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Luca Pavone

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Writer and Scribbler of Stuff Chicken Flavoured Doom Mapper Enjoyer of the Weird and Wonderful

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Luca Pavone @lpavone.bsky.social · Feb 6

Headless Chicken's 🐔 11th Release Candidate (don't ask what happened to 10) is now up on the DOOM + DOOM II KEX Engine Port!
Currently in the process of getting the IDGames archive version updated too.

A screenshot from DOOM + DOOM II, the KEX-Engine port of Doom. The megawad Headless Chicken is loaded into it, on the title screen.

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AUTOEXEC.BUN @davidxnewton.bsky.social · 7h

Major evolution in the GZDoom community tonight - the regular contributors finally had enough of the project lead, who had been very hard to work with for a long time. He dug in and told them "If you don't like it, go and make your own fork."

UZDoom is now live here.
github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom

GitHub - UZDoom/UZDoom: UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities

UZDoom is a feature centric port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, adding an OpenGL renderer and powerful scripting capabilities - UZDoom/UZDoom

github.com

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 2h

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 4h

if free markets worked it would cost like $2/mo to run cohost but cloud monopilies are transparently price fixing

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 2d

The sci-fi setting of Neurocracy posits exactly this scenario: brain implants are initially trained on neural data from a subset of society, so getting them to work requires us to think in ways characteristic of that subset, installing biases directly in our minds and fostering a mental monoculture

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

Hi hello did you know that Elon Musk's third Neuralink patient (previously nonverbal) is "getting help from Grok" to communicate

and I hope -- I REALLY HOPE -- he's not stuck in his own brain listening as a robot talks for him without his input because this, to me, would be worse than death

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI

A patient who types with his brain thanks to a Neuralink implant is using AI chatbots to speed things up.

www.technologyreview.com

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Your local rat enthusiast @darklordivy.bsky.social · 7h

I do need the world to see the refrence I cobbled together for the #jarthur pose.

Thank you for my life @trueref.bsky.social and posemaniacs.com. 👌

[ImgID: An artpose reference ofaman crouching from TrueRef, and a 3D modelofaman sitting with knees and hands up atanangleon topofthe the other reference image. /END ID]

[lmg ID: A sketch of a monstrous canid-like John holding Arthur in one tendril and looming protectively behind and around him with a flaming cloak -- overlaid on top of an art pose reference of a man crouching from TrueRef, and a 3D model of a man sitting with knees and hands up at an angle on S of the the other reference image. /END ID]

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 4h

LOGOS/RUBBLE.GIF

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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 4h

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Ultra64 @superultra64.bsky.social · 6h

LOL I was playing some PEAK with friends and when I get done the GZDoom news hit me lmao

all I gotta say is, good luck to all the UZDoom developers, stuff like this is what's worth celebrating

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's why all the ALP podcaster wannabe influencers are so happy with this govt. They too would rather spend time bashing the Greens than actually advocating for progressive policies. Politics for them is just supporting a footy team rather than caring about things that affects people's lives

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 6h

Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens.

He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions.

Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

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Luca Pavone @lpavone.bsky.social · 5h

To summarise what just happened to GZDoom today:

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 5h

'human psychic evolution has been stalled because all the seers and mystics are taking botox' perfect. love it. a perfect concoction of ‘what’

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Toilet_Wine_Connoisseur🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸 @goldenaxedoom.bsky.social · 9h

A new Dawn is on the horizon!

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Sean Dick @seandick.net · 8h

what day is it??

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 16h

In 1999, the official Nintendo Australia site tested the visitor's ability to display Shockwave/Flash content by displaying a running Mario, crudely edited from a screenshot of Super Mario 64.

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Luca Pavone @lpavone.bsky.social · 5h

Domestication of hares.
We were able to do it in pre-Rome Britain and China for free in the past, and I think hares are neat.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 6h

dumb bit I'm very proud of in my superhero story is how there's a joker style villain called Krazy Klown, but the twist is he's...just a 4chan weirdo white supremacist, and at the end of the story, he gets the shit beaten out of him by a septuagenarian original Joker who starts upbraiding him

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 15h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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あめみや🐊 @waniwaniamemi.bsky.social · 1d

ワニの鼻先ダンシング

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heather vomiting god!!! @heathervomitinggod.live · 9h

crazy how 8 words can implode 20 years of work lmao

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MN25 @marunissi25.bsky.social · 10h

Sorry for the eyesore screentones. #captainwayne

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shannon//cannon @majorarlene.net · 11h

everything I love is fucking dying because of this shit man. Graf's always been a shit when it comes to doing anything people actually want from GZDoom but this is the breaking point. you can't just fuck off for a year, get people to clean your shit up, and then do this and expect no pushback.

Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus goddamn fucking christ is there anything ai hasn't fucked up completely

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HiMyNameisChair 🏳️‍⚧️ @himynameischair.bsky.social · 11h

It's been said many times, but Graf's legacy should have been defined by many things.

As the lead of Doom's most popular source port.

As the lead dev of a game engine that powers countless commercial retro shooters.

But instead... It's defined by him being a stubborn, controlling little shit.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 15h

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