Fergus Doyle

Fair enough

Oh no, they're already shutting the adult playgrounds?

TONIGHT from 6PM til late we will be springing into OX184 for yet another GameDevEd! Come meet and socialise with game developers of all experience levels from in and around Edinburgh :) #scotgamedev

On the one hand, I agree with @rangedtouch.bsky.social's point that these tech psychos haven't necessarily misread the Lord of the Rings in naming their companies, but on the other it's very funny that they call Palantir employees hobbits since a Palantir famously did this to Pippin

I read the English translation ("A Void" which manages to do the same thing as the original) and kept getting distracted trying to catch an accidental "e"

Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person

Maybe I'm biased because I studied literature there, but I feel like Gurnah should be better known than Dr. Badloss

Kinda of galling that, out of all the recent professors working at the University of Kent, Matt Goodwin has a higher profile than Nobel Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah

Just rereading Finch so seconded (tho it might help to read the other Ambergris books before, they're great but not really detective stories)

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Shout out to @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social for telling me a version of this joke when I was about 7, and then having to explain the OJ Simpson trial and voir dare to me

lmao

Knock knock
Who's there?
Elon Musk
Elon Musk who?
Finally! You're part of the jury pool

Just looking at the numbers and the countries surveyed, it does feel like the respondents were cherry picked a bit. Having done these kinds of surveys in a previous life, it's also important to remember that they usually come out of the marketing department

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

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Give us a day off like when the arseholes get married.

I know people are getting mad at this but if you remember for a moment that 50 years ago was 1976 it is a lot funnier. Happy Days first aired in 1974, beginning the era of modern literature

Today in writing research: trying to work out what, if anything, antifreeze proteins smell like

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

It feels similar to the people who were selling crypto mining games by saying "don't you wish you could do something with all that wasted time" - there's a lot of people who don't seem to understand doing things for enjoyment, or at least don't understand why other people enjoy things they dont

Right, but the European settlement of north America was one of the things that led to that refinement and radicalisation

But I guess my point is that Nazism didn't happen in a vacuum, and that included horrible old European ideas and equally horrible new ideas from America

For instance, when they passed the sterilisation law, the German government cited the "success" of similar laws in California which had been in place for over 20 years

You're right about the antisemitism, but there is something to be said about how Manifest Destiny influenced Lebensraum and US social hygiene policies fed into the Nazis eugenics around disability

Too many legs, clearly AI

Hah, he calls out the pub I worked in at university for their STP crimes

Charles I: how about the lamb and flag? Are they open at this time

Laud: parliament has said they won't pay for another lads night out sire

Charles: but God-

Laud: they've also requested you stop saying "god invented lager" as if that means anything

I think we just had it in our game's server too 😬 impressive that it's so coordinated tbh (or maybe just badly planned)

Aye, I think so - basically gave them pre-tagged stuff on whatever subject they needed