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Mabelz, 2 days ago to random

Original art by G_R_S__ aka Punk Rock Loser

o76923, 4 months ago to Anime

Dear #harem #anime and #romcom writers, please take notes. Star is the most boring possibility you can write. So many more interesting options exist.

o76923, 6 months ago to random

I've been pretty disheartened with my inability to make any headway on improving language support in #MFM for #Firefish after getting the docker container running so I've mostly been avoiding it. I finally found someone else who got so fed up with the only config options being in babel that they hardcoded languages to import. I'm excited to say that I was able to mimic what they did well enough that at least something works.

It's about the tiny victories. This isn't scalable, doesn't use the tools that I'll ultimately need to figure out, and wouldn't be accepted by sane people if I pushed it but at least I'm not on step 4 anymore.

o76923, 11 days ago to random

Is anyone feeling hungry? Let's see what different #neomoji can nom on.

o76923, 9 months ago to Minecraft

It sure sounds like #Minecraft is transitioning from phase 2 to phase 3 of #enshittification. Surely clawing back value from 3rd parties is going to go swimmingly with no negative repercussions.

https://youtu.be/jkA8ZkpxjVE

o76923, 8 months ago to arknights

Dorothy is broken as sin in Reclamation Algorithm because her S3 mines reveal a huge area on the cheap but my favorite use of her is hunting. Her land mines are super effective at wasting the game as it runs away.

#Arknights

o76923, 8 months ago to arknights

Holy Kazimierz,

Whislash's module tier 2 talent that gives a shield to all fortifications and barriers on deployment since they have 3+ block. Auntie missed her true calling as an architect.

#Arknights

o76923, 7 months ago to ai

I'm not sure that this diagram from #Patreon's announcement of their new logo is #AI generated. But I will say, it looks a lot like what you'd get if you tweaked parameters in Iluz, et al. (2023). I'm not sure what prompt they would have used but this looks like demonstrations that I saw from that paper where they fiddled with the loss function. All their talk of how it's a dynamic and responsive font sounds like AI hype too.

As I said, I don't have proof or anything. This could genuinely be manual effort by a skilled font designer and I lack the expertise to tell them apart. But Patreon is at around the part of #enshittification where AI Hype sounds appealing.

<cite>
Iluz, S., Vinker, Y., Hertz, A., Berio, D., Cohen-Or, D., & Shamir, A. (2023). Word-as-image for semantic typography. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01818.
</cite>

o76923, 6 months ago to random

Apparently Israel has passed a law criminalizing consuming "terrorist materials" on social media. It designates Hamas as a terrorist organization and includes "documentation of terrorist acts" as a specifically prohibited publication.

So, for example, it would be illegal to look at the official death toll from Gaza's Ministry of Health since that's a government agency and Hamas is the government of Gaza.

Netanyahu's regime needs to be removed from power. Waiting for him to die of old age isn't a solution.

o76923, 3 months ago to bluesky

Signing up for #Bluesky was a mistake. I have gotten so many #spam calls in the past few days. The sudden spike only makes sense if they're selling the phone number I used for 2FA.

o76923, 3 months ago to arknights

Prairie dogs do this cute thing called a jump-yip (or informally, a yahoo) they tilt their head back and shout so hard they fall over. I commissioned Llewellyn_Blue (from Twitter) to make an L2D chibi of Gravel doing it.

Now you know what it looks like when she shouts "I love Doctor!"

#Arknights

o76923, 2 months ago to DnD

I'm probably the millionth person you've heard say each of the following but they're still worth saying

1. #VampireSurvivors is a really well crafted game
2. I didn't check it out sooner because the art style turned me off
3. Even if you've played a bunch of #BulletHeaven #RogueLite games created in its wake, it's worth trying out

Seriously, I just noticed it was free with Play Pass and figured I'd give it a shot. Even though I've seen a bunch of people play it before, I didn't realize just how well the game is able to manage the player's stress and engagement. On my third run, I noticed just how much they tuned enemy and health spawns in response to stuff like your current health and how much you're moving. But, unlike what 99% of tech companies do with that power, the devs want to use those levers to maximize fun. I feel like I'm always on the edge of my seat moments from death even when I'm comparatively safe until the game wants a lull of letting me feel powerful before a sudden wall of a boss.

