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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If Richard Garriott gets the Ultima copyright back that's nothing but good IMO.

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dame @dame.is · 08/10/2026

fun fact: racket abuse is the number one violation in professional tennis and there are consequences notably, rackets do not have consciousness or self experience that we know of

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow that last post was word salad I'm really tipsy sorry

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reading the math proofs published by OpenAI adjacent to my field and here's some observations. They're very specific, for the ones adjacent to my field these problems weren't solved because everyone kinda knew how they'd turn out even if it wasn't proven, there were just always juicer targets.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Imagine Mormons but for Lord of the Rings instead of the Bible and their missionary work involves making fake versions of Saruman as sexy as possible, usually by turning him into a young blond schoolgirl.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Idk how much ESO changes things but given the text of the mainline games I think there's of read of Molag Bal and the Volkihars where Serana/Valerica just had to do some consensual kinky D/s with Molag Bal and it wasn't a brutal assault of Harkon's wife and daughter just Molag Bal cucking him.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolute vaugepost king got my first what

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This seems like a pretty big concession, actually, compared to the default argument for a long time. There are open source models trained with materials that meet this criteria, however tiny. I'm not a fan of genAI generally, but I do think the opponents have reinvented religion a little bit.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lab-acquired infections happen. Only a small percent ever become public information, in part because they never need to. The plague thing is interesting and unfortunate, and also the pandemic risk of wild type Yersinia pestis in 2026 is indistinguishable from zero. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A pattern in arguments over ending daylight savings or switching to Celsius is people who see the unit as the thing itself (6:00 _is_ the time of day, 50° _is_ the temperature) vs people who see the unit as an abstraction of the thing (the time is 6:00, the temperature is 50°).

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Eric Clopper lawsuit getting thrown out is bad, equal protection means equal protection not equal protection except for boy children, but it doesn't create some nefarious precedent that will be insurmountable. If it gets used to justify throwing another case out that case was never going to win.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Emulators are rather important for some elements of historical preservation and them themselves using very clean code is part of the legal framework for them to be allowed to exist, I don't actually think the statement is that weird.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PhD in computer science Cannot operate a text based website (Sorry I accidentally empty quote posted like 4 posts)

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I guess I am on team "yeah there isn't objective standards for meaningful art," because religious texts which are all fluffy gibberish that have been elevated to deep meaning by brute force. If it can be done to the book of Isaiah and the book of Mormon it can be done to My Weekend Orc Fantasy.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a bit of a hindsight argument, I think. Which works were transcendent were revealed by the test of time, Jane Austen was surrounded by plenty of now forgotten nobilityslop. Some authors wrote it because they liked it, for money, or transcendence and no group had a 0% became-classic hit rate.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SSD prices appear to have dipped a bit from their peak, only a bit and it could just be an aberration but it gives me hope.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think this is only true if you draw the categories very carefully, the breakneck speed of LGBT rights post-AIDS crisis/post-90s would not have been possible without Internet/texting, at least. I don't believe Obama and friends like the ACA would have been either. I dont think the lurch is uniform.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What I want to know is why Deep Space Nine on Paramount+ is worse than the DVDs but Voyager on Paramount+ appears to be the same as the DVDs? There can't possibly be a legal issue that means Paramount can only source the VHS release of DS9 but can source the DVD/broadcast release of Voyager.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm not opposed to the idea of streaming quality being fucky, Deep Space Nine famously has a worse quality on Paramount+ than the DVD release, which is extra damning because the DVDs appear to be recorded from broadcast not from film or original files. Broadcast is better than VHS, at least.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does the Land Before Time have an HD-DVD release and is it different from the Blu-Ray release? Universal was one of the main backers of HD-DVD and I think if it exists it's probably the best modern release.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fair question would be lost relative to what? The Blu-Ray release was famously poor, streaming appears to use the DVD release reencoded, VHS is worse. So the only way to see more detail would be LaserDisc or the original 35mm, and I still doubt either would carry the full frame like this.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cooking and the basics of food science should be in schools, even if only to combat things like MAHA, and has great potential tying in to everything else (history, social studies, chemistry). It's one of those things like reading [insert language equivalent] Shakespeare that everyone should do once.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Avoiding credit cards altogether out of an aversion to debt is being a little misinformed but if that's your principal that's your principal. If you need a credit card specific service that debit card won't work for try using a charge card, don't complain like the world is out to get you.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's a certain type of criticism of liberals that in the culture war games they use minorities as the ball instead of as players, but the thing is that to not do this sometimes involves being quiet, not putting these minority issues front and center. A lot of people clearly cannot handle that.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did check the rest of the thread and you're more of a dipshit than I thought so I'm just blocking. Law isn't computer code, it's a squishy wooly human thing and the raw passing of a trans bathroom rights bill with the tricks needed in 2022 wouldn't have done anything.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ostensibly I am on team anti-diet GLP-1 politically but the subreddit for this seems to be as obnoxious about it as possible.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It crashed on me when I tried to punch in Watch Dogs 2, the wokest game I can think of (highly recommend, love the glitchy comic book aesthetic).

