AI art
@Owlor I could see an argument being made for AI art as a tool for inspiration, much in the same way that Markov-chain-generated prose would be. Art is found in the creation and operation of the system, not so much its output.
I also feel that anyone who takes artistic credit for unaltered AI-generated output needs to understand that it's only art if it passes through further creative process, otherwise it's just sparkling plaigarism.
@Soreth *eyes dubiously*
@packbat Ooooooh!
I mean, I'm not a PICO-8 thing-doer, but I love making bitmap fonts... as though the "market" weren't already utterly saturated. :)
US Govt covid tests for free
https://special.usps.com/testkits ends sept 2, and apparently you can have up to three orders. Get yours in!
@packbat More than once, I've said, "My code works now and I'm so angry." How are ya s'posed to troubleshoot code that works? :)
Transphobia
@Owlor "I may not know why this software crashes on launch a fifth of the time or why our error logs keep filling up with the letter 'K' or even what a 'type mismatch' is, but I know that there are $0002 genders and you can tell them apart by one of a string of digits the government picked for them years ago!" *types confidently, not even forgetting the semicolon this time*
Since we were thinking about hardware demands, we went ahead and published our manifesto on the subject, "why isn't this a doom 2 mod": https://packbat.itch.io/why-isnt-this-a-doom-2-mod
full text is on the page, but there is a plaintext file and an audiobook-style mp3 reading of it available as downloads
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Watching Infinity Train could help you resolve ethical dilemmas like "is it moral to pirate an edifying and culturally enriching show that would otherwise be unavailable to you?"
The worldwide report for the 2022 Gender Census is now published: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2022-worldwide/
It's about language preferences about genders beyond the binary.
You can also read a summary of the big three questions (identities, titles and pronouns) here: https://www.gendercensus.com/results/2022-worldwide-summary/
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