Pokémon Champions monetization is weird. It has the typical F2P thing where you start out with lots of currency and items, but then it slows to a crawl. The weird thing is that this is true even if you pay.
After 15 hours playing (supposedly), I completed the entire battle pass and got 50 Pokémon, but now it seems like I’ll only be able to get a few Pokémon per week even if I log in and play every day.
I guess it’ll improve in a month when the next battle pass comes out.
excellent commitment to the bit by @… this april fool's joke. but i'd also totally read a newsletter that breaks down weird al shows. he played keyboards in this era, too, along with accordion (& the same band lineup he still plays with today).
I have a weird feeling, as shit gets more and more real, that stuff like our international trade deals will have to be abandoned out of self-preservation (most were entered into to benefit not NZers, but the wealthiest NZers - a form of implicit TrickleDown). I wonder which political party will have steel enough to point it out.
Spent some time fiddling with my experimental crackle weave operation in #adacad, and am thinking of trying to thread this one
I'd have thought that the square patches of different patterns would give it an interesting woven structure? #weaving
As an EV driver, can confirm.
#EV
"The arc of history bends towards justice."
- literally propaganda levels of distortion
- justice for whom?
- are you still talking about that weird Greeks -> Romans -> (white) Europeans -> American colonizers inconsistently ethnocentric idea of history?
"The arc of history bends towards material and sociological configurations which have long-term stability."
- true by definition
- highlights value of millennia-old indigenous sociological configurations and knowledge systems that are still around and which could reasonably outlast the current millennium-young self-destructive necropolitical mess
- applicable at any timescale of interest
- hard to say
Unfortunately, "nuclear wasteland" and "Venus" are both material configurations which have long-term stability, but history offers plenty of other options; not every human gets cancer.
#anarchism
Den of Angels is a forum dedicated to the appreciation of resin ball-jointed dolls and the artisans who make them, started in May 2002 as a Yahoo! Group
https://denofangels.com/
one reason recommendation systems seem terrible to me: I used to go to bookstores basically to read the bookshelves, not really looking for a book to read. similarly, I often open up netflix with a vague feeling of "maybe I'll watch something", but really what interests me is the browsing, and I'm unsatisfied by the weird browsing experience. sometimes I do hunt and want something to pounce on, but most of the time I'm just exploring
I watched this entire video. It told me that I am the most insecure translator in the world 😁
Also ->
"As a french speaker, these words are basically the same in french, and people often find it weird when i know all these "complicated" words but that I only learnt the word "lawnmower" yesterday 😭"
If You Know These 12 Words, Your English Is AMAZING
Old footage new filters cheap effects = weird montazh
Season 4 Episode 1 "Race Against Time: part 1"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch
Nuke bug of the day: Nuke's color pipeline breaks with completely nonsensical errors whenever you add the keyword "default_view_transform:" to your OCIO configuration. That's really weird because it doesn't really do anything color-related except define which value the viewer should be set to initially.
#Nuke
Spotify is sometimes useful for illustrating good music which I'm not aware of. Sometimes it plays something which I just don't like. Sometimes it plays something so weird and off-the-wall I have to stop what I'm doing and ponder wtf goes through the artist's mind.
It played "Declassified", some rap song which I'd never heard of. I'm generally not a fan of rap, but nerdcore is alright, (which is evidently why it decided to tangent to that).
They a bunch of satanist…
Wanna see something weird? That's part of the first N from BENTONITE, written in black Sharpie on glass. Condensation following the cold crash lifted part of it off intact and deposited it a ways down the bottle like a decal!
After spending 25 hours in Promise Mascot Agency doing absolutely everything there is to do apart from time trials, I had a real hankering to play more Yakuza, but it sounds like Kiwami 3 needs a patch or two. Instead, I started the PMA developer’s previous game Paradise Killer, because it was already given away on Epic. There was a hint of cosmic horror here and there in PMA, but it sure is all over the place in Paradise Killer - and it is extremely weird in its own way as well. Good time s…
Truly weird. No, wait: Truly outrageous.
Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Whoa! #WhoWasTheMaleVersionOf #Jem
Americans have no idea how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/
Rather weird pet project:
https://github.com/Manawyrm/Webbrick 🧱🪟💥
Will take a static HTML website and bundle it up with a tiny, hardened Linux kernel and the Caddy webserver into an immutable OS image, which can be run in the cloud.
Just kernel, caddy and busybox, nothing else (~30 MB…
good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …
For some reason hundreds of trillions of atoms have combined to be me for a while. Weird.
#showerthoughts
Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
Spotify is sometimes useful for illustrating good music which I'm not aware of. Sometimes it plays something which I just don't like. Sometimes it plays something so weird and off-the-wall I have to stop what I'm doing and ponder wtf goes through the artist's mind.
It played "Declassified", some rap song which I'd never heard of. I'm generally not a fan of rap, but nerdcore is alright, (which is evidently why it decided to tangent to that).
They a bunch of satanist…
Too cool to calypso,
Too tough to tango,
Too weird to watusi
-- The Only Ones
I've had ideas rattling around in my head for a while but not quite hitting coherence.
