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Clyde @gametank.zone · 14h

(the circle is a CD-ROM)

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 18h

The catch is willingness to work on something also correlates with willingness to stick around and steward the thing.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 19h

I agree there, though I am particular on not pinning my other stances on "work makes you stronger therefore you should always do everything the hard way" as an inherent good.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 19h

I don't necessarily agree that bluesky needed LLMs or more investment to get this far. Would they have needed a bigger team, or just a different team, or more time? LLMs appeal to notions like "it has to be me!" and "it has to be now!" which make more sense in a capitalist mindset than in mine

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 19h

The "when" is complicated. My initial quit decision was New Year's, but there have been occasional relapses. Doesn't help that Google shows you their chatbot answers nonconsentually now.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 20h

I'd used it for that before. So I recognize that it can feel helpful. Personally I found that it would mislead me too often in ways that "using it right" wouldn't have prevented. I also didn't like the effect it seemed to have on my tolerance for mental effort or ability to focus.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 20h

So I think the comparison to subsistence farming is kind of a trap tbh. Not by you, but by the marketing framing of the AI startups. It's very easy to see how mass production of food benefits us, and the benefits of automating the labor that makes it possible. I'm not sold on that for code.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 22h

I consider it adversarial because the core product promises of "More product! Faster results! No need to think anymore!" feel ultimately pointless outside a fash-leaning value system.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 28/09/2026

Personally I'm not eschewing AI tools as "fake" or "impure". I just don't like importing black boxes into my problem solving matrix and LLMs even run locally are the most opaque black box of all.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 28/09/2026

Two things that proAI people say that are false and I don't want to contribute to making less false: "Everyone is using it now!" and "_____ wouldn't have been possible without it!" From where I sit it looks a lot less like yielding power and more like locally creating the world I want to live in.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 28/09/2026

But what about when embracing the adversary's technology makes it stronger? When the the tech is designed so that no matter how you use it, it furthers their goals?

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm not super excited about blurry 50 fps gaming where it takes your $3000 gpu several frames to converge light into a discernible picture. I love how great games got to look but the tradeoffs we took aren't very good imo We need nice baked GI again that runs on a laptop you found behind a dumpster

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 24/09/2026

spent all yesterday on tasks not inside a computer screen and that felt pretty good (gross as it was to open the P-trap when replacing the bathroom sink fixtures)

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 22/09/2026

mind mapping on the whiteboard always ends up being the trick to clearing the ADHD static but for some reason I forget to do it until I've spent days too zoinked to do anything maybe i should write a reminder on the whiteboard

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dixego @dixego.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

porting an old game to PC is the very definition of doing something for the love of the game, why is everyone infected with shareholder brainworms all of the sudden??

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 20/09/2026

Nice of them to provide more motivation to degoogle

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 19/09/2026

Neither can my sleep cycle 😭

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 17/09/2026

people are desperate to get quick results that they'll soon forget about, while making sure to learn as little as possible in the process

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 17/09/2026

somehow I went weeks without a forced msoft restart and update and now the last three mornings I come back down to all my programs closed assumably to shove more lurching lasagna mandrels into my life without consent

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 17/09/2026

Parts prices getting so bad I'm 3D printing a hard drive I guess???

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 16/09/2026

After I replace the sticky tape holding the cassette head with actual M2 screws, next step is to try a few different ways of coating the disc in oxide.

3D printed CD spinner, a squat black rectangular shelf supports an axle with a clear disc mounted on the end. A blue truss tower attached to the same base plate holds aloft an adjustable arm with a cassette head taped to the end of it. The cassette head is positioned over the clear disc.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 15/09/2026

see we don't need a sixth GTA the formula already peaked

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 11/09/2026

Same with CRTs. The ones I had to pay for were because I was in a hurry but many in my collection were free.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 10/09/2026

Which is totally fair- I talked to a lot of people this weekend who wouldn't feel much direct impact from the availability of schematics. They were excited at the prospect of a console outside the big three; especially one that embraces physical media and creators without corporate backing

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 10/09/2026

Might start leading with "indie console" instead of "open-source console" I mean, the GameTank's still open-source! It's just that I often get asked what that means, when showing it outside of hackerspaces. :P

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 10/09/2026

me: oops i started an entirely new barely tangential project instead of working through the ones turning into geologic strata on my desk

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 09/09/2026

Also is it just me or does it seem like there's been a fresh infusion of cash into the astroturf in the last 24-48 hours?

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 09/09/2026

Learning to write software is a gateway to incredible creative power that incurs no materials or external services costs, and there is a LOT of money going into trying to convince you otherwise. They want you to assume you have to pay them to accomplish anything, or else your ideas will languish.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 09/09/2026

A better story about a neglected child getting whisked away to an otherworldly magical school is *right there*

Promo image showing the cast of the anime "Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun"

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 09/09/2026

Pikmin + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 09/09/2026

Nintendo finally hired that man

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 08/09/2026

All packed up bye PAX West it was a fun weekend tabling!

My helper (who gave permission to post photo but not name) waving from behind a CRT TV with a drawing of a waving cat and the text "PAX is over go home ;)" and a GameTank plugged in to the TV with a mouse and keyboard and paddle controller plugged into the GameTank also theres a partially visible banner in the back with text fragment "urce 8-bit console" in view

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 08/09/2026

Sega CD GameTank... DVD-RAM?????

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 06/09/2026

Hovering at a distance watching people interact with the tutorial text I rewrote at 1am to see if this is finally the phrasing that communicates the mechanic consistently 👀

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 06/09/2026

I think I fixed it????? Also tutorialized the demo a bunch more and made it so you start out heading right instead of left

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いぬふと @inufuto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

GameTank版 UCHOTOS #gametank inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/uchotos...

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 06/09/2026

expand area in which boss will land to match new ground area -> boss can now be pushed inside the wall

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 06/09/2026

temporarily walled off sand so convention players wouldn't get stuck -> standing on that wall causes boss to hover in air indefinitely

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 06/09/2026

why is the quicksand spawning a whole tile lower than its supposed to and why only on this map??????

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 06/09/2026

Pulled out the GTOS cart for a min at PAX today

CRT showing text editor window with the bee movie copypasta you know the one

Crt showing a paint program with a drawing of a stick figure petting an enormous cat

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 03/09/2026

Then again maybe it makes sense to the people who marked down my performance for not writing enough Google Docs.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 03/09/2026

A couple people have suggested to me that I try whatever recent LLM product to accelerate development but don't have an answer when I tell them I'd much rather write C than English

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 03/09/2026

I don't often see this talked about but how the heck is a language model supposed to help me code when converting my thoughts into language is itself the bottleneck??

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 01/09/2026

Actually door is there to prevent line of sight to unloaded rooms. "On"means the room back there is currently being decompressed!

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 30/08/2026

We're all gonna have to get real weird so it's easy to tell at a glance. Beyond simulable imperfection and into output that would make an AI user file a bug report.

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 30/08/2026

I have now RGB'ed a GameTank

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Clyde @gametank.zone · 27/08/2026

fuck i was hoping it would be LOOM 2

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