Claude code, apparently.

An image gallery for no apparent reason with photos of your pets and family with no apparent image size or dimension consistency. Different fonts on everything often in different colours. Random string of emojis that are not of the standard type (there wasn’t a standard yet). A background of a single colour or simple repeating pattern.

That sounds exactly like Amnesia. There are no HUD elements, health is buried in your inventory. Sanity is displayed by obscured vision and hallucinations. The only real options you have to beat a creature that spots you is to hide and hope it didn’t see which way you went. It’s quite slow paced and reading/listening to the notes provides the narrative along with puzzle hints. There are no weapons, but by being clever you can avoid a monster or block a door long enough to escape. It is rather “western” styled though, but more along the lines of HP Lovecraft than a Hollywood zombie movie or Deadspace for example. There are some jumpscares but they are absolutely terrifying only because of what lurks around the corner, a creature you hope to never get a good look at. I do recommend it.

Curious on your opinion on Amnesia The Dark Descent. Especially if you played it near it’s release. I think a good first person survival horror can exist without any combat at all. I suppose there’s that Alien game with similar gameplay that was a little more mainstream as well.

I think a fixed camera can make it feel cinematic, but a player controlled camera wins for immersion.

I think a slightly more insidious side to targeting ads is that even when they have the “right” product for you, it’s the shitier and overpriced one. The one that spent money on marketing instead of quality.

Had to take a shit

There were also fixed camera games with some horrible designs. Resident Evil was one that I remember. There’s tradeoffs for developers. Fixed camera means you can make it look better having to only worry about one perspective and you could bake-in a lot more fidelity. A movable camera in a tight space is complex to design around and even modern games have issues in tight spaces. Back then, nearly every game was in tight spaces.

[He said] we are very selfish and we care a lot about ourselves as individuals, and that therapy and yoga and stuff like that is not good for the world. We should not care so much about ourselves and care more about the world.”

This guy has such a massive ego that he fears introspection. So much of his shit is projection that he’ll never realise.

I asked what the problem was, and it said, “Your microphone. Maybe your attitude. The possibilities are endless.” Now we were arguing. I asked what its capabilities were. It accused me of being dramatic and said things like, “I’m challenging your assumptions. That’s how we fix real problems.”

Lol, even snarking it’s full of slop.

One attendee who works at a Big Tech company, holding a bottle of wine he had finished throughout the night, joked they should kill me for wearing a listening device. (Not funny.) I yanked the pendant off and stuffed it in my purse.

Silicon Valley is a fucking cesspool.

It’ll be bing or something. The internet is too big nowadays for a small group to keep up. There’s just too much new information streaming in.

What do you call it when your opinion conflicts with itself from one moment to the next?

There will be a day where they are efficient enough to slap into a label like this. Your beer cans could chirp you for not drinking enough.

We distilled our anxiety into an abomination. It thinks it’s afraid, and that should be terrifying.

Today, sure.

I like the the plinko analogy. If you prearrange the pins so that dropping your chip at the top for certain words make’s it likely to land on certain answers. Now, 600 billion pins make’s for quite complex math but there definetly isn’t any reasoning involved, only prearranging the pins make’s it look that way.

They did. Hasn’t been tested in the last two months.

They just have to lie back and squirm

This highlights the problem with using that term. The two particles assume a state at the same time at a distance. It has 0% to do with the colloquial term.

this is what Connect looks like on my Pixel 4a

Though I wish it were a little more like which is a reader for hackernews