beyond citadel, cruelty squad, and marathon (old and new) are the closest FPSs to approach my aesthetic and narrative ideal

Robots.txt was invented as a truce: "you can crawl the website, but avoid these endpoints because it can bring the server down". Once website owners started abusing it for profit and anti-archival reasons, the social contract was broken. No wonder it's ignored. wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Ro...

I actually *want* AI to train on my (public) datasets just the same as I want human people to experience my communication and incorporate information from it in whatever way they want. I'm an active component in memetic evolution and that's actually pretty cool.

AC6 PvP is extremely infuriating, I put so much effort into making a cool unique build with nice paintjob and decals and I just get stomped by a one of the 5 cookie cutter meta builds, but when I switch to one and win, the winning just doesn't feel good at all, and I just don't get what drives them

Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is one of the prettiest video games of all time to me

the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening

missed the eclipse, couldn't find film or sunglasses in time :(

Adding that copyright maximalism is also a capitalist/right-wing position, which is why industry groups and giant media corporations are pushing for it today with regard to AI just as hard as they were when they were saying "home taping is killing music", and their motivations have not changed

Alastair Zaraza⛥🔯⛧⚧🏳️‍🌈 they/xe/it@zaraza.bsky.social · 4d ago

Something I'm VERY concerned with - while AI critical myself - is how the "nonpartisan" anti-AI movement has been trickling far right attitudes into leftist communities. I've seen everything from "disabled people are just whiners who need to bootstrap" to "reject modernity/embrace tradition".

it's actually insane how much culture is downstream of being able to rent out a room for cheap with relatively few constraints on what you do inside

each of these was directionally correct

em@foremphasis.bsky.social · 4d ago

I always think about

one time i dated a girl who didn't like krtek and in retrospect that should have been a five alarm fire type red flag. if you hate this cute little mf it's on sight bithc

I was kicking so much ass in AC6 PvP until a trans girl with a kite build broke my win streak. trans girls always play kite builds....

Big Pants

Nell@ruwubynell.bsky.social · last wk.

robot girl wearing a crop top so her air vents arent blocked

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| PLAY ARMORED CORE |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | | |

AuroralVisage@auroralvisage.bsky.social · 4d ago

￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| PLAY EVERGRACE |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| \ (•◡•) / \ / —— | | | |

girl that only listens to keygen music

via isaac king "Each randomly chooses one "friend" & "enemy". At each step every dancer moves 0.5% closer to the centre then takes a large step towards their friend & a small step away from their enemy. At random intervals one dancer re-chooses friend & enemy" community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t...

Armored Core 2 has one of the soundtracks of all time

the early brainbird gets the brainworm

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I don't like 5th gen Armored Core games at all, but at the same time they've got the most kickass soundtrack from all AC gens, so I guess im glad they exist just for that.

hangin out

arctic eggs is a really good game youtu.be/7FkRt9cU9YU?... (video of the event)

where the oleander grows@nonblnary.bsky.social · 5d ago

something really funny just happened.

the regime advises caution in referring to it as a "tsundere country" or "kuudere government". there is no "dere". only spreadsheets.

Where are my nuclear reactors? Where are my 20-story mixed-use blocks with shops and restaurants on the bottom and housing on the top? Where are my central heating plants? Where are my no-till polyculture regenerative agriculture farms?

Saw someone post an essay on reddit about how "solarpunk" is more punk than cyberpunk because it's daring to imagine a better future and like Okay, but try imagining a better future that's not "Thomas Kinkade painting with solar panels"

I'm a Tominoist. I believe that children shouldn't have to suffer, due to the incompetence of adults.

did you guys know Kow Yokoyama made a short Gundam manga. I'm going to post it in entirety here. credit to Zeonic Scanlations for the translation

I like video games and I like to touch grass, I think my favourite video games are the ones that make grass touching feel the best, and I think this is something vastly underappreciated and a strong reason why some of the best selling video games are best selling. game critics overlook this a lot.

so this is a bad mecha design but it's not because the pilot is exposed. That doesn't mean anything, it's a lorefucker issue you can write around easily. the problem is it's a cheap action figure playset where the pilot just hangs out of a fairly generic 'anime robot pinterest' frame. No identity.

Cassandra🐊@frozennorth.bsky.social · last wk.

worst mech design ever just dropped

bubblegum crisis 2040 debuted in 1998 and this is the kind of voodoo metal mechsuit the shows creators thought i personally, a cool trans woman, could afford. according to episode 1 this "rocks"

Brandon Turner@bparsonst.bsky.social · last wk.

this is like the tenth time we've done *this specific and stupid discourse*