Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

It's a new decade and the sun is tired.
It's a new decade and the sun is so tired she had dreams about being tired.

I don't understand how anyone can stand to even touch gacha mobile games. The predatory design puts me off any other appealing elements, and shows the publishers/devs to have so much contempt towards their userbase.

I played the SMT mobile game and it just got more and more slimy over time.
It constantly advertised its own sales, it was slowly harder to get anything worthwhile, leaving gameplay feeling stale, some summon ranks became locked behind pay-only...

I recently learned about the Dissidia gacha and the character interaction sounds really appealing to me, and supposedly the gacha is "fair", but also, nyeeeh. It's all ultimately trying to get you to throw money at chance.

And not throwing money at it still leaves things to chance, which is ultimately a time-waster.

A good game would make sure your work is earned in equal measure. A good game wouldn't decide that after hours of grind you failed simply because of random chance.

https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1209693440872603651
This is a good thread, but it's a lot.

Ultimately comes down to that we put up with a lot of bad design because it's our only choice, we're walled in by SV's culture of back-rubbing over crippled innovation, and are losing things in the process.

I've complained before about feeling like W10 is dumbed down to not scare the technologically incompetent, but there's things beyond this that I've not considered before. Things like altering user behaviour because the options simply don't exist in modern software/UI.

It's hard to say what can be done about it. Maybe it's just that we need to praise legit good design more often. Not "good enough" design.

Broke: santa is not real because of cultures without the mythos and time-zones exist

Woke: Santa and Father Christmas are separate beings, amongst others, that come at different times over two days

I have learned today that Fail Army, the comedy series on NZ TV... is actually straight copied from some American TV show - which is copied from a Youtube channel, which just steals videos.

They get given the footage and are only allowed to replace the hosts and dubbing.

It's kind of wild how desperate broadcast TV is to be relevant, such it resorts stealing content from the internet and then puts 5-7 minutes of ads in. Looking at you, "X That Make You Laugh Out Loud".

https://thespinoff.co.nz/tv/12-02-2016/you-will-be-witness-to-a-marriage-falling-apart-guy-montgomery-on-the-return-season-of-fail-army/

I regularly forget what song "Despacito" is whenever I see mention of the meme come around again, unless the post contains the song itself.

Today's experience in trying to understand XInput and seeing it does some Thing with something called bit and shift operators:

Music to softblock en-mass by:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0BNkw27o5E

I've got a few followers on Twitter lately at random and I just look at their timelines and think... you're not going to be interested in me... why are you following me?
https://twitter.com/Tayruu/status/1208584714254045184

I kind of want to go through followers and softblock a lot of them if they don't seem like they're following out of legitimate interest because I don't like that I have 230-ish people following when maybe 30 of them regularly interact with me.

I realise "regularly interact" is a bit of a weird statement, because some people you just like to see on your timeline even if you don't reply or like everything. That's just a psychological trick the sites expect of you.

But... still...

Social media is just wrong. Remember when we all used Livejournal? People had like, 15 followers each. You didn't have this social obligation to care about thousands of inconsequential people, to allow to have a view and say into your life. You had forums for public space, and journals for privacy amongst friends. IRC could be either or.

There's just a certain "wrongness" to the social structure of social networks. It's not about personal connections, but being a walking, living advertisement. You're broadcasting your life for consumption - if you try to be more personal or social, you risk being thrown to the wolves.

There are straight up missing pixels in the small text when playing 3H in handheld mode. I don't think they tested their UI in 720p.

So, I generally presumed that Twitter converted gifs to video, because most gifs online were converted from video anyway, because memes, so doing so would reduce load time.

... yet now Twitter appears to be supporting apngs, circumventing the gif conversion, and rendering the prior logic null.

On the one hand, I miss the simpler era where internet memes were animal photos with captions, motivational parodies, and rage comics.

On the other hand, the fact people are making well edited *videos* as memes now is just super impressive.

I keep staying up until about 4.30am playing Three Houses.

No wonder I feel like crap during the day. Come on, sleep cycle.

It's so frustrating to me that that original "lol look at this Paris artist they made a buttplug Christmas tree" tweet has FOURTY-THOUSAND retweets, yet any tweet clarifying it was someone in America, gets 4-5 thousand at the most.

Stop spreading misinformation just because it seems funnier that way, and that it gets you clout.

If I was particularly bitter, I'd call it a little racist. That is, people think foreigners accidentally doing something is quirky and entertaining, and the idea that someone - from your own country in particular - will do something with designed intent, loses that dehumanising appeal.

Re boost (re-awoo??): That's been today's experience. oh god please let it end

Sudden thought: so Twitter randomly showing people's likes in the timeline circumvents "turn off retweets", right? Since a lot of people fav and RT at once...

What a mess of a website.

It's likely I'm approaching this the wrong direction - I altered code that checks if Sprite graphics have changed, not the part that defines the graphics itself, which is in the Battler class.

The former point still stands though.