Murlin
@murlin.bsky.social
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murlin.bsky.social
Staying the night at my sisters house tonight has easily been the worst mistake I have made in the past five years. This is a fucking disaster in every way
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catacalypto.bsky.social
I think this is bang on, and gets at a sense of what I see in play with stuff from Dwarf Fortress and Qud to Rimworld to Crusader Kings and the Sims: a desire to understand the world, whether a familiar or an alien one, through play
lincolnhello.bsky.social
"'The more we try to understand what's going on in the world around us—the more we don't just withdraw into a hermitude of my family and I as a nuclear unit, the more we try to understand our society—I think the more these kinds of games speak to us,' Short said."
Founder of Dwarf Fortress and Caves of Qud publisher Kitfox Games says its procgen sims for sickos are 'giving storytelling tools back to the people when games and passive media took them away'
Streets of Fortuna, Kitfox's own in-development "megasim," is chasing that same systems-driven storytelling.
pcgamer.com
murlin.bsky.social
Akane-banashi is cool
“Sight outside of sight.” - Akane performing rakugo on a blank white background with a pair of giant eyes behind her
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alexjaffe.bsky.social
If the Democrats run this guy in 2028, they will lose
lgbtqnation.com
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
murlin.bsky.social
Why are people always so mean to Jucika
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netscape.bsky.social
In terms of position in the sales charts, this is the highest performing Red Hood story ever, as under the red hood debuted at 22
netscape.bsky.social
Total Gretchen Felker Martin victory
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wildweasel486.bsky.social
Some inappropriately creepy golf content - Sente Mini Golf (1986) has DIP switches that add photos of missing children to the attract mode (and to enable a "LOCATED" message per kid). These profiles were replaced with new ones in updated ROMs.

Modern operators seem to leave them on, a lot. 😨
A Reddit post from r/creepygaming by user SuperCamouflageShark - I saw these missing child reports on the attract mode of a Sente Mini-Golf arcade machine recently.

The photo is of a Sente Mini Golf machine, displaying black-and-white photographs of missing children: Tahj Allen Merriman, and Steven Phillip Curtis. Their profiles are filled out in red text. Another photograph of a different Sente Mini Golf machine, displaying the same photos of missing children. Sente Mini Golf running under MAME, with the DIP Switches menu showing. DIP switches 3, 4, and 5 configure whether the missing children are displayed in the attract mode, with switches 4 and 5 showing or hiding a "LOCATED" stamp over the respective kid's photo. Screenshot of Sente Mini Golf running under MAME; this screen shows two different missing children: Malinda Marie Smith and April Rose Yates. For the sake of demonstration I have enabled the "LOCATED" flag on the kid on the right. (DISCLAIMER: I do not have any information on whether April was located or not. This is strictly a demonstration and is not intended as documentation of a real event.)
murlin.bsky.social
After the ex-Nazca guys finish making their Not-Metal Slug game, I hope they make a Not-Neo Turf Masters.
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
zeldawilliams 
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross. And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.
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hard-drive.net
REPORT: Princess Peach’s New Album, “Life of a Toadgirl” Features Track Entitled “Pipe” That Describes Mario’s Penis in Excruciating Detail.
murlin.bsky.social
Slice & Dice is unrivaled
murlin.bsky.social
Is your battery starting to swell underneath it?
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markpopham.bsky.social
OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢

DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun
crushbort.bsky.social
i think we are going to find out at some point these guys invented cocaine 2 and have been on it all along
Buried in Altman's post is the real story: "People are generating much more than we expected per user," using massive compute resources on content that's often being generated for very small audiences (it is, after all, a social media app). OpenAl will "have to somehow make money for video generation," Altman wrote. Translation: Sora is burning through compute costs with no offsetting revenue.
Altman floated a potential solution: "We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by users." The idea-perhaps similar to You Tube's ad-monetization program for videos that include copyrighted material
-would give studios a financial incentive to opt in.
"The exact model will take some trial and error to figure out," Altman acknowledged, "but we plan to start very soon."
murlin.bsky.social
Just watched this scene yesterday, great stuff
murlin.bsky.social
Yes, though that was one of my least favorites. I liked Aphrodite (shotgun) and Dionysus (lobbed bomb with poison cloud) the most
murlin.bsky.social
I’m actually surprised that it’s possible to fail, other than maybe for messing up the diet too much—every time I thought I wasn’t gonna make it on one of the other goals I got thrown some kind of a lifeline during the unscheduled “???” time in the last day or two of the week
murlin.bsky.social
I keep hearing podcasts talking about Hades 2 saying they never used Casts in Hades 1. Did they not know about the “bonus damage to foes with the cast stone embedded in them” thing? I was putting Aphrodite on that shit at every single opportunity
murlin.bsky.social
but of course it can't end painlessly--have to be there at 5 AM for inventory this week and can't leave until after a meeting at 3PM
murlin.bsky.social
Unless he decides that he needs more recovery time this should be my last week of running Amusements operations at work. Got pretty lucky for most of this time, almost nothing broke (mostly because it was slow and stuff was getting used less)