JP

one character writing technique that can work out quite well, depending, is "think of a single character that would be very well-rounded and well-adjusted and split all those traits up among two people who are entertainingly messed up and need each other / hate each other / both"

[gets called lumpenproletariat] whoa whoa whoa... being lumpen is Bad?!?

shout out to anyone who feels represented by this player character

[extremely long lived alien sociologist assigned to study earth, bored and not paying very close attention to us lately] "they appear to have spent most of this century inventing new types of gel"

if you've lost respect for lots of people in your life these past couple years you should allow yourself the time and energy it takes to grieve for that

RE: @jplebreton@mastodon.social

Anthropic's product is now confirmed to have suggested targets in the first wave of US strikes that hit a school and killed 175+ children. Their marketing for this product is so deep into AGI cultism they insist on its human rights and employ a philosopher to maintain its system prompt. Essentially they're claiming their program is a real boy and that their Pinocchio is a mass murdering war criminal. Entire company must be obliterated and its apologists shamed out of public life.

Filed this feature request with Tusky, the android client I use - feel free to give it a thumbs up if it'd be useful to you too https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/issues/5472

[is widely quoted as saying something extremely offensive] Ohh... sorry guys, that was my Quato! Mutant head and arms, grows out of my torso, limited prescience... that was Quato! I can't control what he says, and I condemn his recent outburst. By the way, I might as well announce that I'm running for President of the United States...

much like how so much post apocalyptic fiction is ultimately really about people trying to feel out and grapple with the end of capitalism, US theocratic fascists' "Armageddon" is them - enemies of all humanity and of our planet itself - smelling the death of their evil empire coming and trying to spin it into a final redemptive omnicidal blood sacrifice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9M1UMj-vwE This reminds me of the time @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote what the Secret of Monkey Island was on a piece of paper and hid it under third base at the Seattle Mariners ballpark.

It seems facile and sus to say that a machine "decides" anything. It's always a human.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal some LLM proponents have tried to hold Grok, the racist ranting CSAM-generating model, at arm's length and insist they only use "ethical" LLMs. but there's no meaningful difference - the whole point of slop is that it's all the same massive bucket, the economic value lies in the bigger-the-better indiscriminate mass scrape and everything it outputs is laundering all the horrid shit within. claims to using it "the smart way" are delusional cope.

I see so many people who are afraid to call themselves marauders. "I'm only just starting out", they say, or "I don't earn a majority of my income from it". I'm here to tell you that if you roam about and raid in search of plunder, you are a marauder.