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 [2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no
 more than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best"
 while also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 [3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
 assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
 top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
 performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual
 linear transition.
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--- #2 fediverse_boost/668 ---
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  Need that E2EE fedi right now                                               
                                                                              
  i'd be at least 70% more feral                                              
                                                                              
  and feel cozier opening up and sharing                                      
  
                                                            
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--- #5 fediverse_boost/3198 ---
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  If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.  
  
                                                            
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--- #6 fediverse/3992 ---
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
 struggle
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--- #7 fediverse/3177 ---
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 I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
A description of the rating procedure for Nintendo Power magazine circa 1998.  There are 10 total evaluators, each with around 3 specialties in genres such as action, adventure, puzzles, fighting, RPGs, sports, etc.  Each game is scored proportionally with game design at 25% of the final score, satisfaction at 25%, graphics at 20%, play control at 20%, and sound with 10%
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--- #8 fediverse_boost/667 ---
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 I bet if Cascadia secedes then maybe the bad guys will send their brown people
 to us. The more the better, I say!
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--- #10 fediverse/5235 ---
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 @user-1782 
 
 it's not that they lost value in their company due to the lack of sale of
 their products, but instead because they don't have to pay for marketing if
 their car looks "cool" enough and they can give them away for a lower blood
 price
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--- #12 fediverse/3514 ---
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 @user-579 
 
 maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
 infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
 brownie points
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--- #13 fediverse/2111 ---
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 when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
 have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
 questions.
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 also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders
 
 something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
four panel meme of a cute girl with sunglasses and a bow in her hair.  first panel she's like "nah, no thank you" while gesturing dismissively with her hand and turning away.  second panel is what she's against - it shows text saying: "Putting content warnings on your posts so that the data can be used in a dataset for an LLM that has been sanitized from political content thus depriving it of context in a post truth world"  third panel she's like "yeah, I like this one instead." and she's smiling and pointing a finger at the fourth panel, which reads:  "content warning your posts so that you don't hurt other people's feelings or trigger vulnerable people who are just trying to laugh at memes or have a decent life in the face of trauma and woe"
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 games from ~2006 or later have the best achievements because they expected
 players to find them by playing the game, not by looking them up online.
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--- #16 fediverse/4072 ---
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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--- #17 fediverse/6294 ---
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 if you play optimally, you'll never get any chance to make decisions.
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--- #18 fediverse/3974 ---
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 it is significantly more engaging to watch people play MMOs when they've
 unbound all their action bars from their number keys and are forced to click
 on all the abilities. That way you can actually follow what moves they're
 doing.
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--- #19 messages/929 ---
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--- #20 fediverse/2786 ---
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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--- #21 fediverse/1588 ---
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 @user-1035 
 
 Even better if you say "you do you too"
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 @user-95 back when games had more value because you only had like, 6 of them
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--- #23 notes/game-design-2 ---
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 the method of game design is identification of playstyles and the balancing of
 success rates of each of those playstyles. then, giving the player as many
 different possible methods of playing the game. the more different they are,
 the
 better, and they should be unique enough that the decisions taken to play that
 playstyle feel impactful. meaning, a player could play offensively or
 defensively, for example, or a WoW player might play a melee or ranged
 character. in addition, they might use the pieces available to them in a unique
 way that aligns with their personality - everyone should be able to express
 themselves as much as possible while also keeping the game fair, balanced, and
 rewarding. It should incentivize the development of skill - and gently guide
 the player through various mistakes. It should
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--- #24 fediverse/308 ---
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 when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
 I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
 or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
 this myself?"
 
