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Preparing to blast through 80% of the thing then getting caught on the last two levels

Vampire Week youtu.be/8APcGHUVXyQ

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If the real priority was actually protecting girls from actual men who pose a risk to them in sports, it would make much more sense to advocate for banning male coaches and male doctors. And I’ve never, ever ever heard that suggestion, because that’s not really what this is about.

CASTLEVANIA III deathstream tonight CASTLEVANIA: BELMONT'S CURSE thereafter FEVRE DREAM (GEORGE R.R. MARTIN) talk throughout! 7:30pm cst Twitch.tv/technopoverty

DRACULA 2NITE

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MARIO IN HALO style AI mods dont just top out at like fifteen minutes of novelty, they also aren't really made for you to play - they're for creating reels where you gawk at them to rake in ad rev

ALAN WAKE is so good at knowing what information to deliver where that sounds simple but as a videogame its just such a Well Directed Thing I cannot shut the fuck up about it youtu.be/oAzvieRWUfQ

"Ethan Klein Podcast Empire" man that's some America B shit. Real human beings don't know about that.

(they've gotten rid of the edit that bugged me so I'm deleting the rest of my thread.)

I wrote this piece last winter and have been waiting for it to come out; somehow I missed that it already had! Anyway, I’m rather proud of it. It’s about true crime and I think it has some relevance to current discourses hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

“I’ll kill you.”

This Fall on Corncob TV, Alfred Hitchcock presents: Coffin Break

I think cheating on your partner is wrong, but I think it should be some encouragement to young men who think they're not attractive enough to find a partner that a guy as weird looking and devoid of charisma as ethan klein was able to find at least 2 people who were into him

Here’s another one

does anyone have that video

Any good reading on that PHP thing? Destruction of the internet etc

Good

me when i'm sweetie. me when im little baby sweetie angel and yet my mother is leaving

today is your reminder that the 'Guennol Lioness', a proto-Elamite statuette, confirms evidence that humans have been hot for massive furry women since at least 5000ish BCE, contemporary with our invention of the wheel and the first cohesive writing systems

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Solutions to problems only losers have

so i said to them, and they were very honored, they were so honored, i said you are witness to one of the greatest becomings of all time, one of the very best becomings, and the moon, the moon is involved somehow

Solutions to problems only losers have

Where you'll find the works of J.K. Rowling and Tom King

Traditional barriers to entry kept out bulk slop up to a point, but give us... polished slop. Candy gruel. AAA games and MCU movies. We need different barriers. That open the door to weird, even inept, outsiders without all the flatly worthless crap that drowns out the weird and interesting.

If you impose even very modest time and effort costs then the value proposition disappears. We shouldn't evaluate for quality per se -- there's value in "bad" art -- but we gotta evaluate for effort and intent. Or at least, evaluate for it's obvious absence.

You don't want to filter out the 'bad'. Or even the incompetent. You want to filter out the lazy, the careless, and the soulless. The stuff that just isn't even worth criticizing for its failures. That shouldn't be too hard. The rewards for making slop are meagre, it's just easy to do it in bulk.

The AI slop deluge just intensifies a problem that we've had for the entirety of "Web 2.0" - huge volumes of lazy crap. Frankly, we need curation and gatekeeping. Barriers to entry. Not based on wealth, status, social connection -- but some obstacles that specifically disincentivize slop dumping.

Speedrunning, as an ethos, is the way forward. Collective problem solving that engages with cracking the tech where it meets the user, all done in the spirit of play and challenging the prescribed narrative.