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@fribbledom@mastodon.social I wonder how many of these vibe-coded messes will just quickly end up as abandonware down the line.
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Since I have no classes to take this summer, I figured a fun and simple project would be to work on a PlayStation emulator. Complex enough to be a challenge, but something I'd be interested in using (if it ever got to the point) and a great way to reinforce some of what I'm learning in my classes.
I don't expect to actually get past booting the BIOS, and a fully functioning one would take years. But just doing this early work has been a lot of fun as is.
A kajillion static site generators out there, and I would still rather roll my own.
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There are times where I just want to recede entirely from gaming discussions and groups online. Way too many people that just seem to hate their own hobby, and acting miserable about every little thing.
The way some people just can’t seem to do anything or talk about something without passing it through ChatGPT first. And always saying, “Well, ChatGPT said…”
Is this what the kids call brain rot?
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange This was a great read, thank you for writing up your experiences.
As someone who is going back to school to transition into the field, the whole topic of AI is intriguing and intimidating at the same time. I am thankful I've been a hobbyist programmer for a long time, so I can recognize when it feels bad to use, along a lot of the lines you wrote about.
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@repepo “Frank Herbert (yeah, I know I'm a nerd), in God Emperor of Dune, has a character observe: "What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking; there's the real danger." Herbert was writing science fiction. I'm writing about my office. The distance between those two things has gotten uncomfortably small.”
This passage has been on loop in my head since reading this.
(I really need to read the Dune books…)
All of this LLM stuff makes me question my going back to school for a computer engineering degree. The way it’s getting pushed on everything, I worry that by the time I’m done and transitioning to the field, I won’t enjoy it as much, let alone thinking about what the job market itself will look like.
As usual with everything, my timing couldn’t be worse even if I tried.
But here is a great place though to share some art.
In honor of 25 years of playing my two main roleplay characters Aethmal and Seralin, I commissioned this piece that goes back to the original versions of them I created in EverQuest. The characters have changed in many ways since the initial Paladin and Warrior versions there, but I have kept the same look overall in that entire time.
Art by the wonderful Julia Sena. She can be found at https://oxiente.com
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@stargrace@gamepad.club I am thoroughly intrigued by everything they’re saying. It seems like they’re building an interesting combination of modern design with the nostalgia of all of the original art assets.
Existential dread is perhaps too strong of a word for it. But I’m certainly feeling something at personally seeing where LLMs are right now for programming.
It didn’t write great code, although it wasn’t bad code either. And it was able to create a fully functioning albeit simple app, talking to Xcode as it went to solve errors automatically.
I don’t know. I wonder how different the job description and prospects will be when I’m done with my degree in 2 years.
I legitimately don’t get the whole race to world first every raid season in WoW. Particularly since it’s the same tiny group of guilds competing since forever.
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@cadey@pony.social As one of those people who is going back to school to change careers into the industry... it's intimidating. I'm trying to not lean on these tools too much, or at least keeping track of what it helped me with that I know I need to go back and internalize myself. But it does feel different and weirder (in a bad way) than when I started dabbling with hobbyist programming 20 years ago.
Been enjoying getting off the beaten path for apps and trying new things, and finding myself inspired to get back on track with some of my personal projects. Current by @tg@indieweb.social and Quiche Browser ( @quicheindustries@mastodon.social) in particular have been great for just pushing me to get back in and finish these tools that I want to use myself.
I can’t say it’s been a bad thing for me to be on Discord less. Cutting down to a smaller bunch of slower activity servers (that unfortunately are still required for my guilds) has freed my time for other things.
Thanks Discord Corp for making me want to use your program less!
I don’t know what the long term potential is for the game, and no Linux support means I can’t play it myself. But the soundtrack for Marathon really is quite fun to listen to.
us politics, stupidity
I can always tell when it's Bandcamp Friday by opening my e-mail and seeing a dozen or so new e-mails from artists on Bandcamp releasing something new.
