I'd beat 1+2 before so those were pretty straightforward.

But for most of these other games I've just fucked around with robot masters. Until 11 which I've also beat. So I'm looking forward to seeing what the games in between have to offer.

I gotta give it to my guy Astyanax, but there's a lot of good stuff on this cart.

Interplay 1 also has the honor of containing the (currently) 655th best NES game according to @jeffgerstmann.com : Battle Chess.

Course elsewhere on the platform we've also got number 16, Blaster Master. And number 26, RC ProAm. Even number 1, Mega Man 2 if we count discontinued hardware built-ins.

"What do you think we should do with people breaking the law who are here illegally," is a non sequitur meant to leave viewers with something familiar to be angry about so they can disregard everything else this person said.

Y'know cause Renee Good was neither breaking the law nor here illegally.

So let's have the conversation "people will use these tools, how do we make it safe" rather than "how do we shame people enough to prevent them from using these tools."

...used in OSS, which also impacts how they're used in the industry.

There's no way to prove positively "no AI was involved here." And even if there were, that doesn't help maintainers actually evaluate the change in any meaningful way anyway.

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Anyway I ain't looking to get directly involved in That Drama - and the Discover feed has kindly kept all my posts off it for years now. But I just found the confessional tone in that PR striking.

like I ain't shaming folks just for using it...maybe a little based on how they use it.

Especially not OSS projects cause they have the benefit of being able to show that all contributions go through the same rigorous manual and automated checks so it doesn't matter how the changes were written.

Like, search for how often I've used the phrase "AI bad." For me, LLM-based features and tools need to do a lot to balance their ties to the technofascism eating my country.

And honestly code agents, used responsibly, clears that bar for me. I use it a bit at work and not at all personally but...

It's bizarre how tightly people cling to this idea of Twitter from 10 years ago.

I don't know how to give people the courage to wake up from this, but that's all it's gonna take.

Some information is important to be made public but also potentially upsetting to see. These options exist to help keep yourself safe and you shouldn't feel bad about using them.

Maybe cause they've been frog-boiled on those other platforms and this is more discrete. Maybe cause it's easier for millennials to give up The Gen Z Platform. I'm not sure.

I suppose it also remains to be seen if such people will actually drop TikTok or find their way to similar rationalizations.

Yep, I was never on Twitter in any real way, but I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts in 2020 and never was on Insta/TikTok/etc. But I keep having conversation with folks where my take-away is that Somehow™ these are different things.