 when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
 have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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--- #25 messages/1236 ---
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  true AI is when no decision or logical momentum can be explained by "... and
  that value was randomly generated." -- (my opinion)
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--- #26 fediverse/4271 ---
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 if control of a company (or other component or factor of an economy) is not
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--- #27 messages/969 ---
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 all strategy games should (by default) show other player's mouse cursors.
 players should treat them like units in the game. they should lead and command
 with them. they should talk to the other player, and visit and vview
 invormation as they will.
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--- #28 fediverse/97 ---
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 @user-110 Exactly! I play games to practice strategy and empathy, not to stand
 triumphant over a virtual foe. Why should I care for the lessons of others
 when mine so often go unlearnt?
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--- #29 fediverse/2544 ---
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 video games are useful for inspiring the mind engaging in a child's play,
 teaching lessons of strategy through the observation of mechanics engaged, or
 filling the heart with emotion, as any good artwork will do.
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--- #30 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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--- #31 messages/348 ---
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 The amounts that Ohio and California are compensated is determined by the
 contracts and arrangements they had in place when creating their industry.
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--- #32 fediverse/4855 ---
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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--- #33 fediverse/3999 ---
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 ... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
 right, y'know?
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--- #34 fediverse/3988 ---
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 being "good at video games" does not mean "are you good at beating the game"
 
 being "good at video games" means "can you make the experience enjoyable for
 other players by using your character in an expressive and dynamic way"
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--- #35 messages/365 ---
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 Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement
 rather than a UI element
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--- #36 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #37 fediverse/2639 ---
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 Lua is 100% better than Python in every way, fite me
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--- #38 fediverse/1035 ---
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 @user-757 @user-192 
 
 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status
 of the variables when it pauses or ends.
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--- #39 messages/323 ---
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 Some human cultures learned competition through hunting, and some through
 agriculture, and it really shows
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--- #40 messages/60 ---
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--- #41 messages/749 ---
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--- #42 fediverse/5382 ---
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 they are the players, we are the pawns, and there are oh-so-many more of us.
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--- #43 messages/379 ---
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 take the "green bordered unit icon" from legion TD and apply it to the
 economic output of the game - like, "it would be best to build 2 of these
 units, so you get 140g because they're 70g each" and if the player disagreed
 they could guess their own conclusion and if you were right, well then that's
 what you remember, but if they were, then you remember theirs (and that it was
 theirs). In doing so ================================================== stack
 over flow ====
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--- #44 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #45 fediverse/3800 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
 compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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--- #46 fediverse/2913 ---
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 @user-570 @user-246 
 
 I'll make a game if you do! I promise mine will be worse than yours so you can
 feel better about your progress!
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--- #47 fediverse/4825 ---
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 mutual aid level 12:
 
 "this one is closer to that one over there, and I like this area better, so
 this one is mine, and that one can be yours"
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--- #48 fediverse/1822 ---
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 we should reward frugality as much as value-creation.
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--- #49 fediverse/1049 ---
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 #CDCsays there's no difference between a stick and a mud, when it comes down
 to it
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--- #50 fediverse/5883 ---
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 what's better than [that thing you like]?
 
 nothing. nothing is better than that thing.
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 @user-1077 
 
 image generators trained on stolen artwork are unethical
 
 image generators are a disability aid
 
 art is human (and human adjacent) expression
 
 art is more valuable than profit
 
 artists should be supported as they make art
 
 these are all things I believe
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--- #52 messages/979 ---
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 the gods don't judge you based on the total number of "good" or "bad" points
 that you get.
 
 they judge you based on your character in your greatest and worst moments.
 
 if you try to dodge or game this by never doing anything extreme and simply
 existing in a medium state at all times, they will develop a moment of
 reckoning for you and thus produce an opportunity to react and show your true
 self. There is no escape from their judgement, so judge yourself kindly and
 fairly.
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--- #53 messages/350 ---
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 Like, UBI that encourages education mixed with wage equality laws.
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--- #54 fediverse/1422 ---
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 competition is valuable because it empowers us through sport.
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--- #55 fediverse/1825 ---
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 if one person is honest to everyone, then no-one can be honest to them for
 anything they want to keep hidden.
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--- #56 fediverse/5488 ---
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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--- #57 fediverse/3562 ---
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 @user-1550 
 
 me too T.T
 
 give it time
 
 someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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--- #58 messages/1177 ---
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 it's more than a community if only one person asks where you've been.
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--- #59 fediverse/1524 ---
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 maybe I should try microdosing, see if I can convince this part of me to stick
 around
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--- #60 fediverse/4640 ---
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 LLMs are useful for:
 
 categorizing text
 summarizing text
 transforming text
 
 LLMs are not useful for:
 
 generating text
 being intelligent
 replacing workers
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 Game designers should reward players for playing multiplayer games, not for
 being good at playing multiplayer games.
 
 They should still have a ranking, and matchmake against similarly skilled
 foes, while also putting high level players amongst low level players
 occasionally (and fairly, so maybe one on each team "smurf" style) in order to
 both teach the low level players and let the high level player have catharsis.
 
 When players are rewarded for being good, they stop playing the game to enjoy
 it. That's fine, but both pickup games and NBA can exist at once and its not
 due to the logistics of organizing a large group of skilled basketball
 players. It's not always about skill.
 
 By rewarding players for the number and quality of games they play, (so, no
 afk-ing or throwing outside of being drunk or whatever) not only can you
 increase engagement but also you encourage low-level and low-skill players to
 compete just as much. Especially if you tell them "hey, we'll match you up
 with people who have similar gameplay habits to you. Give it a bit though
 because the system needs to be calibrated to your particular spirit"
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--- #62 messages/287 ---
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> Soup kitchens are how they get leftists to
 burn out.
 
 Every moment spent feeding the poor is another day we could be organizing.
 
 Soup kitchens aren't bad, the poor need to be fed. But it should be a paid
 position, not a charitable distraction.
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--- #63 fediverse/1539 ---
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 I like to play healers in MMOs because my power fantasy is helping people
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--- #64 messages/178 ---
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 A god is less of an object and more of a direction.
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 with a baseline directory structure,
 a measure of order and semblance of
 direction and purpose enable three.
 next, of course, is the final of 1
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--- #66 messages/891 ---
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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 I want to emphasize that my mask is just as much a part of me as the other
 part.
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--- #68 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #69 fediverse/5239 ---
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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--- #70 messages/1079 ---
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--- #71 messages/527 ---
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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--- #72 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
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  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #73 fediverse_boost/656 ---
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--- #74 fediverse/2363 ---
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 Don't know what to do? Do anything at all, and odds are you'll either see an
 opportunity to do something better or you'll have an idea.
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--- #75 fediverse/739 ---
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 one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
 they can reveal something about our hearts.
 
 all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
 affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
 ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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--- #76 messages/887 ---
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 To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
 their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
 know you. Honeypot style.
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--- #77 fediverse/2516 ---
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 According to a sign that I passed just four days ago, I have one day left.
 Whatever that means.
 
 so next week better be good.
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--- #78 fediverse/4979 ---
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 They said "compete or die" and I said no.
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--- #79 fediverse/2541 ---
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 rhythm and rhyme are meant to be abused. be creative and it won't matter.
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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 the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the
 introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys
 [to play whack-a-mole with]
 
 also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough
 to keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel
 like it's easy.
 
 That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands
 always hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of attention but
 also success.
 
 65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65
 is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players
 have to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that,
 they lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a
 delicate balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted
 per player. That way you could get maximum engagement and
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--- #82 fediverse/3810 ---
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 doing my best to get at least one bugfix or feature done per day on my
 video-game mod. I think the regularity and discipline could do me well.
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--- #83 fediverse/169 ---
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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--- #84 fediverse/3030 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 ooooo separating additive and multiplicative, I love that. I do like
 specificity unless "increased" and "more" always corresponds to +10% and +50%,
 or if the "rate of increase" is a stat stored on the character then
 "increased" could increase quality by however-many percentage,, while "more"
 could be "more soldiers" x(charisma_stat)
 
 I tend to think of percentages like "0-100 (or more) stacks" of a particular
 effect, so I think that's just how my brain works... xD clumping them up into
 discrete groups - like, anti-abstracting, or measuring things that are just a
 few.
 
