Activity from JHarris

Shut Up & Sit Down recently did a review of Agricola ! I don't think it was the first worker placement game, but it was One of Those Games That Everyone Played, at the time, and hugely influential on the genre. I think it's generally… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This is not the first time, and I'm certain not the last, that I'm missing oneswellfoop's comforting presence in a thread. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Scandals? Evidently there's a part of the story I've missed, let me have a look--ah. What a timely article, it went up yesterday. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

The principals should leave and go it alone again, while they still have a lot of fans and followers, do a Deadspin/Aftermath/Second Wind. Oh, I know! They could create a machinima comedy series based on some popular FPS! Like maybe Team Fortress… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I feel like the issue is even worse than the article says. Frank & Ernest? The Born Loser? Blondie? Not only are these created by men, they're also ancient! Blondie was created in 1930. And why do they continue today? Does anyone in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

tl;dw: RUN FOR THE HILLS
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

Ah, but tonight's episode will start a little late, I'm on the interim transition board and our meetings unfortunately take place on Thursday nights, gah. [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

But sadly in the countries where Max has the streaming rights, they don't post the full episode, and while they used to post the main story the morning following the episode's premiere, now they're waiting until Thursday to post it, which may… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Special Event: The Mads: Manos The Hands of Fate
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FanFare post - 3 months ago

How was it possible for a group of trained people to put on such a flop
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

That poor reindeer
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

Decrapifying Youtube
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

There is a problem with self-driving cars, and by extension AI, that I have never seen anyone bring up, but it is significant. Presumably it would navigate the array of streets using Google Maps or an equivalent service, but sometimes, Google Maps is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I thought it was a fairly underwhelming and predictable ending, which I only mention because I really wish they had followed through with more on the idea of Sauron forsakng his war against Middle Earth and opening up a store somewhere, that's a fun… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Pig Butchering Scams
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FanFare post - 3 months ago

It's a long thread and I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but Brian Merchant on Xitter notes that at least some of the generated content is largely pre-existing video with AI-ish flaws applied to them, based fairly closely on content in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

The episode's main story has finally been posted to Youtube. [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

Special Event: The Mads: Mutiny In Outer Space
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FanFare post - 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm surprised the FPP text just didn't mention the fact it's just another NFT scam. If it has to do with a big big boat it's always a NFT scam! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I've watched a few more, and I really feel like I missed something. I always feel like there's countless little treasures like this, scattered around the internet, and despite making concerted efforts to find them, it's pretty random if I ever find… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Supreme Court
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FanFare post - 3 months ago

bombastic lowercase pronouncements bangs the all-search-is-bad drum a lot, and I think they're partially right in that search has become too prevalent. I think web search has its place, because it's very difficult to find the first crack your shell… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I'd not heard of this before, but the first episode was nice! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Pretty bad, but I was worried that they were going to stop uploading them altogether. And this might actually help the main story achieve a little extra traction, delaying the shareable version until midway through the week, although it may also hurt… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

It's okay. I hate that it's being published on Reddit, mind you. (Yeah, I'm still banging that drum, I know it's tiresome.) [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

There is a policy towards deleting AI-generated comments, it's come up before. No one and nothing will stop AI. Own it or be owned by it. That is so ridiculously untrue, on owning it definitely, on being owned by it, in a sense, probably,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I agree with juv3nal. It's not necessarily the tech, but the uses to which it's put (to create an endless spigot of bullshit so moneypeople can pay even fewer working artists), and the gigantic energy consumption of those large generative models. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Okay, the edited highlights version EIT posted I can't find and may have been taken down, but there are other Youtube uploads of nearly the entire tape, and this is one of them. At DragonCon 2023 there was someone who actually had the original… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

AlonzoMosleyFBI, I know just that clip, I think it was on Everything Is Terrible. I'm certain I can find it, I just need a few minutes to get to a Real Computer.... [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This is the kind of thread where I go through favoriting so many people's great and insightful comments. I have nothing else to add to them, except for heaping additional disdain on those couple of comments with really wrong-headed takes. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

At last, there are secrets again! Try clicking different things in the end card! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

⭐best post⭐ [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Front-facing Cheat: uncomfortably shark-like [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

There's more! For the first time in over a decade, homestarrunner.com has a new main page! [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

They do, but that version lacks a certain something, that something being: joy. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This site is a wonder, and I agree it feels like a survival of the good ol' internet, somehow escaped the depredations of the Tyrannosaurs and SEO Mavens that have ruined so much else of the webscape. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

The need to install a scripting language makes these static site generators even more of a technical hurdle than WordPress. Yes and no? WordPress doesn't run on nothing either, but requires PHP and MySQL--the advantage there is more that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

An untold number of ideas are "massive implausible loopholes in the fundamentals of physics" until a patent clerk thinks up a new theory and and that theory is proven correct by a solar eclipse a decade later. This happens much… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This thread has gotten horribly hyperbolic. It's either you support Trump and all that he stands for or you don't care about genocide, without any middle ground. It's quite possible to be grievously upset about both, and have to decide… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Sights from Zelda games that will probably never be released again
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

The thing that struck me most was how Dixon was so adamant about declaring RSS to be dead. That declaration was made by Google over ten years ago, most people took it as obvious then. That it has to be declared again now a decade later would seem to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Oh yay, another set of extremely wrong facts that I'll be correcting people about for the rest of my rapidly waning life, well done media. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I think Musk is awful, but the Falcon 9 is on the longest streak of successful launches of any rocket ever. When talking online about some bad person, you can always count on someone to chime in with the "but then again." It takes… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

The description of Rothko's Basilisk* is a highlight of the piece, completely accurate yet illustrating how ludicrous the idea is, despite the fact that it is somehow influential to believe completely a priori that a future singularity… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Heard a little earlier today that Bluesky's plans for federation are continuing, the day may come where a choice between Mastodon and Bluesky is academic, although it could also be the source of problems, and I mean going either way. Is Bluesky going… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Yay! [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 4 months ago

Charlie Brown + A Midsummer Night's Dream = A Midsummer Night's Snoopy (first dIscovery) [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I don't really know about this Rothko's thing but if it's wasting cycles torturing people who didn't help accelerate its mission, cycles that it could have used to perform that mission, shouldn't it really be torturing itself? The whole… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Ah, I just realized in my above comment I called it Rothko's Basikisk, not Roko's Basilisk. Not sure where I got that spelling. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

They are just now upgrading the sewer systems in my city to like 60" lines, large enough for an It clown to move into. Oh, so your city has decided to explore that branch of the Civilization tech tree. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

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