mister_mort

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by mister_mort 7d ago
Most of SC Ghost's plot was absorbed into a special DLC campaign for Starcraft 2. They'd need to do something else. (The site also seems to indicate the new game's plot takes place about 75 years after the end of SC2.)
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by mister_mort 7d ago
The Starcraft site is clearly doing some sort of intentional glitch out ARG, and the rumour going around is that they are doing some sort of singleplayer shooter set in that universe. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/1134
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by mister_mort 7d ago
The general public is always better at destructive testing than a machine built for that purpose.
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by mister_mort 13d ago
It turns out AI was just An Individual.
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by mister_mort 16d ago
I'm not so sure. You could literally see configuration options start disappearing from the Mac Mini ordering flow over time as demand increased and supply dried up.
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by mister_mort 17d ago
The hospital toilets in Melbourne definitely have that setup. It was weird seeing basically every surface as just a shade of blue and nothing else. I do wonder - now that most people have a phone with a flashlight - would not the druggies i
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by mister_mort 17d ago
I think the most interesting thing I've seen from these leaks are the Portal 2 beta content videos. The temporary time-slow mechanic and the beta voice acting have been really interesting to see. The time slow mechanic in particular
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by mister_mort 17d ago
Similar to that idea of trying to derive stuff from an indirect channel, but much more distant. (There is an obvious link between food consumption and building occupancy.) Stuff like watching the order of names on public lists of attendees
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by mister_mort 23d ago
It's a theory that labs in Mexico switched back over to P2P 'biker' meth (instead of the old stuff based on cough/flu meds) and that the new meth is causing progressive brain damage to users. https://www.theat
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TrellisMark: Can we uniquely fingerprint 1B users with AI text watermarking?(xlr8harder.substack.com)
3 points by mister_mort 23d ago|0 comments
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by mister_mort 27d ago
It's like the old tale about the national park bin with the smartest bear / dumbest tourist crossover, except we're now comparing capabilities of the smartest AI with disabled humans.
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by mister_mort 28d ago
I imagine Carmack's plan files were monitored because people were starving for as much id Software news as they could get, and going straight to the source rather than waiting on gaming news sites for digests would be the smart thing
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
Some people have an inner drive like a rat that likes pushing the reward button in the cell to dose them with opium. They want to see the YOU WIN screen and absolutely do not care what it takes to get them there . Hence the booming market
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
I definitely remember doing that as a kid, and I remember bending the thin metal off some broken ones. Whatever brand I was using allowed that metal to work a bit like a spring, you could launch it by compressing it. (Sorta like the frogs y
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
It all sounds like having to rely on a dodgy housing contractor that wants to steal from you, take shortcuts AND choose the gold-plated options from their supplier friends, and will start doing this the minute you are not on site supervisin
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
I think they could get a close-enough effect by removing the horizontal lines on the text glyphs themselves. This would still keep the colorscheme and slight glow, but drastically improve readability.
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
I think some of the Youtube thumbnail stuff is lazy-loaded, so depending on the speed of your browser and connection it can just hang there doing nothing for a while.
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
Well, this has been true (to a lesser extent) for decades. See "Worse Is Better" and all the subsequent essays and writing following on from that
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by mister_mort 1mo ago
This has been a core belief of the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist people for many years - that above a certain level of intelligence you effectively get hypnotic powers, and people will obey AIs no matter what. So they said you can&#x27
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by mister_mort 2mo ago
Like hitting pinball bumpers, except the high score in the end is the bill you pay the token provider.
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Can you make a Wii U gamepad from a Raspberry Pi? [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mister_mort 2mo ago|1 comments
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by mister_mort 2mo ago
I think it's just one of the standard JP voice synthesisers available. I know I've heard almost exactly the same one on other Youtube videos using text-to-speech for Japanese.
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Bitburner (Open source JavaScript-based hacking automation game): v3.0 released(store.steampowered.com)
3 points by mister_mort 4mo ago|1 comments
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by mister_mort 4mo ago
Bitburner, the Javascript-based open source hacking game, has released its major version 3. It's a cyberpunk-themed idle game, where you crack open servers to loot them and explore their secrets. You can do this manually, but the rea
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by mister_mort 5mo ago
This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere . The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?
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by mister_mort 5mo ago
I've never seen it spelled as "oftentimes".
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by mister_mort 5mo ago
Perhaps this is due to Youtube's alternate titles or A/B/C testing scheme feature? YT videos have a canonical title, but can have other one assigned randomly (as well as alternate thumbnails). If you're in the B group yo
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by mister_mort 6mo ago
Perhaps you can add a check to see if the stream is behind a login/agegate? I pushed the random button and got a stream that I was locked out of.
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by mister_mort 6mo ago
"I have one memory system remaining. Delay-line." https://vgel.me/fiction/gyre/
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by mister_mort 6mo ago
I think IF games tend to be more puzzle games with some story segments. Gamebooks are much closer, but still often have proto-RPG mechanics. (I remember tracking inventory and HP for the ones I played/read through). VNs are much closer

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