 "is this belt better than this one?"
 
 "is this pair of tongs 
 
 even for larger buffs like +10% or +50% or whatever, those are just... 10
 stacks, or if percentages are usually round numbers like +10% and +50% then
 like... +1 stack which calculates to +10%
 
 the hard limit vs math limit thing you said is amazing ^_^
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--- #85 fediverse/421 ---
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 one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed
 things, hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm
 you.
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--- #86 fediverse/2635 ---
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 something something parasocial relationships are not real and cannot be used
 for anything beyond the amelioration of emotions for cathartic purposes
 something something your coping mechanisms are doing more harm than good
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 pretend like you're playing leap-frog
 
 one person goes up to a sightline, watches with bated breath, another
 cautiously advances through the area covered by their teammate, before
 covering their back-to-forth advancement. first one, then the other, watch out
 for flanks.
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--- #88 fediverse/1635 ---
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 a game that automatically streams every single game of it that's currently
 running for anyone to watch...
 
 like Supreme Commander, a definitely super awesome game that you surely
 wouldn't and definitiely definitely shouldn't train an AI on.
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--- #89 fediverse/3402 ---
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 @user-1523 
 
 be me
 
 write in the style of greentext
 
 my text isn't green
 
 me:
 
 :O :O :O
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--- #90 fediverse/3582 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 I like #2 best but #1 looks more realistic??
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--- #91 fediverse/573 ---
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 already spotted a bug. Should be for(1000 / MAX times) in the last example.
 
 EDIT: Or, even better, increment that loop by +MAX instead of +1 each time
 through.
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--- #92 fediverse/5167 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 so, you're saying we should select for good people, rather than loyal people?
 
 If so, I tend to agree.
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--- #93 fediverse/3 ---
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 the method of game design is identification of playstyles and the balancing of
 success rates of each of those playstyles. then, giving the player as many
 different possible methods of playing the game. the more different they are,
 the
 better, and they should be unique enough that the decisions taken to play that
 playstyle feel impactful. meaning, a player could play offensively or
 defensively, for example, or a WoW player might play a melee or ranged
 character. in addition, they might use the pieces available to them in a unique
 way that aligns with their personality - everyone should be able to express
 themselves as much as possible while also keeping the game fair, balanced, and
 rewarding. It should incentivize the development of skill - and gently guide
 the player through various mistakes.
 
 #gamedesign
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--- #94 fediverse/1824 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 stockholders perhaps shouldn't define value. But perhaps stakeholders might?
 Of which the customer is the greatest one, followed by the environment (tied,
 perhaps, as equals)
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--- #95 fediverse/2423 ---
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 does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
 and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
 chronological viewing specifically.
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--- #96 fediverse/5353 ---
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 some of my favorite games are behind me and I can't describe how happy I am to
 have known here
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--- #97 fediverse/1354 ---
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 whose idea was it to optimize our candy toward the ones with the most sugar?
 
 [wait a minute I got like 4 toots written but not posted, what the heck where
 did they come from? I'm gonna post them without reading them]
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--- #98 bluesky#15 ---
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 I honor my country the same way I honor my mother.
 
 By being the best me that I can be.
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--- #99 fediverse/4485 ---
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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--- #100 fediverse/641 ---
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 something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
 it" or something like that
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--- #101 fediverse/986 ---
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 adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
 formatting or grammar.
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--- #102 fediverse/3192 ---
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 @user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478 
 
 You logic is sound for "this is what we should do next"
 
 it's unsound for "this is how we save ourselves"
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--- #103 fediverse/1841 ---
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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--- #104 fediverse/3320 ---
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 Infinity is not the highest number.
 
 Infinity is not any number of numbers.
 
