I’m trying to make a pixel art version of a P90 next but aaaa shading is so hard T_T I’m inventing art techniques from first principles and I don’t think I’m enjoying it lol

i don't care if em-dashes are "characteristic of AI," that's not gonna make me stop using them. i've used them since high school, when i first had a computer that could easily type them. i'm not gonna stop just cause some folks make stupid assumptions based on windows not having an easy way to type them

If you live in California and haven't gotten your ballot for the November 4th special election call your elections office.
My husband got his ballot a week ago.
Mine never arrived.
I called today and was told that I had changed my address.
No I didn't.
I have been registered with the same address for 35 years.
Tomorrow, I will have to go to the elections office, in person, to complete an affidavit and cast a provisional ballot.
Hmmmm
Please boost.
#California #Prop50

World of Warcraft doesn’t treat the player character’s level as how strong or experienced they are. instead, it treats it as “where in the difficulty curve of the game is the player right now? how much should I challenge them?”. that means that characters actually get weaker the more they level up. when fighting the same enemies, the player character will have more trouble if they’re a higher level. PCs also unlock more abilities by leveling up, which makes them more complex and difficult to play

and I think that that’s a very interesting approach, and actually a very good one. and it’s strongly influenced my perspective on other RPGs because WoW is the RPG that I’ve connected most with out of anything (except maybe Skyrim, which does roughly the same thing). genuinely, I want to see more RPGs take this approach

I have a draft of a whole like 7-paragraph essay on this but I’m starting to think it’s not worth it lol so just have the 2-paragraph version instead

it seems like a lot of people equate nature with mental health, as if being near plants can cure depression or something

but just to be clear, I don’t want nature anywhere near me. nature is gross, full of parasites and other horrible things, and oh yeah it was created by a ruthless amoral survive-at-any-cost process known as evolution. it presents serious dangers to me everywhere I encounter it and I also just don’t like it

my ideal living environment is a massive neon-lit Eclipse-Phase-esque cyberpunk city built on (or inside of) an asteroid. that looks like Mirror’s Edge during the day and Blade Runner at night

(actually, I hope that eventually we can even save every animal on Earth from nature. and instead just upload their minds into simulations designed to meet all of their needs perfectly and always give them something new/fun to do. even animals don’t deserve nature)

I feel like we need some sort of explicit distinguisher between types of FOSS:

1. Corporate FOSS: projects that directly serve the interests of a single corporation and is governed by that corporation, but the source code is freely available
2. Public/Community FOSS: projects that are intended to be both governed and used by a wide variety of different people. Usually characterized by actively trying to promote the project to potential users in some way (including 'community evangelism'), and by actively trying to attract contributors of some kind.
3. Personal FOSS: people's own projects that are essentially fully controlled by them personally, and written for their personal use, just the source code is shared freely for others to use if they want to. Usually few contributors, or may not even accept contributors at all.

All of these have wildly different characteristics and governance structures, and users should have different expectations of them, so it seems reasonable that we should be treating them as different things, even if they are all nominally "FOSS"? And it would probably be helpful for projects to explicitly declare which of these they are, too, to set the right expectations.

#FOSS #OpenSource

Is a device that performs some computation, but that is limited to sub–Turing complete computation (e.g.: a four-function calculator, or a "pepper grinder" kind of adding machine) a computer?

Need I say more?
(this post is now deleted, I found the screenshot on Reddit)

#bluesky #bsky

now that it’s seen how much Creeper World 4 and Creeper World IXE I play, Steam is convinced that I’m going to love RTSes, grand strategy games, and generic-looking tower defense games lol

Valve is already raking in so much money but they could make even more if they built a half-decent recommendation system

herbal tea is fucking gross

unsweetened, it’s marginally better than just drinking hot water but it just kinda tastes like plant juice

and it’s somehow so much worse when you sweeten it. I can’t explain why but something about adding sugar flips it in my head from “someone put random weird plants in my hot water” to “this is definitely some kind of poison”

what the fuck did they do to the youtube UI

why do corpos always do this constant UI churn instead of fixing or improving anything

DAILY GIRL AFFIRMATIONS:

I AM A COMPLEX ORGANISM BRUTALLY ENGINEERED BY UNCARING FORCES OF NATURE

I AM A PRODUCT OF BILLIONS OF YEARS AND TRILLIONS OF DEATHS

I AM BUILDING A MACHINE GREATER THAN MYSELF

I AM ABLE TO MAKE PHONE CALLS AND APPOINTMENTS

Gaming Through New Eyes - Award Winning Documentary - Blind Gaming (Extended Cut)

this is a really interesting video about playing games while blind: how that works, what accessibility needs there are, and what it’s like