vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 5hevery first person shooter these days is an esport, an arcade cabinet, or an rpg 031
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 5hit peeves me whenever someone asks me what my favorite piece of art in some medium is and they don't specify which kind of favorite they're interested in 210
Reposted by vince kaichanChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 11hPlaying Titanfall 2 again and it just fills you with sadness, that specific strain of narrative first person shooter that Half-life wrought basically does not exist any more in that same way. We barely get a confusing single player campaign stapled to a multiplayer game any more. 1671448
Reposted by vince kaichanGavin Miller @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social · 17hJapanese director Seijun Suzuki making art house classics just to spite his dickhead bosses: 2358
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026thinking about buying a 5 string bass again but the problem is i really don't like how most electric guitars and basses look 110
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026funny how every sport just turns into a fatigue management problem once you get past a certain skill level 150
Reposted by vince kaichanFur Affinity 🏳️⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cbstatic.klipy.comGondor FlameALT: Gondor Flame 250100178732
Reposted by vince kaichanAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 29/09/20261. came out over a decade ago 2. ported to many many platforms 3. owned by microsoft, though it wasn't when it was originally released 4. beloved by many games who are still to this day making mods for it the facts don't lie: Skyrim is a Doom 35668119
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026wish i'd found out about weatherspark earlier, i love staring at these yearly temperature maps so much 030
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i want to talk about my interests with other people who share those interests more often again but i have basically zero patience or tolerance for scene/fandom social dynamics and cyclical discourse these days and i'm not sure what to do about it 240
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026gabber/hardcore open mic where there's a 909 just playing kicks all night and people come up and plug in their signal chains one by one 1162
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026saw john wilson the history of concrete at music box theater and it was good, first time I've been to that theater too it would have been even better if this group of people behind us wasn't laughing the entire movie even at the parts that weren't supposed to be funny 230
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026realizing that the closest thing the US has to a successful private transit agency, structurally, is casinos that provide shuttles for old people 030
Reposted by vince kaichanvince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i wish there was an easier way to tell online whether a take is coming from a "hobbyist" or a "professional". i can't think of a better word for it but just like, does this person regularly deal with deadlines and hard constraints on their work 172
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i have a feeling my gym might be going out of business so i'm looking around for a new one just in case and everything within a reasonable distance is either $1000000/month with a bunch of unnecessary bullshit or $30/month and overcrowded 120
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i wish there was an easier way to tell online whether a take is coming from a "hobbyist" or a "professional". i can't think of a better word for it but just like, does this person regularly deal with deadlines and hard constraints on their work 172
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026my pet theory is that it takes about 10 years for people to figure out how to make good art with a technology after it's gone mainstream. unfortunately this means that there is a chance people will start making interesting things with generative ai in the mid 2030s 230
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026basically wrote this entire backing track yesterday lol. hopefully i can find a good time to record the vocals soon 1142
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026just got my phone back from the repair shop after 3 days of not having a smartphone and i'm reflecting on my time being semi-offline 120
Reposted by vince kaichanHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Seeing shitty art way more inspiring than seeing good art. Why be demoralized by the prodigious talent of another when you can be buoyed by the feeling that you can outcompete abject mediocrity? 221266108
Reposted by vince kaichanDaniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral) 2787080
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026girl ran up to me on the street and gave me a piece of paper with some sort of christian thing on it and asked me if i wanted a free "gas per chap" and i was like huh??? i had to ask her to repeat it 3 times before i realized she was saying "gospel track" 020
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026sometimes i read about ancient writing systems and wonder why so many of them left out basic things like "all the sounds in the word" but then i look at what i write down in my song sketchbook and I'm like ohhhhh 010
Reposted by vince kaichanChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don’t ever presume that Valve is benevolent or a friend, they’re a private company and they’re here to make money and their curation policy is fraught, but to to their credit they make products people actually wanna use when basically every other American company has forgotten that. 1874872
Reposted by vince kaichanZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 19922230
Reposted by vince kaichanBarry Burns @barry.mogwai.scot · 11/09/2026This is insanely impressive 518740
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026im sure it was actually really annoying to deal with and caused all sorts of health and environment problems but i kinda wish they still ran freight trains through the streets here because it's just an incredibly cool visual 110
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026as someone who spends a lot of effort trying to keep my anger directed and limited to the actual problem it is really frustrating to see people get mad at the enemy and then start punching random bystanders and friends 100
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026man they're just fully playing ai-generated music on mainstream commercial radio now 120
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026atmospheric jungle from the 90s ages so wellsoundcloud.com02 - Woodz N MoodzBUY: https://fanu.bandcamp.com/album/old-tracker-stuff 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Fanu making music. These songs were made around 1997–1998. They are the oldest Fanu songs that exist, thanks 030
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026imagine what the world would be like if microsoft had released windows 7 and then only released performance security and driver updates after that forever 021
Reposted by vince kaichanErlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 07/09/2026Seeing a lot of dev-on-dev harassment has got me thinking about what open software development feels like nowadays.notes.erlend.shMaking software hurts nowand hurt people hurt people 511527
Reposted by vince kaichanMicah Johnston @micahrj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026displaying HDR images and videos as brighter than the surrounding UI is such a nonsensical thing to do. it would be like playing 32-bit audio 6dB louder than 16-bit audio 191
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026the kanye concert is fucking up traffic in my neighborhood but maybe it's actually good for pedestrian safety to have gridlock traffic 020
Reposted by vince kaichanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026Car brain is just an epidemic in the US. No demographic is safe. Some of the smartest people you know are among the most chronic sufferers. 541634
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026just heard someone playing fenix flexin rubberz in the wild 000
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026i would like that new polyphia song a lot more if it was just a recording of them performing it live with no laptop or prerecorded backing tracks or supporting members but everything else is otherwise unchanged 010
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026i hate how many things in music theory inexplicably number the voices from top to bottom when most everything else does it bottom to top 210
Reposted by vince kaichanSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm perfectly happy to be automated out of a job. Jobs suck shit. It's the part where I also lose my living that's worrisome. 101003107
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026finally played journey 14 years after it came out lol. great art style and i got through the entire game with the same partner i met at the beginning which was cute. for some reason the game didn't show me their steam username at the end though so i guess i'll never know who they were 140
Reposted by vince kaichanryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026when I visited Helsinki--which has gone years at a stretch with zero (0) traffic deaths--I was fully convinced that a very low speed limit was the secret sauce 2241958
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026it's so exhausting how we're stuck between "LLMs are useful in specific situations but tech companies want us to use them for everything" and "outrage at datacenters is correct in specific cases but people are getting mad at everything" 040
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026insaneyoutu.beDuke Ellington - Harlem (1950)YouTube video by Cmaj7 130
Reposted by vince kaichanmatt @matt.evil.gay · 27/08/2026a small post of something thats been on my mind as of latemat.leaflet.pubi really really really hate AI images & musicthe death of mediocre 7647
Reposted by vince kaichanmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026and i think it's worth interrogating why the thing that would increase safety while putting a significant burden on cyclists is considered common-sense while the thing that would do the same for drivers is considered an absurd non-starter. way more motorists die every year than cyclists! 1849733
vince kaichan @vincekaichan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026everyone says they would love a do nothing job until they actually have a do nothing job 010
