helge

@helge@mas.to

Like to understand things. Have an angry creative soul chained up in my mental basement.

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helge, to random

andrewfeeney, to random
@andrewfeeney@phpc.social avatar

Starship Enterprise implies the existence of Starship Free, Starship Personal, Starship Cloud (Most Popular), Starship Cloud Pro, Starship Cloud Pro PLUS, and Starship On Premises (Contact for pricing).

helge,

@andrewfeeney Starship Classic (the old version they are desperately trying to discontinue but 60% of their customer base swears by it)

helge, to random

On #caturday we try to punch snowballs out of the air.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

We debated whether to respond to this critique of A City on Mars, for reasons I think you'll understand, but a friend of ours pointed out that we did say we wanted more discourse. SO: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sK-U9NYQQFEyRN1IvhtffZJR_m96G9-Fd-hCw3lq7s8/edit

helge,

@ZachWeinersmith Key quote: "Many complaints about a lack of detail here could be remedied by reading the remainder of the text."

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

That's fair.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

helge,

@lowqualityfacts I will accept "oh my god how does it do that" as an alternative.

helge, to random

Cat done playing in the rain and politely knocking on the living room window to be let in again. #caturday

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Friendly reminder that the self-proclaimed expert in geopolitical conflict you are arguing with online could very well be some 16 year old kid who is confidently typing a nonsensical solution to a decades old war based off of 15 seconds of Googling in between rounds of Fortnite.

helge,

@lowqualityfacts Or worse, an adult or middle aged man who really really have had every opportunity to accrue some understanding. But didn't. Yet have total confidence.

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

I wish I could unlearn this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

helge,

@lowqualityfacts Both the volume of the roar and the volume of excrement are important to assert dominance over their territory.

alienmelon, to GraphicsProgramming
@alienmelon@mastodon.social avatar

along with other things, i got a procedural "unspecific fleshy organic meat material" done today.
it actually balances well between appalling and morbidly fascinating.
i'm proud of it!
yay for horror materials on 🥳 halloween month 💀

#GameArt #Shaders #Blender #B3d #IndieDev

  
  
[a screenshot of a fleshy looking material with lighter pieces bulging out of dark red areas. there are darker patches that look like veins running through the lighter areas. it looks unspecific and could also just be polished red rock. either way it's fittingly gross.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/180/828/240/308/310/original/7dff66a6131f8b6b.png)  
[another screenshot of a fleshy material. it looks very meaty.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/180/828/562/096/635/original/7151f387aff870b7.png)
helge,

@alienmelon That's going to look horrifying if it twitches a bit.

TechConnectify, to random

I don't know why I'm surprised as I structured the thumbnail and intro to lead to a surprise twist, but boy howdy are the comments fun this time!

Real easy to spot who comments before watching...

helge,

@TechConnectify Speaking of things short circuiting, YouTube decided to give you the weirdest clickbait video title for some reason.

(Yes, it went away on refresh)

helge, to random

Happy #caturday , with special appreciation to all the patient cats living in households with toddlers.

MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

If anyone wants to send me an advance copy of their post I am happy to write a blurb you can append to the end.

helge,

@MissingThePt okay here is what I have so far:

TEST POST PLEASE IGNORE

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/heretic

helge,

@ZachWeinersmith hey, sorry to be complainy, but your website is in breach of GDPR with its tracking consent form. It must have an immediately available one-click "no" option of same size and availability as the "yes" option. It can't be hidden in submenus or behind expanders or wherever.

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Wow, that's really fast.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

helge,

@lowqualityfacts Sometimes more, if it is flying downwind.

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Things I have been told to do on Mastodon:

-follow more people

-follow less people

-put content warnings on anything related to politics

-put content warnings on anything related to dogs (seriously)

-use alt text to translate my posts into French

-delete my Patreon because I don't deserve to make money

-sell merch with my facts on them because I deserve to make more money

-stop doing satire because it is enabling fascism and will get Trump reelected

Moral of the story: I have no idea.

helge,

@lowqualityfacts It's pretty clear when you add it all up. Here:

Follow a lot of small people.

Sell merch with French content warnings.

Do double satire to cancel out the fascism.

drewtoothpaste, (edited ) to random

i'm mostly posting at https://bsky.app/profile/drewtoothpaste.bsky.social these days. if you follow me here or on twitter, email me for an invite and include your url/username. drew@toothpastefordinner.com

helge,

@drewtoothpaste will you keep Da Share Zone going here?

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

This is why I could never live in Europe.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

helge,

@lowqualityfacts Excuse me, this is incorrect. It is true for EU due to frog tax, but not all countries in Europe are in EU.

ifixcoinops, to random
@ifixcoinops@retro.social avatar

Here's Nola the Incredibly Polydactyl Confusion Beast.