I used to run a lot of #DnD. I was good enough at it that people told me they made decisions about which cons to go to based on wanting to play at my tables (few compliments have ever made me feel that good). So when I say that it's hard even for experts to manage player engagement this well, I mean it.

o76923, 9 months ago to random

Did Firefish get their hands on a monkey's paw and ask that theirs wouldn't be the worst social media rebrand one this week?

o76923, 5 days ago to random

Have you seen the ​:neocat_kisser:​ #neomoji? I want to share a couple variants floating around.

o76923, 8 months ago to arknights

After playing Reclamation Algorithm in #Arknights a bunch more, I think its biggest problem so far could be addressed by having 3-4 base camps that you can start your runs from but start with only one unlocked and use that for a tutorial that lasts multiple runs. It's a simple map with only 2 layers of nodes and only some stages or encounters are available.

Your first run focuses on food, water, and wood. You win if you get a stockpile above size X of each by day 4. You get some of the IS ops to start with so tutorial stages can work even if your team is poorly chosen. Start with a full bucket of fluid so managing that isn't really a concern beyond teaching players to top off operators at the end of the day.

Second run introduces weather and stone so you can build constructs—but not the base. Frame it as hearing rumors that a raid is coming but weather is making it hard to tell. Win condition is to deploy two monitoring towers on different maps and have four rice things in inventory by day 6.

Third run introduces your base and raids. Start the run with a partially built dilapidated base on a much smaller stage where you can show off choke points, blocking, and traps. Have the player place the rice growers and make this the first run where water isn't freely topped off. Win condition is surviving the day 6 raid.

Fourth run (and any after it in the tutorial base camp) would have raids on days 4, 6, and 8. Let players fully explore the little area. Introduce wandering NPCs, the black market, and sentries/outposts. Have cooking and research introduced when associated buildings are made (the same way escaping and the mint work).

Once you survive the turn 8 raid, it unlocks a caravan which you can take to the first non-tutorial.

o76923, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Does anyone know the story behind :neocat_willie:? I found it on mirageisland.nl and I have so many questions.

astrid, 1 day ago to random

boosting small accounts and making them receive excessive notifications as a Punishment

aetios, 1 day ago to random

im hungy

o76923, 2 days ago to random

I ran across the first server to use non-English emoji names (I think it's Russian based on the .ru). Can anyone provide translations for

Cat, fox, possum, dragon, bread, robot, tiger, meow, devil, halo, blob, sign, flag, pride, kiss, floof, woozy, uwu, Yassie, and skibidi

in

French, German, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, or any other language you know

It probably won't yield any new #neomoji but I can't really check without help from people who know other languages.

meithecatte, 17 hours ago to random

umm, why does all the hot girl shit have corresponding entries in the DSM???? :blobcatoh:

yassie_j, 2 days ago to random

Tired: What is Yassie? Wired: How to translate Yassie?

RE: https://kitty.social/notes/9tiwr49e2gfv0jgh

o76923, 18 hours ago to random

Since I can't code the #NeomojiMixer while at work, I can at least brainstorm about its architecture, right? Constructive feedback is welcome.

/create return a PNG based on parts named in POSTed JSON.

/list return a JSON of all parts available.

/list/{arms} return a JSON of all parts in the category {arms}.

/random return a PNG with randomly chosen elements for each part.

/part/deatil/{mouth_woozy} return a JSON with details about {mouth_woozy}.

/part/image/{mouth_woozy} return the PNG of the part {mouth_woozy}.

/create/identicon return a PNG of a neomoji based on the POSTed sha256 hash. Attempts are made to keep it kinda consistent despite new parts being added all the time.

/beta/animate return an APNG based on a POSTed JSON. Initially, it's two 0.2s frames infinitely looping, arms aren't allowed, body doesn't change, eyes and mouth are a list of parts.

/copyright return a JSON with text about who made it and a link to the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed

/contact return a JSON with a link to the mixer page, the git, and the Fediverse account for the mixer.

o76923, 15 hours ago to random

I still don't understand why anyone orders #GrubHub from Hooters. The whole point is crapy food and beer prepared slowly to give you more time to talk to scantily clad women who can't tell you to buzz off.

Why would you just want the food part of that interaction?