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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 8h

thinking the computer is magic because of "ai" has really fucked with how fun it is to anthropomorphize the computer for purely imaginary reasons

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 11h

Google the problem. First result is a nine year old Reddit post asking the same question. No responses, but "Edit: nevermind, I figured it out!" Message them to ask how they solved the problem. "Why don't you just Google it instead of digging up a nine year old thread?"

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 15h

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 21h

Now you can do the thing!

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 22h

Millenials are the last generation that remembers a world in which Wario existed, but Waluigi did not.

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 23h

"Is MyWorld.wad literature?"

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 1d

The player finally finds Shaun and is disappointed to find he was the type of isekai protagonist that got way too comfortable with slavery being acceptable in this world.

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 1d

✅ Played on a tabletop
✅ Simulated battles
✅ Collectible plastic miniatures

Crazy Bones was a tabletop wargame.

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dave @davenadave.bsky.social · 1d

Silent Mil f

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 1d

Best part of DS3 is that sick In The Air Tonight remix from the trailer and I am still upset that they never released a full version.

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 1d

Space Crusade rerelease would also be acceptable!

Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 1d

The most fun way? Space Hulk 6th edition with FSM Terminators in the current marine scale.

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Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs @opensketchbook.bsky.social · 2d

"I'll get out of your hair. Oh, just one more thing..."

"Yes, Inspector?"

"Omae wa mou shindeiru."

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 2d

1, 5: isekai'd by tripping down the stairs and falling out the window of the Grover House

Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 2d

Gun Ship!

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GermanPeter @germanpeter.bsky.social · 3d

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 3d

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 3d

THAT'S XCOM BABY!!!

Kara Ling @metacrab.org · 3d

The game in which the premise is "the odds are real but gamers struggle to conceptualize or even believe them" has negative reviews from gamers who don't believe the odds are real (game: Unfair Flips)

A 'Not Recommended' Steam review with 4 hours played

Review text reads: It's a decent idea for a game where you flip a coin and depending on your percentage chances you get heads or tails. However the odds are a lie. You will flip tails 100 percent more than you will heads no matter what your percentage is. Even when you get it up to 60% you will still flip tails way more often then you will heads.

The Dev can try to defend it, but when I flip the coin 2500 times and only hit heads a third of the time even when at 60% then the odds are broken or a lie. I've also watched gameplay and seen fellow players have the same flips so I know it isn't just me having bad luck.

Still not bad for $2, but I'm saying no because the game is coded against you instead of it being fully on chance and luck.

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max @gaydragon.bsky.social · 4d

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed

old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 3d

Why are people making up slurs for AI? You can just find the CEOs of AI companies and call them real insults directly.

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 4d

Vegeta mustache son or Krillin hair daughter

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 4d

I have a feeling future generations are going to look back at us today and view hatred and anger the same way we see asbestos and lead and radium.

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 4d

Also I have a mustache now like Vegeta that one time.

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Shallow @shallowva.bsky.social · 4d

Entering the hyperbolic time chamber and emerging a week later than I anticipated because I spent my planned time in there procrastinating and some extra time just feeling guilty and anxious about coming out and revealing that I haven't done anything.

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