supersquirrel
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks generative AI will help game preservation 1 day ago:
Since when did M$ give a shit about that.
They must be pretty desperately grasping for straws.
The bubble is going to pop soon and it is going to be ugly/beautiful.
- Comment on What it means to sign Elsevier's Copyright Transfer Agreement 2 days ago:
Elsevier are thugs, they just only pick on nerds.
- Comment on Erasure 1 week ago:
Never Compromise With Fascists
- Comment on Who would you send this to? 1 week ago:
ahaha like if you are willing to say hateful shit about your wife’s ethnicity publically like this I am sorry I don’t think you even know where your wife’s clit is.
There is just no chance you give a shit about the pleasure of another sentient human (who happens to be a woman) enough to make them feel safe and welcome enough to go there with you.
Damn, incels are fun as hell to make fun of, I have to say. Normally bullying fascists feels like more work than this.
- Comment on Who would you send this to? 1 week ago:
I mean, yes he does, there is no way I would trust JD to get me off without a nice premium vibrator if I was woman.
Even if JD could find your clit with his fingers, he would just treat it like all the women in his life, and caress it emptily and mechanically as if he was patting his favorite sports car on the hood all the while sighing to himself about the objects in his life taking up all his money and time.
- Comment on My YouTube homepage after I watch one balatro video 2 weeks ago:
At least those are videos of a real videogame.
I find it incredibly insulting how my algorithm is always giving me ads and thinly veiled ads for predatory casinos. It insults my intelligence, the artistry that earns that actually earns the prestige of successful, critically acclaimed games, and it is a disgusting, pathetic way to earn a living.
- Comment on BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs 2 weeks ago:
There are also going to be lots of talent who permanently leave the industry because there are no longer any stable decent paying jobs at larger studios.
- Comment on Pills here! 3 weeks ago:
yes AND please fucking try meds if you and your doctor think it could potentially help…
…but also yes
- Comment on Google reportedly worked directly with Israel’s military on AI tools 3 weeks ago:
Disgusting and scary.
- Comment on Aardwoof 3 weeks ago:
ah, so “vark” is much like “dog” in english when it is used in animal names like “prairie dog”!
thanks for explaining!
- Comment on Aardwoof 3 weeks ago:
I am assuming it is not in fact actually closely related to a wolf/dog?
Also, this has got me very curious what just a “vark” looks like given the suggested naming scheme going on here.
- Comment on Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware 4 weeks ago:
I used to love Rock Paper Shotgun but I feel like they kept letting go of the talent that defined the place.
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 4 weeks ago:
Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire…
No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.
- Comment on Politics All the Way Down - Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better? 4 weeks ago:
I think it isn’t just about the algorithm of moderation not being perfect, the nature of the moderation problem itself demands an answer of a fuzzy nature.
Any single moderation system can never create an acceptable and stable solution. The distortion from edge cases, trolls that exploit them and outside bullshit inveitably leads to toxicity and centralization under a harsh group think (censorship of palestinian voices on bluesky being one example).
Any real solution to the problem must be of an architecture of diversity, with many different moderation policies and authorities that 99% of the time agree in spirit (until they don’t and then sometimes a difficult parting of ways occurs).
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 4 weeks ago:
My vote is japanese knotweed is going to win, and it will do so with ease.
- Comment on Mastodon’s founder cedes control to non-profit 5 weeks ago:
In a reality where the tech press had any sense of vision or independence the headline would simply read “Ok Now Your Turn Oligarchs”,
- Comment on Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta 5 weeks ago:
il give it a try!
- Comment on Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta 5 weeks ago:
In other news, yesterday I was messing around and realized luanti, voxel game platform runs great on android with touchscreen controls and everything!
f-droid.org/packages/net.minetest.minetest/
Check out the minecraft-like built on it called voxelibre
- Comment on iykyk 5 weeks ago:
It makes you lose your way in a vast endless c
- Comment on Pure Rock Crawling looks like a knockabout MudRunner without the mud 5 weeks ago:
I want mud though!
I have my eye on Offroad Dead Planet once improvement on performance happens, it is rock crawling with some really nice looking suspension mechanics but with broader goals and challenges.
store.steampowered.com/…/Offroad_Dead_Planet/
Out Of Ore looks like it might have some pretty cool offroad driving feel even though/because? it is a mining simulator but I haven’t tried it yet
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 1 month ago:
Too bad Luigi isn’t a cop, then they might have given him a slap on the wrist and a description of events in the media that read “last night the trigger of Luigi’s self defense weapon caused ignition in the barrel which resulted in a bullet being ejected at high speed. Healthcare provider and loyal family man Brian Thomson was tragically caught in the path of the (*several) bullets. Authorities are investigating the bullets to determine their motive”
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
Hot Take:
Ulysses > The Odyssey
- Comment on Warning 2 months ago:
you became general because there was a bright light above the generals cabin next to your hole you normally lurk under beneath the stone at the bend in the river, the general leaned too far over peering down at you while out on a smoke break and fell in and tragically drowned, the peculiar thing was as he was sinking and thrashing about his uniform came off and landed on top of you, the alien enveloping of the sinking garments spooked you and you shot clear out of the water and through the still open door of the cabin right into an austere but plush leather chair behind a monsterously large desk. The next moment the guards rushed in having heard a commotion and were relieved to find the general had only went for an imprompto nightime dip in the river after foolishly slipping and falling in…and to hide it the general had quickly leaped out and returned inside putting on a blank neutral expression as if they weren’t slimey and soaking wet.
Since then you have been doing a great job honestly
- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 2 months ago:
yeah it really is a non-issue, with something like the Heroic Launcher it really isn’t any less convenient than buying from steam.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 2 months ago:
I will never forgive their complicity in the Iraq war and I treat anyone who reads the NYT without simultaneously harboring a constant distaste for it as fundamentally unserious in their practice of educating themselves about reality.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
There is no way this person will be apprehended alive, they could walk up to a police station naked with their hands up get on their knees, every single police officer they could possibly encounter will universally calmly raise their gun and shoot them dead in broad daylight and Corporate America will cheer them on.
If you think the police will do otherwise, you misunderstand the essential function of police especially in the US.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
What makes an act evil or not is a really complicated question unless the action in question is mass murder. In that case, there isn’t a debate, it is evil, there is no slipper slope. The CEO undeniably caused the deaths of countless people and maimed and permanently hurt many more. At least the person who killed the CEO actually carried out the act of taking someone’s life themselves, undertaking the action and witnessing it. The healthcare CEO on the other hand was the most cowardly kind of murderer.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t call it cold blooded, the CEO was cold blooded. The shooter presumably only murdered one person, the healthcare CEO was undoubtedly a mass murderer.
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 months ago:
r is over here feeling betrayed
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 months ago:
Hot take this is one of the reasons pseudo-code or even sometimes code is easier to parse than formal math expressions.
What do the variables mean? It is often difficult or impossible to google them even if you know the correct name of the symbol and there is very little consistency to give you hints, a symbol in superscript is an exponent? A signifier?
The only math notation I have encountered that I actually think is elegant is set theory and category theory notation.