i have renamed the months for the benefit of international collaboration
Aanuary
Bebruary
Carch
Dapril
Email
Fjune
Gjuly
Haugust
Ipmantember
Jocktober
Knubvember
Lesbiember
For the past few weeks I've been fascinated by an emerging TikTok trend of 3D polygonal girls who explain engineering and societal manipulation to you.
If you've seen them too, of you're like... what? I've written this for you:
discernable-trend.ghost.io/whats-with-t...
hope the next ffxiv expansion doesnt have any more dungeons where you play out a flashback of a city being exploded while a victorian child goes "mummy, what are those missiles flying towards us? are they food?" and then the kid gets cartoon nuked and leaves behind a missile-shaped monster you kill
thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"
"but it's an anime rpg. of course the writing isn't going to be good" but what if it were though. what if it Were though. what if it were. just imagine a better future with me for one second. let yourself dream of beauty for one second
shopping vinted for trainers is amazing.
many people cannot:
1) take informative photos of a shoe
2) accurately list the shoe size for the region they're selling in
3) correctly identify the manufacturer of the shoe
I spoke with Game UI Database founder @eddcoates.bsky.social about the strain he and the platform are being put under by increasingly sophisticated generative AI bots
Just another example of how the technology is actively corroding human-made resources with real, tangible value
"There will definitely have to be some sort of restriction:" Game UI Database considering drastic countermeasures in fight against generative AI scraping