Give them jobs as playtesters

How about they everyone just focus on making shit instead of worrying about who owns the gameplay from a toy that’s old enough to have a quarter life crisis now.

Yeah I have all the LLMs through work, so every now and then I’m like wtf let’s give it a shot, I need to do a super fuzzy search over a large semantic area and why what do I have here…

Number one, it saps any little bit of joy I might have taken out of work, and two, “speaking” to it makes me feel insane. Like I’m talking to the world’s most polite gaslighter. And it’s so confidently wrong all the time.

I’m fine just loading up my squishy human brain with context and then executing, but increasingly its getting harder to parse online docs (including internal!), articles, and other resources, because they’ve been slopped up by a process that doesn’t actually understand anything it’s generating.

You don’t know one cool bar, restaurant, or park in your area?

I remember going from using Z/X/C+mouse2 for left/backpedal/right+forward WASD was such an adjustment

Wow I don’t even need $40M but I’ll take it.

Rofl I could’ve told you that cat was named Oscar

And then there’s that. Much harder to do with yourself, if you’re singular at least.

Yeah meditation is cool. Would be interesting to try doing it more

Rofl nice try, assholes

Kinda figured we’d just make games for eachother

It Gets Better

Yeah. I think if we deprioritize individual consciousness then it comes easier to swallow (by the conscious mind…).

Obviously you shouldn’t deprioritize others’ minds. This is just a personal technique/cope.

It is :)

Yeah they can make you feel that way especially if you do them with a tight friend, but in reality you’re still locked into your own perspective.

Maybe if more people believed we could kind of willingly feel it by proxy. Kind of like how mirror neurons let you simulate the other on your own equipment.

For a five year old I’d keep it super simple and personally relatable and say it’s like a language that two people speak. Except it’s a computer language that websites speak (I often say websites instead of servers even when speaking to adults).

So like Facebook and Gmail can’t talk to eachother, but Gmail and Hotmail can. (You can probably come up with better examples.)

I love this kind of philosophy. I wish it were possible to access it on a tangible level, but sadly it seems consciousness is local phenomena

It looks pretty intentional from where I’m standing. At best the shot caller was apathetic to it looking like actual Nazi iconography to some recipients.

I for one complain about both platforms for subtly different reasons!

Now I’ve got one more with gog, I guess.

Other than the rare direct purchase, where are folks getting their games anyway? Zoomplatform??

Thanks. I’ll take it.

Ok, so we agree there’s no conspiracy. I agree no one is immune to conspiratorial thinking.

Do you agree that some stories, regardless of how factual they are, are politically useful?

Like a story about Zoran Mamdani kicking a dog might be true (it’s not afaik) and also very useful to his neoliberal opponents. Even thought it’s “just” (and actually “just” I’m not saying ““just”” like hmmmmmm isn’t it convenient — I’m not saying that) truthful, factual, honest reporting. That’s the context.

Where do you stand on the conflict btw?