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tess, 17 days ago

@grimalkina imagine being smart AND hot

Reply guys could never.

tess, 17 days ago

@grimalkina I'm blushing now, you goof

tess, 19 days ago

@tojiro @mekkaokereke the SUVs and trucks won 🙃

A combination of poorly-designed regulation (CAFE) and an arms race to have the tallest, heaviest vehicles (so people feel safe driving around other huge vehicles) has fucked our roads.

That, and, I'm sure the profit margins are much meatier on luxury vehicles than on economy cars. Not to mention that increasing inequality means most people who used to be in the market for a new economy model are now buying used.

Worst of all possible worlds.

tess, 19 days ago

Looks like I did not need to go to Everett lol

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tess, 19 days ago

@renwillis

"regular search absolutely sucks"

--> funny enough, also ChatGPT's fault

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva I mean, I also firmly believe that most procgen interactive experiences are bad, but that's a taste issue and not a moral judgment

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva

It's very complex, because I know there are people who love games, art, etc. with some kind of procedural generation, and you can put a lot of work into creating a procgen system that creates really nice results.

But also, procedurally-generated games feel like empty content to me. Even Hades. The parts that do appeal are the parts that are hand-crafted, like the story and unique bosses.

Procgen art for me runs the gamut from "fun toy" to upsetting. I'm almost never impressed by it.

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva I would make a distinction between simulation or procgen as a starting point/background deatil, and procgen as the primary mechanic.

A civ-type game that generates a random world by simulating plate tectonics, wind and weather patterns, etc. or an open-world game where foliage is auto-placed are fine.

So while I don't love e.g. Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft, I do like them more than most roguelikes.

The more of the game is gameplay-focused procgen, the emptier and more pointless it feels.

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva I guess to answer your question more directly, "yes, I always view procgen negatively" - but again, it's not a moral judgment; it's a "me" thing. I'm glad people are making art that other people who are not me enjoy.

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva I like the technical qualities of what you are doing; the procgen seems to be largely a way to demonstrate it?

Perhaps I don't "get" your art, but I do enjoy the things you post?

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva that does seem broad; like, is an art tool that fills a surface in an image with a realistic-looking texture be procgen in the same way as 99% of Starfield is?

If you define it that broadly, I don't think there's anything I can really say about it.

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva in my defense, I'm pretty dumb

tess, 20 days ago

@aeva I believe you!

But there's a vast spectrum from "the textures on the bushes in this landscape are procedurally-generated" to "the entire landscape you will be traversing as the primary goal of the game is procedurally-generated".

How I feel about these are extremely different, to the point I consider them different things conceptually?

tess, 21 days ago

@skinnylatte I think it's "look at these other countries with people who look like us where the government still appears to work and people don't seem to be in a state of constant precarity".

(In other words, white people just see other white people and don't necessarily realize that e.g. there are still major cultural differences. But also I relate to the frustration with how awful certain things are here that we could totally fix.)

tess, 20 days ago

@skinnylatte yes, but then there is also the racism

(with faith and perseverance, someday we will sauté the racism)

tess, 21 days ago

This post brought to you by every fantasy role-player who ever thought that doing an accent would give their character more gravitas but instead ended up making them sound like an extra from a high school Shakespeare production.

tess, 21 days ago

Did you know that in General American English, vowel quality is largely allophonic and primarily conditioned by syllable codas?

Did you also know that pretty much no other English dialect does that, and that "long" and "short" vowels are actually long and short?

(Now you do.)

tess, 17 days ago

@aeva "Wayland" is a curse word when it comes out of my mouth, 100% of the time

tess, 17 days ago

@aeva I HAVE INDEED

(what an absolutely terrible environment, especially for testing)

tess, 17 days ago

@aeva Wayland is the gcc of windowing systems

tess, 17 days ago

@oblomov @aeva eh, that was probably unfair to gcc. It's gotten marginally better since the mid 2000s.

Then again a lot of that is probably improvement in the C++ spec and not the gnu project.

tess, 17 days ago

@mcc @aeva that's because every distribution of Wayland has a different set of extensions built in, providing subtly (or sometimes radically) different functionality! Isn't Wayland great?