  • far too many toes

  • unintuitive body language

  • rubs up against you asking for pats, freaks out and cringes if you move your hand to give her pats

  • jumps on my belly, wraps her arms around me and purrs, while giving me THIS FACE

helge,

@ifixcoinops If a cat is ever understood, it will immediately blink out of existence.

They know this, and make sure it never happens.

MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

Maybe Elon figures if he marks it on the map with an X he can find where his lost $44 billion is buried.

helge,

@MissingThePt This ❌ be where I buried me 44 billion doubloons.

gregeganSF, to random
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The idea that you can take an LLM — trained on an undisclosed dataset of all kinds of text, and tweaked by human feedback for various messy goals — and then use its responses for social science “research” rather than using real people, is beyond stupid.

https://www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-chatbots-replace-human-subjects-behavioral-experiments

helge,

@gregeganSF Even worse: An LLM pretending to be an affluent westerner pretending to be you.

"Language model training data are biased toward Western, affluent people, so the consumer survey might be similarly skewed. But Israeli imagines prompting the AI to impersonate a range of consumers—or to zoom in on a particular demographic—in order to create a more representative study"

Man, they even wrote out in plain text how useless this was without realizing it. This is impressively stupid.

alienmelon, to gamedev
@alienmelon@mastodon.social avatar

screenshots from the bulk of my work lately... made some giant fantasy irises to hide in the cave. flowers have a thematic (is that the right word?) meaning in the game... the petals subtly move with the wind too so it's fairly pleasant to run into them.
i love giant videogame flowers. 🥰🌸🌺
~
#IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDevelopment

a screenshot of the flower in a cave. there is a cluster of them growing along the sides of the cave and on the ceiling. the flowers are deep blue, purple, with a vivid orange center. the cave walls are an iridescent white.
another screenshot of the flowers growing in a cave. the flowers are growing along the walls and ceiling of the cave. they are a vivid blue, violet, with yellow orange centers. in the middle of the cave is a giant skeleton hand. the walls of the cave are an iridescent white. this is a fantasy cave.
a screenshot of the node setup for the flower texture from within Blender.

helge,

@alienmelon The care you put into game design is a joy to read about.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

Anyone have a theory on why facebook is basically awful as an artist and insta remains good? Like, on instagram I have 10% as many followers, but posts get 10 to 100x the engagement? Yet, both are run by the same villain. What gives?

helge,

@ZachWeinersmith Instagram is written in Python, and Zuck doesn't have enough Python experts to figure out how to shittify it as quickly as Facebook.

ifixcoinops, to random
@ifixcoinops@retro.social avatar

Alright so last night I said hey folks, I'm 40, dyspraxic as heck and can't draw, and it bothers me, pls recommend me a beginner-friendly course, and drawabox was recommended among others.

Started it today. Dude's telling how to draw smooth lines that don't wobble; use your whole arm not your wrist, practice each stroke first to build muscle memory, put your eyes on the end, do the whole thing in one constant motion at one constant speed and don't think until you're done with the line, I nod along and go alright and give it a try and ffs this is welding, this is literally MIG welding, it's also how you spray paint and clearcoat, it's how you brush polycrylic onto wood, and I've been drawing crappy wobbly lines my whole life because no bugger ever told me "Hey Dan why don't you try moving the pen like you're spraying lacquer onto a pinball playfield."

Still cannae draw, but at least I've figured out how to do straight smooth bloody lines with a pen, wish I'd put two and two together ten years ago

helge,

@ifixcoinops You mean you don't scoff and laugh at the apprentice for not getting it immediately?

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

I owe you all the deepest and sincerest apology. It has been brought to my attention that my facts are enabling fascism and destroying democracy. I am especially sorry for the harmful facts stating that:

-Every month is National Potato Month.
-George W. Bush has a Foo Fighters tattoo on his back.
-Optimus Prime is the only heterosexual Transformer.
-The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New York City.
-Cher’s full name is Chernobyl.

I pray that you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me.

helge,

@lowqualityfacts This is like all the complaints about April Fool's Day (gasp) fooling people.

A sprinkle of harmless, easily fact-checked, funny lies is a vaccine against the spread of disinformation.

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Journalists: Mastodon seems great...BUT CAN IT SCALE?

A few months go by. Mastodon gains millions of new accounts. Everything is still fine.

Journalists: Mastodon seems great...BUT CAN IT SCALE?

helge,

@lowqualityfacts but what is Mastodon's billionaire's business model I don't understand

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