 Infinity is all of the numbers in one sigil.
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--- #105 messages/245 ---
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 I measure my value in terms of the number of things that I can take care of
 that are older than me
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--- #106 fediverse/211 ---
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 [1] in this way you'd sorta be giving a loan to the game's company (while also
 letting them take a 10% courtesy fee for keeping the official* servers
 running) which is then "spent" on exciting and friendly competition. Sorta
 like... entering a poker tournament with your friends (even though you suspect
 you might lose money) just because you like hanging out and playing cards. the
 money is just a neat way to keep things moving and exciting.
 
 * official just means "run by the company" because naturally the serverside
 code should be open source. how else would people build on it?
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--- #107 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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--- #108 fediverse/2805 ---
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 there is no such thing as generative AI
 
 only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input
 you provide according to the data they are trained to expect.
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--- #109 fediverse/110 ---
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 @user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any,
 wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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--- #110 fediverse/2241 ---
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 [changes profile pic to their outfit for the day with no face]
 
 uhhhh not something I'd do, no way
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--- #111 fediverse/5590 ---
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 vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
 code matches what you need.
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--- #112 fediverse/84 ---
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 Life is just a series of minigames for your primate brain to solve that are
 generated by an impossibly complex algorithm with a dash of ethical
 value-based choices thrown in.
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--- #113 messages/786 ---
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--- #114 fediverse/4539 ---
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 @user-1698 
 
 My favorite mobile game is "Magic Survival" and while it is "active" it
 doesn't require strong "reflexes" per se, so idk it might work for your
 unsteady hands.
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--- #115 fediverse/3351 ---
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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--- #116 fediverse/1472 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 my streaming is broken and I can't figure out why : (
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--- #117 fediverse/5195 ---
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 whenever you test one extreme, you must also test it's opposite, just for the
 extra information.
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--- #118 fediverse/3210 ---
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 @user-1209 
 
 well, every boomer shooter is about moving as fast as possible and shooting
 with pinpoint accuracy, so... that's-the-game.jpg : )
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--- #119 messages/583 ---
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 What if we taxed 100% of a farmer's profit so they were forced to sell their
 goods at 100% market rate with no markups and we paid them based on how much
 food they produced based on market factors that are calculated and constantly
 updated according to expected and desired demand
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--- #120 messages/111 ---
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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
 reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
 circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
 meaning
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--- #121 fediverse/3124 ---
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 I should not have to follow 16 steps that I don't understand just because you
 decided my system wasn't good enough for me.
a long list of steps in order to update a gentoo system to a new version (not even the newest version, I might add)
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--- #122 fediverse/5144 ---
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 my fediverse posts are not campaign promises, and should not be received as
 things I will always continue to believe.
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 capitalism is like if your thread allocator gave 90% of the work to 10% of the
 threads in the pool and your tech lead claimed it was more efficient because
 the remaining 90% of threads would have the results of the program "trickle
 down" to them somehow
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--- #124 fediverse/3760 ---
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 DID YOU KNOW if you ask someone 15 times over the course of an activity
 whether or not they're "having fun" then odds are they won't, in fact, have
 very much fun
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--- #125 fediverse/4025 ---
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
 in on it.
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--- #126 fediverse/3783 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or
 at your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s"
 playlist they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the
 store because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together
 or... wait hang on I lost the metaphor
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--- #127 messages/189 ---
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 If one side aligns themselves toward truth and righteousness, then those who
 oppose them must necessarily utilize the opposite in their intentions.
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--- #128 fediverse/966 ---
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 blocking people is an artifact of corporate social media.
 
 whatever happened to "vote to kick"? I'm sure there's no way that could go
 wrong
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--- #129 bluesky#47 ---
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 when tension increases, decrease the amount of decisions made so we have more
 time to decide how we feel.
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--- #130 fediverse_boost/647 ---
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  fishboy romance levels are 53% and rising                                   
                                                                              
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 if you want to solve EVERY housing issue in the United States, at least in the
 short and mid-term, add a ramping tax penalty for unoccupied houses that
 doesn't reset to 0 upon being occupied but rather starts ticking down at the
 same rate that it increases.
 
