49.3%
You know what, that might even be right. I just really liked the drafting game. And even on the wrong side of that, you can always move at least something forward, even if it's "just" a meta-resource like
IMO (having been seeking them out) the best video for I'm Upping My P(Doom) is Pleometric's. The song in general is the first piece of AI-generated music I've ever had stuck in my head.
Joining it since:
- Bliss (Windows XP) (which you linked)
- The Clodyssey (Superpersuasion) (also from the same guy, anabology)
Unless somehow only these 2 people are especially good at eliciting these, my suspicion is that AI music generation may have actually arrived for me, I just have yet to dive into it.
If you like Cum Town, you might also like Matt & Shane's Secret Podcast (especially early stuff, pre-SNL-crisis).
Sink-or-swin sample: MSSP - Twisted Teas on the job
If you're interested in stretching to whole episodes of either, here are 2 of what were once (when they had functioning public forums of their original fans) appreciated as early classics (and in a just world would be recognized as among the best cultural output of their era):
-
Cum Town - Bonus Ep 5 Bullytown (takes like 15 minutes to really pick up)
Having watched bits of a few streamers' playthroughs, skillful/optimizing drafting is rare, but the biggest key to managing the RNG.
At the stage of the game where the thing you're talking about was relevant to me, I was getting
(again to Testing123, just to emphasize: most people play fully through the part of the game most people natually and satisfiedly stop at, without having had an unfun problem about this)
I maintain that the supposed RNG problem is a skill issue. As a general thing you should be keeping like a priority queue of theories and start each run flexibly. If you start trying for one particular thing every time too early in the game yeah that'll probably get frustrating. Later on there are RNG mitigations that should let you get just about whatever you want on most runs.
(note to Testing123: the supposed RNG problem is not something that usually overfrustrates even casual players in the "main" part of the game most people enjoy; it's a later-game thing)
Crashes are brutal though. I never had one in Blue Prince, but a bad one killed Subnautica for me.
I think I got the final ending but the game is constructed in a way that it is kind of hard to tell
Say where you got to (in spoiler tags) and I'll tell you
I love it, solidly in my games pantheon. Zealous recommendation to all.
Reposting some things I've said about it before:
It's the pinnacle of most of the genres it's attached to, a masterpiece in almost the traditional sense (one very competent guy polished it for 8 years, it's a completely realized coherent vision), and very fun.
Probably 15-20 hours to beat the part of the game that most people will stop at (having greatly enjoyed their time with it), and 100+ hours to optionally go beyond that if you still don't want to put it down.
WARNING unhidden spoilers in the subthread to this comment
What are the most remarkable AI awareness/preference cascade/proto-panic artifacts from the past ~2 weeks?
eg:
- The wildest stream-crossings
- AI-denialists still at it
- Some poor bastard who hasn't been paying attention getting violently yanked into the present live on air
The Old Trader by Light Sweet Crude (Bloomberg writer Joe Weisenthal's country band)
bro
8mo ago
Dredge and Forgotten City are also on my the shortlist. Hadn't heard of Painscreek Killings 🙏
All of those are on my shortlist for what to try next. Please recommend more games lol.
I just started Inscryption (it was between that and Planet Crafter) and have enjoyed the first few hours.
Instant-classic games I played in ~the last year that I must insist anybody even slightly like-minded try:
Roseanne clarifies -- she claims that the Obamas directly pressured the studio to fire her:
Remember when you and your wife called Bob Iger to have me fired?
Further, she has claimed in the past that she was tweeting about Valerie Jarrett in the context of criticising the Obama admin's Iran deal which she knew Jarrett was associated with. She now seems to be making a harder claim that the Iran deal part was significant to her firing:
Because they aren’t the same. I wasn’t fired for lying I was fired for telling the truth about the Iran deal and slandered into oblivion. This will still be worse for our side than theirs. Kimmel will get an entire PR tour to clear his name with the backing of all media.
I don't personally find that very easy to believe, though I don't discount it 100%. The 1st claim I don't know, but it is not helped by the 2nd.
(it's also possible she's just extending the chain of causation back one step to reflect her subjective experience and does not really intend to be making a claim about the motive)
Some of the inner mechanisms are modelled, but on closer inspection of some videos not nearly as much of them as I'd thought. Fatal downgrade tbh, that was most of the notional appeal.
While I understand the inclination, the beliefs and motivation you've assigned to me here are not accurate. (do we even have a single Trump-deranged person on themotte? how would they not go crazy and burn out immediately?) I am neither a Trump obsessive nor an Epstein obsessive, and that "70%" is not a strongly held immovable belief.
My (again loosely-held and not deeply researched) model was that Trump knew or kinda knew about Epstein's proclivities during the 80s and 90s, he didn't really care (considered and treated it as within the jocular class of "cocaine and affairs"), he thought he should get credit for his later hostility to Epstein (hence his comfort attacking others for Epstein-connections, drawing massive attention to it, until like 2019 -- not the behavior of a man who fucked kids with Epstein), but did not fully appreciate that he would be held little less guilty even by his base for not immediately turning him in until more recent rounds.
