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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Am I the only one who thinks that the graphics in the new #Legendofzelda #OcarinaofTime #remake look #AI - generated? I know they're trying to push the #Switch2 and that the characters are based on marionettes, but everything looks too shiny and slick and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

#Diablo 1 must be the worst #church basement social ever found in a #videogame. I mean, nobody even brought any #caseroles !

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

#Summer in #Tucson #Arizona is heavily overrated. On top of it all the AC in our apartment is fucking broken. Please pray for us.

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

This list is titled "How To Tell if You Are in a #HighFantasy #Novel," but it just sounds like an average day in #Utah to me.

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

In the words of Christian rock band Petra, IT IS FINISHED! The #firstdraft of my latest #JackDinero #novel, Christmas in Creosote Canyon, is in the can at a whopping 150,000 words! That's literally 3 #NanoWrimo novels worth of content that I wrote in the last […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of #laidoff #techworkers would love to hear this, that is, if they can access the Internet from the burgeoning #tentcities of newly #homeless tech workers growing to monstrous proportions outside of #seattle and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

After three months of toiling in front of a hot computer, my third novel, Christmas in Creosote Canyon, is now ready to start editing! #Obsidian says it is now about 80,000 words long.... I kind of wanted to make it a novella sandwiched between my second and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

According to #obsidian, I have written over 1 million words in my various #writing projects. It's too bad that only about 200,000 of them were worth publishing. Well, 300,000 once my third #novel is ready. I wonder if a ratio of 3:1 written words to published […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

#TodayIFoundOut that the Heaviside layer, the name for heaven in the #Cats #musical, is an actual part of the earth's atmosphere. Remarkably, it is an ionized layer that reflects radio waves back down to the surface, allowing for long-distance radio broadcasts […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

Remember when computer-generated voices and AI pop idols were cool and cute and a completely new and exciting music genre and not the constant background noise of our horrifying computerized dystopia? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Man this is a bop, even a decade […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Hatsune Miku and Kasane Teto, two vocaloids in the style of anime pop idols, sing on the track "Triple Baka" by LamazeP. Image is not mine.

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

@hp Truly humanity has lost the art of application splash screens

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

I wish #AI talked more like the computer on #StarTrek: emotionless staccato voice, artificially high register with vocabulary limited to the task at hand, no use of the first person pronoun, so you know it's a machine. If it doesn't know something it should […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

So the new #FinalFantasy7 port on #Steam is not only still based on the buggy 1998 Eidos PC port, and the script is still the same jank 'this guy are sick' mistranslation, but they introduced a bunch of new bugs, they ran every art asset through blurry […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

Today will be the 15th anniversary since my #mother died. The only way I can think of to grieve is to play one of her favorite #videogames, #persona4. She would play it over and over again, getting every persona and social link; I think the characters gave her […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

God this #persona4 #exposition is taking so long. I just want to kill the creepy monsters that lurk in the ids of repressed #teenagers! I don't care about the councilman or the secretary or the enka singer or the girl who secretly hates Yosuke because his […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I think there's a double-edged sword to being able to play so many #games on #linux. My #productivity is completely shot. Like today I started this #JRPG called #Persona4 thinking I would just check to make sure it was running in Proton okay... two hours later […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

I finally did it! After years of trying and failing, I finally got #thesims2 running in #Linux. The secret all along was to use #Lutris to install it. I used the "Universal DVD installer script" on their website and it worked first try! It even worked when […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

That hyper-competent British man you hired out of the blue to be your highly overqualified butler is really just a nice guy who wants to dispense valuable life lessons to your children, and not a CIA plant, a con artist, a criminal mastermind on the run from […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

It is completely and perfectly acceptable to create an advanced sentient artificial intelligence, give it the body of a preteen girl, dress it in a French maid costume, keep it in your son's closet, and make it do your household chores, and absolutely no one […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

It's good that in #dcss the enemies don't know how to climb stairs unless they are right there next to you when you go up. Imagine if the entire #orc army could actually follow you through the dungeon, you'd have no peace at all. A #roguelike where uniques and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

#Godzilla on the #Nintendo #NES is a game I really took for granted as a kid. I loved playing it, it was even one of the few NES games I played long enough to beat, but I didn't realize how much it reached above its own punching weight in terms of graphics and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

If you start #Muppet #ChristmasCarol at exactly 10:46:55 pm on #Christmas Eve (10:43:49 if you're watching the extended version with When Love Is Gone), you will reach the stroke of midnight hearing Bean Bunny say:

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

In #skyrim I proposed to Sylgja in Shor's Stone. Then I went into the mine and she died instantly to a spider attack. I couldn't have that so I resurrected her with a console command. Then I fast traveled to Riften to attend the wedding only to get stopped by […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

Wow, the amount of time it's taking also fits the Fibonacci sequence (adjusted for rounding errors, that is).

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

I'm on to my third programming example in #Lua : calculating square roots using the Heron of Alexandria trial and error method. This time it only took me an hour and a half to wrestle with the correct syntax. I originally wanted to make it a recursive […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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River City Random ☑️ @rivercityrandom.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

My first #Lua program--a function to print a list of prime numbers via the Sieve of Erathosthenes #algorithm. It's the second programming example you get after #helloworld. I know I can do this better with Lua's table commands but for some reason I couldn't […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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