Andrew 💻📚☕

Andrew 💻📚☕

@andrewdys.art

(he/him, they/them) Platform Software Engineer Author I love reading, writing, computers, metal music, and more. Endlessly curious, but I've got a strong aversion to bullshit. Opinions are my own, check 'em out at https://andrewdys.art 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Andrew 💻📚☕ reposted

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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Less than 12 weeks ago, EA was effectively purchased by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law for $55B in a deal that saddled the company with around $20B in debt. 12 weeks. That's how long it took for them to shutter a decades-old studio in BioWare and deem people surplus to requirements.

Still thinking about the Fit For An Autopsy song "Red Horizon," a song which condemns Israel's genocide, in which they wrote the lyric: "The bodies burned so bright / that God closed his eyes"

The kind of lyric that hits you in the gut when you hear it. The raw rage seeps into every word and lays bare the monstrosity "The bodies burned so bright / that God closed his eyes" indeed. Nothing holy motivated any of this. No hand that sowed this destruction will reap any divine reward.

as a platform engineer, I have trained myself never to rely on any solution being available forever that is why I will thrive when the AI bubble pops, if I can keep my job that long

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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

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People using AI to reverse engineer games to then turn around and publish clones is straight up theft. Why is anyone pretending otherwise? The only thing genAI is good at making is fucking talentless thieves. Prosecute the lot of them. Sue them to hell.

folks really like to underestimate how ignorant or uncurious people can be. I think it's rhetorically useful to be aware of those people because they're often receptive to clarification

You can say "anybody parroting the 'ethics in games journalism' line is an evil dipshit" and feel good about yourself, but you only get likes from people who already know about GG and its unwashed adherents. I personally knew a lot of folks who mostly just wanted to play games lol

"We all" know it was a front for virulent misogynists and racists, but like, the vast majority of gamers don't actually read games journalism *at all* Having strong opinions on GG is one of those self-selecting things yougov.com/articles/497...

yougov.comWhat do gamers rely on more when buying video games - consumers reviews or critic scores?Who do consumers trust more in their pre-purchase journey - players who've conquered the game, or seasoned critics offering their professional takes?

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people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

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Replying to @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

My lukewarm take is that people should be allowed to not have kids without needing to justify it. Let people live their lives the way the want to, why is that so hard?

i think it sucks shit that like 60% of all content is shared in walled-garden engagement hack hives like Instagram and tiktok and I can't just find a fuckin recipe on the open internet apparently I have to comment "SHOVEITDOWNMYGULLET" to get a recipe in my inbox

furthermore i fuckin hate that AI DDOSes websites that don't have a login gate so it's basically incentivizing more of these walled-garden situations

I have like a very vague understanding that there's later-on Dune stuff where it's like, "oh, the Atreides guy commits vast atrocities to discourage folks from deifying any ruler ever again!" but it doesn't work anyway what were we talking about?

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

I think if there's anything I've learned in the American Century of Humiliation is that anybody who gives themselves a whackadoo-ass nickname needs mental evaluation and quarantine

The Verge@theverge.com

Verge features writer Josh Dzieza discusses his investigation into the Stratos data center, and how Utah residents fought back against it. www.theverge.com/podcast/1002...

I think about raising my sons in this world that does not reward gentleness. I think about the day, soon, when I will have to tell them that they have a tremendous privilege: the world will always give them more than it gives others, and they must use that to stand up for others

Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social

Crucially, none of that work really involves bothering women and asking them what to do. Instead you take stock of your privilege and think “how can I upset the status quo in ways that others can’t? What discomfort can I risk for myself that would cost someone else more?”

Our society tries at every juncture to rob boys of their gentleness, to convince them it's weak. Actually, to be loudly, presently gentle in such a world requires more strength than all the manfluencers could ever muster.

What dumbasses mean when they say "Don't Mass up NH": don't be liberal, don't have taxes and public services What I mean when I say "Don't Mass up NH": don't put up thousands of fucking Flock cameras

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This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

Newsweek@newsweek.com

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

I got into programming because I've loved it ever since I started to learn. I love picking up new things and trying to compose them into something cool shaping the thing is the whole fun of it, for me

Technically that workflow is *sort of* still attainable with Claude, but there's plenty of it that becomes "gotta assess and fix the robot's shitty output" and that fucking sucks

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my colleague: I have a question me: MC: yk period blood & stem cells? is it true no one has researched it because it is icky? me: OK WELL, Menstrual-blood stromal cells were first found in 2007, but the science way to say "icky" is "research is limited due to gender bias & sociocultural stigma"

just manifesting this for after the blue tsunami: i need the milquetoast caucus to step aside and let there be some goddamn consequences for the fascists ok thank you I've hit my libposting quota for this quarter

So thankful that, despite the many fearful and terrible things in the world, there are still good and pure people for my kid to look up to and learn from

These tech assholes underestimate how big a motivator spite can be

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social

I must say that I went with an Nvidia card instead of an AMD when I bought my gaming rig a couple of years ago. If I can ever afford another one (big "if" at this point), I will certainly go with an AMD, BASED SOLELY on the complete odiousness of Jensen Huang. He is for sure one of the bad guys.

I dropped all my Windows installs *and switch to Vim* due to BDS. I will never buy another Nvidia card. I've sworn off EA published games, Microsoft-owned studios, hell I haven't bought from Ubisoft since the abuse allegations. I'm willing to inconvenience myself in order to avoid rewarding them

Andrew 💻📚☕ reposted

There will be creative, passionate, talented, hard-working, weirdo, human, freaks pouring their souls into creating awesome video games until the wheels fall off this business and AI burns the industry to ground. And those freaks will keep making games after that too, and create something better.

i don't think you should call this guy a cum biohacker. it shouldn't be done

WIRED@wired.com

Bryan Johnson, the technologist-cum-multimillionaire-cum-biohacker, has become well-known for his quest to become immortal. Kate Tolo, his girlfriend, is pursuing similar goals, all for women’s health.

It cannot be overstated how much of a generational fuck up Xbox is. Catastrophic lack of business sense with an unfathomable human toll

John Carson@johncarson.bsky.social

I'd prefer if all Xbox studios were given the chance to get out before they are lost to the void Glad Undead Labs was able to escape. Fingers crossed for Arkane and Ninja Theory

Yet another thing that should come with consequences for those responsible -- who've ruined thousands of lives, lest we forget -- but will instead generate shareholder value or some other bloodless shit