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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2h

And once again, I'm left to wonder why people don't hire me under this identity when I post gems like these...

Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2h

Remember, everyone: creeps will take anything you sell them as long as it has an approximation of tits, even AI slop.

Perverts are connoisseurs. Perverts have *standards*.

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 1d

In times of dearth tech turn to their most reliable cash cow: desperately horny creeps

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

ChatGPT sales are flat — so Altman offers OpenAI adult chat

hi, I’m Misa! — uh, Ani

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzFV... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251017-cha... - podcast

time: 6 min 03 sec

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 18h

I will say this: a lot of new folks are clinging to a nostalgia for ‘getting a publisher’ as a marker of validation, of being a ‘real game’.

And I’m here to tell you that’s bollocks. They need you more than you need them. If they can provide a service, awesome, but you hold the means of production.

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 5h

I'mma say it: I don't think you get to call yourself a fan of anything if you can't give other artists the respect they deserve by not using their stolen work to crap out some mediocre bullshit with so-called AI.

If you can't even do that, you clearly appreciate nothing, and value nothing.

LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 17h

My thought is that, despite what this one featured actor believes, the use of AI is not excused by the quality of storytelling or character development.

Especially when you’re talking about the eight thousandth iteration of the same Power Rangers thing. Bro.

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 6h

More options:

github.com/mantinhas/de...

github.com/sigoden/upt/

Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 6h

Looks like there's another similar tool called metapac.

github.com/ripytide/met...

GitHub - ripytide/metapac: multi-backend declarative package manager

multi-backend declarative package manager. Contribute to ripytide/metapac development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 6h

Huh. Someone made a declarative system config/dotfile manager for arch called decman. Like NixOS but less annoying, in theory.

I *should* be able to get it working with CachyOS...

github.com/kiviktnm/dec...

GitHub - kiviktnm/decman: Declarative package & configuration manager for Arch Linux.

Declarative package & configuration manager for Arch Linux. - kiviktnm/decman

github.com

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

"Now tell me, Private—and this is important—was the General being sarcastic or ironic? Our very lives may depend on the distinction."

"Sarcastic, Sir. No doubt about it."

"Oh thank God. We can live with sarcasm. It's when he starts being ironic that things get... Court-martially."

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

"Please excuse my associate. He wouldn't understand subtlety if you made it obvious for him, and he wouldn't know subtext if you beat him to death with it."

"It's true. He tried."

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

Nokko is being built, and the parts for the Helminth sacrifice copy of Nokko are being built as well. I'll get back to you all with my thoughts and impressions in about 3 days?

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

Calling anyone on Bluesky who plays (or wants to play) Due Process: I'm looking to get some more experience with the game if I'm going to keep casting it now and then. But I'd prefer to play against non-pros if possible. I'd like to live more than three seconds per round while I learn.

#dueprocess

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

Maybe have a little fun and double up on the Cs? Fucction? Does that work?

No, I haven't started drinking yet, why do you ask?

Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”

“Why?”

“It saves time.”

- Sir Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

Side note: why do we call it "erotica" instead of "fuction?" (Fucktion if you want to use the British spelling.)

#fuction

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

However, if you want good and intentionally-queer fiction, I'm afraid I'm the wrong person to ask. Sorry.

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 1d

If you feel like you don't have enough queer fiction, and you don't mind some *absolute hot garbage*, you can listen to badly translated short stories on YouTube. Everyone's gender-fluid, and their pronouns can change back and forth within the same sentence.

Let your imagination run wild.

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

Well, that's part of the Warframe update grind down. I officially have all the parts for Nokko being built. Now I just gotta get another Neuroptics blueprint and a few more resources for the Helminth copy.

And then I have to think about the Archgun, but I don't want to think about the Archgun rn.

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

Ah. I dunno how your management would feel about this, but this is a situation where I'd write essentially what you just said as a disclaimer.

Something like, "This documentation will be considered complete when its subject is considered complete. Thus, I leave this task to my grandchildren."

Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

What about it has you feeling that enmity?

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

"Why do we even have that lever?"

CW: suicide with a side of dark humor, visual novel

www.youtube.com/shorts/MV1gS...

Pull the Lever, Duncan! – This is a serious game, I swear!

YouTube video by Harrowed World

www.youtube.com

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

Said it before, I'll say it again. I didn't learn to touch type for nothing. I was put on this Earth to push buttons, and that's what I'm gonna do.

Vampire Hunter KB @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 2d

With Microsoft announcing their AI plans for future Windows versions, this /v/ comic from 15 years ago got a whole lot more relevant.

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

Discworld Witches model of leadership where they don't have leaders, and as the first among equals, the Archbishop was the leader they didn't have.

That's just hilarious to me.

Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

Puts the Catholic church's slow-moving journey into the modern age into perspective, as I think this kind of schism is exactly what they're trying to avoid.

So, Archbishop of Canterbury, I salute you for being cool enough to schism a church. Also, I love that the Anglicans were using the...

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

in real-time, right about now. A bunch of leaders have decided to start their own Anglican Church with blackjack and hookers, except not because, in a way, that was the problem.

The current Archbishop... she's apparently a little too modern and forward-thinking for their sensibilities. And it...

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Nerdic | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.com · 2d

Okay, I've never paid much attention to that No Name brand of Catholicism known as the Anglican Church, but it turns out they're hilarious.

So their leader is (was) the Arcbishop... Well they called her "primus inter pares," first among equals, but now they don't, because they're schisming...

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