Dead internet theory is not just a hypothesis anymore. It’s an intentional business model. Enjoy what’s left of online human interaction. Soon, it will all be just LLMs siloing each user individually.

Make sure you check out the music video he did with Alien

An image by Lev Yilmaz of Tales of Mere Existence

Who? No idea who that is. I’m just a simple journalist. Check out my Substack. KentaKuraaku.substack.co.jp

Hmm… maybe…

Gossipo Perpetuo

Disconnect

Ask Yourself

Moon Hooch

Pharmacide

Umeboshi

I have to wonder if this neologism comes from something like either their parents not taking any vacations and so they never got the examples (‘Wait, you spend time with your kids?’) or from a cultural aversion to taking time off for oneself. (‘Taking time off? Sounds like someone’s not really committed to the success of the company.’)

I heard a discussion of the concept of an RPG setting where the world never made the jump to digital. The idea was to explore that alternative now based on a changed history. It included the idea of aliens that we’d only meet by having developed new technologies in the analog space, sapient, benevolent AI that only exist because of some different interpretation of intelligence in an analog space, etc.

Tons of stuff:

I have ~135 game apps plus some that are not exactly games but not exactly for productivity.

I have lemuroid and a pile of old console games.

I have a few sites for doing other little games, like daily Akari.

highlights:

Collapsus

Endless Sky

Pixel Dungeon

Luanti

Gladiabots

Mindustry

PartyHardGO

OpenTTD

Oxenfree

Revoltaire

The full set of games by Yiotro (a dev who puts it all out there for free, no ads, and lets you buy in if you like it)

Terraria

Underhand

Space Chem

A collection of puzzle games off of Fdroid just called puzzles. It has akari, sudoku, minesweeper, signpost, galaxies, towers, etc. All the games you might find buried in the back of a newspaper.

Stardew Valley

Tic-80

A pile of games from itch.io

Growing up? Stranger in a Strange Land

MIchael’s way of viewing the world felt so natural to me, and yet so different from almost anyone else around.

Princess NPC who, if she dies, will begin the apocalypse:

If those are the options, I choose death.

Ask why.

Need to learn X? Ask why. Why you want to do it might point to a better way of getting what you really want. Asking why one does something in doing X will tell you how process relates to result, informing better decisions.

Did somebody do something wrong? Ask why. Whether it was because they misunderstood or were just an ass, you’ll know better what to do with them.

Wondering what happened? Asking why will usually get you the who, what, where, when, and how as part of the answer.

In a world with probably over 8 billion humans, people are so desperately lonely, they view a machine built to trick them into thinking it’s sentient as the best option for conversation.

For a certain definition of PR, this is true. Most of the cultural associations of the seasons come from ‘classic’ literature, most of which, in the English-speaking world, came from England and New England. How many places in the Southern US actually get a leaf colour change in fall? The cultural touchstones defining the associations of seasons were written in places where the winters are dreary and cold and summers are a bit hot sometimes but not usually too horrible, and certainly not likely to kill you. Try telling someone living in the South of the US that summer is the best season, see how many warning shots they fire past your nose.

Probably these little lychee candy things I had years ago. No fruit flavor at all. Tasted as though someone mixed powdered blackboard chalk and sugar.

Wrong site

Plasma - a wildly programmable physics game where you can build just about anything in a fairly accessible manner. The devs eventually just made it free because it wasn’t getting much notice.

BPM: Bullets Per Minute - at some point everyone thinks ‘what if you combined an FPS with a rhythm game so you had to shoot on the beat?’ BPM is that, nailed. Others have tried but BPM got it right.

There isn’t really a natural ‘popular,’ and almost never has been. It’s mostly just what’s marketed.

What’s going to hit will be a bit dependent on where your soft spots are.

Kids: Grave of the Fireflies or Bridge to Teribithea or My Girl or The Cure

Romantic love: The Fountain

Existential trauma: Psycho-Pass (series) or A.I.

Dogs: Marley & Me or Hachi

Loss: Up

Also:

River