I took another look at the card and found it would be more implicating if real than I'd remembered, which does not fit that model as well, so I withdraw my tossed-off small-questions-thread-grade take for further review.
Worth noting:
-
Roseanne was fired in 2018 during the 1st Trump Administration
-
... for tweeting about how senior senior Obama Administration (and then Foundation) official Valerie Jarrett looked like she was from Planet of the Apes
I don't think that Obama admin pressure would have been necessary for her to be fired for that in the conditions of the time. It's certainly far from impossible that Obama admin pressure may have been applied anyway. Also, interpreted very very abstractly, it is almost definitionally certain. I can't tell which of these ways she meant it in.
GroundNews seems aight, I've recommended it to normies after repeated exposure from sponsorships though do not use it myself.
GoatGuns look kinda cool and I've considered getting one to fidget around with but probably won't.
Nebula and History of Weapons & War seem great but I have too much other great stuff in my backlog and I can't really organizationally afford another platform.
Which as I remember was actually some of theirs mishandling a flare
I saw this claim many times, linking the videos (there were 2-3) as if it were self evident. I literally could not see anything at all resembling that, watching them over closely several times. I think it was either a conscious bad-faith lie by many claimants, or else identifying the sparkling thing that fell out of the sky as obviously not a drone itself or a typical drone attack as we'd recognize it from frag-grenade-drop footage from Ukraine. But there was still no mishandling (or any handling at all) in evidence in the videos: a sparkling thing just relatively slowly fell out of the sky and exploded.
I saw some evidence it was an incendiary grenade but did not pursue it deeply. Moreover, evidence that it was a model of incendiary grenade in use by Israel, the US, and others (which I pursued even less deeply).
I also noted that its position, velocity and acceleration apparent in the videos really only seem consistent with having been dropped from not very high up and ignited only in the last moments of its descent (which wouldn't be consistent with a gun-fired flare).
On the balance of evidence I believe it was a drone attack
much older than last week
Yes I too remember that, and moreover I remember seeing it before. Perhaps it was a re-creation or a leak. What happened last week was official and mattered for that.
This hoax
[take withdrawn for being insufficiently-considered]
I think that the misinformation made a difference to how events are unfolding. I think that this in particular would not have happened without it.
Just as an autistic matter of documenting events as I have witnessed them occurring.
Of course it's all just a forgettable skirmish in a much larger war that's still in its preludes, in which a whole lot will be lost in the foam.
A detail worth noting in the monologue he's being fired over, which I have no idea how much it mattered in the official machinery behind the scenes in this and which I'm reasonably certain will not matter in its narrative fallout, but which was the primary outrage animating the cancellation campaign:
"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them"
This was on Monday (Sept 15th), which was after the bullet engravings were public ("hey fascist! CATCH!", public on Sept 12th) but before the chat transcripts in the indictment were public ("I had enough of his hatred", public on Sept 16th).
In that interval (and perhaps still?), there was a very active and successful misinformation shitstorm on lib social media to frame the available evidence (including, remarkably, "hey fascist! CATCH!") as smoking gun proof that Tyler Robinson was right wing and in particular a groyper, which it's extremely likely that Jimmy Kimmel's writers (and perhaps Kimmel himself) were stewing in.
What happened last week? I mean this literally, it's was such a deluge that I feel like I forgot significant things in it. Asking here to sanity-check.
- Charlie Kirk assassination, world-altering shitstorm, the swings of the manhunt
- Iryna Zarutska murder, up-to-genocidal frenzy, progressive release of ever-more-uncensored video
- Russian drone incursions into Poland
- Nepali zoomer revolution, burning down parliament and beating ministers, Discord election
- Israel bombing Qatar
- Greta flotilla drone attack
- Trump Epstein birthday card
Is that it? Was there some more israel/gaza stuff? Trump admin actions? Some other twitter culturewar flareup that seemed to matter?
The important part is he was caught because he (massively) fucked up, not because the police caught him. That is well within the realm of possibility here. Even in 2025, even with whatever Palantir or whatever gets them, the police don't yet seem to have magic powers, and even someone who apparently couldn't think straight enough for "don't hang around in public with your face visible when you're the most wanted man in America" to be an overriding priority, seemed to have otherwise been successfully getting away.
Here's who first came to mind, within the spirit though not quite the letter of your exercise:
Jeffrey the Librarian (100k subs)
Early American history (Mayflower through Civil War) via maps and surprisingly effective hand-drawn crude graphics
RojoFern (50k subs)
Tornadoes and nuclear weapons, elaborately produced in an incredibly entertaining style; an indictment of the algorithm that he isn't much, much more popular (also has a prehistory of other videos I'm not interested in)
康康 Kang (14k subs)
New chinese factory worker's daily life
The Warshipologist (6k subs)
High-quality well-organized WWII naval infographics, artifacts, and original research, a natural supplement in the Drachinifel basin, yet he seems to have been punished horribly by the algorithm for some reason
valerobowie (650 subs)
Exactly 2 topics: Yorktown-class aircraft carriers and The Alamo, explored in high autism mode through original 3D graphics
More options
Context Copy link