e
|
Thursday, 30 April 2026
quote [ —most of which involve murder. ]
Stumbled upon this via Jenn Frank links and thought you'd like it.
|
|
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
quote [ When we turn to AI to reflect or represent core elements of the human experience, it degrades what is conveyed in photographs, which is essentially human and truthful.”
But while the risk of misinformation is real, it’s not new. Indeed, photography itself is not without ethical issues. ] Found this an interesting review of analyzing image prompts with an ad/art point of view. The "everybody smiles" thing is a recurring creep-out for me.
|
|
Sunday, 26 April 2026
quote [ Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas ]
They word this carefully. The graph is from a 2024 Icelandic council (vedur.is has more detailed info on this, too) linked in a Guardian comment: extreme weather might be very cold in Northern Europe.
The other day I read that current trouble with presenting mid- to long-term political plans is that people already evade looking in the future, rather consuming retro nostalgy.
|
|
Friday, 24 April 2026
quote [ According to meteorologists, two French Polymarket users seemingly manipulated temperature measurements to win their bets on the climate. ]
They did it multiple times: using a dryer next to the sensor.
|
|
Tuesday, 21 April 2026
quote [ American and British fanzines are fairly well-mapped; the fanzine scene outside of these two countries is perhaps not so well documented
[…] It doesn't matter if it is resistance against a regime, stereotypes in society, the music industry, or the mechanisms of the art trade. ] Interesting series of Eastern bloc fanzine flavours, starting in the mid-80s.
See: Part 2: SF | Part 3: feminism | Part 4: games
|
|
Monday, 20 April 2026
quote [ But to you. My friends. My compatriots. We remember this website. Witty. Smart. And, yes, a bit vulgar. But, when the chips were down, really there was no smarter group of people to go to in a crisis. ]
Might as well post the nudge from the chat. There is another post about how old everybody is .. I don't have a Reddit account and was never registered on old SE, me being around might be my sentimental love for withering spaces.
squirrels is Clawmarks
|
|
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
quote [ During InterfaceX26 we are celebrating Fake OS games, bringing together 150+ developers to spotlight the genre. We are making our games easier to discover by coordinating a community push to tag them all on Steam. Alongside that effort, the event features a week-long sale and a live showcase of brand new games. ]
An interesting initiative: devs asking players to tag their games with a new, made-up meta-tag Fake OS. Several games come to my mind that fit this scheme, they also offer some helper on their propositions.
|
|
Monday, 13 April 2026
quote [ This is the original soundtrack for the game Distributrains. This music was sequenced using Cakewalk 3 and Anvil Studio 2002 on a personal computer from 1998 […]. The soundtrack is meant to induce a flow state during each cycle, while simultaneously enhancing the player's intuitive sense of time on repeated playthroughs […]. ]
Someone requested the soundtrack on the game's itch.io page as a zoning out helper – the actual game is hailed as "an awesome middle ground between OpenTTD's janky half-baked systems and Factorio's life-consuming complexity" in the comments. It's $8.03 on itch and it's sole creator has a repair blog with retro tech dumpster dives going on.
|
|
Saturday, 11 April 2026
quote [ The movie that took Shakespeare to the stars, and wrote the blueprint for movie space opera. ]
Somebody posted this in a gamedev mastodon, comparing the 50s Technicolor vistas.
|
|
Saturday, 4 April 2026
quote [ Puzzle your way through traps to get the dungeon's treasure ]
Web-based Minesweeper clone (from a long list of Minesweeper clones) in rounds of 10. Apart from cleverly expanding the base mechanic the creator tried to maintain fully deductionable rounds while running a nice social media on puzzle games.
|
| Previous 10 entries by Paracetamol > |