32th System

@32th.bsky.social

they/any (nonbinary) thprac (https://github.com/touhouworldcup/thprac) main developer and @touhouworldcup.com committee member but much more into UT/DR these days. https://github.com/32th-system

A lot of cis allies only have that Contrapoints bit about trans men as lost lesbian sisters* and happily say loudly that trans boys aren’t targeted. If you’re going to be an ally you need to at least be able to clock that when a bigot says “girls destroyed healthy breasts” they don’t mean girls

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 13h ago

We still don't talk about the way medically transitioning trans boys and transmasc nonbinary kids are the primary focus of the moral panic over trans kids.

A UI is a window into a program's SOUL. If your code is good of heart, the relationship between how the user interacts with it, and what it does, comes naturally. Only evil code makes it's inner machinations opaque

Experimental post: The Duality of Whacka In the Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Whacka can finally be fought, and has a suspiciously specific 108 HP. The game both offers a ridiculously simplistic explanation for this as well as a complex one steeped in Dharmic symbolism.

In Paper Mario, the original version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Paper Mario, Whacka was just a harmless whack-a-mole creature that could be abused to get Whacka Bumps, extremely valuable healing items. After being hit enough times, the Whacka goes extinct, teaching the players the consequences of their actions. However, in the Switch version of Paper Mario: TTYD, he instead moves to the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and becomes an optional superboss with 108 HP.
He is fought at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials and has to be hit 8 times in order for the fight to activate.
but also
The number 108 is considered sacred by the Dharmic religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
Whacka symbolizes karma for killing him in past games
ring the bell 108 times, per Japanese tradition? The ringing of the bell represents the 108 bonno-defilements of man..
Buddhism holds the view that there are precisely 108 temptations on the path to Nirvana.
Therefore, in order to reach Nirvana, every Buddhist must resist 108 earthly temptations.
With a combination of any of the elements of the above four factors, there are 108 ways with which the karmas can be attracted to the soul.
the earthly temptation to get those Whacka Bumps
There are 108 qualities of praiseworthy souls
Some people think that the human spirit travels through 108 stages, while others believe that enlightenment is attainable with just 108 breaths each day while in Intense meditation,
108 beads to awaken your inner light
Meditators count mantra repetitions with mala beads of 108, (100 counted for self, 8 for mistakes and for those who have not the opportunity to meditate in mantra)
108 breaths to return to your truth
108 mantras to dissolve ego into dever
108 steps from the self to the soul
The Sacred Meaning of 108 Temple Steps
the journey to Whacka is a journey of enlightenment

I would consider the important person's shirt being kinda low quality to be fitting given Kris's and Chara's characterization, but then it should be really cheap.

The vinyls feel a bit overpriced, so does the grillbys mug, but they're both good quality products. I use the Grillby's mug all the time. The important person's shirt is definitely overpriced. The colors look washed out, and it's not my washing machine. The Battat plush is just egregious

I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead

"OpenAI" is still a wild name to me i guess open means you don't release any of your models or research publically and open means you become a defense contractor and open means you assassinate whistleblowers

You don't need to deep dive into Windows internals or know how exactly how the component store and driver store works, but having a degree of computer literacy and like, knowing what to look for if you want to remove Edge, is more important than ever these days

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Paul Ifeanyichukwu Gabriel @ @...•2h
Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier • 2h

Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.