swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
One man (with help) against the internet.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Some kind of democratic process. Where membership and blacklist are both something arrived at democratically. It could be simple. Good?
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by swayvil 2y ago
How do you ensure good contributors and good contributions? Do you have a forum where you discuss prospective contributions etc?
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by swayvil 2y ago
In the past when you went to a community for a particular kind of enthusiast, that's what you'd find there. Now everybody is there. Enthusiasts, nonenthusiasts, people posing as enthusiasts, people trying to sell stuff to enthusia
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by swayvil 2y ago
Me too. Giant open space. A baron, way off barely visible, throws a firebolt. Takes like 30sec to get to me. What doom mapmaking needs is higher level tools. Like a tunnel kit. Just plug together pipes and fittings. Or crank out mazes gener
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by swayvil 2y ago
There is the theory that all men are deeply, possibly unconsciously, sexually attracted to their mother. Which leads to the obvious AI generated porn.
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by swayvil 2y ago
There is a feast. You get a crumb. The problem isn't that part of that the internet needs part of that crumb to function. The problem is that you get only a crumb. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Lucid. But a few pictures would be nice and relevant.
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by swayvil 2y ago
In the old days they called it, "habitually one-pointed". Those guys really know how to concentrate.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I think that the colors here (in this screen-world) are 99% mental. Like everything else here. Which is to say, it is not the configuration of the dots or their color that significate, it is the meanings and memories that they evoke. 1% of
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by swayvil 2y ago
I want to be bigger and fluffier.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Curve smoothing. Chaikin's algorithm and Jarek's tweak etc. Very clever and nice way of making angular geometry curvy. Constructive geometry stuff. There were like a dozen algs. I kept links to nice papers with diagrams. Then they
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by swayvil 2y ago
>where are the aliens? It's probably a Plato's Cave situation. You're chained there, staring at flickering shadows on the wall asking, "Where are the aliens?". Which is to say, the dimension that must be traverse
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by swayvil 2y ago
If paying the rent is our aim, who knows what unnecessary limbs may be disposed of. What need has a programmer for legs? Or arms even, if neuralink happens.
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by swayvil 2y ago
The ideal towards which we all strive is, of course, the Dalek.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You are me.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Theories are marketed too.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Can-openers. 99% of them are utter trash. The one that works is a copy of a 60 year old model.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Even if the fruits of your labor don't end up murdering millions, there is the hazard of mere success. Taste true accomplishment and you will likely spend the rest of your life trying to repeat it. Trapped like a bug.
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by swayvil 2y ago
How do they dust it?
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by swayvil 2y ago
because it's too real.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Just played Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup last night. The spirit is alive and well.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Have you tried catapults? For acceleration.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Every domain where the judgment comes from the 99%, sure. The 99% is uncultivated.
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by swayvil 2y ago
McDonald's hamburgers are rated favorably too.
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by swayvil 2y ago
This is so dystopian
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by swayvil 2y ago
Get lime juice on your fingers (or maybe the peel oil). Then touch a disposable transparent plastic cup. You will leave fingerprints, dissolved into the plastic. Also I think googone is made of orange peel oil.
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by swayvil 2y ago
On the flipside, nothing will keep you nailed to the floor like a 24-7 omnipresent smorgasbord of tempting pleasures
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by swayvil 2y ago
Me too http://fleen.org
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by swayvil 2y ago
I'd like to get his whole collection in a coffee table book. Anybody?

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