luciole
@luciole@beehaw.org
Doesn’t know the lyrics. Just goes meow meow meow.
- Comment on Unusual Pollinators 4 days ago:
- Comment on First Look at Switch 2 5 days ago:
And what are we supposed to do with our Switch now? I know it’s been out for a while, but my growing resentment for the linear economy is giving me huge console generation cycle fatigue.
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 1 week ago:
Right? The Internet started really picking up in the early~mid nineties. Twitter opened in 2006. Facebook in 2004. There were actual online communities before that. The idea that social media would be a rampart against the disinformation supposedly inherent to humanely-sized, coherent online communities is the worst take ever. The culprit for polarization is precisely social media, and their method was channelling engagement through algorithms fostering gut reactions and virality (I’m adding forums, chats and mIRC to your examples.)
- Comment on Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard 1 week ago:
From a design perspective I like how the black variant has these keys that are just the right hue of green to remind us of those solar calculator screens. On the other hand Bluetooth is pretty finicky and is not available into UEFI setup, so meh. For peripherals as fundamental as keyboard & mouse, I much prefer a wireless 2.4GHz dongle connection.
- Comment on Generative A.I. a Parasitic Cancer 2 weeks ago:
Kagi was criticized for partnering with Brave as well. Vladimir Prelovac’s (CEO of Kagi) response adopts the flawed rhetoric that tech can ignore the social consequences of their actions and call this “neutrality”, as if this is a morally acceptable cop out.
So yeah, fuck Kagi.
- Comment on Generative A.I. a Parasitic Cancer 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of the people that embrace genAI do so because they’ve been drilled to embrace all new tech or risk becoming obsolete. At least that’s what I feel from my workplace: non technical coworkers nervously grasping at it, trying to squeeze the advertised productivity out of it, with the fear the competition is already doing it, and better. The mediocrity of the results are then interpreted as a shortcoming on their end so they double down.
I’m thrilled to see someone like Freya, a passionate of maths & arts, weighing in on the matter and I agree wholeheartedly with her. GenAI is destructive in many ways, and attacking an essential part of the human experience, storytelling, is not mentioned enough.
Every person that speaks out creates opportunities for many others to give it a second thought and question this venture.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 22nd 4 weeks ago:
Been playing mostly Our Adventure Guild. Super fun indie strategy RPG. Pretty close to the ending I think. If you’ve got a Final Fantasy Tactics itch I recommend you check it out! The art and the dialog is kind of goofy, but don’t be fooled this is a solid game.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund 5 weeks ago:
It’ll trickle down any day now.
- Comment on anyone know any good android games? 1 month ago:
😅 I went a bit fast lol. It’s been a while so I’m sure new stuff will come up (like Balatro was mentioned)
- Comment on anyone know any good android games? 1 month ago:
Just to start off, there was a thread about this some time ago.
- Comment on super squirrel 1 month ago:
I vote Debunked in the name of education about cute critters.
- Comment on super squirrel 1 month ago:
Cute but false. These little fluffs are just scratching their armpits. Squirrels actually land like spread out pancakes. Here a biologist ruining your fun.
- Comment on Pterosaurs 1 month ago:
wildly inaccurate animal illustrations is such a vibe
- Comment on Let's discuss: UFO 50 1 month ago:
Nah I feel you. Grew up with the NES as well. I played for a few hours and then I bounced off it. I think I’ll play it some more at one point. I love that it exists, I love the idea of it, but playing it leaves me pretty neutral.
- Comment on Fuck geometry 1 month ago:
please stop making it make sense
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 1 month ago:
Here is an article about men sentenced for cooking chicken a the Yellowstone National Park.
Here is another article about how cooking in natural hot springs while on a hike is totally awesome lol. Bonus naked guy at the end of the article.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly takes aim at Chrome with new browser 1 month ago:
I fully expect this to by yet another chromium reskin.
- Comment on Bottom of the Ocean 2 months ago:
Bits of submersible with dead billionaires? Sand formed by the sudden and thorough crushing of a submersible with dead billionaires? The Logitech F710 aught to be mentioned as well. Of all the things cheap game controllers have endured, utterly destroyed by deep sea pressure is one.
- Comment on Owl Pellets 2 months ago:
My kid reassembled an owl pellet and framed it in science class. Looks pretty cool
- Comment on Ubisoft Made an NFT Game; It Sucks - Jauwn Review - Champions Tactics 2 months ago:
There’s this theory that if an infinite amount of Bored Apes make games for an infinite amount of time at one point they’ll make a decent one. I don’t buy it.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC 2 months ago:
Denuvo hinders piracy as well, that is to say cracking and redistributing without the devs’ consent. That’s why it has been used in single player games before. Not that I believe it actually has a positive effect on sales, but that’s the rationale.
- Comment on Monsters 2 months ago:
At the library I’d say.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 months ago:
Other tigers?
- Comment on THANK YOU 2 months ago:
This picture is kind of misleading though. Much of the photo’s creepiness comes from mistakenly assimilating the red dots to its eyes. Ants have those big familiar insect eyes we are familiar with. Quote from Snopes:
This is a closeup of a section of the ant’s face but not the full face. In a text message, Kavaliauskas [the photographer] told us, “This is just the front part of the portrait […] the eyes are already in the shadow area. […] if the eyes are illuminated, all the mystery disappears and the photograph appears ordinary and uninteresting.”
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 months ago:
Wait what? US population is 345 millions. How do you even celebrate Halloween that requires three pumpkins per person? Plenty of people don’t even have a porch.
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 months ago:
Woohoo!
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 months ago:
Haha they’re called like that because of their shape right? Right?
- Comment on Learning Botany 2 months ago:
So I went on Wikipedia and apparently Ornithogalum adseptentrionesvergentulum and its genus Ornithogalum are part of the Asparagaceae family which is known as the asparagus family, not to be confused with the Asparagus genus, of which it is but a subset. Gotta love when they fuck with the people like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No it’s not.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 2 months ago:
I have the utmost respect for ConcernedApe’s Stardew Valley, I’m happy it’s a success and I’ve played it plenty. I have to say though, there’s something in the game that leads some of us straight into a minmaxing management race-against-the-clock frenzy. I think I could play it casually, but I’d need an unwavering discipline… and that’s the problem.
