There are a lot of tools out there not pretending, let alone the AI ones.

Might have been a special, just listed as “Pie of the Day” or something like that. Now should Jack have asked what the pie was first instead of going for “surprise me?” Perhaps. But I’ve never been to a diner where “Shepard’s pie, made with real shepards” was a possibility, so who am I to judge?

Shwam.

Doo.

Two and helf.

Scheven.

Schfourteen-teen.

Shwenty One.

Shwenty-Seven and Helf

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Wow! What a great Christmas present for retro gaming fans! From the VGHF’s own article (the source for this one)

With a few exceptions, this recovery project has accounted for almost all outstanding Sega Channel games. We believe this also means there are now digital backup copies of every unique Sega Genesis game released in the United States.

That’s incredible! Finally my collector’s heart can rest easy.

I love how noodly and lanky they are! Gorgeous setting too!

Came here to post this

I am pleased to discover that Monster Factory is still going strong on YouTube.

Just started listening to this band earlier this year and they’re so good!

You’re so optimistic! I wish my fellow Americans actually had even one data point. America invented most of the techniques of oppression and tyranny that we exported abroad and renamed fascism. But Foucault and his boomerang have always been correct, it’s just colonialism brought home to recolonize the imperial core.

Americans haven’t read a single history book if they can help it, and proudly so, while the only progress made on oppression has been finding new and ever more complex ways to dissipate and disguise it.

You’re doing God’s work danekrae! (unfortunately that means your opposition is literally Satan)

Is that date important? I forget

FF10 is like a personality test for sexuality:

Lulu - goth dommy mommy

Yuna - good conservative religious girls

Rikku - young and playful girls

Tidus - fuckboys

Wakka - athletic twinks

Auron - yes daddy

Kimahri - 😻

I’m a little embarased to say–I mean I was a preteen boy at the time–but I spent way too many hours fantasizing and lusting over the picture of the Rogue class in the Diablo 1 manual.

Those pixelated succubus titties in the Hell stages were really something too. Kids today just don’t know how desperate we were for even a hint of nudity.

See also, the other love of my young life, Samus Aran.

I completely agree. I’ve been sharing some art I’m doing for inktober, but only because it’s doodles for practice, and could only make ai art worse for it’s inclusion.

But my writing (on my personal website) or my serious art works or my persona open source code projects? Yeah, I have lost all enthusiasm to share them online. If people want to see my work, I’ll send it to them directly.

I think the era of free and open sharing on the Internet is dead, which does sadden me. I think we’re ultimately moving to a new dark age, the Dark Net Age, where all communication and sharing will go into various private chats and sites, where people can be vetted and held accountable.

Well people that care, which will end up being like the early internet: smart kids, embattled minorities, and crotchety, paranoid old folks. All the people too busy or ignorant to care are already deep into the algorithmic treadmills of X and TikTok and I don’t think they’re ever coming out.

This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.

I’ve really enjoyed getting to see your other artistic skills this month! It gives me a new appreciation for the skill and effort you bring into the heathcliff edits!

Awesome interpretation of the theme! And who doesn’t love drawing a cool sword or two?

Theodore Kaczynski was a mathematician but is better known for being the Unibomber (and author of a manifesto against technology and academia). Quite the cheeky reference!