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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 2h

Middle frame from today's @penny-arcade.com is fire

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've always been partial to "clankers"

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UZDoom @uzdoom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Another day, another fake, AI-generated UZDoom website 😂 Beware, folks, spread the news and do NOT download anything from this site!

Screenshot of another fake UZDoom website as of 6th August 2026

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

JDoom / Doomsday was basically this.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Conceptually, fucks. Makes me think of an alternate history where shotguns became the dominant weapons and an underslung centerfire rifle would be a tactical niche accessory.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I was just checking that out too. I played it a lot back in the day. Looks like the Armagetron Advanced fork is still going strong in 2026 too, which is *wild*

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Jonathan Ross killed Renee Good. The ICE coward who shot Renee Good was named Jonathan Ross. Jonathan Ross is a murderer. Jonathan Ross killed an innocent civilian in order to punish Americans for being in the country and not being near his skin tone. Jonathan Ross is a racist fascist murderer.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I do want to point out people have been aware of this (or at least the possibility) for at least a decade. It's a big part of why I decided to never get into these games.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I dunno. The way he showed it working in the video had an extremely small ledge for interfacing with the safety. Seems too precise for stamping. Maybe with some more design iteration though.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Probably "there's only one way out of this, so make sure to vote!✌️"

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Always hated that criticism. Makes me want to ask the person spouting it when was the last time they trained against a target that shot back.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We already have that data. The answer is handguns, which account for 87% of firearm murders (about 10,233 people in 2024 if you extrapolate the "unknown firearm" category) Rifles historically account for about 5% of firearm murders, which is about on par with "personal weapons" (hands & feet).

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

That's actually what happened in this case it seems. * Chud called a black person a name, the victim punched back. * Chud tried to draw a gun in "self defense". * Chud negligently shot himself, goes to hospital and charged with attempted murder.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Found it, I think, just didn't go back far enough. Unfortunately still not a lot of detail. Even the linked article about the workshop is basically just some quotes from the person running it web.archive.org/web/20210827...

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GDC: Game Design Workshop

As I mentioned in the previous post, I'm taking the Game Design Workshop while at GDC, and it's a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand, I'm being asked to think about game types that I wouldn't actually...

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This might be a long shot, but does anyone have a working link to learn more about the GDC workshop mentioned in the associated PA news post? I found the original game-ism blog archived, but it didn't have much more detail. web.archive.org/web/20080827...

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I've watched videos of people trying this, and unfortunately it's less useful than it seems. Makes carrying a heavier gun easier on the arms, but reduces the amount of other gear you can pack, doesn't help with recoil control, and makes the user a lot less agile in unusual shooting positions.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I find that movie fascinating. Its bad but you can tell the people making it thought they were COOKING. And I have to admit they kinda were... just in the wrong genre. It would have gone pretty hard if it leaned into the dystopian sci-fantasy rather than anachronistic historical fantasy.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

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Junta S Thompson @countnumbers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hey folks, hot take: Unpopular opinion. Just a reminder, this is story time so buckle up. Saying this louder so people in the back can hear. Please, let that sink in. No notes. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I think because if you set fantasy in a different era or tech level it tends to become a different genre. Modern era/tech = Urban Fantasy Advanced era/tech = SciFi I'm sure there's counter-examples of course (the movie Reign of Fire is basically a knights and dragons story, set in the modern era)

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Maybe the cartridge is a metaphor 🤔

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Mitsua is one in the image generation space that says it's trained only on public domain and opt-in images. huggingface.co/Mitsua/mitsu...

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Mitsua/mitsua-likes · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's been a while since I looked into it so I'm not sure about recent developments, but Common Pile was one in the LLM space. huggingface.co/common-pile

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common-pile (Common Pile)

Org profile for Common Pile on Hugging Face, the AI community building the future.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

We hosted a paint night at home and I made a thing. #painting

A painting of a sunset over a body of water, with an island in the distance and palm fronds framing the foreground

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There are text and image models trained only on ethical datasets, that can run on a (beefy) desktop computer. That's basically the same environmental impact as playing a videogame. I have no problem with someone who does that for personal enrichment and utility, as long as they use it responsibly.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

As someone who was in relatively early on the ground floor of Stable Diffusion, I've felt since day 1 that "AI" tech was immensely cool until companies realized how exploitable it was and decided to burn the planet trying to do so.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Re: the current moment Perhaps a big disconnect comes from the gap between "people who can see through the hype and are assessing utility in a post-hype environment" and "people who know how dangerous the hype is precisely because being able to see through it is actually pretty rare in humans"

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

There's also to my recollection, at least a handful of episodes where people DO get way to into their holodeck sims and need to be pulled back to reality, so it's addressed in-universe as a known hazard.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In Star Trek's defense: by that time they have actual artificial intelligence instead of just fancy autocomplete, and the energy costs/environmental impacts are basically negated. All that's left is ensuring people are educated to understand that holodecks are simulations, not reality.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We should have never doubted this man

George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

You can print it for about $60 on Lulu if I recall correctly

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Here's a newer omnibus effort www.reddit.com/r/Animorphs/...

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

LLMs were intentionally trained on relatively well-formed datasets, so LLMs mostly sound like statistically-average well-formed writing. Unfortunately, people without their own writing style tend to imitate what they read, so AI users are starting to imitate ChatGPT. The cart is becoming the horse.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I don't ask for much. Truth be told, I'd settle for a life less frightening.

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

One more thing on the Harry Potter discourse. I think we should examine J.K. Rowling as a case of someone who started out good and went bad. She had empathy for people on the margins of society, for the outsiders, for the systemically oppressed, and then lost it. What can we learn from that?

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Basically this bsky.app/profile/very...

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Google tries to give results it thinks you'll like. So if your past clicks have taught Google what politics you engage with, it'll give you results that align with the same. At the very bottom of the search page, click "search again without personalization" to see results outside your "bubble".

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It changes the search type from "All" (what Google thinks will be useful) to "Web" (only actual web pages, no comparisons or summaries). In my experience it doesn't always meaningfully change the actual search results (which may still be AI generated pages) but it does cut down the noise.

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Caligari87 @caligari87.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

It's the largest and most visible non-right gun subreddit, mostly because it's a really convenient namespace. "Liberal" being basically synonymous with "the left" to the majority of politically-uneducated Americans.

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