What does a "rich terminal" mean to you as a developer? We're in a really weird place right now with regards to UI and UX, with chat as a normal mode of operation being everywhere, yet we're constrained to two major paradigms: the terminal user interface, and the instant message. Both come with really weird limits to their affordances.
And there's prior art here — light table, jupyter notebooks, observable hq, rich REPLs — but they're usually this weird hybrid of not quite transcript not quite live program that I find somewhere between unsettling and frustrating.
I do however think it's well past time we abandoned monospaced type as the core way we think about source code, and at the same time, built better user interfaces than that allows, without going full "this is a program with its own interface”
It's weird uncharted territory.
I've always practiced defensive coding in my software engineering career. Lots of tests, belt-and-suspenders safety in the code to prevent weird, dumb things. This approach is paying off in spades using AI to program. I'm used to building a safety net.
Sometimes you stop a youtube video and whoever is talking on camera seems to be in the thralls of an orgasm.
It's weird as heck.
I'm getting weird spam signups. They use nonsensical names, but email addresses with existing (if spammy) domains. They pass the captcha. And then they are registered and never do anything. Any ideas where these are coming from?
Helion has just announced they got D-T fusion working in their reactor; this is pretty big; they're not claiming break even yet - but Helion is one of the odder (non-tokamak) designs which is much further along than most others, but weird enough that no one is too sure if they'll get it to work - the next important thing is to see if they get their direct energy recovery to work;
I love editing videos and adding dumb shit every 5 seconds
60 years ago yesterday, the watts acid test, one of the more unhinged events of the dead’s era with the merry pranksters & the night the electric kool-aid got its name, a story well-told elsewhere. weird vibes & one of the most acid test-y of the acid test tapes, 15 hard-tripping minutes & not much music, tracks 6-9: https://
I just spent money on getting jeans tailored. That felt weird.
There is a country where the leader is a pedophile, the average size is morbidly obese and they mesure size in football field.
Guess what? They say Japan is weird
Went to the grand master palace today and saw this weird Star Wars thing on display like it’s a national treasure in a glass case and all.
Weird.
Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …
I wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.
RE: https://mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/116053098600368810
DOCTORS HATE THEM!
USE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK!
LEARN THE TRUTH NOW!
It’s always so weird when someone you looked up to and liked suddenly out of nowhere starts defending “AI”, especially uninvited (e.g. when you have a conversation with someone else on social media).
I think it’s a reflexive way to try to distract themselves from them knowing that AI has tons of problems yet they’re still using it because it’s convenient in some fashion.
Sure landmines are convenient too for some uses, yet…
if i ever get exposed for having a questionable search history my best and most likely honest excuse will be all my mastodon moderation work... you post some weird links, folks
Tiny loaf of bread turned out weird looking but tastes just fine.
#baking #food #bread
The case of “vegetative electron microscopy” illustrated here shows what is badly needed in current #LLM research and has implications far beyond. We need tools that help us curate huge corpora. We need to be able to trace #hallucinations back to the training data and understand what are the specific (to a sur…
Took a day to track down an interesting issue: an absolute ton of noise coming out of the `gscart` SCART switch. It was bad going through the RetroTINK 5X and intolerable coming through the RetroTINK 4K. Started with the SNES, swapped out cables and it was still there. Then copied the ROM and save state over to the MiSTer and saw the same exact issue with analog output from the MiSTer.
It was weird because the SNES is RGB modded via Voultar's SNESRGB and should have some absolut…
Electronicos Fantasticos!
Watch!
Listen!
It is weird in the best way!
#music
Is robovac ‘vibe vacuuming’? Letting it rip around your house, and not paying attention when it makes weird noises, smashes into things, and once a week or so having to get it out of a jam?
A better (multiband) OTT plugin? Free forever, no iLok, no telemetry? With a GUI built with HTML and #CSS?
“Sounds a bit weird – but it’s also pretty dope, because it works on all systems out of the box.”
—@…
Call me ottrigued! 😁👏
Habe in einem Buch diesen alten Sticker aus der Jahrtausendwendezeit gefunden. Witzig was wir damals für Themen hatten - nicht.
Die Domain leitet heute um auf die Seite einer britischen Promotion Firma die sich als Zeitung ausgibt. Weird.
"Clid the Snail" (Steam version) doesn't upload its save to the cloud AND the game stores it in the Windows Registry. If you are jumping between Windows and Linux installs, you might want to be extra careful and back up this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Weird Beluga Studio\Clid The Snail]
The actual save data is in "SaveGame_XXXXX". Export the key from your new install. Open it in a text editor. Copy and paste into it the data from your backup. Reimpor…
Did I just spend too much time making this gif for a presentation? Maybe....
ICAO C0583A, Air Canada A330-300 (333) C-GHKR (fin 935) is claiming to be right in the middle of CYUL, squawking 1000, and still declaring an Ident of DIRTY2. Really weird.
https://www.flightradar24.com/DIRTY2/3e444636
Friends over the weekend tried making some brownies with a vegan egg substitute but no modifications to accommodate that. The oils separated completely and they got a weird sludge that became increasingly tar-like as it cooled. I referred to them as “vibe-coded brownies,” and everybody was just like “ha, yep”
I swear everyone over on BlueSky is drunk tonight.
