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7·10 days agoRight… so bringing hundreds, or maybe thousands, of gallons of a fatty emulsion up to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time and then chilling it again. Also must be food grade material and will require frequent cleaning/sterilizing. Don’t forget the energy cost either. A lot more expensive than not doing any of this.
These raw milk people think the dairy industry just decided one day to start pasteurizing… an expensive process that requires special equipment… just for shits? People were fed up with watching their children die…
I’m also convinced these people have never seen the hind end of a cow.
11·17 days agoInvestment money has basically dried up. Even indies need that, unless you mean the “one person in their garage working off Patreon” type of studio. For awhile Chinese companies were holding down the fort and trying to expand in North America, but they’ve largely withdrawn that strategy and focused on domestic production. That’s why so many indie studios working on their first game shut down in the last two years.
For this to reverse itself interest rates will need to come down, but for that to happen without catastrophic inflation we would need several years of un-fucked monetary policy. So basically it’s fucked for a long time and possibly will never exist again in the way it did. This is on top of all the other issues the vfx/game industries have with crunch, chaotic management, etc.
27·1 month agoI’m not sure I buy the McDonald’s worker story, the whole narrative of the arrest seems really bizarre. (Not that I eat their shit food, one way or another.)
The dialog pushing AI media seems to start from this assumption that I consume media just to have colors and words and sounds enter my face holes. In fact, I consume art and media because I like hearing, seeing, and reading about how other humans experience the same world I do. It’s a form of communication. I like the product but also the process of people trying to capture the bonkers, ineffable experience we all seem to be sharing in ways I would never think of, but can instantly verify.
What’s funny is, due to the nature of media, it’s kind of impossible to not communicate something, even if the artwork itself is empty. When I see AI media I see the communication of a mind that doesn’t know or give a shit about any of this. So in their attempt make filler they are in fact making art about how inarticulate they are. It’s unintentional, corporate dadaism.
Also Dr Who. Our school had a kid who wore a big Tom Baker scarf and hat everyday. I hope he’s doing well.
The worst part of all of these charades is there isn’t even a side-effect benefit for the average person. Our make-work programs don’t build roads, they terrorize immigrants. Our “ghost cities” aren’t future homes for a rapidly urbanizing population, they are enormous datacenters that actively harm rural communities.
As someone who enjoys urbex videos, at least I’ll get to feast on abandoned datacenter explorations in a few years. Can’t wait for that giant hole in the ceiling with a tree growing in the shaft of light surrounded by mounds of rust that used to be nVidia GPUs, the imagery will be great.
Yep, the schedule is always a perpetual crisis. Justifies crunch, adding tech debt, shooting down dev wishlist items, cutting content, all sorts of things.
The last game I worked on got panned pretty hard, and amongst the hundreds of complaints I didn’t see one that hadn’t been raised internally months or years before release. Some of them I personally had shelved P4 change lists that were 6 months old. But hey, no time for that, we gotta get this E3 trailer out! Oh now that’s done? Well changelist is old now, can’t risk submitting that we got a presentation for the brass soon!
Anyway I think I’m retired, or something.
3·2 months agoNot from this year specifically (but I only saw it this year): The Polish hackers who uncovered the train manufacturer’s repair shenanigans.
I was listening to a best-selling author’s recent audiobook, and the professional voice actress messed this one up. So you’re in good company. Really, who can we blame but the Greeks?
Mastodon.art has a small but nice community. AI art isn’t allowed. Someone could always lie, I guess, but the community is small enough that engagement bait isn’t really a thing, there’s much larger mastodon instances those people would probably use. They also aggressively defederate fascists.
Since nobody polices the relationship between candidates, parties, and super PACs I feel like this law is already just pure symbolism. The fact that Trump and Steve Chabot are involved makes me think there’s something sinister hidden in this, probably just makes the grafting more straightforward.
6·2 months agoYears ago I watched this video that demos old iron smelting technology in Burkina Faso, and these people get farther. They have better natural iron deposits (also lots of people working together helps).
He did end up making a small blade at some point, but it seems like the process of getting iron ore from bacteria is excruciatingly slow. If he was in my area he’d be walking around in full plate armor by now.
5·2 months agoThey really desecrated Dungeon Keeper. IIRC it was so filled up with mobile game, microtransaction garbage you couldn’t even dig blocks of dirt more than once a day without buying “gems”.
Pre-COVID. I wonder what it’s like now. Anecdotes from people who work in education seem to say it was pretty devastating for child development, but it’s hard to tell if it’s above and beyond the perennial “this new generation is totally fucked” sentiment.
Firewatch. I liked the visual style but everyone raved about the writing specifically and I thought it wasn’t great. I don’t want to shit on them too hard because they did try, and you can’t control how other people hype your work, but I found the characters really flat.
It reads exactly like the kind of work that goes into growing plant crops, which is good. It’s the sort of study that needs to be done if something is going to be considered for a possible major food source.