Notices by Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)

Wow. They're calling the rise of AA, B and Indie games "deprofessionalization" now.

A lot of middle-men like large publishers and management are supposedly losing employees because small teams and just regular individuals have been learning to make good games, raising the bar and lowering the entry barrier.

To which I say: good fucking riddance. Cancerously oversized AAA publisher establishment needs to go the way of the TV in the wake of online video: slow, undignified extinction.

Life goals

Знаете, что? Задрало меня сидеть как лох без сварочного аппарата.

Посоветуйте сварочник (скорее, класс сварочников, наверное, даже) для абсолютного нуба, который вообще не умеет варить.

Варить буду пока что в основном чернягу, разумеется.

@rf

Terminal emulators need an option where they show a date and time of every output line.

GOG strung Ross Scott along for #StopKillingGames promotion for half a year, ended up not doing this.

Fuck.

Just fucking sign it already

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#SKG #StopKillingGames #StopGaaS #GaasIsFraud #gaming

I also founded a small instance mastodonsocial.ru 8 years ago, which has, with help from @mo, @ZySoua, @inex, @Chia, @frssoft, @sarahquartz, @th3rdsergeevich and even @SiberiaBread (and let me know if I forgot to mention anybody) become a little known server called mastodon.ml. Thank you all. Even if some of you are patent assholes.

I also like talking and raving and ranting into microphones and I want the ru-fedi community to be cohesive, so I (along with @pastecat, @blue and @Kill2BlooD, can't forget u, ppl) created the Regular Expressions bi-weekly podcast. Thanks, @th3rdsergeevich for hosting it and everybody who has ever participated or gave it a listen.

Both projects have since taken on the life on their own, and I stepped down from being in charge for both of them. Which has always been the plan, by the way, so don't be sorry, they are fine, no regrets.

There are other crazy things in the pipeline. So... Let's be friends! Who knows what we'll do.

#introduction #introductions

Ohai! I believe, I never got any formal #introduction on this platform.

I'm drq. I'm coming in peace from Moscow, Russia. I'm male, bi, in my mid 30s, I've been doing the Fediverse stuff for at least 8 years now. Promoting it, giving lectures and seminars about it, in my home land (albeit, carefully), making content for it, managing and moderating communities. It's my life's work.

I love movies, so I host @fmn with help from @frssoft and, earlier, @Chia. I want russian-speaking Fediverse community to be connected and strong, so I made @rf and adorned it with copious amounts of klukva - which is ironic fake-Soviet-Russian imagery (thank you, @fa11_1eaf for rewriting the underlying code). I want to support Fediverse's venue into multimedia, so I host xxivproduction.video (thx @vae and @Kill2BlooD for help, and @blue for the ongoing support).

#introductions

@kini We have a local LLM server that supports the vast majority of those, and is pretty versatile. You know, Ollama.

I think, integrating an API for it into various software might not be the craziest idea. If the browser or whatever sees the local Ollama, it just uses it. Or allows for manually pointing it to a non-local URI.

What I hate is, when every piece of software is downloading its own model.

Come on. I don't have infinite hard drive space.

@evan

I wish there was an ActivttyPub tester / data flow simulator that can emulate, like, activity of various Fediverse software for testing compatibility.

Like, you're developing a new AP software, and want to test how well it integrates into the existing instances, and you want to emulate, say for example, a busy Mastodon instance. You just spin this up, point it at your new software, set what kinds of objects and activities you want to exchange, and run it.

I bet, this would've speed up the development of the new AP software significantly.

@bogdan is the inverse true as well?

I mean, does everything that can suck your dick use a phone number for auth?

Omg, it's probably true.

Ну вот, обидел хорошего человека.

@a1ba Does it only work on nvidia cards?

@cwebber Isn't royalty *all* about nepotism?

@vv

It's fascinating how, in nature, critical thinking is actually a high-level anomaly. It's energy-expensive, it's demanding, it's built on other stuff like neuroplasticity, abstraction and language, it's hard. The vast majority of life on Earth is not generally built around it - most creatures are just content with their own ecological niche they're evolved into and just want to be left alone and not die, resources permitting.

But not you. You are incredibly lucky(/unfortunate) to have this incredible, very unusual, very not-normal tool at your disposal. A creature that is capable of questioning its environment, and most importantly, questioning itself.

Even if everything is ruined, even if your life is shit, even if everything has gone tits up, I want you to know that you're still kind of a miracle in plain sight.

Don't waste it. Use it for good. While you still can.

@killyourfm Are you back at Forbes?

The wide availability of transport layer DDoS attacks (especially stuff like UDP flood) shows us how extremely and deeply broken the Internet actually is, and how much of it is an honor system designed for much simpler times.

@hj that's me if I wore glasses and was female.

Dear game graphics developers. Stop making frame upscaling and frame generation technology into a necessity.

Seriously, stop.

I mean, it's definitely a nice-to-have, and within its own limitations, it can be a good addition to the graphics pipeline, but it definitely isn't a replacement for graphics optimization.

Frame generation can help you slightly increase perceived smoothness - which is awesome because it's not a tragedy anymore if a game drops a frame or two, but in order for it to work properly, there has to already be a lot of frames.

Frame upscaling can help you slightly increase total resolution of a frame - which is awesome, because I can take a peek at new demanding tech like raytracing without buying a NASA computer, but in order to work properly, there has to already be a lot of the frame itself.

See how those algorithms are self-limiting? It's by design. Stop hiding bad graphics behind them.

We've already been there with bloom, depth of field and motion blur.

@djsumdog capitalism simps talking like proper fascists ("the weak", etc.) ain't news to me as well.

Shoo.