lincoln carpenter

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News writer at PC Gamer. Older stuff at Polygon, Fanbyte, pre-unholy resurrection Waypoint, etc. Artist formerly known as the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Views are my own and bad

"Does this engine's built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the finest and most adaptive logo-syllabic writing system ever devised in ancient Mesopotamia? If you're considering Godot for your next project, the answer is a resounding 𒀭𒈾."

Godot supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.

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IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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"Does this engine's built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the finest and most adaptive logo-syllabic writing system ever devised in ancient Mesopotamia? If you're considering Godot for your next project, the answer is a resounding 𒀭𒈾."

Godot supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines

Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.

pcgamer.com

"You'll undertake delivery tasks to support and supply the expedition, all while managing fuel, navigating unpaved terrain, and ensuring whatever still-twitching godflesh might be weighing down your flatbed gets to its destination unspoiled."

This upcoming Steam game is pioneering the accursed trucking genre, and as a former delivery guy I could not be more thrilled

Prospice: Anomalous Logistics simulates the canonical deliveryman experience of having your dreambody dissolved in the labyrinth of collective death.

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watching Stand Alone Complex for the first time, and being reminded that for years I'd thought of the Tachikoma as "those fun weirdo tanks that modders kept putting in cool custom maps for Halo 1's PC version"

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

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one last call: I want to talk to you if you’ve ever lost a big save in animal crossing/stardew valley, one that you were heavily invested in. For a forthcoming Verge story. DMs open, email in bio. Thanks so much.

I need HBO to know that you could pay me half as many millions of dollars as the person who okayed this, and I would return those savings to you tenfold by 1) not doing this, and 2) investing instead in making the app capable of playing videos without entering a violent seizure

"HBO Max is launching 'HBO Max Shorts' a mobile feature designed for users to watch iconic and memorial scenes from the HBO library in a vertical and scrollable feed"

As a fun follow-up to last night's MMO-posting, got to write about the other main way that MMOs are sick: as spaces whose underlying architectural logics bubble up to complicate player experiences in odd and fascinating ways.

WoW Classic's latest patch is terrorizing hardcore players with bugged piles of underground enemies, and it's likely due to a decades-old quirk of Blizzard programming

The Stonetalon Mountains are up to their old tricks again.

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