I really wish I could teach gamers that they THINK they want a huge open world but what they REALLY want is a well designed AREA of a city, culture, and NPCs.
Open worlds with 100 empty streets and 100 acres of empty hills to run fetch quests will never compare.

The last Guardian 🌻
人喰いの大鷲トリコ
#illustration

Claiming that large language models will give rise to AGI is like me saying, "Soon my toaster will be making bread from scratch."

A tumblr post for you

Though each piece is identical they create a pattern which never repeats. It's actually quite a bit more "puzzle-y" than you might expect from a tiling puzzle. That's because, even though it varies infinitely, there is really only one rule which allows you to keep tiling without hitting a dead end. You can assemble the pieces however you like, but figuring out the pattern that allows you to continue forever with no gaps is actually quite tricky

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9333

We made a new puzzle based on the Spectre tile, the aperiodic monotile discovered earlier this year by @Chaimgoodmanstrauss, @csk, and others. It is a set of 111 tiles with a truchet-style pattern printed on them

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product.php?code=409

#mathart #tiling #spectre #aperiodicmonotile

@vampiress is making a really cool retro RPG in the style of BBS door games like LORD, called Swords of Freeport. I've been working on a map.

RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

dotAGE releases on Steam, October 4th 2023!

Get ready to play my cute and merciless turn-based survival village builder where you play as the prophetic and grumpy elder!

#indiedev #Steam #videogames
(🔄 you slackers!)

It's my Birthday today 🎈
As a tradition I may request for sharing my work.
Thank you to everyone who supported me so far.
I'm looking forward to a brighter future. You can find more in my Bio.

#art #mastoart #landscapeart

#TIL that #StockholmSyndrome was invented by #police and a bad psychologist to discredit a female hostage who didn't trust the cops after they did nothing to protect the captive employees during a bank heist.

Her "crime" was trying to negotiate with the criminals to protect her own life, while the police and the state preferred having dead hostages over closing any deal with the thieves.

https://www.stadafa.com/2020/12/stockholm-syndrome-discredit.html

#sexism #psychology #badscience #ACAB

The Retreat (oil/acrylic on canvas)

they nerfed cis people

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!!

"A planet with humans is a planet..
Humans without a planet are dead"

Seen in Stockholm, Sweden

I wish more people understood that being able-bodied is just a temporary condition...

the hacker news people are NOT HAPPY that the demo video for my ffmpeg project is Richard Spencer getting punched in the face.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269425

Richard Spencer getting punched in the face is the new Lenna!

The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