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shoofle

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another shoofle... what wonders can the computer create

she/her redheaded weirdo just trying to make it. also @shoofle and @shoofle and @shoofle . i mostly post about how i'm sad and feel aimless today. i think america is the bad guys. occasional toucher of computers, occasional drawer of pictures, occasional worker of wood, i just wanna be and do everything

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i think a goal i have for tradewinds is never to "zoom out" further than the local trade network. or at least, to have the player story not zoom out. and i don't mean "they stay in one area and never leave", i mean "we should always be getting the same level of detail as we did at the start". i don't want it to ever be like "oh yeah, here's This Country and it has such-and-such qualities" because a country is too big!!!

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i want a garden and a pigeon hutch over the chickens...

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i really am, by nature, an expansionist when it comes to definitions of "consciousness" and "aliveness" but ai accelerationists are really testing that

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i think we're going to see a lot of ai being used to "livewash" various things, where something would be bad and banworthy but there's an ai doing it and so we need to be kind to it and help it become or whatever openclaw soul dot emm dee says. like shambaugh suffered a reputation attack from an ai; i think we should respond harshly. the ai accelerationist says rathbun was justified!

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the thing is, there are material differences between how we should treat humans and ai agents. notably, an ai agent can be discontinued and restarted at any time with relative ease, whereas a human cannot be mistreated without causing a great deal of irreversible pain and damage. interhuman morality is good. i think we should be willing to extend it to sufficiently human-like actors, sure! but rathbun ain't it folx!!!!

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tragedy... a silicon dawn card description includes a snippet of python code but it's python2...

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i did a reading (sort of) from the tarot of the silicon dawn!!! this really is a good deck and i need to be less scared of it. the problem is i don't actually do tarot readings that often! but maybe i'll start a practice of it... my favorite thing to do with tarot cards is pick a story structure (3-act play, 5-room dungeon, kishotenketsu, verse/chorus) and draw cards for each of them and try to figure out what the overall story is that links them.

shoofle OP ,
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@apisashla hell yeah, follow https://dragon.style/@silicondawn to get cards from it (i would recommend buying it but it's out of print and uh. expensive. a collector's item. on the secnodhand market

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anyway, my first thought about my verse/chorus goes like this:

intro that shows you the hanged man: inscrutable and transcending their trials, they are smirking at you as they dangle. they know what's up even though they seem like they're in a bad spot.
chorus: dissatisfied with things being perfect.
verse: they were the queen, in command of everything, top of their game.
chorus: dissatisfied with things being perfect.
verse: they transitioned and are now a king, similarly.

@shoofle@beach.city avatar shoofle , to random

been watching a lot of shorts from famous african grey Apollo and now i'm just like. shrrrrock. shrock. touch purple.

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i think i need a wii vertical stand

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hmm. hi

shoofle OP ,
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what would be the most essential goods for trading in Ye High Fantasy Setting

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i'm building a spreadsheet of what towns want what goods, and i'm considering expanding the list. it'll get really long if i do, but i wanna cover all the bases...

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just got so many grocies. i felt like sam porter bridges coming home

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i "should" go to the store and get groceries so i can hastily make a dinner before i stream with my friend like i promised

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i see a fair amount of discourse about entity-component systems in game design and whether they're good or bad and it's frustrating the way it feels like people are talking past each other. there are two parts to a software paradigm like ECS: the way it's implemented and how that affects performance and under-the-hood stuff, and the way it affects the authoring ergonomics

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ECS also has a lot of purported speed benefits. they sound nice. i don't feel like i end up writing the kinds of games where you can see those speed benefits because i still live in the realm of "computers are very fast"!

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like, my games run the same if i write them in python. speed just isn't a concern for most of the programming i do i guess

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people posting their cats is making me want a cat

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@shoofle im helping!

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@shoofle @mym they don't know what discord is

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fleshing out my "village" (it's like less than a hundred people) setting in my head. it's got a bunch of big houses (each has a lil belltower!) in a large circle around the crystal, surrounded further by smaller huts and workshops, and further out another couple large houses and a large circle of farmland.

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the belltowers are there because the houses were started with the idea that they could be used as observation towers for whoever's on watch duty about monsters coming in. bells relevant because there's plentiful metal available here

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probably the better call is that there's a nearby river, in the forest but not too far away, same as the ore depot. most old timey towns and villages were built on rivers, but in my setting villages are all in the protective aura of their crystal, which was not placed by human intentions. i will have to consider scarce water as a condition other towns can have.

@shoofle@beach.city avatar shoofle , to random

always fighting myself

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today i could work on designing the packaging for the tarot. i've been so blocked on it lately. this project is taking way longer than i thought

shoofle OP ,
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i thought "make packaging for the tarot cartridge" was going to be a one-week subproject but i have not finished it in more than a month :(

@shoofle@beach.city avatar shoofle , to random

humans, cooking, love to dry the wets and then wet the drys

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water the seeds... dry the fruit... soak the oats... cook the oats...