WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
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WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
1d ago
The fact that even the left-wing of the Democratic Party is campaigning on health care, tax policy, and Palestine instead of racial humiliation is a big deal.
This is called lying, not winning. The Democratic Party is lying. Rest assured, when they win, all that's really going to happen is more racial humiliation. It's quite literally the only thing they are capable of. Even if they wanted to something else, they can't. I doubt they really want to.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
I've continued noodling around in my side project. Improved execution time of a unit of work down to about 1/8th what it was. I experimented with an OpenGL synchronization context that I can fire off tasks too for GPU work, but there was too much overhead somewhere for it to be an improvement. LLM summaries pointed the finger at poor resource management in the context, and the overhead of creating new rendering targets, marshaling the resulting data back from the GPU to the CPU, marshaling that data out of the thread, etc, etc. I'm not interfacing directly with OpenGL though, I'm using a SkiaSharp canvas, so there is probably ample room for improvement there if I wrote my own shader and really did all my own GPU work.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
3d ago
I enjoyed Battletech slop for the longest time. Then at some point the embezzlers at Catalyst Game Labs decided the only way to keep not paying authors was to lean into turning Battletech in a gay brand, and the rest has been history. Now the IP I've been a 30 year fan of is fake and gay at it's root source material.
Piranha Games doing a bang up job on the video games not withstanding.
The most depressing part about being a fan of anything male coded, is that for reasons that are beyond my ken, activist feel the constant need to invade the space and smash your toys right in front of you. The He-Man Woman-Haters Club or NO MA'AM aren't going to somehow seize the reigns of the Twilight IP and start "subverting" it by having Bella eventually chucked onto the street in the reboot for being a washed up ratchet whore, and dying of an overdose in the gutter. Only to be replaced by some boring new submissive eyecandy that raises the male main characters children while they go off on adventures to space.
And yet that is precisely what has happened with virtually every male coded IP, ever? I'm drawing a blank, truthfully.
I would love to support slop I can trust. I would love to have an IP I could point my little boy to, that I know won't break his heart around book 4 (or 40 RIP Battletech), when the crazies took it over and humiliated and murdered his favorite character.
Alas. They'll even pillage the estates of dead authors, just to keep the humiliation ritual going. Poor, poor Tolkien.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
MGTOW knuckledragger faked his CV and is actually secretly a stay-at-home husband for a muscle mommy female CEO.
I didn't realize there was another kind of MGTOW internet personality.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
Oh no, I'm not living up to expectations a jannie on a board for turbo autist has of me.
Better go beat my wife some more in frustration.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
Supposedly the bond market rates are rising, fed target rates be damned. I've seen predictions that the fed won't raise rates because the bond markets will have defacto raised rates for them anyways. So the question is actually, will the fed launch into more QE to take the edge off the bond market?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
Yeah, it's basically the gender flipped version of chud. Which means it needs to be used almost 1000x more often to achieve parity.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
I would if she stopped deserving it.
/sarcasm
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
No epistemic humility required. Those are literally the only two outcomes physically possible. You think you can never be humbled? You ever meet a person who refuses to ever have been humbled their entire life?
You're a clinician, what does a person who always thinks they are the greatest, and is always correct about everything, and reacts aggressively when their ego is challenged sound like?
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
5d ago
Well, you tried. It's hard to rescue a young man from his own arrogance, when he's first feeling the flowering of his agency and ability.
He'll either get humbled in a few more years and give what you said a second thought, or turn into one of those monsters in management who's "never wrong" and lashes out at people, destroying the institution from within.
Shit, we got on the topic of UK institutions in terminal decay once again!
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
I downvote when I see the same tired and repeatedly proven wrong arguments trotted out for the 100th time. Especially when they are deployed as thought terminating cliches purposely deployed to sidestep a point that was made.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
Probably the way he rephrased everything we said back at us in the interview, and then asked for confirmation. Or the way he excessively narrated everything he did before he did it. Or the glazing and "You're right, I'll fix that" whenever there was a mistake. Apparently that's called a "Sycophantic Opener" in the realm of LLM verbal tics.
I donno man, watch any comedy sketch where a comedian is doing an LLM impression. It was like that. I think KRAZAM has done a few here and there.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
You think that's bad? I interviewed a candidate for a job about 2 months ago that spoke and acted like an LLM. It was like that's how he learned to socialize.
This younger generation is cooked.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
6d ago
I played a little more Doom: Dark Ages. Got to some giant robot level where the major mechanic was dashing to dodge, triggering a special attack opportunity. Since it'd been so long since I last played, this completely overwrote all the reflexes I'd built up playing the first 2 levels. Along comes the fourth level, and now I'm trying to get on foot Doom Guy to dash. He can only block. I keep dying repeatedly because my reflexes have been hacked.
Randomly this game Thronefall came across my vision, and I figured it looks like a good game to play to relax. It lived up to my expectations.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9d ago
Whenever female accountability comes up, or lack thereof, I'm always reminded of that old IBM quote.
a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
10d ago
Someone did point out this vulnerability was discovered shortly after one frontier model or another was released. But then again, there are new models every day, so who knows.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14d ago
I saw Doom Dark Ages was on sale. $32 for base game and new DLC. I know a going out of business sale when I see one.
