Alys Rujasu

Alys Rujasu

@rujasu.net

Non-binary, silly, and happily married to @dramaqueenkjf.bsky.social. I speedrun some indie & retro stuff. Staff for Power Up With Pride. They/them or she/her.

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Used to, culturally, we had this word, "SEO text". We understood what it meant, and everyone understood when you said the word you meant content-less, value-less, filler text. We briefly had a useful word "Fake News", which referred to a real thing, before Donald Trump the Word Killer killed it.

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.

At the same time I was reading this post, a text notification came in from the Talarico campaign telling me about how they're not meeting their goals and they won't be able to win without my contribution

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

I hope you all realize I am going to be INSUFFERABLE in March (ok realistically I'll probably be too busy actually playing the game to be insufferable until April but still) (also if you haven't played the first game yet get on it, the first game is incredible)

CASSETTE BEASTS 2002 | Bytten Studio@byttenstudio.bsky.social

Hold onto your cassette players, friends! The Cassette Beasts 2002 Showcase IS LIVE IN FIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRp0Q8Pklfw

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i've recently heard that some ai bros want to make an smw central alternative because we don't allow gen ai content on the site. here's my direct response to those people. "who owns rom hacking?" and other questions ai poisons us with shoujo.gay/who-owns-rom...

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this is basically the current state of things Scam site: Hi, I'm Amazon dot com! Microsoft Edge: Prove it Scam site: 4️⃣ Microsoft Edge: Pleasure doing business with you, Amazon

Sixers opening day tonight. I did not make the team, but I hope they all make it out to the court for the game

Alys Rujasu@rujasu.net

Had a dream where I made the opening day roster of the 76ers but got cut right after. Not because I'm 5'5" and have no ball skills, but because I got lost on my way from the locker room to the bench and missed the entire first game

AltStream is back online, I'm not expecting to go live again today but please do check them out at altstream.online and give me a follow at altstream.online/alysrujasu if you'd like!

altstream.onlineAlysRujasu on AltstreamI'm Alys! I speedrun a few retro/indie games and sometimes help out with charity speedrunning marathons. My pronouns are she/her or they/them. Alys is pronounced like Alice, Rujasu is pronounced rue-J...
Alys Rujasu@rujasu.net

So yeah, for anyone who tried to tune in - thanks! The site got DOS'ed basically right at the same time I went live and is currently in maintenance mode. Hoping things get back online and I'm able to try this out again soon. Regardless, expect some SLARPG runs from me in the future!

So yeah, for anyone who tried to tune in - thanks! The site got DOS'ed basically right at the same time I went live and is currently in maintenance mode. Hoping things get back online and I'm able to try this out again soon. Regardless, expect some SLARPG runs from me in the future!

Alys Rujasu@rujasu.net

Live with my first stream on AltStream at altstream.online/alysrujasu - come check it out and let me know if video is coming through for you! Going to be working on the Super Lesbian Animal RPG speedrun, if the stream holds up accordingly.

Live with my first stream on AltStream at altstream.online/alysrujasu - come check it out and let me know if video is coming through for you! Going to be working on the Super Lesbian Animal RPG speedrun, if the stream holds up accordingly.

altstream.onlineAlysRujasu on AltstreamI'm Alys! I speedrun a few retro/indie games and sometimes help out with charity speedrunning marathons. My pronouns are she/her or they/them. Alys is pronounced like Alice, Rujasu is pronounced rue-JAH-sue.

Something that I've been thinking about, dating back to when I took a neural networks class in college: Math doesn't have feelings. It doesn't matter how complex the math is, it doesn't matter if it outputs "ouch" and it doesn't matter if it reflects back our own feelings. It's still just math.

This does mean that there is no such thing as sentience or consciousness in pure software. Running Conway's Game of Life on your PC doesn't make your PC a living being. Writing a script saying "I think therefore I am" doesn't mean it thinks. I don't know why any of this has ever been a debate.

Had Chinese carryout for dinner. Looked at my fortune cookie: "You will do great at your school work today!" Hmm. Well, it's Sunday night, and the last time I was in school was in the 00's. Right on, fortune cookie!

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Some of these Latin American legends I’ve been learning about were super interesting stories. Some were just plain cool dudes. And some were under-the-radar all-time greats. Silvio García, born 113 years ago today, checked ALL the boxes. Here’s a detailed thread from last year.

Adam Darowski@adarowski.bsky.social

There are a handful of players who never played in the AL/NL and barely played in the Negro Leagues (if at all) who I am convinced were Hall of Fame talents. One of them is Cuban shortstop Silvio García, who was born 112 years ago tomorrow.

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I don't think LLMs are conscious but I do think (and I don't know if there have been studies on this or if this has been verified, it is just something I think is likely) people who regularly use LLMs and also frequently behave extremely abusively to LLMs are more likely to be dicks to humans too

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This is one the best episodes we've ever made (and yes, I did travel to the bar for this thumbnail and intro)! Also be sure to say hello to Frodo in the YT comments!

Cancel Me, Daddy Podcast@cancelmedaddy.bsky.social

New Episode up on YouTube! We welcomed @kattenbarge.bsky.social back on the pod to talk about the covid conscious lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts and what the media has missed with the story. youtu.be/ahGiTLiZo98?...

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As a streamer who (currently) has a 'no politics' rule in chat and whose stance might not be clear to some: Fuck Donald Trump Fuck GenAI Fuck bigots and racists Trans Rights are Human Rights Protect LBGTQIA+ kids Free Palestine Please vote.

Skybilz@skybilz.bsky.social

The news cycle is extra fricked up today (on top of its usual). This is NOT the time to be apolitical and/or apathetic. Fellow influencers and content creators, I don't care if you have a "no politics" rule in chat, being apolitical is wrong and you cannot claim ignorance. Tell people to vote.

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If you leave short story-sized comments in your code, it should be to explain something so messed up that you need to leave a message to yourself, Memento-style See: the first half of a comment block I left in the weapon code of Reelism 2

David Katze (vtuber)@davidkatzevt.bsky.social

SLOP WATCH: The Sonic Adventure recomp is vibe coded. You can tell because they say so and also because every code comment is a 4+ line short story and people who have actually done real decomp work (SPEEPSHighway) have no clue what it's even doing despite this. gj clod i mean claude #slopwatch

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The way people talked about the Better Business Bureau when I was a kid I thought it had an FBI like authority instead of being glorified Yelp

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I hope for both another buzzer beater and also to win this time!

218vt@218vt.powerupwithpri.de

@chillingwillow.bsky.social and I will be racing Fear the Spotlight Yuri% very soon on #GDQueer! (A little over an hour from this post, check the schedule below.) 🔦 gdq.gg/schedule/gdq...

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i can only hope that, by moving away from SRC, folks don't lock all their guides and resources behind EVEN MORE discord server invites. please make that stuff public!! there are still ways to host things on the internet for free!!!