Mossy Feathers (They/Them)

Does this run on a raspberry pi 1 or 2? I can’t remember which one I have, but I barely use it so it’d be cool to have something to use it for.

He should drop it down to a single pixel and see how fast it goes then.

WTF is this from?

Not gonna lie, I think Traveller has the best cover art for a game, period. TTRPGs, video games, board games, card games, I legit think Traveller is at least top 10, if not number 1. I have never seen cover art that has made me feel so compelled to try out the game and make me wish I had people to play it with. It tells you about the game’s theme, setting, gameplay and I imagine, conveys the way the game actually feels to play without any actual artwork.

Are there any other games that can claim the same? That’s a serious question, I’m legit scratching my brain trying to think of other games with cover art that hits as hard as Traveller’s, actual “artwork” or not.

Traveller’s cover art is just on another level.

I was just going off the secondary headline. They called it a super fund, so that’s what I called it.

They said the outage was caused by a misconfiguration that resulted in UniSuper’s cloud account being deleted, something that had never happened to Google Cloud before.

Bullshit. I’ve heard of people having their Google accounts randomly banned or even deleted before. Remember when the Terraria devs cancelled the Stadia port of Terraria because Google randomly banned their account and then took weeks to acknowledge it? The only reason why Google responded so quickly to this is because the super fund manages over $100b and could sue the absolute fuck out of Google.

Ah, I failed to notice your instance which I why I asked about aussies.

I already do. Is this some weird thing only britoids or Australians understand?

Those are some interesting choices of apps. Considering some of those sound like professional tools (SOLIDWORKS pdm) or basic drivers/tools (Radeon software, Intel drivers), they may be about to drive more people away from their OS.

Tbh I think they were smart to incorporate. It might have drawn a larger target on their backs (though patreon’s target probably dwarfed it), but it also meant that individually they were financially protected from Nintendo. They’ll probably still have to pay Nintendo whatever their corporation currently has even if they declare bankruptcy, but at least the devs aren’t having their wages garnished until the end of time.

If they do attempt to declare bankruptcy, let’s hope Nintendo doesn’t try and sue them again to pierce the corporate veil.

THEM CHINESE IS COMIN’ FOR OUR BONES!

More like The Binding of Isaac. Only game in which aborting yourself can result in a positive outcome.

Nah, AI has just gotten really good at hands. They can still be a bit wonky, but I’ve seen images, hands and everything, that’d probably fool anyone who doesn’t go over the picture with a magnifying glass.

It’s the assumption that if it’s possible to build a simulation in our reality, then it’s possible that our reality is in a simulation. However, if we can’t build a simulation in our reality, then we don’t live in a simulation. That binary assumes that whatever our parent reality is (assuming there is one), it must follow the same rules as our own. However, what I’m saying is that we can’t infer the nature of a possible parent reality by comparing it to our own, because that reality may be completely different.

My biggest issue with simulation theory is that original basis seems to be the assumption that whatever universe is simulating our own must follow the same rules as our own. However, that’s not true in the slightest.

We simulate worlds that operate under different rules than our own all the time. While they aren’t anywhere near as complex as our reality, we’re at least able to dream of worlds with magic or faster-than-light travel. In a few hundred (or maybe thousand) years, who knows, we might be able to simulate a reality that follows 90% of our physical laws while also allowing for magic.

For all we know, if our universe is a simulation, it could be a magical simulation of a mundane world, taking place in a scholarly wizard’s guild because they wanted to see what a mundane reality would look like.

Kinda. My understanding is that that they aren’t starting with, “this pattern can only be explained by a simulation” but instead, “we haven’t been able to figure out what’s causing this, so let’s try a screwdriver instead of a hammer”.

It’s like the universe is a massive, exquisitely crafted wood table; composed of many intricate, delicate pieces made of different types of wood and held together without a single screw, bolt, nail, peg, or drop of glue. A true work of master craftsmanship held together only with extremely precise wooden joints.

Science is trying to figure out how the table was made. Due to the complexity of the table, there’s no way a single human could learn enough to analyze and study the entire table, so it gets split up. Neurologists get one leg, chemists get another, astrophysics get a corner, and so on. They study their pieces along with a picture showing how their piece fits with the neighboring pieces; and once they think they have a good understanding of it, they make a new one. It’s a really good replica and it’s a near-perfect copy of the original; good enough that no one can tell there’s anything wrong with it based on the picture they were given.

However, when the scientists reconvene with their new pieces, they find they don’t fit together like the original table. Not only that, but there are pieces that just don’t seem to fit or are straight-up missing; they can’t figure out what the purpose, shape or material these pieces are, only that they seem to exist and keep the table together.

Simulation theory, if I understand correctly, basically says, “maybe this wasn’t a table at all; maybe it’s a chair or a desk, and that’s why some pieces don’t fit while others appear to be missing entirely”.

Damn, that’s fucking awesome. How long until they start receiving DMCAs from AiPlex or Nintendo?

(AiPlex is an Indian anti-piracy company who’s becoming known for spamming DMCAs and extorting content creators for even the slightest IP violations (sometimes striking reviews which contain no infringing content whatsoever or spamming DMCAs on irrelevant videos to force content creators to cave to their demands). They do it claiming to represent companies who have previously not given a shit.)

Iirc this was the kinda thing Tortellini was doing while he was at EA. Shove out a bad thing, apologize, shove out slightly less bad thing.

Edit: Sure enough, they’re trying to push out a less shitty version now. They planned it this way the whole time.

Thank you! I’ve got a bunch of things I’ve been struggling with lately, so who knows if or when I’ll actually get it running, but I’ve been trying to move in that direction.

Not at the moment. Tbh I’m struggling with a lot in my life right now so who knows if it ever actually gets off the ground, but I’m trying to move in that direction.