Gourd

@Gourd@nerdbin.social

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Mozilla Adds "AI" Text Summaries to Mozilla Developer Network, Frequently Wrong, Over Maintainers Heads (github.com)

Mozilla added buttons to summarize their Mozilla Developer Network documentation with GPT 3.5 that are frequently wrong, as these glorified chatbots tend to be especially on technical matters. On top of that, they appeared in the Git tree mysteriously without any discussion or the maintainers of the MDN knowing about it at all....

Gourd,

I like the blue color scheme and the goggles on top of the head. :)

Gourd,

Waiting to hear who staff is on this series; I've grown to like pretty much the suit design for every Rider series to at least some degree while watching it, so the real interest point for me tends to be when we find out the director and writer. That tends to highly influence how interested I am, tbh.

(Basically the only Rider series I'm not at least semi-fond of the suit design of is Revice, and even then I like one or two of the suits like Demons.)

Gourd,

The only Toku series fan edit I know of is the Kamen Rider IXA cut of Kamen Rider Kiva, a show that's split between two plots in the 80's and 00's it cuts between in each episode and recuts it into chronological order. Which is interesting as a thing that exists but doesn't really improve the show tbh given the dramatic contrasts between the two time periods a lot of the time.

Most Sentai show has huge amounts of "filler"; generally speaking fans of the franchise are kinda used to it. Older shows tended to have even less plot and more filler, though. Doesn't mean the episodes can't be good, though.

Gourd, to tokusatsu

Edited my intro post with info on Kamen Rider Geats, King-Ohger, and a bit of fansub info: https://nerdbin.social/m/tokusatsu/t/515/WELCOME-POST-Introduction-to-Tokusatsu

Avatars aren't showing up on Mastodon for me. Should they? (nerdbin.social)

If I search for my account by searching for "https://nerdbin.social/u/Gourd" from my Mastodon (gourd@tech.lgbt) my avatar doesn't show up, just showing the default "no avatar" image. Should this be happening with KBin accounts on Mastodon? It makes sharing my longer posts with people there from here be something that would look...

Gourd,

My immediate response to seeing the announcement was to contact all the IT at where I work and start pushing hard to move from RHEL and RHEL-alikes to Debian where we can and they agreed, so...

Gourd,

I'm fond of the soundtrack of (Jim Power in Mutant Planet for Amiga)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiUaz0ZLbgY] by Chris Huelsbeck. It's not even a game I've ever played or particularly feel the urge to, it's just a really good synth rock soundtrack. Also going to bring up the (PC Engine CD version's arrangement)[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55EvWFkHKs] of the same music which is also good.

Gourd,

Haven't played it really until recently, but got into the Metal Slug games in emulation and had a wonderful time. Great series of shoot-em-ups with fun visual designs and a looser feel than the Contra games that makes them feel less intimidating (even if I still have to continue a lot.) 3 especially is fantastic.

From there tried out Neo Turf Masters as the other game by Nazca and it clicked in a way golf games haven't for me in the past and played it for hours on end. Extremely intuitive, pick up and play, and actually good at communicating which clubs to use for what in a way I haven't seen before.

Gourd, (edited )

Agree with this mostly (and already on a server that's declared itself a "no federation with Meta" instance Mastodon-wise), but there's likely to be at least some issues between Type 1 and Type 3 servers. Universodon already has people planning to defederate from it to their role in this mess, so...

Gourd,

... how is that Tiga release without the main character watchable? That's the Garfield - Garfield of Toku. :P

Gourd,

Was not expecting a 3D platformer when I heard it was from them but that's got me really curious. Will have to check it out.

Gourd,

Gonna admit, given how much Nintendo hasn't really taken advantage of all the moment functions of the joycons in the weird ways they did with earlier systems and the traditional input only previous WarioWare game, this genuinely catches me off guard (in a good way.)

NerdBin Transparency - How Transparent Should I Be? (nerdbin.social)

My ultimate goal in most things I do is to strive for maximum transparency - I want to ensure everyone on a platform knows what's going on with that platform. That can be taken in multiple different ways .. and I don't want to be annoying, or over share, or provide information that nobody cares about....

Gourd,

I'd at least like to hear if you've got financial issues supporting the servers and/or set up a Patreon/Patreon equivalent/coffee donation platform of choice. I'm supporting on Patreon the other Fediverse servers just to help support these endeavors, would like to be able to jump on here if/when the opportunity opens up.

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