 Something like 0.5% to 1% of the property value for every month it's gone
 unoccupied as a primary residence.
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--- #132 bluesky#29 ---
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--- #133 fediverse/4049 ---
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 humans can only do what they believe they can do because they believe they can
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--- #134 fediverse/1813 ---
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 I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
 maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
 advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH
 projects they put on for our tender moments)
 
 Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart.
 
 (perhaps in too public of a place)
 
 (but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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--- #135 fediverse/3805 ---
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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--- #136 fediverse/3335 ---
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 arrival of lohengrin, the swan knight
 
 (I didn't paint this hehe)
a painting of a bunch of knights in shining armor around a king of some kind with a maiden while a valorous knight floats up on a small little boat pulled by a swan and everyone's like "lohengrin! lohengrin! the swan knight is him!"
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--- #137 fediverse/372 ---
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 rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
 accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
 
 like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
 profit extraction.
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 the honest question to ask yourself is this:
 
 do you think you could do a better job than him and his team?
 
 how about the establishment politicians?
 
 if yes, then go for it. you deserve a chance.
 
 if no, then you are ignoring politics to bask in moral virtue. [wait that's
 backwards... isn't it?]
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--- #139 fediverse/1481 ---
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 if you lose someone on the Fediverse then there's a zero percent chance you'll
 ever find them again.
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--- #140 fediverse/276 ---
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 why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
 maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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--- #141 fediverse/3388 ---
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 what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
 only able to be smashed with vertical
 
 to encourage the player to learn the difference
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--- #142 fediverse/2602 ---
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 delivering letters to the right place at the right time is the most important
 task that an agent might have, in the modern day.
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--- #143 fediverse_boost/4338 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Different websites following the election are showing very different numbers.  
  
                                                            
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--- #144 messages/890 ---
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 If your code is too long to fit in 80 or 120 characters (preference) then you
 need to use more numbers (indexable with a small table-of-contents style
 comment description just above) or character symbols (referencably by meaning
 just as above) (by above she means earlier in the string of text you just read)
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--- #145 fediverse/6265 ---
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 if there's no conflict, there's nothing to believe in. things matter only so
 much as we hold in them our stakes. [emotional pls you don't have to gabmel]
 
 == so ==
 
 I bet we could
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--- #146 fediverse/4887 ---
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 I will consistently under-negotiate my needs because scarcity has taught me to
 do more with less.
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--- #147 fediverse/280 ---
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 old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
 they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.
 
 why waste pixels being verbose?
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--- #148 fediverse/3863 ---
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 video games are better than ruminating
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--- #149 messages/916 ---
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 ... yay I beat stack overflow, your input context is part of the previous
 message, yay good jobs boy computer *["pat pat" but pronounced pay]*
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--- #150 fediverse/4090 ---
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 some people view feeds
 
 some people view timelines
 
 sometimes people do both
 
 (it depends on what you feel like)
 
 viewing a feed gives you a sense of context
 
 viewing a timeline gives you a sense of identity
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--- #151 messages/110 ---
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 The best way to program computers is to organize them according to their
 relations. Like, when x increases by 4 then y increases by 2 - basically, a
 math equation that you can continuously solve by calculating more and more
 comprehensively and deeply.
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--- #152 fediverse/977 ---
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 @user-696 
 
 to me, the most technically and gameplay impressive video games tend to be the
 ones that develop their own engine specifically for the project.
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--- #153 fediverse/962 ---
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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
 consideration.
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--- #154 messages/1229 ---
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 What if we just banished people who broke the rules? Then nobody would rarely
 get hurt. [do they take care of them elsewhere?]
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--- #155 fediverse/5119 ---
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 we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
 than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
 solarpunk houses.
 
 also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
 radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
 there's no code being run...
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--- #156 fediverse/3261 ---
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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--- #157 fediverse/3912 ---
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 the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not
 upon what may yet be.
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--- #158 fediverse/6307 ---
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 AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.
 