I don't hate the first two levels. Also runs fine for me on Linux with and RTX 4070 Super. Get about 70 fps with DLSS, path tracing, and medium settings besides that.
We'll see how it goes.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
14d ago
I'll give a fuck about a dead jew's diary from almost 100 years ago when a UK rape gang survivors journal is required reading in public school.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
16d ago
After a rewrite of that fucked up open source library, I shaved 30% off the time it takes to complete a unit of work with only the most obvious, non-retarded way of doing things. Completely gutted all the Windows WPF primitives (point, rect, vector, enums for pen configurations, etc), replaced them with SkiaSharp primitives where absolutely necessary since the renderer is SkiaSharp. Left the raw data in it's native format for the entire processing pipeline, convert it to screen units only at the last second by bit shifting things on a range of 0-4095 to pixels on a range of 0-255. x >> 4 mother fuckers, who needs endless double precision division operations?
For my next trick I need to create a dedicated, single threaded synchronization context with an OpenGL context it owns to asynchronously handle the rendering tasks from other threads. I would hope that knocks another 50% or more off the unit of work time.
Don't know why anyone would have AI do this for them. It's so much fun.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
18d ago
Thank you for your service.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
20d ago
it would be best if I was unemployed for a whole year so I could play them.
Be careful what you wish for. For a while I day dreamed about being unemployed so I could finally focus on making a game. Then it happened and I lost my brain at my burn rate supporting my family.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
22d ago
I'm doing some research on my paternity leave. Pardon me for not getting into details, but I need to vent somewhere.
Manager wanted me to look into a particular data source. Turns out this data source actually has two formats. We want the more compressed format. Turns out nearly all solutions for parsing and displaying this data are cloud/server based and we, for reasons, need to stay on the desktop. Local data only. Closed network most likely.
Maybe my google-fu is weak. Maybe LLMs have ruined everything. Even manually searching package managers for anything promising just turned up the same 5 year old, unmaintained project, and multitudes of abandoned forks, for working with this preferred format on desktop.
So anyways, I set to work. Converting the project to a modern dotnet format, importing the correct nuget packages versus manually linking random DLLs, updating packages often at least 5 major versions. Many packages I had to find replacements for entirely, they'd long since been abandoned and hadn't kept up with changes in the data format.
I think the thing that gets me most, is how many times this project converts data from A to B to Z to X and then finally back to B for the final user display?! Fucking WHY?
You know another thing that gets my goat? All the double precision drawing primitives in dotnet are in the windows only WPF presentation library. Makes no damned sense. Another thing I want to replace at some point with platform agnostic bits.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
23d ago
Ultimately it makes me do some self-assessment: "Do I want to walk down a path that could end up being THAT type of person?" And often has me actively deciding to limit my intake of the media in question. Kinda like seeing an alcoholic passed out on a bench, his pants soaked with urine, and deciding "I'll just skip the bar tonight."
Back when I was going to anime conventions in my 20's, a friend of mine was super into Anime more than all the rest of us. Worked his ass off bussing tables all summer to save up as much money as he could to buy shit at that years Otakon we were all planning on going to. He gets there, sees some morbidly obese 40 year old anime fan, nobody to talk to, suspenders covered in pins of cute anime girls, and he decides "You know what... maybe I should take up drinking instead".
Man, I think that was the same year most of decided we needed to tone down our anime enthusiasm. I recall sitting in one panel for a publisher that happened after ADV's panel. ADV had announced licenses for nearly everything, then the room changed hands. People circulated. Some people stayed. So next panel starts, might have been Media Vision or whatever. So people are asking, as they do "Have you licensed X anime yet?" And some guy in the front seat who'd spend the last two hours rocking back and forth aggressively in his chair just kept interrupting the panel shouting "ADV ALREADY HAS IT! ADV ALREADY HAS IT!"
I just... like going through some of the twitter threads links in the OP, I hear it. Don't deprive your child of their special obsession. Let them spend their years where their time is cheap going deep on something that strikes their fancy. I'd be a much worse person if my parents cracked down on my love of computers as a kid. Certainly wouldn't be bringing home mid 6 figures like I am now.
But, all the same, maybe try to make sure your kid's special obsession isn't toaster fucking. Even in the unlikely event fucking toasters somehow brings in 7 figures for the top toaster fucker.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
23d ago
Man, that reminds me when I went to a west coast anime convention while visiting friends circa 2003. Man Faye was there and the (a?) Yaoi Paddle. Walking along we saw Man Faye going one direction, a little while later we saw the Yaoi Paddle going the other. Then a sound like a thunder rumbled through the hall as the two met. Man Faye might have gotten more than he asked for in that exchange from the sound of it.
The word you are looking for is "evil", and I to struggled to put into words what I saw happening in the world around me, or develop any sort of causal explanation, until I reached for that word. There is a reason there has been a generational project by progressives in education to put that word out of your cognitive reach. You should take it back, and use it often and proud. Because evil is real, and that's exactly where your "unease" is coming from.
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