Well, most of them are Americans, and I guess that considering what's going on there, getting drunk is not such a weird reaction.
Sometimes people have such a great sounding keyboard that I want to ask them all about it, but then their stream is about something so completely different, it would be very weird for me to do so
I have to say I find it weird how people who would usually defend stuff like Burp as "legitimate dual use tools" are now criticizing Anthropic for building a dual-use tool and at least trying to mitigate the harms.
I mean sure, it might just be marketing, or a shakedown of software- and exploit developers alike to get them to burn tokens, or an evil plan to make the world less secure, or something. Might all be the case.
I personally tend to believe that most people are…
Great new track from Processor, 'Odd grl'. Weird and dark and heavy and throbby
#electronic
Watched the movie Mickey 17 last night. I know it was not commercially successful, but I liked it. Good weird sci-fi movie with interesting characters. #movies #cinema
The UltraScale IOSERDES cutting out all of the modes other than 4:1 and 8:1 is forcing me to do some truly cursed things in a project I can't yet share, but will soon.
Why do so many of my projects end up with weird gearboxes, crossings between related clocks that are not integer multiples of each other, etc?
This is really great. Insane tech and weird mix of old and new and just great.
https://youtu.be/E1BLGpE5zH0?is=cHUWCpLD3QIaxYFD
Sigh had to unfollow yet another Internet-person I’ve looked up to because they got completely weird about AI and it’s suddenly the only thing they can talk about.
It’s basically a cult. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Last week, Trump tried to scratch his election-meddling itch in a new way:
a weird-trick-style executive order trying to seize federal control of mail voting by creating new lists of whose ballots the Postal Service can and can’t mail.
Pro-democracy advocates who are focused on the president’s election predations remain wary.
Not because they think the order has a prayer in court,
but because they see it as part of a larger, ongoing presidential strategy to sow doubt…
Sorry for all the weird posts today… I’m gonna blame the medication.
This isn't just people in power and right-wingers and weird anti-vaxxers and fluoride conspiracy nuts and "AGI" believers and "bombing for peace" enthusiasts.
Every time you don't wear a mask when indoors in public it's you doing this too.
Every time you think LLMs can think it's you doing this too.
Every time you dismiss someone crossing a red line it's you doing this too.
This is a really weird advertising email to receive.
Not Weird
#JoseSolano #MichaelNewman
Season 8 Episode 19 "Diabolique"
#RandomBaywatch
weird bug of the day. opening Steam's settings causes my bluetooth mouse to stop working. log messages seem to indicate the bluetooth driver gets into some state where it continually fails to process the mouse's messages, persists until I reboot. (aurora-dx linux, based on fedora 43). not going to bother diagnosing further
Blonde Ayuni looks weird :)
Seriously the theme of the next few years are going to be “you can check that, you know. Did you actually check?"
It's going to be tedious. It's going to be super annoying. And it's going to be a good part of what keeps us tethered to conversations that actually work with other people and don't turn into weird factions.
Noise hunting update: the 120 Hz / 38 kHz stuff was a USB-A QC power brick feeding a small external monitor on the lab bench.
Swapped to a different brick and it went away.
But the weird constellation smearing and eye closure is still here. The noise was a red herring.
So weird how this happens when no one is even thinking about doing even the easiest and simplest precautions (masks).
Amazing how we are in the fucking 7th year of this and almost all people just ignore it.
Spectacular stuff. No notes.
just now realized I was standing on my toes when peeing, and felt weird about it. have I always been doing that? it didn't feel habitual, but it didn't feel novel either. I'm wondering if this is some misdirected biological urge to mark that tree as high as I can, to advertise how big my business is. we're an authorized reseller of Pen Island art markers, for all your bathroom-stall scribbling needs
Now is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.
I'm so confused I've tried to find any persistent state across de-embed filter invocations and i *think* I've cleared everything out.
If i blow away the fft plan i get no output which is weird and needs further investigation (something not being initialized until the second filter execution or something?).
Wiping all of the VkBuffer's i could find had no effect. I tried adding submits after each shader in case of anything strange happening in command buffers wrt b…
RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
An echo chamber would require that replies work reliably and quote posting stuff doesn’t have weird delays so no
Ok fedi, you're full of game devs and weird microarchitecture experts and generally the right kind of people to ask...
I'm thinking about a generic data representation for multi-bit vectors in ngscopeclient.
Right now we support single-bit digital signals (one byte aka C bool per sample), analog signals (one float32 per sample), and arbitrary struct/class types (for protocol decoder output).
Notably missing is multi-bit digital vectors. There is some legacy code i…
What a weird failure mode ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pretty sure I just got my first AI-bot spam question about an item I have listed on eBay.
The account was from 2017 and had 0 feedback.
If you're a seller on eBay, I recommend not answering "weird" questions and immediately block the account via the buyer blocking feature. (https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock)
@comex@mas.to