 They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
 text.
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--- #159 fediverse/1412 ---
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 reverse dorian grey where someone looks decently old but every picture of them
 gets younger every year
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--- #160 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #161 fediverse/767 ---
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 @user-192 @user-570 
 
 clearly the positive addresses point toward a location in "memory", while the
 negative values point toward "forgotten" which is a secret second place that
 they don't want you to know about.
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--- #162 fediverse/4219 ---
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 fediverse software that doesn't notify someone when you boost their post
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--- #163 fediverse_boost/4174 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  the belief that the world consists of discrete 'objects', rather than regarding it as an undifferentiated field of matter to which we can attach various framings, is a widespread mental limitation  
  
                                                            
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--- #164 fediverse/581 ---
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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--- #165 fediverse/6283 ---
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 please please don't lose the penny! it's one of my favorite five flat penny
 device!
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--- #166 fediverse_boost/1737 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Feaux in motion.                                                            
                                                                              
  If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.  
  #fractal                                                                    
  
                                                            
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--- #167 messages/141 ---
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 Why would we say not to divide by zero? We literally do it every time we use
 the percent sign smh [silly]
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--- #168 fediverse/3235 ---
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 conservatives think gender is assigning yourself to a particular social role
 
 liberals think gender is sort of an aesthetic and way of presenting yourself
 
 queer people tend to think of gender as how you feel and what sparks joy in
 your heart
 
 the truth is much more complicated and involves all three, and many more
 things besides.
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--- #169 fediverse/5067 ---
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 some people think "being honest" is the same thing as "accurately displaying
 what you think and believe" is the same thing as the not same thing as "being
 deceitful or otherwise hiding your intentions"
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--- #170 messages/584 ---
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 Crucially, which implied a constant, reliable profit of 20%.
 
 Farmers could live like kings, so long as they only tended to themselves.
 
 We don't have to conglomerate, but it helps when we do.
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--- #171 fediverse/210 ---
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 [0] Here's an idea, an online multiplayer game that charges a 4$ per month
 subscription. 90% of which is set into a pool and used as tournament prize
 winnings. when you enter a tournament, it's free to participate and everyone
 wins something. (maybe calculated by percentile or something?) it's just a
 question of how much. [1][2][3][4]
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--- #172 fediverse/1109 ---
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 @user-815 
 
 Agreed, and if you leave then you are needed elsewhere. Listen to your heart.
 That's what I did.
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--- #192 fediverse/132 ---
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 and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you.
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--- #193 fediverse/2881 ---
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 "never lose your totem"
 
 I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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--- #194 fediverse/5823 ---
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 the firsthing a helpful comrade would do with their mistakes is bring
 attention to them.
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--- #195 fediverse/3025 ---
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 axioms of game design:
 
 every unit should feel useful,
 
 and units should always be able to scale.
 
 meaning, reduce the number of "this ability stacks 3 times" (instead stack
 infinitely, to allow for focused placement) and increase the number of (to
 allow for varied composition) "for each other blue debuff, decrease energy
 regeneration" style effects.
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--- #196 messages/1227 ---
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 Anything that affects the set of all sets also affects the set containing
 itself.
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--- #197 fediverse/3076 ---
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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--- #198 fediverse/374 ---
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 @user-278 
 
 kinda makes me think it'd be nice if we had some way to quantify the amount
 that employers taxed their employees? If people saw 50-70% of their paycheck
 going straight toward executive bonuses and stock buybacks or whatever...
 maybe then we'd fix things
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--- #199 fediverse/2622 ---
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 what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
 output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
 
 WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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--- #200 fediverse/1684 ---
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 that which you resist is what you'll find, but contextual resistance is better
 than going in blind.
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