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I’ve bought a copy but the interface isn’t very Steam Deck friendly so I’ve barely played it.

I can’t even get an LLM to reliably play spot the difference with text compared to a PDF.

Looks like your optimizer link didn’t make it into the post. Good shout on Cemu, btw, as I’m wondering if I’d like BotW.

I gave the build a go and it was great fun!

I use an LLM to do stuff that I find tedious and can easily verify to be correct (e.g. creating arguments for a script using argparse), or turning something from a table in a PDF into a Python list. My experiments trying to get any level of reliability for more complex tasks have been infuriating failures. They invent parameters and functionality that doesn’t exist, swear blind that something is true but can’t provide accurate references (or provide references that directly contradict what they just said), and so on.

I think we’ll need these.

I have fond memories of Weebl and Bob and Charlie the Unicorn…

Yeah, the previews I saw massively put me off. It looked uninspired if we’re being generous.

I’m reminded of forums that would have a million subforums and as a result never build up any critical mass. Have one big bucket, maybe two, and if something comes up often enough organically then, and only then, consider a separate subforum for it.

Whenever anyone tells me a discussion should be moved I am done. The spell is broken and the social interaction concluded because I’m no longer interested. Discord channels are fucking social poison.

I feel a fundamental problem is the ephemeral post model. If one isn’t actively contributing frequently it’s effectively the same as not being part of the community at all.

Seeing lots of familiar faces in threads, even if they didn’t post today, helped.

With regards to your point though, I think it’s one of the reasons I’m not fussed about getting “everyone” onto a single platform. It’s too many people!

I’m honestly not sure this is a bad thing. Dear God, remember how threads would get blown out by hyper-configurations? Sig blocks that were 20,000 pixels long and endless GIF spam? Not sure I’m in a hurry to get back to that!

Honestly, no, none of the forums I ever used allowed that sort of things for, well, for obvious reasons!

Anyway, my reasoning for this is to help make it easier to mentally anchor a given interaction to a user. On things like Lemmy and Reddit I feel like it’s a constant sea of random usernames - there’s no persistence or community. I could well have spoken to the same person multiple times but I don’t notice because they’re so anonymous.

Being designed around persistent topics rather than the ephemeral post model and more visible user customisation (more prominent avatars, signatures, that sort of thing).

Something I was hopeful for but seems to have died is lemmyBB. A phpBB-style front-end to Lemmy. I’d like the accessibility of being able to use an existing account that federation brings but the forum-style approach that phpBB has.

Mostly though I’ve been disappointed in the teens and twenty-somethings. They seem to have, in distressingly large numbers, just opted to go along with whatever they’re encouraged to use by large platform holders. There doesn’t seem to be an appetite to create communities and define spaces that they control. Perhaps that’s just me getting old though…

I tried to research my current workplace and found nothing useful about it. These days I’ve no idea how anyone we’d interview would find out about the niche software we work on. I’ve just taken a look at our website and it would not help even a little (who writes this drivel?).

Last year I felt like the only films being released were sequels, spinoffs, or remakes. I’ve not checked this year so far because last year crushed my spirit on that front.

I’m rather a fan of Apogee’s Secret Agent. I loved it back in the day and then enjoyed the HD remaster of it a few years back.

I feel like I’m the only person that grew up with Mario 64 but doesn’t love it. I was really excited by it initially but when I played the game properly it just had this oppressive feeling of isolation and melancholy to it that was so off-putting.

I’m still waiting on the killer titles for the current generation of consoles. I’m frankly amazed that games have become so difficult to make, given how the graphical improvements aren’t leaps. Build a stylish lighting system, make sure your textures and geometry aren’t too ropey, and then make something creative.

I know it’s not that simple, obviously, but I was playing through a fifteen year old FPS yesterday and the difference between now and then is just not that big. It’s not nothing but the Gameboy philosophy of doing more with less would go a long way.

But… but… the line has to go up! Don’t you understand? It’s not going up! Panic!