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If you look at countries with parliaments the smallest parties in coalitions often extract concessions through making their support conditional. It's rational to seek to increase your leverage this way.

That said, this holds for times of peace. As long as fascism is a threat, yes, circle the wagon.

... as if all the birds left at the same moment ...

[or just a worn out wall by the sea front]

“Please enjoy the museum”:

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Great concept! I love how this reframes the heist genre in a positive way

For context, this is a battle background for a turn-based game, along with a test enemy. The setup is similar to what you'd see in many JRPGs. Landscape. Row of enemies to the front. UI (not pictured) to the bottom.

Also, should I give the guy clothes? lol. Can't decide if he's cool or silly.. 2/2

A painting. Bloody sunset. A vast city sprawls across the horizon, split by a wall. There is no gate. To the right, a thicket of buildings shrouds the ground, interrupted by megastructures. An energy dome. A featureless cube the size of a city block. Runed obelisks atop networks of lines. A river depletes from a portal, kidnapped from some distant lake. Above all, a tower, rising, stretching, piercing the clouds, shining like gold. A park and a lake complete the scene. To the left, a wall of skyscraping factories. A vast desert. Roads. Buildings that look like little ants next to what's on the other side. Nothing but stone and dust under an open sky. The viewer stands on a crystalline bridge. Before them is a man wearing a strange headpiece. A camera. Scrolls wrapped into a turban wrapped around an antenna. Scripture unfurled like a tattered cloak. Aside from his shorts, that is all he wears. A fighting stance signals hostile intent. The author is not quite sure if the man is cool or extremely silly or both..

Trying a new medium. I've only really done pixel art until now so I'd appreciate some feedback. How does this feel? What works and what doesn't? I know I kind of messed up the perspective on the background, and there are some irregularities in spacing, but in general? 1/2

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I find it so annoying that transhumanists got lumped with the weird AI millenarian eugenicists haha. Like, sure, there's overlap, but I doubt Shulamith Firestone would be eager to join MIRI.

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Why wouldn't this sort of power totally warp the setting?

Because it's symbolic. Something something thaumagnetic interference patterns lol idk. I don't *want* players to overthink hobbits and eagles. I want them to focus on what is being conveyed. Vibes and allegory.

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Some aspects of the plot don't really make sense if taken at face value. There's a seer who predicts the future and essentially telegrams assassination targets to his past self to retroactively assure his targets never come into being.

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That's such a good distinction! I'm writing a convenient magic narrative and, like, that's not really a bad thing? You didn't mean it that way, of course, but preempting discourse, I think that's just descriptive.

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Purely in terms of cause and effect, the end result of abandoning the copyright argument and tolerating the use of generative AI is most working artists being fired. Fascism is resurgent. Rights are stripped away, not granted. UBI isn't in the cards.

I don't think this is a good outcome.

Regardless of notation, there is a finite number so large that it can't be physically expressed in our universe. I do not think that therefore there is such a thing as a largest number, or that math that relies on doubling it is invalid. I feel similarly about the Chinese room.

There are definitely situations about which the blogger is right.

My point is more that people tend to care about the status of the speaker because it's actually a useful heuristic when discussing anything you can't verify for yourself. I think he's being a little uncharitable haha.

In an environment where you, as an individual, can't verify the truth of a statement yourself, all you have is the reputation of the person making it.

The source of a piece of information directly influences the weight you should give it iff you lack the expertise to gauge it yourself.

There are real examples of researchers who got away with fabricating results for years and years, and that's in the area of life where extraordinary measures are taken to safeguard the truth. Things get worse as you descend from scientist to journalist to layperson.

There are many cases where we must take the veracity of information on faith. Consider science. If the people involved conspire to lie to you about the results of an experiment, there is little you can do but either trust them or try to replicate it, which is often not feasible for an individual.

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

Crown Gambit, In Stars and Time, Clair Obscur... FRPGs are the future.

Video game mockup of a Witch encountering a lizardman ambush in a besieged town, in a bright and toy-like retro pixel style.

Retro video game style mockup of Bart Simpson outside the Kwik-E-Mart at night

Detailed pixel art Eagle, and Fire and wind elemental in a 16-bit style

NES style Cowboy Run and Gun game Mockup

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I argue that what they find and what they report can be different, so trust is crucial. Peer review is meant to mitigate the issue, but systems designed to safeguard systems can themselves be perverted, so in the end, it's down to trust.

I do not understand why you trust the people involved to not massage the data so it says whatever they want. Racist researchers have done this many times. Why expect more honesty from transphobic researchers?

If you'd like some pointers on how to draw something specific there are many specialized examples on this page.
saint11.art/blog/pixel-a...

You're doing pixel art, right? I highly recommend this short series of tutorials. They helped me a lot when I was just starting out. saint11.art/pixel_articl...

but i love design patterns i love abstract classes i love the demiurge why make "games" when you can endlessly refactor the animation queue

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I like and use them but they're tricky. If you @export an enum and later expand the list the variable might now map to another entry. Makes refactoring a pain.

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