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Len @len.bsky.social · 1h

"Wait! There's a good reason this person is a dick! I don't want you to just think they're being a dick for no reason! So I must have that character explain to you exactly why they're being a dick in a very self-aware way and allow you to immediately turn a mirror on them."

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1h

I completely agree, and I think there's probably some level of fear from writers that if they make characters act the way you're describing, the audience will just see them as straightforward assholes. Like they don't want you to get the wrong idea about the character and they're hedging.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 4h

where i come from, all milk is business milk

Len @len.bsky.social · 5h

In English if I just waved at you and said, "Len" while we were introducing ourselves, you would probably understand that I mean, "I am Len." Similarly, in Japanese, "Len desu" would have that implication. But just waving at you and saying, "Milk," you might need the added context, "I am Milk."

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Len @len.bsky.social · 5h

Technically correct. I think you could probably lose the obligatory 私は, though in this case I suppose there is an argument that you want to make sure they understand you are in fact saying the very stupid thing you just said so there is no possibility of trying to make better sense of it.

Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 19h

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Len @len.bsky.social · 5h

"there are assassins and templars on both sides of every major normie conflict" has been creating stupidity as long as the series has been around

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Len @len.bsky.social · 6h

I tab out of a work thing because I need to look something up relevant to the assignment. I am distracted by unread messages on discord and slack.

45 minutes later, I have not looked up the thing. I tab back in. It takes me 0.2 seconds to remember the question I meant to look up. I tab out again...

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Three Moves Ahead @3ma.bsky.social · 10h

This week, @len.bsky.social and @mhwilliams.bsky.social are joined by Ruth Cassidy and Sin Vega to discuss Endless Legend 2's Early Access launch and a bunch of other stuff we've been playing in this chill variety chat.

www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes...

Three Moves Ahead: Endless Legend 2 & Friends

Episode 640. What Really Is A Strategy Game?

www.idlethumbs.net

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Len @len.bsky.social · 13h

Skyines 2's first major DLC finally has a release date - more than two years after the release of the base game. Asset modding support is still in development.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve39...

Bridges & Ports | Announcement Trailer | Cities: Skylines II

YouTube video by Cities: Skylines

www.youtube.com

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Len @len.bsky.social · 13h

LLMs should be sold in a pack of 4 (with one more FREE if you call in the next five minutes!) on QVC at 11:48 a.m.

No I mean when this whole craze started I did say that at least, unlike say NFTs, it does have valid use cases that exist. They're just marginal compared to the level of hype. It should be like a gadget they sell on QVC during a weekday. It does a few things that are neat and very specific.
The ShamWow did not completely revolutionize every industry forever, but yeah I'll get a couple for the specific tasks they're good at. This is like someone saying ShamWow is going to reduce the need for human labor significantly.
And unlike the ShamWow, it also does some things that seem cool if you don't understand it but are actually really bad for you, such as using it for any kind of research. Like if the ShamWow for some reason tasted really good but was still just as toxic to ingest.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 13h

Also that guy's gonna be in a textbook. What are you doing this weekend?

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Len @len.bsky.social · 13h

Portland Frog has redeemed amphibians in the broader culture after more than a decade of pepe dragging their image through the mud.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

It's still bad! But it's average "leadership doesn't want to listen to the userbase" bad and not "one guy basically turned one of the internet's main forums for everything from local extreme weather warnings to celebrity culture, which will never exist again, into a nazi bar"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

For as much as it sucks when the admins turn out to suck, this is not a repeat of twitter. And I only say that because it's almost impossible to overstate the disaster that was Musk's twitter. It has almost no precedent. This is like when everyone got mad at spez for fucking up the API. Ordinary.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

ubisoft 🤝 andrew johnson

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

There's no T in the word "mountain."

We're going to the mou'ns

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I think both things were true: Square's sales expectations were destructively outlandish, and the title did this game no favors.

Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I've always said "IV-uh-liss"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently the voice acting in the remaster pronounces it "EE - va - lease"

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

I am a High Fantasy Proper Noun descriptivist, not a High Fantasy Proper Noun prescriptivist.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by a lot of people discovering they've been saying "Ivalice" wrong from the FFT remaster and I was like, friends, if I've been saying something a certain way for 20 years, it's too late. You missed your chance to correct me. My way is correct now, in my universe.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes the *technically* correct thing can be so spiritually wrong that it doesn't matter. For example, pronouncing Tidus as "TEE-dus." He is a water guy. Like the tides. So he is Tide-us. There is no way you will ever convince me to say it differently. I would choose death instead.

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Josh Broadwell @fionnthebrave.bsky.social · 1d

I spent the last week combing through reports and speaking with analysts about where EA's studios and most well-known franchises will likely fit under its new owners - and how that massive debt will potentially influence the way EA handles them

www.polygon.com/ea-deal-pred...

What the EA deal could mean for BioWare, The Sims, and more

The $55 billion deal would take the publishing powerhouse private

www.polygon.com

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