mindbleach @ mindbleach @sh.itjust.works

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Next they'll implement DownThemAll natively. Really putting their finger on the pulse of 2008.

In case anyone's unfamiliar, Tom Cardy.

You've never taken a hint in your life.

"... but the trains ran on time!"

What the everloving fuck is wrong with you?

Stallman was right, episode five billion.

Some clickbait recently called Lehrer "the Bo Burnham of his day," and that's annoyingly hard to argue with, given such cheerful tunes as "We Will All Go Together When We Go."

Yes.

Kate Beaton on BlueSky: "These guys took their famous catchphrase from my comic, but okay."

Reality is a team sport, to some people. You cheer for the tribe you were born in or you're an asshole.

Show the fucking shirt.

It's not "free." It's "have you considered creating a Skinner box that somehow gouges people for more money than any game should cost?"

The Amerikabomber (English: America bomber)

Revolver Ocelot (Revolver Ocelot)

Not including Abigail Thorn.

Training is transformative use.

It's not like this ends with authors being paid every time a neural network gets used - we'd see a properly open model emerge. Smaller networks, trained on hand-pruned data, already look like the way forward. Generalization from sparse examples is how any of this works.

If people can't simply let the robot read every book in the library, they're not gonna pay for every book in the library. They're gonna switch to some above-board torrent of public domain / Creative Commons / permissively-licensed content. That didn't happen first because scaling up worked better, to a point. Aaaand scale prevents competition. Also it was a great excuse to spy on as much private data as possible.

When the bubble bursts, the tech will remain and flourish, and there's not gonna be much money involved.

thing changes to be worse

'It was always exactly this bad.'

Okay.

God fucking dammit.

Honestly, how did it take so long for rich assholes to figure out they can just buy respected media?

Hell yes, Coincident! Congratufuckinglations!

For anyone new to classic Doom runs: you can't save. There are no i-frames. If two rockets arrive at your location, you just die. This map also has multiple platforming segments where falling off means death... in a game where you cannot jump. This map is not Kaizo Mario kinds of cruel, because Kaizo maps have a gimmick you're supposed to perform. Some of the fights are pure "ha ha good luck." There's recently-unearthed footage of the designer personally beating like a fifth of the map, and even he's just winging it.

For shorter introductions to ass-reamingly difficult maps, consider Zero Master's speedruns of Sunder. E.g. Hollow Icon.

Never give Nintendo money.

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money. Least of all how you look.

Only legislation will stop this. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

Ban the entire business model.