Activity from JHarris

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

10th Annual MST Club Xmas Marathon!
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MetaTalk post - 4 months ago

Thursday nights are the main show of what we call MST Club, taking place at https://cytu.be/r/metafilter_mst3kclub. The episode of the week shows there at 9 PM US Eastern time (6 PM Pacific), but we have stuff going on before and after it too. Come… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed Hero Wars ads were getting a bit fetishy. They've always been really strange. There's one where the hero is mad because some god or something turned his beloved into an outhouse. Sprays of poop were… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I could see the good social media landscape settling on Mastodon for indepth topics (by default it has a much higher length limit, and individual instances can increase it even more), and Bluesky for an easier-to-use, more Twitter-like experience… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Squidward will probably be listening to NPR. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

This game is the real deal. Right up there with Cave Story and La-Mulana, except with an entirely different kind of play. It may be a 2D action platformer, but in complexity of play and situation it is more roguelike than many roguelikes… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

If you find the technical hurdles of Wordpress too great or annoying, there's been a boom in static site generation tools in recent years. They do add an extra step: instead of running the software on the server, where it could get hacked, where… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

A web without search would look like this: some people will be living in New York City, with an enormous and constantly developing abundance of things to see and people to talk to, while others will be forever trapped inside Sucksville, with no… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Of course all the platforms were never interested in showing you everything you ever followed, they wanted to build a vast repository of captured eyeballs they could sell ads against, so they showed you the stuff that keep you coming back I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Aaah I forgot how I arrived at Cocaine, or its presumably less-potent cousin Cocain, sorry. If I had suggestions for improving this, they'd be: * show the objects that have been combined to make something else on that session, at least the first… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Ah. An "AI." Explains why drilling down into its system results in the connections making less and less sense. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Am I posting too much? I keep telling myself this will be the last but then I find Duckbotopolis (first discovery). [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Jesus + Cocaine = Christmas [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Cocaine might have arisen from when I was playing around with Bitcoin or Blockchain. (knock knock knock) Just a sec, someone's at my front door.... [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I seem to be the first person in the world to connect "Werecoco-" with a variety of things. Also, the first to come up with "Satanic Werebeagle." Hm. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

And so my journey has at last come to Duckimus Prime. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Ah! I already had Puddle, I just hadn't applied it to itself. You'd think that Puddle + Bird would be Duck, but nope, it just goes back to Penguin. (I've gotten Tux, BTW. Wherever this game gets its data from, it's very geek-focused.) [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

If you can get to Optimus Prime, there's a lot of things that branch from there, from Optimus Princess to Optimus Rhyme. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

(I wonder if it was wise making that list available on the open internet? Maybe I should make it private again after a couple of days?) [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I find discoverability is much better on Bluesky than on Mastodon, where I was never really able to, like, find anyone interesting, and all my posts went absolutely into the void. Yeah. There are ways to overcome that, but it doesn't guide… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I sense that the Mastodon people are happy with what they have, and that they don't particularly feel like they need to get bigger. And because it doesn't have shareholders to satisfy, it doesn't even need to. Mastodon was doing fine before the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It's clearly a person's prerogative to do so, but so many examples of "this video took too long to provide the information I wanted" boil down to.. I dunno, it's on the viewer as far as I'm concerned. Because time is finite, and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I know I'm not familiar with the culture of your community, so I apologize if it seems like I'm just barging in uninvited. This seems like a pretty cool place, thanks for checking out and sharing my project! We're happy to see you here, and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

asynchronous opponents Once in a while I've been known to do surveys and tests on Prolific for a little extra cash (much better for that than Mechanical Turk). Every once in a while the test will be a "multiplayer game" where the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

This is the kind of meaningless link that I could once count on Metafilter to provide, but has become scarce recently! Nothing against informational posts (at all!), but I do remember that once newsfilter was a term of derision around here. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I was going to mention YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!, but I am often having to make a choice of whether to include everything I have to say or keep the comment even slightly… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It's the Evony of the hour, after a certain long-lived F2P game. Around ten years ago their ads were just as ubiquitous as Hero Wars' are now, maybe even more so since I don't think I've seen a Hero Wars ad that wasn't served by Youtube or… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

An Observer's Guide To Pony Fanwork
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

It's not mobile, but itch.io has a monthly Youtube video of 20 popular games that it's worth raiding. I still remember Lore Sjoberg's littlefluffyindustries (it had a memorable name!), a collection and review of Flash games, back when there was… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The insanity of the recent ads for Hero Wars though? Oofa doofa. URG. I've been collecting some of the more ridiculous examples (with the right Youtube magic you can load the source page of any ad, they're all Youtube videos). Even worse,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Suika Game is a simple $5 Japanese game for Switch that's been proving extremely popular. It's spawned a lot of webgame imitators, but my favorite version is Cosmic Collapse, also $5 on itch.io. It's implemented on Pico-8, has bouncier physics, feels… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I'm working on blog posts exploring the history of two old computer magazines, the C64 magazine-on-disk Loadstar, and the more traditional (for its time) type-in magazine Compute. I think of itch.io as kind of the inheritor of that style of coding… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

"Seven months? Unfortunately, I will be away from the station at that time. Far away. Visiting my parents on Earth. Excuse me." Worf is so great. [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

I saw that there hadn't been an obituary post a couple of days after his death, and I always enjoyed him on The Mandalorian. It wasn't hard finding more clips from his roles on Youtube. He was an actor for five decades, and he'll be a familiar face… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

nobody is correct. The most recent news is that the economy grew 3.3% last quarter. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I have to read this thread with my eyes unfocused, because the sharp edges would cut my eyes if I didn't. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Plus: fun, Muppets. Minus: Xitter and its horrible management. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I've always been able to find tax forms for free at all the local libraries I've frequented, for decades. Having done it both ways, I say filing forms on paper is an order of magnitude less convenient than doing it in a guided system with… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Don't Let's Stop
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

- Finishing with the expected outcome ($0 owed and $0 refund), but the site has baited-and-switched you and now refuses to let you do free filing as advertised, so you're stuck paying That has happened to me at least once, and probably… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

I have no affiliation whatsoever with FreeTaxUSA but it's been fantastic the 5 years or so that I've been using it. That's how I felt, until I tried to download a copy of last year's return a couple of months ago, and was startled by their… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

By shutting down half of their penis at a time, male echidnas fit perfectly with the female’s two-branched reproductive tract. I've just been reading a hardware manual for an old computer, and this synchronizes with that information… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Also, I'm surprised that ducks weren't mentioned. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Yes! Mystery Inc. was the first version of Scooby-Doo to make Fred an interesting character! The people saying remakes don't destroy the original forget the tendency of our culture to make big-money remakes supersede older ones. How many people… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

5. Really, really ethical leadership with the foresight to recognize that if you make something people care about, people will care enough to donate money and time to keep it alive Yeah but also 6. being put into continual… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

This monkey means business!
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

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