David
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David
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Drape yourself in greenery / become part of the scenery
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It feels like your options these days are a) Inscrutable Faceless AI tooling or b) SPLORTO the easy to use UNIX CLI tool made by a guy who lives off-grid in a cave in Idaho (only available as a binary you have to compile yourself)
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When you are pure of heart no amount of earnestness is Cringe. When you are a malevolent little freak no amount of sarcasm is enough to make you cool
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
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Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion in London.
Stitting bolt upright in bed several days later my eyes glowing with energy: What idiot called it the ROG Xbox Ally when MICROSOFT TEAMS DECK was right there?
LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
Proust-em-ups are my favourite genre
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Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger
(I want to have mouse control too preferably)
People of Bluesky: I'm dipping my toes back into making a roguelike. I'm pretty familiar with Libtcod and the like, and I've done some stuff with the Specs ECS. Unfortunately, that was a few years ago - whats my best current approach for just shipping something simple and tile-based?
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The world is so filled with beauty and wonder and I feel very strongly both that it should be a kinder place to live in and that it is within our power to make it as such
Can you name the intellectual tradition that Starmer is operating from? Any books; critical analysis; papers that explain it as an intellectual tradition?
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LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
This literally reads like a voice log from System Shock, if Edward Diego had inexplicably removed Shodan's ethical constraints in order to make porn...
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
Imagine being the cop on the postmodernist French cinephile beat.
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
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The "Saint George was Turkish" line as a gotcha response to flagshaggers' bigotry is silly because:
a) it is factually incorrect, obviously,
b) it aligns with Turkey's historical revisionism - not cool
c) there are so many better ways to attack the racism and
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Madeline Horwath on St George returning to England – cartoon
The St George’s flag is more popular than ever. It’s more complicated for England’s patron saint
www.theguardian.com
Did he also think that Boogie Nights was a film about how great and unproblematic the porn industry is?
It's weird that he watched 2.5 hours of communist revolutionaries blowing stuff up and decided that it was a movie about liberalism...
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My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!

youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...
Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke
YouTube video by Sebastian Lague
youtu.be
In many ways it was regarded as the precursor to the Nintendo Turbo DS
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The true genius of Beckett is that he trapped his critics in an endless cycle of repeating the same talking points for generations...
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
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I unfortunately got spoiled for this, but from all accounts, Mechs into Plowshares does something quite incredible and unique with its rule set that I don't believe has been done anywhere else.

I don't want to say anything more, but recommend you try.

anomalousentertainment.itch.io/mechs-into-p...
Mechs Into Plowshares by Anomalous Entertainment Co
A solo play, one shot, narrated TTRPG about war, anxiety, paranoia, identity and purpose.
anomalousentertainment.itch.io
Dan Brown was classmates with David Foster Wallace and I've always wondered how they ended up with completely different understandings of what "good" writing is meant to look like...