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@deeb.bsky.social
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Part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor!

He/Him Lvl 40 *certified* cool dad & trophy hubby. PNW native blabbing about retro games, CRTs, JRPGs, Super Mario RPG, and 3D printing. Prone to shitposting, and sharing cat photos and woke political content. ♾️
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deeb @deeb.bsky.social · Oct 17
All you really need to know about me is I’m a Super Mario RPG stan, and I’m forever grateful for the nearly-perfect remake on Switch.
Super Mario RPG running on an SNES and displayed on a CRT on the left side of a TV stand next to it running on the Switch and displayed on an OLED on the right side. It’s showing the same scene, Mario’s House, in each game, showing how faithful the remake was to the original game.
deeb.bsky.social
Is Pac Man Conscious? Many Users Who Have Played Pac Man 2 Think So. Scientists Say It’s Time To Consider If They’re Onto Something
A screenshot from Pac Man 2 shows Pac Man, bruised and bandaged, staring directly at the player, standing on a sidewalk next to a hot dog cart
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
deeb.bsky.social
I’ve slept on it and have concluded my concerns about being a “reply guy” came from my autistic brain interpreting the term literally.

A guy who replies?
Oh fuck, that’s me! 🫢
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
deeb.bsky.social
It. Is. A. LANGUAGE MODEL !!! 😖😖😖
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
Large language mistake

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Our cognition improves because of language — but it’s not created or defined by it. Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast. But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
deeb.bsky.social
Imagine making a list of the 50 greatest rock bands of all time and leaving off Soundgarden, The Doors, ZZ Top, Deep Purple, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Cars, Steely Dan, Kansas, Yes, Alice In Chains, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tom Petty, Journey, Cream, The Kinks, Jethro Tull, Genesis, and The Police.
tommorelloofficial.bsky.social Tom Morello @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social · 21h
@billboard.com magazine’s TOP 50 ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME or “SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY TO FIGHT ABOUT." Sound off!
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
deeb.bsky.social
Glad that I waited on this one! 🤑
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d
Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater (PS5) is $30 on Amazon buff.ly/FjeTTwZ
PS5/XSX Walmart buff.ly/5sGWaB9 #ad
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
deeb.bsky.social
What
The cover for “Bud Spencer & Terrance Hill’s Slaps and Beans 2” for Nintendo Switch. Featuring, presumably Bur and Terrance throwing punches in a tropical setting.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
deeb.bsky.social
The AI Doomsayer and The AI Hype Man are the same person. Spreading fear of AI is just another way of tricking people into believing chatbots are more capable than they actually are.

LLM chatbots won’t evolve into AGI. Anyone with a fundamental understanding of how they work knows that.
"The people who lose their jobs won't have other jobs to go to," Hinton said, as quoted by. Business Insider. "If Al gets as smart as people - or smarter — any job they might do can be done by Al."
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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takamomchi.bsky.social
so my twin peaks bluray collection is like sixteen discs! i did not know I was getting into an FMV adventure game and that's simply thrilling to discover
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
deeb.bsky.social
This is sick. 60FPS Mario Kart Advance on original hardware!
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A Final Build Of The Cancelled Star Fox-Esque N64 Shmup 'Viewpoint 2064' Has Been Dumped Online.
A Final Build Of The Cancelled Star Fox-Esque N64 Shmup 'Viewpoint 2064' Has Been Dumped Online
A prototype build was previously preserved back in 2020
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The Blue Bomber is back as Jada Toys reveals their latest Deluxe #MegaMan 1/12 figure 
The Blue Bomber is back as Jada Toys reveals their latest Deluxe #MegaMan 1/12 figure 
The Blue Bomber is back as Jada Toys continues their newest action figure from their ongoing Mega Man collection 
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November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
deeb.bsky.social
My Analogue 3D arrived yesterday. I didn’t have the time to hook it up and give it the run through it deserves last night, but it sure is pretty isn’t it?
Analogue 3D in its original box with the cover removed
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
deeb.bsky.social
Mailcall!!

Most of this was from PNP games. It’s the first time I’ve received PS3, PS4, and PS5 games in the same order!
A photo of the various games I received in the mail today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
deeb.bsky.social
Even heavily-discounted Switch 2 GKC games have no appeal to me
nintendeal.com Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 1d
Amazon price matched the Walmart+ price!!

Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition (Switch 2) physical release is 50% off on Amazon: amzn.to/44wM5Zg #ad $30.00 lowest price ever

Walmart+ bit.ly/4px1Asp
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
deeb.bsky.social
Even social media etiquette can be tricky for autistic people. The term “reply guy” gives me anxiety because I only vaguely understand the specific behavior that defines one.

I’ve unfollowed people who post about reply guys from concern I might comment on a future post of theirs and be labeled one.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
deeb.bsky.social
LMAO the print on this Sega Dreamcast sticker that came with the @limitedrungames.com Dreamcast trading cards is flaking away after about… Four days of being on my laptop.