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𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐮𝐯𝐞 @lamauve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hate censorship. I hate puritanism. I despise conservative & religious morals with all my heart. They’re convincing young ppl sex is bad; they’re telling adults what they can wank to or not, they’re literally trying to erase sex ed, trans folks, queer culture… I hate them so, so much, guys. UGH.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is time for the Morrowind nostalgia wave

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't think I've ever heard a pitch with less juice than this.

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aly @aly.codes · 20/09/2026

sorry people but the “atheist alt right chud” nexus just functionally does not exist, why do people keep insisting on this Atheists and Black Protestants are the most reliable democratic voters by far lol

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

They're not going to do a draft you unscrupulous moron, your radicalism has blinded you to subtler truths. Also I'm like 95% sure the person I'm vagueposting about who's freaking out about this would be ineligible for a draft anyway.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think this is wrong and an attempt to rationalize an emotional response. The thing that makes this crisis not about the sex is that if you swapped out the sex for any other cult behavior nothing about the crisis would change.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unironically I think the reason so many exmormons proportionally become hard atheists is because the religious education is so rigorous, relatively. Relatively is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, mind.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NGL I think Wolverine was just doomed from the start and grilling random Sweet Baby Inc alumni in the credits is just stepping on the last smouldering coals of gamergate for no reason.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tbh zoomers are in their mid to late 20s now I thought he was too

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The modal secularist being unable to recognize religious argumentation when it's coming from anywhere that isn't protestant Christianity is very annoying.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am very empathetic to the budget crunch that providers have, however if you are primarily a telehealth provider you _need_ a better microphone than the one built into your laptop, even if it is a nice MacBook or something. This is an accessibility issue beyond just being unpleasant as a patient.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On child abuse in institutions, terrifying children with threats of going to hell, telling teenagers going through puberty that jerking off is grievous sin or that horny thoughts are satan, and giving anyone a religious body mod without consent all are abuse that often doesn't register.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tbh I think the tumblr voice over hot take channels have gotten worse over the past few months. Game discs as just licenses discourse is obviously not about your retro PS2 library and the word y'all is fine y'all.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Rockstar having an agent in the union discord seems like basically a non-story, I would have been more surprised if there wasn't. Not that there aren't other problems with said company.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you're big you're a sellout is stupid cliquey nonsense a child thinks and I'm still pissed

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sanctimonious account saying everything big sucks and only indie matters absolutely have a history of posting "let people like things uwu"

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

While I see AI/LLMs capabilities increasing "exponential" is not really the word I'd use, we've had a fairly linear progression and likewise resource constraints have remained pretty linear as well. Fable is not twice as smart as Opus, Opus 5 is not twice as smart as Opus 4, etc.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Part of this surely is the accessibility of said titans. Some of this is just people being pissy the game isn't holding their hand, but a lot old big games are hard to purchase and play. There's also that gamers are shallow, a rerelease of OOT 3D would come with the same mewling for being ugly.

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

People complaining about the art style in a Zelda game? That's what they're for isn't it?

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Alexander Zanate @snapgracklepop.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Old low poly things are charming and have their own beauty even when blown up to modern resolutions, IMO. The same way pixel art can be appreciated on its own terms, even if it's "supposed" to go through a CRT.

Even just on a technical, graphics level, part of the reason old low-poly games look bad today is because you're running them at friggin 1080p and not 640x480

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