New passtime: Reporting all LinkedIn ads, as well as posts I find boring or annoying, as AI slop, to drop gravel in the teach-us-how-to-make-slop-that-nobody-notices Microsoft machinery. Because fuck them. And a boy needs his hobbies.
Paddy K
@spongepaddy.bsky.social
Irishman in Sweden. Likes: writing, dancing, gardening, socialism. Hates: AI slop, dill. Especially dill. Maker of games since - oh God - the 1980s.
Easy for me, since there were a total of 6 - 6! - computer games released the year I was born. Here's one:
Joseph Hewitt@gearheadrpg.com · 19h agoQTP with a game released in the year you were born.
Buy a cover for my new Kobo reader? When I could just make one from cardboard and duct tape? SCREW YOU CONSUMERISM!
Mitch McConnell is dead. He's an ex-turtle. He's pushing up the fucking daisies. And once the deadline for the Kentucky special election runs out today, we'll hear all about it.
Stina Nordenstam - Memories of a Color, And She Closed Her Eyes, Dynamite
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
God knows we need some joy these days, and mine comes from fixing broken things. This Panasonic RX-5030L vintage 1981 needed a new drive band (sourced from the excellent DeckTech belts www.ebay.co.uk/str/manatree...) and a cleaning and tweaking and now it purrs like a kitten. What a beaut!
I've always liked to walk around my flat naked in the mornings and just because they put new high buildings across the road with a great view through my windows it does not mean I'm about to stop, no matter what the police say.
I'm telling you, the reason Musk wants to go to space is to discover new civilizations so he can then steal all their books and movies to feed his fucking AI.
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 4d agoAI continues to burn down everything it was trained on, as it did with people handling questions on stack overflow or writing tutorials. it's not just stealing everything ever to resell, it's permanently messing up ways people did things without it. won't have enough updated info to steal in 5 years
Today, after 40 years of making games, is when I found out about inverse lerp, and I've already used it like 4 times. #gamedev
My top beauty tip: Instead of spending piles of money trying to "look younger" just tell people you are five years older than you actually are. And presto, instant youthful looks, for free!
This is the review I've been waiting for. I feel I've been set free from a tedious obligation. Maybe I'll catch it on streaming some miserable rainy Sunday but now I will go re-watch Jason and The Argonauts and have actual fun.
Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · last wk.The Odyssey is big and brown and long and a bit boring - but everyone in it is pretty great, especially the leads and the Women With Almost Nothing To Do, but it’s a pale shadow of Jason & The Argonauts and has a fraction of the cogency about Men and Myth that you get in David Lowery’s Green Knight.
I'm wondering, since the whole metaverse thing failed and pervert glasses are now the new frontier, if Facebook will do a name change from Meta to Perv. I'm here for it.
Google tells me the wee bug I saved from the water barrel is a red-breasted carrion beetle (Oiceoptoma thoracicum) although it does add that AI can make mistakes so its answer cannot be relied upon in the slightest. Isn't AI just fab?
Regarding the online tidal wave of morons complaining about "woke" Odyssey I am confident that essentially none have actually read it, including Musk, that rocket-powered bollox.
I will keep posting pictures of my massive squash until morale improves.
I got sacked from my job as a trainer of mediocre aquatic mammals because I got a better otter.
Jaunty Art@jaunty.art · 2w agoI lost my job as a competitive eater, I had too much on my plate.
Great episode of @misterabk.bsky.social and @eleanormorton.bsky.social 's podcast, looking at a moomin book. And on the question of what a moomin feels like, bear in mind that in Sweden keso / cottage cheese is jokingly called "muminfärs" - or "moomin mince". podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
We Read Comet in Moominland
Podcast Episode · Eleanor & Alasdair Read That · 19 July · 40min
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I have similar opinions about pineapple on pizza. You like pineapple on your pizza? Then have it. You don't? Well don't then. Imagine raging about what other people like on the food they made or paid for. (For the record, I think it's fine.)
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w agoI never get the whole "love it or hate it" thing about Marmite. I cannot muster strong feelings about Marmite, no matter how hard I try. If someone asks me "Would you like some Marmite?" my response will invariably be "I don't know... Perhaps?"
The training gurus on my social media all seem to misunderstand something. Look, it's not the "It's a simple exercise!" part that's the problem, I see what you're doing, I can repeat it, sure. It's the whole "Just 20 minutes every day" part. Seriously, EVERY day? Forever? You're kidding, right?
Yes but how is the person who was tele-operating that robot?
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2w agoQuick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
You already know what to do, you're just negotiating with comfort ... I feel very seen ...
Infuriating that they had the muppets - the actual muppets - and used them barely at all. Obviously you need to give the entire show to them. All of it. Fuck Madonna and Robbie Williams and those other people I am too old to recognise.
I might have just coined a word: "Podisode" to mean an episode of a podcast. Since I was bored with writing "episode of a podcast" all the time. Just remember where you saw it first (or, possibly, an additional time).
It was 30 degrees here yesterday. I worked from home and went for a lunchtime walk and saw half a dozen joggers out pounding the pavement. I mean, I like a run, sure, but at midday, in blazing sun, on the hottest day of the year? Do people really ENJOY that? Or are they driven by self-punishment?
This is wonderful. Strong Paul Simon vibes. From @kylegordonisgreat.bsky.social linktr.ee/kylegordonis...
I am drooling to get my hands on this game! Looks to be such fun.
Nick Calandra@nickjcal.bsky.social · 3w agoThis new party game, Dear Passengers, was just announced from Flexus Games and it's the most impressive one of these games I've seen to date. Then I find out it's a Ukrainian based studio started in 2020 that made mobile games with 100s of millions of downloads and it's a 70-person team. Wow!
Stumbled into rewatching The Matrix and my god that is a gorgeous movie. Every scene is breathtaking, tight, perfect. It's a work of art. How could mere humans have made this?