karlgerm

I’m karl! twitch streamer, Dark Souls speedrunner, did some GDQ runs… I talk about Final Fantasy on Every F’n FF. I did the worm in an Andrew WK music video and was on an episode of Orange Is The New Black (because I thought it’d be funny to get to say that.) I’m gonna get back into making music 🔜.

for those wondering how to decode it like I was, this is the leaderboard for the OOB Category of Mina the Hollower! @lauriedepass.bsky.social guessed it immediately! they mentioned being on the leaderboard almost daily for a week as they learn the route and noticed the similarities! how clever!

it’s probably great for the world that every single business interaction has just become ChatGPT summarizing and responding to an email that was drafted by ChatGPT. it’s probably super good that lawyers are doing that shit now. maybe we should tether our entire economic infrastructure to this tech

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this is what using a CPAP and getting more restful sleep has felt like since my ADHD symptoms seem to be decreasing a bit

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

I’m actually extremely relaxed of it right now.

genuinely can’t get over the fact Tim Heidecker will just go all in on the most absurdly awkward interaction he can imagine but with enough time, it ends up not even being satire because weirdos like Ethan Klein exist and are actually Like That. I’ve been thinking of this similarity for days

as always, trans rights are non negotiable. and being ostensibly left wing while throwing trans folks under the bus is a losing political stance. if someone says they don’t support trans rights, they are unelectable and they are unfit for office.

I haven’t read further than the first sentence because I actually have respect for my time but the funniest wrinkle to this is that it seems to be him crashing out about Bill Maher lmfao

Bora Brasil!!!!!!

Another day, another dollar, amiright?

You Can See Everything gave me a headache because of the emotional rollercoaster it put me through. it’s a weird headache and the only time I can remember having one like this was waking up with a bad hangover from drinking Everclear which made me really want to listen to Primus. 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 masterpiece

holy fuck

My own two cents on spotting genAI crap within retro game modding/hacking & homebrew communities: One of the easiest telltale signs of something being vibecoded is if the "project"/"mod"/"hack" in question uses a particular faux "pixel font" with zero variation:

Old Man Fish has the zoomies this morning and he’s been meowing a bunch so I tried to get a video of that but got an extremely cute sneeze instead

I'd honestly avoid like most of the FFVIII mods if I were you lol

finally seeing You Can See Everything today and I have no idea how I’m supposed to prepare myself for it lmao

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Favorite film in haiku: Somebody once told Me. The world was gonna roll Me. Shrek is real good

who did it better?

if you told me a week ago that I would be very interested in watching H3 clips, I would not have believed you lmao

I once shook hands with Eiji Aonuma by accident (I didn’t realize it was him until after lmao)

Beekeepers in Gaza like Samar (photo 1) are working hard to rebuild their projects, and WCK is doing what we can to support them. In addition to hot meals for the beekeepers themselves, we’re providing beehive boxes and frames so their bees can rebuild their colonies. #ChefsForGaza

The trading card game focused side thing I do, TCG Jawn, is now on BlueSky and Instagram. Trying to do more things with it, so if you’d give it a follow, I’d appreciate it.

this is on the nose with everything I’ve seen in my 15 years as an IT Professional… this is one of my biggest concerns about the gold rush of AI… execs are relying heavily on AI and expecting it to be a miracle fix & could be causing laziness at a scale that makes it impossible for these guys to fix

this is happening now if anyone wants to join!

so uhhh….who’s going to TwitchCon?? I’m doing a Dark Souls PTDE Speedrun on Sunday 11/15 for GDQx!!!! I am speechless.

Let's not forget:

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by the way, I’m long over due for a Mario Kart with Chat stream so we’re doing that tonight starting around 5pm Eastern! add me on Switch if you wanna play! if it’s fun maybe it’ll become more of a recurring thing. SW-1244-7387-6802 twitch.tv/karlgerm

happy for her!

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very stoked that @danryckert.com strategically left out a very important connection he has to the MLB category on The Floor youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k

This is my official headshot for the show. They kept making me tilt my chin down because my glasses were reflecting the lights, so it looks like I'm trying to do some "lil' stinker" emote whenever I'm shown.

Do they not give swirlies in South Africa

more video games industry layoff news, huge php vulnerabilities, AI slop taking over every corner that’s left of cool hobbyist gaming shit AND I woke up in afib. shit is relentlessly exhausting man

Consolidation is killing our industry. The Gamergaters who make money off the rage game will have you think this is a victory. This is purely a loss. A loss of work and art and fun and expression in a space that desperately needs it. Massive fucking bummer.

It's a great future where no gaming executive wants to employ any human developers, where the few remaining major publishers just want to charge for slop from an AI prompt, and where that very same AI bubble makes every new console cost $2000. This is a business with a bright horizon ahead

(but once again important to note this is less about what bioware fucked up and more about the high likelihood that kushner and his cronies convinced their consortium they could take EA private and reduce their human spend by like 40 percent with "AI-driven efficiency".)