T @hillhand.com · 3mOn the other hand, something like Remember Us breaks in the opposite direction, becoming less interesting in easy mode. 000
T @hillhand.com · 4mWhen I'm in a situation where I choose easy despite thinking I could handle hard, it's more often because I don't trust the game to be more *interesting* in hard mode- Mass Effect, for instance, just completely bogs down because everything absorbs so much damage, postponing the interesting bits. 110
T @hillhand.com · 17hI had a puffy phone sitting in a metal tray just like this for WAYYYYYY too long before we finally took care of it. Like... Months 🤐 110
T @hillhand.com · 29/09/2026The latter is sort of how the argument goes- "If it's not the same boss patterns it's not the same game!" I think the idea come from athletics, where for instance you either jump over the high jump bar or you don't. But even there, every athlete has a different body, and they judge nuanced details. 221
T @hillhand.com · 29/09/2026It's strange that some designers can't seem to make the jump from "I have an intended experience" --> "If I don't allow accessibility changes, only a small subset of my audience gets the intended experience". Like, you literally have made the experience inaccessible. 120
T @hillhand.com · 29/09/2026I remember seeing a claim (maybe from that same study?) that comic readers were exposed to a bigger vocabulary and variety of concepts too. 010
T @hillhand.com · 29/09/2026The way society tries to rank mediums in some sort of objective quality or prestige order is baffling. 220
T @hillhand.com · 29/09/2026The difference between Diablo 1 and 2 feels like a good demonstration for me: as similar as they are, Diablo 1 feels like careful spelunking, gradually pushing further and establishing a safe path, while Diablo 2 is more modern "haunted house experience". 170
T @hillhand.com · 28/09/2026@dresdencodak.com is good at this sort of thing - I feel like the trick is to make it feel like we're seeing a quick succession of different perspectives instead of a succession of moments? 110
T @hillhand.com · 27/09/2026youtu.be/NgrEJBVlXqEyoutu.benone of you know what a cyberdeck actually isYouTube video by High Tech \\ Low Life 120
T @hillhand.com · 27/09/2026Played SinDome, GalaxyWeb, and a bit of Achaea. MUDs were so much more engaging and imagininative than the MMOs that descended from them. 010
Reposted by Thoots @hoots.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Don't watch the new Harry Potter series. Not even if you plan on keeping your HBO subscription because of other movies and shows on the platform. Not even if you pirate it. Do not watch it. 6411101
T @hillhand.com · 25/09/2026I paused the video at "you have all the information you need" and guessed the twist (had never finished the series) and: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 061
T @hillhand.com · 24/09/2026It's been sobering to learn that "genocide" doesn't require the colloquial sense of some sort of specific type of mass organized death, it's basically just the word for when a state commits violence against a group of people. I feel like the misunderstanding is deliberately encouraged. 130
T @hillhand.com · 23/09/2026Glad to see the most important Zelda tradition, blind and immature hatred for the newest entry, is alive and well 🤡 0220
T @hillhand.com · 23/09/2026If I just wanted "something", that was already possible with procedural tools. WHY this output matters is the thing. Used for art: why care about this particular result? As a tool: does it actually solve a problem? Even if we ignore the ethical problems, output for output's sake doesn't matter. 010
T @hillhand.com · 23/09/2026This is the basic problem with using GenAI for anything: it always does SOMETHING, but unmoored from reality. It's able to handle math proofs because something it can't argue with can check it, but outside of cases like that getting any actual work done requires careful and in depth supervision. 110
T @hillhand.com · 22/09/2026Just before we moved out of our last rental, a tree in the yard died (along with over half the trees in the neighborhood) in a heat wave. I researched and recommended a bunch of heat and drought resistant native trees. They replaced it with the same tree as before. 6380
T @hillhand.com · 21/09/2026There really are different people that enjoy different types of work, but there are also people that can't imagine that anyone enjoys work they don't like themselves. I think this is what also leads to "no one would work without threat of homelessness". And shows how bad we are at allocating labor. 0120
T @hillhand.com · 21/09/2026I contributed a small bit to Empty Epsilon (the ship icons/"radar traces") and seeing them on screen in this episode legit made me cry. 010
Reposted by TCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026THEIR BODIES THEIR CHOICE. Come the fuck on! It's that. simple. 1123396
Reposted by TPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone. 435238708
T @hillhand.com · 19/09/2026They think of everyone else (even other conservatives) as ignorant if not outright malicious, and things like manners and laws are tools to fix things how they want. 000
Reposted by TUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said. 08733
T @hillhand.com · 19/09/2026And of course, companies *are* also using GenAI as a tool to devalue creative and intellectual labor, on top of everything else. 030
T @hillhand.com · 19/09/2026It's not so much about their capabilities or market replacement, just whether training data was obtained consensually. There have been some copyright case wins, though modern copyright law has its own problems too. 130
T @hillhand.com · 19/09/2026Was just yes anding. The problems with LLMs and other generative AI are a densely tangled web and a lot of other problems fall out if you pull on any thread. Its a chore to discuss any of it and that's part of why they get away with so much. 020
T @hillhand.com · 19/09/2026It's still worth discussing because things like compensating artists whose work was stolen could still be done, and stopping future theft. 2330
T @hillhand.com · 18/09/2026This is the basic idea that Goodhart's Law came from. Kristen and I have been calling corporations "Slow AI (derogatory)" for years. 110
T @hillhand.com · 18/09/2026I couldn't find it, but I saw a post on here a while back about how their experience as a creative was every manager calling out every stray pixel, color choice, etc. ad nauseum, but now suddenly it doesn't matter. It was always about exerting control, not quality. 010
T @hillhand.com · 18/09/2026Either there's something of value in the work which you are taking advantage of, or you should be able to use only public domain or maybe synthetic data (in some specific cases), but they want it both ways because it's cheaper, faster, and more profitable. 140
T @hillhand.com · 18/09/2026This! "The Pile" was meant for academic research into things like LLMs. The team that made the Pile made a new one with only public domain and opt-in sources, and even trained a model on it (Comma) but everyone just... keeps saying that the copyright infringement is "necessary" for some reason. 150
T @hillhand.com · 17/09/2026It's also pretty weird to claim that chain of thought "reveals" anything because there were papers within like a week about how the chain of thought is not neccesarilly faithful to the internal "thoughts" (neuron activations) nor the output, with examples. I've seen it myself! 010
T @hillhand.com · 17/09/2026The interesting thing about LLMs is less about what they tell us about "thinking", but rather how much information is actually baked into language. It's neat that a complex statistical model of language lets you do simple "work". But it got turned into a capitalist mass-theft tool instantly. 120
Reposted by TKatherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026as an irc expert the correct fish is a wet trout 3253
T @hillhand.com · 16/09/2026Now I'm imagining a bisexual stereotype of sitting backwards in the driver's seat or something. 010
Reposted by T萌えの哀れ @uncreativecat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026static.klipy.comRedline: James Punkhead's Nitro Boost RaceAlt: JP pops a nitro boost on the last straightaway of the Yellow Line race, from Redline 2673221
T @hillhand.com · 15/09/2026The idea that art only matters if you do it "correctly" and "good enough" is a classic fascist idea. It helps sort people into "talented" and "unskilled labor". 110
T @hillhand.com · 15/09/2026Their go-to defense is variations on "but real humans put in thought and effort!"; like dude that's not the problem. They're pattern matching on "lots of news tools in the past were considered cheating!" (Photography, sampling, etc.) The tech isn't the issue, it's the theft and exploitation. 030
