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@shoofle Nintendo tried this during the Virtual Boy generation, especially in VB Wario Land (and also in spinoff titles like VB Mario Tennis, and with foreground/background interstitials in VB Mario Bros). The effect worked really well, enough so that Mutant Mudds includes homages to that gameplay.

Recent licensed titles, but notably not Mario, have been playing around with that concept (DK Tropical Freeze, Sonic Mania, SSBU). So I think it’s on their radar?

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz Yes, but only in a context in which we can look back on this through a historic (as opposed to contemporary) lens.

Which I guess is one of the reasons I’ve been buying and saving the daily newspaper whenever these things happen, so I can roll them out 20-30 years from now to give context to these times.

@zetasyanthis I (literally) cannot wait for the Numb3rs explainer on this, because it is going to be so epically cringe-worthy.

@zetasyanthis Definitely. But given internal polling data and one of the most robust advertising databases on the planet, you can do some pretty scary things even with a relatively simple model.

I guess I’m wondering how nightly news orgs are going to explain how machine learning and inference models work, because so many folks still consider this to be magic.

While things are kind of bonkers right now, this is an interesting observation about how state actors influence US elections (past and present): https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/02/25/on-august-2-2016-paul-manafort-gave-konstantin-kilimnik-75-pages-of-recent-detailed-polling-data/

One of the questions I’ve had is how polling data made it into the orbit of microtargeting/psyops companies and their state-sponsored counterparts, since that would be needed to go from how people behave (on social media) to how people vote (with high confidence).

He... gave it to them in paper.

@troubleMoney People joke about data companies shipping crates full of hard drives/flash devices, but it is still the fastest data transfer rate available. Other than IP-over-trebuchet, anyway.

To this day, I still have to stop myself to remember the difference between VLC and VCL in any given conversation.

@Aradia Cloudy drizzly when I need to drive, morning foggy when it’s a weekend curled up in bed.

Much-too-confident, socially awkward lizard-betwixt-author-proxy goes to college, generating too much scandal, in candid, unreliable narrator slices of life. All while somehow remaining endearing and being much too relatable about how bizarre and alien social dilemma often feel in real time.

Novelty blogs of that nature thrived on LJ, and I miss those in a way the more general literary and webcomic fandoms don’t quite cover?

An oddly-specific thing I miss from the LJ days is rambling about just how good Sythyry’s Journal (and its addenda) are to people.

@kirbizard Whoa

@kirbizard I think the memory leak crashes have gotten more pronounced. I lost 6 Cetus wisps and 4 argon crystals yesterday (with active boosters, mind) in missions immediately after I manually rebooted the software to flush memory.

I want to love this build of the game, but DE needs to stabilize it.

@orrery These are helpful, thank you

I guess I’m still trying to find those ways. I don’t quite have an answer, and my reclusiveness now is so I can do the work of figuring that out.

Because it’d be really cool to belong, for some value of “cool” and some value of “belong”. Even if I haven’t figured out what either of those are shaped like yet.