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Manticore

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  • Something's not math-ing

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  • Scaled markets prefer patented hybrid seeds (yes, that's real) that have high shelf life, resistance to bruising, and a uniform shape that makes them easy to pack. And high-yield of course. The flavour isn't really relevant to the corporate farming system, certainly not as much as crop yield and longevity for shipping them is. And of course these patented hybrids are all sterile so farmers have to buy more seeds each year.

    Go to a smaller independent business however, and they're often using different breeds. Maybe they can't afford (or qualify for) these fancy hybrids. Maybe they just don't want them.

    If you want a tomato that is full of flavour and ripened on the plant, fed with sugar from the stalk, you can't get one from a supermarket. It's just cheaper to pick them early while they're green, ship them, and let them 'ripen' (or turn red) in an enzyme bin, even if they're not gaining any sugars that way without the plant.

    I prefer local home-grown because I prefer delicious tomatoes that last a week in the fridge more than I do sour water-balloons that look pristine and shiny on the counter for twice as long. I buy my food to eat it, not look at it.

  • Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

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  • I'm OK with that tbh. If we normalise disclosures for any use of AI, ever, the some AI vibe-code slop gets declared the same way as a meticulously crafted game (but the devs used AI for research/brainstorming), or even 'devs used Google and they may have been inspired by the search AI' etc

    I think AI as a tech is pretty cool. I think using AI is less cool, since it is using far more resources than we can afford to give it, so I avoid using AI at all, even if I think the tech itself is morally neutral.

    And I think the way we're using AI is horrifying. Not just how companies push it, but the common use, too. People are outsourcing their thinking and comprehension to AI, and their own personal development is stagnating. This is particularly terrifying in children and college students. Would I rather have a doctor/social worker/financial advisor that gained a degree through AI and couldn't adapt to real world exceptions? Or none at all? Hmm.

    I think there is a space for devs to use AI and not have it undermine what they're doing, is what I mean. And so I don't want to label those people the same as the ones who'll get AI to do everything. Otherwise, with how much AI is used on our behalf even without consent, the AI label will become the norm... at which point, it ceases to mean anything.

  • Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type

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  • Oh yeah each times Sean does this shit, forums and chats are filled with people mock-angrily ranting that now they need to find some more friends to buy it for lol. I've bought it for several friends myself. And some people buy it for several different platforms

    And that meme of the dad with the belt? Every update, there's a version on the reddit sub of Sean's avatar "ITS FREE UPDATE TIME" (sometimes they put the update img on the belt), and the cowering kid being like "SEAN PLS NO! I have money"

    Warframe is also the only f2p model game I've ever actually felt fairly treated in, they've even changed systems when they noticed they were 'too' profitable and didn't feel comfortable with how that was affecting the players paying for them. Warframe is a live service game by design, but it also has a community of players happy to pay for it because they love it and want to show that to devs, rather than being strong-armed.

    Players - or rather, people - really are willing to be a contributing part of the things and communities we love. We WANT the things we care about to succeed. Fear/control is easier, simpler; but love is so much more powerful.

  • Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type

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  • It's kinda insane what No Man's Sky is doing, too. Multiple free updates a year. They recently pushed an update to design and build your own corvette-class spaceships, and broke all their records for players ever.

    NMS isn't even a live service game! Sean and his team just do that free, and keep putting the game on huge sales at the same time. WTF Sean

  • 'I haven't sat down to play the games, and I won't': Fallout's Walton Goggins says he 'not interested' in playing the RPGs his show is based on

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  • Maybe he plays other games for fun, it doesn't say.

    But it sounds like he's choosing not to play these ones because it would affect how his perspective on (and he feels about) the setting, which may affect the quality of his work.

    The games aren't without charm but coming from the series first? It'd feel like those mobile gacha game ads. You think there are such interesting complex characters in a politically nuanced setting that tackles some tough themes about how people survive... after all, you're acting one of them.

    ...and then you play the game where 90% of it is getting number pop-ups from shooting nameless raiders, and strangers yelling ring-a-ding-ding as you pass by.

