundary, and I do have other things that need doing this sunday. ​​

@Primavera@void.lgbt 100%. Even if done honestly it communicates a certain ... selfishness. You're asking someone to take deep risks and put themselves out there with only a 'trust me bro' assurance. You teach people to trust you, you can't just demand it.

Yes you’ve pulled a 14 hour work day and you’ve been awake for nearly 24 hours, but you still have time for me, right? – my insomnia. It’s always like this. ​​

It’s not that working on this Typescript codebase is making me dumber, but It is making me have less room for thoughts that aren’t pure violence.

It looks Washington state is getting an 9.9% income tax bracket, but only on households making over a million dollars. It was of course, fought tooth and nail by state republicans who are now moving to challenge it in the courts since the WA Governor has signaled he will sign it into law. I’m curious to read the full text of the bill, but it’s about 100 pages of high tax law. It’ll be a bit…This doesn’t close the asset hole I think? But Washington and other states are dying of budget shortfalls, so this is a good initial step.