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fitter, happier. more productive. [he/him]

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hey. I have been diagnosed with a (very treatable!) form of cancer, but I am also without health insurance until January which is making financial matters a bit rough.

so any help you can provide would be welcomed and appreciated.
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jesus, I see what you’ve done for other people, and i want that for me dot png
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Will Navidson:
Q: Have you lost control of the House?

Johnson: I have not lost control of the House
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
I asked what I should use instead of firefox and someone said “floorp” and I legitimately thought it was a bit for like five minutes. tech has gone beyond making the torment nexus real to making poob real.
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I swear I'm about to end up in a frenzy where the only computer I use is a late 90s / early 00s PowerMac G4 running a blazing fast install of OS 9 that can't connect to the internet.

I don't want any of this shit, man. I just want to be left the fuck alone.
December 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
12/16/25 taste bud patch notes:

- umami services have been partially restored
- dairy remains offline due to memory leak issues
- further improvements to overall system stability
December 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"look we're not using AI in the final product we're just using it to speed up the conceptual stage" is what a lot of dopes affecting an enlightened middle position keep saying. I truly do not get that one. You hate imagining stuff? You don't like thinking and conceptualizing? Get a grip
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I was talking to someone about concept art and gen AI literally less than an hour ago and Ralph McQuarrie's art was the exact thing I brought up.

gen AI is creative poison.
"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?"

Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.

It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.

It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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"It's just concept art, who cares if they use genAI and not actual artists?"

Look at this concept art for C-3P0 by Ralph McQuarrie.

It's the very thing that inspired Anthony Daniels to go for the role of Threepio and perform him as such.

It is the first heartbeat of the art that now exists.
December 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
hey people maybe spend less time getting upset about Divinity's "gross" reveal trailer and get upset about actual gross shit like this.

fuck AI.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I Got By In Time (Remastered 2017)
YouTube video by The Jam - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I like Gosei Sentai Dairanger but the Kiba Ranger kinda sucks. creepy kid to perv on Rin / Houou Ranger, great.

show is fun otherwise. love the character designs.
December 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“But but what if AI…”

It’s not. Shut the fuck up.
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 2d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
holy shit
Someone has just restored "Daicon 3" from a rare 8mm copy.
It's the best version to date.
>> archive.org/details/zgfp...
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks
December 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
sharing doom levels is one of the only good things the internet has ever been used for.
So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it.

Maybe something you made is in here?

doomscroll.cx
DoomScroll — Browse, Preview, and Play Thousands of User-Made Doom WADs
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December 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
me: hey Gosei Sentai Dairanger how’s it going?

Dairanger: this episode has a motorbike monster, a telephone monster, and a tombstone monster, plus a footie game with the red ranger and the regular enemy jobbers.

me: the pain meds I’m on means this makes total sense to me, carry on.
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
every once and a while a synapse fires off in my brain and I'm instantly reminded that mst3k is a not-small part of why I am the way I am while some random line from an episode just rattles off in my head.
December 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I guess this weekend I am replaying tomb raider 2013 for the first time in maybe ten years.
December 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
oh I did not sleep good.

welp guess we’ll see how today goes.
December 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🎵 I pour the ketchup onto my FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEES🎵
dude looks like he's wearing a slipknot mask
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM