Doohickey type music.

I am not sure how that’s related

You lack object permanence.

Different premise, similar outcome, it’s fairly close to The High Crusade by Poul Anderson. Aliens invade medieval England and get shanked, ultimately leading to the British empire spanning the galaxy.

Fuck off with your finger-curling argument. ‘Oh is it a crime to go like this?’ Sir, you shot your wife.

There are stormtroopers in the streets, murdering people with impunity, and this cunt pushes a video titled ‘the party doing that is better, because freeeedommm.’

Mask-off fascist.

So Minnesota is free to.

Is that… gelatin?

Hell, I’m relieved when someone beat me to it. Means I can check it off my to-do list.

‘I bet you could combine Wine and QEMU’ was on there for a while, and oh thank god, FEX is serious business now.

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen shape utilized in generated ASCII art

Ah, someone’s never seen 8088 Corruption. The encoder was a brute-force comparison of source pixels with downscaled / blended characters in CGA’s few available colors.

… wait, AAlib definitely uses shape. Is the author just new to ASCII art?

Killer effort, regardless.

pictures for sad children.

“It must have come from upriver!”

It’s a chatbot.

It literally just guesses the next word. The least-stupid versions have an extra mechanism to go, ‘given this pile of pre-processed text, what’s the next word?’ The problem in full is people “deploing” a stupid chatbot as if it’s one of Asimov’s robots.

The introductory complaints echo Socrates railing against writing. ‘It will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own.’ ‘You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever.’ We let the encyclopedia talk, and it’s going to end civilization! Nah. On the list of current existential threats - not in the top ten.

It spends seven pages glazing institutions as the only good thing holding society together… then basically leads with “Admittedly, our institutions have been fragile and ineffective for some time.” Later: “It is unreasonable to expect the kind of superhuman willpower necessary for all of us at scale to indefinitely avoid the worst temptations of AI.” Given the spread and vigor of kneejerk opposition to even the least uses of AI - surely blaming the robot is perfectly doable. Certain business institutions live quarter to quarter, and will gladly jettison this latest foolproof guarantee of infinite growth for the next salesman’s promise of same.

“There has been much written lately about how the rule of law has broken down among celebrated democracies,” citing a paper about twenty years of alarming decline. This tech is five years old.

This is erudite nonsense. A moral panic wearing elbow patches. I’m not reading past yet another slippery-slope morality tale where making [blank] easier makes people worse at [blank] so we must always do [blank] the hard way. As if Desmos ruined mathematics and now there’s no more mathematicians. If you do engineering with a slide rule instead of longhand, you’re a thief of expertise.

Rubbish.

IIRC the western view is inaccurate, in that we typically figure “authorities mercilessly crushed dissent” and the reality is more like “local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”

But the one-party state declares itself the only representation of the people’s will, so obviously any popular defiance is a contradiction.

Software path-tracing has been on my bucket list, mostly to test a concept: physically based instant radiosity. If an eye-ray goes camera, A, B, C, then the light C->B forms an anisotropic point source. The material at B scatters light from C directly into onscreen geometry. This allows cheating akin to photon mapping, where you assume nearby pixels are also visible to B. Low-frequency lighting should look decent at much less than one sample per pixel.

I made an FPS on NES.

It doesn’t use any mappers or added chips. There’s quicksaves, a level editor. jump-in two-player co-op, and SNES mouse support.

I have not been arsed to add music.