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@stargrace @ripienaar Hilmar's obsession with crypto crap is not a plus. But I wish one of their experimental games would do well though. CCP needs to be more than a one hit wonder, even if that one hit is as good as it is.
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@kevinbrill@gamepad.club now to come up with more feature requests to keep you busy and not playing!
NASA, please don’t screw this up…
https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/
People who just AI do the talking and thinking on their behalf are what push me towards the view that AI is a net negative on society, no matter what uses it has for programming.
When my to-do list says I have 232 things to do today, I think it means it’s time to nuke and pave said to-do list…
But why?
I’ll never understand rooting for a game to fail just because the genre is not your cup of tea.
I look forward to the day when I don’t have to worry about every game trying to have a collab with NieR. 2B is not so interesting of a character where I want her in everything…
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange New drinking game to get through slop: take a shot on every colon and em dash.
New No Man's Sky patch means it's time for the endless "jokes" that they're only supporting the game out of penance or something.
Why have so many fellow olds latched on hard to the 67 meme. Think I’ve seen it used more by older people than younger.
How do you do fellow kids, indeed…
Well, I thought I was done with Diablo 4, and then Blizzard had to come around and release what is easily the best battlepass for the game since launch.
Dusting off the Spiritborn for another go around.
#diabloiv
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@belghast@gamepad.club I’m probably a bit of a masochist but I like to run random dungeons and it’s been a relatively chill experiences up through M0 since… maybe Dragonflight? TWW definitely. All of the more toxic people are pushing harder further up into mythic, and during these pre-season times, the better gear can be easily had elsewhere. So they burn those quickly instead.
Don’t have to go too far up in M+ though for that “wonderful” angry planet to be more frequent in PUGs.
Disappointing but unsurprising to see a "fan art" channel in an upcoming game's official Discord server is just filled with AI slop.
Now that Fury Warriors can transmog all their weapons into one-handers, I get to cosplay as a Rogue, but while still having fun!
Some day I wonder if the writers at @macstories@mastodon.macstories.net are more interested in writing about Apple or writing about AI. So many articles seem to try their best to bring in some mention of AI (OpenAI Codex in particular) when there would be plenty to talk about otherwise.
I guess it’s a good resource if I want to find out every update OpenAI makes or see the newest macOS GUI app for talking to LLMs…
Listening to the student radio for my university really makes me wish I had time to DJ a weekly show on it.
I won't ever be able to get rid of my GitHub account completely, at least for school/professional reasons. But it feels good to start moving some of my personal coding projects off of GitHub and onto Codeberg.
Stephen Colbert writing the script for a Lord of the Rings movie was not on my 2026 bingo card. Or any year’s bingo card, really.
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@ello@void.ello.tech Don’t go down the plugin rabbit hole. It’s too easy to get lost just trying plugins and tweaking the whole thing to be just the most perfect writing environment.
Not speaking from experience or anything…
I would love for these rumors of a big update or DLC or whatever for Dragon’s Dogma 2 to be true. I adored my first playthrough, and any excuse to play again is just fine by me.
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@tg@indieweb.social Since your last essay about RSS readers led to you releasing an RSS reader, I can only surmise that you are about to release your own watch. Or a car!
Great read. Every few years I go through a period of really trying to cut the chatter down on my devices. At the same time, things like health tracking on my watch are important. So I’m trapped to an extent playing this game with the whole modern tech ecosystem.
Pretty spot on. California-raised with the PNW creeping in a bit now.
https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html
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@ZombieGopher@gamepad.club @belghast@gamepad.club Yeah, I don’t know what to think of this one…
There's a lot being written about the end of Destiny 2, and what it means for Bungie, Marathon, a possible Destiny 3,and all the rest wrapped up in the drama cycle of it.
All I'll say is that my time in Destiny 1 and 2 might not have been as extensive as others, but they were games that I enjoyed immensely and think back fondly on. I wish I had experienced more of the later content of Destiny 2, and someday I'll try to go back and do so before the game shuts down for good.