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a.k.a anarcho-dykeism. she/her 30 🔞

it's also weird to me because the appeal has always been a mixture of "wow this is cool" and "some madman did it" now the cool factor is heavily diminished because there are so many of these now, and it's not like there's any real technical skill behind any of them

IoI_xD@ioi-xd.net · 18h ago

been seeing people use AI to port old games to weird contemporary consoles and I don't really get it? like. Super Mario Galaxy on PS2. a comically stupid idea. but if it was a human doing it i'd be inclined to laugh and have respect. when it's Claude doing it it kind of just remains stupid, no?

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

Yeah people are spreading this one around and kind of blowing it out of proportion, its from 2024 and the dork the articles about even says "Yeah i coulda used google!" Like don't get me wrong it causes some suspicion but not that much.

I find the article to be a tiny bit misleading. Though fuck chatgpt and all that ai bs. The guy found a existing algorithm by using chatgpt as a search engine. To me, that is just stupid because search engines are literally right there. The article comes off as vibecoding in the game.

Niles D. Finitium 𐕣 VGen Commissions Open Arc ⛧@nihilupine.vtubers.social · 2d ago

Kinda funny how I never hear anyone talk about Valve's genAI usage in regards to Deadlock... www.pcgamer.com/games/moba/v...

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

techpolicy.press

”It’s much more expensive [doing it by hand]… I don’t care. What we’re protecting is the beauty and redeeming power of art. We are protecting a lineage of art. You have to put in time. You have to do every element by hand.” ”I dare say there’s more than 1,300 people that worked on it”

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Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

like not even about the ai but just the fact that only does the pc version exist but you can mod the living fuck out of it in like 80 ways because sonic fans are just that autistic like did we really need a recompile for thus? like there are 1000000+ other games needing the treatment

David Katze (vtuber)@davidkatzevt.bsky.social · 5d ago

SLOP WATCH: The Sonic Adventure recomp is vibe coded. You can tell because they say so and also because every code comment is a 4+ line short story and people who have actually done real decomp work (SPEEPSHighway) have no clue what it's even doing despite this. gj clod i mean claude #slopwatch