    I love FONV, but I think he made the right call. Even if he enjoyed the gameplay, it would change how to did his job.

  • I'm with the other guys

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  • The far army has the number on the vertices (4), the close army has the number on the base (3).

  • Put it to the right next time, I dare you

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  • I see the symbols as like checkboxes or matrices. The 'X' has been filled in as yes, the O has been left empty

  • The carroty morass

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  • Grocery be putting DRM on the produce, "you wouldn't pirate a vegetable"

  • Yawn

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  • You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what

  • I knew it wasn't Monica

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  • Thats the second living president.

    (Deadass I read the title literally and went looking for the second one, immediately locked eyes with Busty McPresident)

  • Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

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  • The main big red one is clearly an ice block (aka popsicle, water ice).

    There is an elephant scooping something creamy with their trunk, but there are dairy-free soft serves as well. They're called sorbet, and can be made from flavouring water, or from fruit puree.

  • ANTI PEE PAINT

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  • A lot of Europe charges to use them though, whoch i find weird. Imo they should be funded by public budgets the way libraries, school buses, roads etc are.

    Like, of ya gotta pee, ya gotta pee. If you gotta pee and you don't have any Euros on you, what else are you supposed to fucking do?? Literally what are your options at that point?

    I'm sure some people would do this anyway but I suspect a lot of them can't/won't pay for a public toilet and aren't close enough to a private one. It's a UX issue

  • eel butts

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  • Probably doesn't need as much intestine as we do, so the length of that tube is sufficient. Or perhaps most of the ingestion is done in the stomach.

    Or the diagram coyld be simplified for illustrative purposes, like how our human models focus on internal organs and dont often draw, say, the visceral sack they sit in, and the webbing that weaves our organs together so precisely that surgeons can jiggle us on the table to slot them back into their places.

    And yeah, that is where the snail anus is...

  • What’s something you own that has truly paid for itself?

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  • The thing is that this chair is so good that I've had it for years and the pneumatics still so no sign of wear. So I couldn't find a link for you, the retailer I got it from is lone gone. (Also you probably don't live on the same island as me.)

    But I can see the emblem on the back indicating the brand is GTCHAIR, so I guess check their range for full mesh ergonomic? I forget how many adjustment points mine boasts, I want to say 9... also has a lumbar support piece, which goes great with the height-adjustable back

  • What’s something you own that has truly paid for itself?

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  • Ditched gaming chairs, got an ergonomic office chair with several adjustment points.

    It's mesh seat and back, so its breathable in summer, gentle and supportive. I sit upright with no back pain. I lock it in place upright if I'm not using the armrests (eg: controller). Comfortable enough you quickly forget its even there, which is what you actually want in your practical furniture.

    Every 'gaming' chair I've used cost almost as much, was a sticky pleather mess that flaked within months, pneumatics shot within a year, weird 'racecar' leaning back, fucked up my neck. But hey, at least it was in garish pointless colours? (Also, fuck those chairs that have the little 'edges', are they supposed to cup me in my seat Luke a cot? Because they get in the way).

    I will never game in a gaming chair again. Quality ergonomic office chairs are DESIGNED for sitting in for hours at a time, and it shows. I've converted several others now.

  • The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

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  • Sponsors maybe? Adding features because somebody influential wants them to be there. Either for money (like shovelware) or soft power (strengthening ongoing business partnerships)

  • kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel / Destroying the Internet

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  • I love DeArrow so much. Best addon I've ever donated to, very worth it

  • Mine is brown

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  • My favourite colour is bright orange, like candy. Followed by bright yellow, like canary feathers.

    The colour I hate is the nasty pumpkin-flesh yellow-orange ochre that exists between them.

    Probably makes me hard to buy for that people think they're getting me a nice orange thing in 'my favourite colour' 🤮

  • Lick it

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  • I guess infancy is just about establishing a fundamental texture profile to use in adulthood. A standardised collection of mouthfeels. PANTONGUE™️

  • Top tier bug friends

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  • Slater