While the admins and donations make it free, I guarantee there’s at least a few corporations or government organizations out there scraping the fediverse to gather data. So even though the people hosting it might not have any bad intentions, an open platform like this will still feed the data hungry machine.

For me, intend to dislike pure roguelikes because of the lack of meta progression. I tend to get a limited amount of time to play, so I don’t like games that require a time sink to get enjoyment. And as I get older I’m getting less ‘gud’ at games too. This is the reason I avoid almost all multiplayer, most grindy single player (ubisoft) and pretty much all soulslikes.

I like the feedback loop of the game getting easier without me necessarily having to do the heavy lifting of getting better. And it doesn’t have to be straight upgrades. Hades with its weapons is mostly sidegrades, and those are fun too.

The cloud done burst.

This was a great read! As someone who was initially excited about the possibilities of AI art, it’s been hit or miss with me.

I’ve come to realise over time that I like the connection that art offers. The little moment of ‘I wonder what the artist was thinking when they imagined this and what experiences did someone have to get to a place where they could visualize and create this?’

And I think that’s what missing with AI art. Sure, it can enable someone like me who has no skill with drawing to create something but it doesn’t get to the point of putting my actual imagination down. The repeated tries can only get to point of ‘close enough’.

For me, looking at a piece and then learning it’s AI art is basically realizing that I’m looking at a computer generated imitation of someone’s imagination. Except the imitation was created by describing the art instead of the imitator ever looking at it. An connection I could have felt with original human is watered down as to be non-existent.

I just hope I can

Finally finished my play through of Cyberpunk 2077 that I started when it came out on ps+. Enjoyable enough that I bought the Phantom Liberty DLC before I finished the base game. Stability still seems to be an issue. Had about a dozen crashes but never lost more than 10 minutes at any time.

I’ve realised I don’t like when games don’t let you max out all the available rpg skill trees. Always leaves me wondering if I could be having a better time. There’s playstyles that I wanted to try out but couldn’t because of limitations. I wish more games did unlimited respecs like Bg3 did.

I think I might give Sifu a shot next.

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This is just me around mangoes in general.

Shouldn’t the point of prison rehabilitation be that the inmates be encouraged to build stronger social connections to reduce recidivism? Isolating and further punishing them like this seems like it’s going to make it more difficult to rebuild their lives post incarceration.

DOGE tech bros 100% know what it is. But they’re also probably the kind of devs that hate fixing issues surfaced by CVE’s in dependencies. Have seen my fair share of these types of ‘engineers’. Same kind of folks who see qa and testing as the enemy.

This seems to be the plan. It’s the third result for ‘photoshop vs gimp’ on DDG.

How do you find a recruiter without LinkedIn?