I didn’t know they had released a new album, thanks for posting. The last few Ulver albums have been incredible.

I find that how much I care about achievements parallels how well they are done. Some games I care almost nothing, especially when the achievements feel tacked on. Other games, the achievements represent thought-out developer-suggested goals or progression and feel right. If I trust the developer’s choices in creating achievements, I enjoy the achievements.

As such I don’t care about RetroAchievements at all. The achievements aren’t a part of the game. They end up either trivial or tedious. If I want a tedious challenge and can’t come up with one myself, I’ll see what people who love and have mastered the game tend to aim for.

This reminds me of this report from MPU, which seems very related to this endeavor and provides something of an example of how to structure social work at the very hyperlocal level.

https://youtu.be/TqIZQMUmiI4

This is a good example. Most spaces, (virtually all spaces) will consider that a form of vandalism. A similar but even more extreme example is a spam bot posting thousands of links to scam websites.

Some might be fine with that, and that’s up to each community. Some security honeypot-style communities probably benefit from allowing spam, for example.

Vandalism in the common definition is something considered destructive to the space by owners of that space. If the community who owns it wants it, it’s not vandalism in that community.

It’s a matter of the effort it takes to vandalize a community versus the effort to maintain it. Different communities have different thresholds for various things, of course. And, the more obscure a community, the less frequently it is vandalized, and the simpler moderation can be.

Classic reddit worked when it was small. Then subreddits, mostly to categorize, were added when it got larger. Then dedicated subreddit moderators were eventually needed and communities grew around subreddits. And then rules about invading subreddits were needed, and so on.

Yup. This project is cutting off the nose to spite the face. So easily worked around by any scraper, but makes the website worse for actual users. Accessibility is usability.

Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge basically predicted this.

That’s not what the person you responded to said.

Throw her in prison

Good post.

So many reckless people setting llm-based AI agents loose, essentially the online equivalent of aimless attempted arson. Then they (bots and bot-wielders) get all DARVO when the firefighters step in and try to prevent the arson.

Edit to add. I’m not even anti Ai or llm. I use them personally and occasionally professionally in responsible ways. I’m just not a fan of creating problems that demand other people solve.

Same with Goat Simulator and Goat Simulator 3

But how will they make games if they have no studios.

Path of Exile 1 has the deepest crafting system in any rpg, no contest. It relies on player knowledge to make the best use of materials. Mitigating randomness with multiple strategies is part of that player knowledge.

But to get even decent at crafting in poe1 takes thousands of hours of gameplay.

You can watch 100 crafting tutorials, but the system is deep enough that there’s really no substitute for experience.

This is a moment where workers have a lot of leverage.

I will always advocate for a higher hood height requiring a higher class of license.

Yes but more forms of surveillance will pop up. We need to establish a new type of right against surveillance when in public.

Expectation of privacy is no longer sufficient when public surveillance is ubiquitous.

Like an expansion of what the EFF advocated for when Google began blurring faces on street view, for a broader set of surveillance.

Personally it struck me as a glib, somewhat humorous take on differing neurotypes in a long term relationship.

Archival is vital to society. Intentionally blocking archival should literally be illegal.

Nobody wants it. But im guessing most people don’t know it’s a mandate that people can be fired for, and assume their Starbucks is special.