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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 25m

Build an atomic battery powered large scale sound system to play the song that never ends on repeat for all eternity

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 20h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 43m

I dont see JNCOs rising from the grave to take vengeance on the fitting (jeans)

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 44m

But are they really?

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 45m

I mean the most useless purchase is to bring back JNCOs

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 1h

That's just regular public transit after 10 pm

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 2h

lol

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 2h

I wouldn't do anything with it. Just turn every potato in Idaho into a single battery

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 2h

Turn idaho into the world's largest potato battery

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 20h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 2h

Has to be completely useless, remember?

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 2h

The Act of planning this just resulted in the creation of several more forms of brassica.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 3h

Some of you are so bad at this. I'm buying an institute to study and finally create all possible kinds of brassica so no new form of brassica could ever be created again

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 20h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

if you like my writing, this month is REALLY urgent, as I need to raise a TON of money to pay my tax bill, which the state is making me pay early because, I shit you not, I did my taxes. Apparently a change to the balance, like filing taxes/extensions is bad

paypal.me/stompsite would help a LOT

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 17h

This article is completely free, but I'm still $2500 in the hole (it's a bit more than that but I didn't feel comfortable asking for more), so if you like it and think it's worth reading but cannot support it yourself, please consider quote tweeting

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

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That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

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building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 21h

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My dad would have been 63 today...

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 21h

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My dad would have been 63 today...

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

If 130 people did $20 tips each, I would not have this massive stressor hanging over my head

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit

Medium emailing me to say my article is so good they boosted it

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 1d

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 1d

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own bunker, who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves.'

The techbros will be the first to be torn to pieces by mobs if society collapses

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 1d

They were literally warned it was gonna happen again if they didn't stop this shit at a conference like a decade ago. They still thought they can beat the odds

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

our current crop of techbros, like despots throughout history, are convinced that they've finally solved the Brutal Peasant Revolt Problem

i think they are absolutely wrong about this, to be clear

Jonathan Pierce @jonathanpierce.bsky.social · 1d

always funny that “hordes of unemployed show up at his gate with a battering ram and guillotine” is never a scenario they consider

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 1d

The plus was a cynical cashgrab to chase after Disney+'s initial success, now that basically... I think almost every disney film has underperformed for a couple years now, they're all dropping the + because they think it will get people to not associate it with disney.
Megacorps are superstitious

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 1d

This would be like me comparing a A24 film to an Avengers movie. Those serve a different ecosystem. And Memento was a pretty good success in its own way. It made $40m off of $5-9m

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 1d

At one point he compares Christopher Nolan’s low budget darling Memento to a movie with about 7 times it's budget (I forget which). and claims because Memento less money because it was confusing rather than it being a low budget niche thriller not meant to compete with a blockbuster.

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 1d

Snyder’s inherent value is prototypical of the way companies view AI.

By making an overly simplistic metric it makes it easier for them to justify their decisions.

The problem is. Snyder’s metric is deeply flawed and deliberately ignores things that don't fit his model.

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Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 1d

The bidding war was because of the perceived value of the script. Schwarzenegger wanted the trades and Hollywood to believe that a garbage script had value so he could saddle Stallone with a career stalling role.
It's not a marker of quality at all.

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P.A. Bat-stein @pabastien.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. I've had it from producers at both a writing level and also storyboard level revisions that are basically rewrites I had to do with the director/AD