The laptop *does* get warm there, but this is pretty disappointing.
Photo showing the text on the Sega Dreamcast sticker coming off onto my finger
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
deeb.bsky.social
Oh shit, I just remembered my Analogue 3D is being delivered today. 👀
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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GPUs are expensive to install, expensive to run...and the AI services that run on them *don't make much money from consumers* and lose incredible amounts of money due to the inconsistent and hard-to-predict costs of LLMs. There's no fixing this problem.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
AI Software Does Not Make Enough Money To Cover The Cost of Renting GPUs To Run AI Services, And Costs Vary Dramatically Buddy, I hear you yelling that I should sing Enter Sandman, and here we go! I’ve already talked about this so many times, but there really is just not that much money in AI services, in part because the services aren’t worth paying more for, and in part because costs are difficult to control. Large language models are a uniquely tough economic situation for startups — or any business, for that matter. As a business, you do not “pay to access an LLM” as a one-off cost, but pay on a per-million-tokens basis, either for input tokens (what a user loads into the model, such as text or files) or output tokens (what the model outputs through a process called “inference,” which is when it creates said output based on what a user asks). For example, OpenAI charges $1.25 per million input and $10 per million output tokens for GPT-5.1. A good rule of thumb is that one token is about ¾ of a word, and it’s important to remember that generating code is also generating characters (so letters or numbers), and one token equals one character. I also should note that the amounts that OpenAI charges for its models are not necessarily indicative of the costs of running them. In other kinds of software, you could charge a user a monthly subscription fee — $20-a-month, for example — and know roughly what a user might cost, because the unit costs are consistent. The cost of Netflix showing a 4K movie to a person in Idaho, or Meta loading Instagram for somebody in Sweden, for example. While there is some regional variation, it’s not particularly massive (at least, compared to the inconsistencies of genAI), and it’s something you can anticipate ahead of time. The “cost of generating an answer from a Large Language Model” is variable every single time based on multiple criteria: The user’s query, which might be simple, such as “what if Scooby Doo lay eggs,” or as complex as “generate the code for a piece of software that will help me keep track of The Infidel Marmaduke The Dog, Inshallah.” The model’s interpretation of the user’s input, which is when hallucinations become a problem. In the Scooby Doo egg example, a model might decide it needs to use a “web search tool” to find sources that might explain whether a dog can lay an egg, or whether Scooby Doo has, in previous canon, laid eggs. I sound like I’m joking around, but this example would lead the model on a wild goose chase, with each “tool access” and piece of information generated requiring you to generate more output tokens. In the Marmaduke Software example, remember that code is extremely token-intensive, and this is not a particularly detailed prompt. It does not specify what kind of software would track Marmaduke, and has numerous additions (infidel, Inshallah) that the Large Language Model might choose to interpret and build something that the user doesn’t want. As a result, the user might receive software that doesn’t do what the user wants, causing the user to go back and demand more software. The user’s response to the output it receives. If you’re asking a model a question, you’re likely to ask a follow-up question. And based on what the model says, you may have more follow-up questions. Every follow-up question is an opportunity for the user to demand more output from the model, and for the model to decide, based on maths, to generate more answers. If a model doesn’t do what a user wants, the user is also likely to keep asking the model stuff until it either gets it right or the user gets annoyed. This isn’t necessarily the LLM’s fault. Like any bad customer, the user hasn’t been clear about what exactly the software should do, but might be mad tha… Services try to ease this burden by imposing limits (like ChatGPT has), such as the amount of requests a user can make within a five hour period, the amount of information that can make up an input from a user, the amount of information from the conversation that a model can consider at once (called a context window), and what information can be loaded in (text, images, PDFs, and so on). The problem is that even with those limits, every single AI service is effectively intricately prompting the model on the back-end to deliver the service itself using something called a “service prompt” — think of it as a kind of primer on what kind of service you want it to perform, and also what limitations you have on said service. There is no way, it appears, to make a model be more cost-conscious, other than to tell it to not do something or give shorter answers. While you can tell a coding model to “write efficient code,” and even define specifically what efficiency is and looks like, said model is still, every single time probabilistically working out A) what the user wants and B) what the service wants the model to do as a result. In practice, this means that there’s very few ways to prevent a user from costing you far more than they’re paying you each month without directly charging them for the cost of using the models, which is far more than users are used to paying for. This means that most AI software companies are charging a monthly fee with amounts of “requests” or “credits” that a user can make. This pricing structure obfuscates the true cost of the models, all while allowing users to do whatever they want within those boundaries. For example, AI coding platform Augment Code had one user paying $250 a month that cost it $15,000 a month, and even with further changes to the product (switching from letting users make “requests” to giving them “credits), the company does not appear to be profitable. You may think that these companies will simply “raise their prices…
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
deeb.bsky.social
I made a parts list for a PC comparable to the Steam Machine for around $600 the other day. That's at retail prices. I don't see why Valve couldn't do something similar for $500.

Am I crazy for believing $500-$600 seems like a plausible price point?
Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at' A screenshot of components comparable to the specs of the Steam Machine. CPU: Ryzen 5 , $69 SSD: 500GB, $59 16GB DDR-4 Ram, $59 ASRock Barebones box with PSU/Motherboard, $216 AS Rock AMD Radeon RX 6600 video card, $219 Total $619
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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thatretro.bsky.social
The first Disney game to be published by Capcom is Mickey Mousecapade, but Capcom never actually developed it. It was a port of a Hudson Soft game "Mickey Mouse: Fushigi no kuni no Daibouken" which tied with Alice in Wonderland for some reason.
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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downchasm.bsky.social
Namco should put Prop Cycle back into production — MASS production — so people can purchase a machine for their home or business for a reasonable price
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
deeb.bsky.social
It appears Amazon will honor my pre-order placed over seven years ago of Metroid Prime 4 for $48.
A screenshot showing my Amazon order for Metroid Prime 4 placed Aug 27, 2018.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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sonichedgeblog.bsky.social
Photos of a Sally Acorn plush doll, sold at SEGA World Sydney in 1997.
Sally Acorn Sally Acorn
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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youoldsoandso.bsky.social
It went a bit under the radar at release time earlier this year, probbly because Arc releases so much RCR stuff these days, but the Super Technos World collection is on discount for I believe the first time currently ($21, down from $30) store.steampowered.com/app/1053510/...
Save 30% on Super Technos World: River City & Technos Arcade Classics on Steam
This exciting collection brings you 12 games in one, from developer Technos Japan known for creating the legendary River City and Double Dragon series. From arcade classics to region-exclusive titles,...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:53 AM