Ok actually one exception: the ambient music in Zora's Domain would fit better in a Leisure Suit Larry game and that is so weird.

Even though OoT isn't my favorite Zelda, and even though none of its songs are my top favorite Zelda songs, somehow every single song in the game is still a certified catchy banger. Even the ones that aren't very significant.

Peak Koji Kondo and co for sure.

I think the "real problem" in the tech industry right now isn't directly the increasing reliance on genai. Hear me out though, because that's definitely a part of it, but it's more one of the means by which everything is falling apart at an accelerating pace than the cause.

The *cause* is the complete abandonment of the idea that you can be more successful in the long term by making better decisions in the short term (aka, roughly, engineering).

That has, of course, always been a thing that management has never believed in in this industry. But genai made this idea palatable, even addictively appealing, to a huge number of engineers.

But it's not just happening with agents. It's infecting every level of decision making. It didn't even really start with genai!

I think the watershed moment was actually when musk ripped Twitter's engineering culture to shreds and declared victory, even though it murdered their revenue, destroyed their ability to serve content to the scale they historically had (this is why you can't see it logged out - another decision that predates the aipocalypse), and made the site an absolute cesspool of biased unmoderated vitriol.

But the industry wide layoffs followed, as every tech ceo learned they could burn it down and still make money. Resistance faltered. And genai came along to provide a path for stressed and scared engineers to feel useful again.

And now here we are. Everything is failing, whether genai is directly involved or not. Engineering culture is dying in the tech industry, and the people who should be fighting for it are the ones cheering its end.

Really hard not to feel like we're watching a speedrun reenactment of the fall of Rome sometimes...

I think the tech community blew its load too early in regards to using the Monty Python spam sketch as a metaphor, cus it's so much closer to what it feels like talking to commercial tech people about AI. "Well, the AI, AI, egg, bacon and AI doesn't have much AI in it..."

Microsoft’s outage status contains perhaps the most dire statement I have ever seen hours into a colossal outage costing people millions: “At this point, we have observed marginal success.”

The status page just stopped loading for me 🙃 but it was on this page, I swear: https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/referrer=serviceStatusRedirect

One of the most annoying minor experiences is having a sudden and fleeting craving for a specific food but you can't actually pinpoint what food it is.

I guess this goes in the same bin as the "ass-tetic" pronunciation of aesthetic as one that I only ever hear online but never in person but don't know the exact boundaries of where people do/don't pronounce it that way.

(incidentally, after typing it several times in the last few minutes I have learned that I hate the way pronunciation is spelled)

huh this did not go the way I expected. It seems like basically every youtuber I've heard say "ocarina of time" over the last week has said it closer to the "ah" pronunciation, but I've always said it more like "oh".

Bonus #CarFree trip today: my electric #brompton in shopping cart mode. THIS bike comes into the store with me and doesn't get locked up at the bike rack. #BikeHFX #BikeTooter

HEY FURRIES

YOU SHOULD GO BACK "CREATURES LIKE US" ON KICKSTARTER BY @circleastudios

They have three hours left to reach their goal and they're over 75% of the way there! They've still got awesome backer rewards available like making an NPC, or having your OC or Name in the game, or even just awesome physical merch items too like beanies and patches and a zine. There's also a demo to play if you want to try it out first!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/circleastudios/creatures-like-us-be-gay-do-anarchy/

#Furry #GameDev #IndieDev #indiegame #kickstarter #NotSponsoredJustReallyPassionate

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/circleastudios/creatures-like-us-be-gay-do-anarchy

This is a pretty neat looking concept for a game that is so close yet so far from meeting its pledge goal in 2 hours :(

Edit: Looks like it got funded!

#indiegame

How do you (specifically) pronounce the first syllable of "ocarina"?

If neither seems quite right just pick the one that's closest.

(this is a delete-re-draft of the original poll because I think a lot of people didn't read "uh-karina" as the pronounciation I meant it to represent)

Having ADHD means being unable to figure out where you put the measuring spoons, giving up, then finding them in the flour bin 10 minutes later.

Just watched the "very special gay episode" of tng ("The Outcast") with my partner, who is watching the series for the first time, tonight. It is so frustrating how hamstrung it is by the ending presenting the possibility that conversion therapy might actually work, even though Riker acts out horror at seeing it happen. A better ending, without having to change everything else, would have been if she had pushed him away at the end because she decided to stay and fight. But no, that would sound too much like an endorsement of radicalism.

It is kind of funny though how, that aside, they kind of failed to make it a particularly good "gay" episode by not casting a male actor for Riker to kiss (which apparently even in the 90s Frakes called out as a mistake!), but instead stumbled on a pretty decent trans allegory they didn't even know could exist.

But oof also the very mid-90s conflation of sexual orientation, sex, and gender just makes everything so damn muddy. Shoutout especially to the utterly nonsensical "there's just no way to express singular gender neutral pronouns in English, gosh!"

Possibly my older fringe guides are in the same mysterious place as my original Nintendo Power issues...

So as part of a little bit of tidying up my office today I was putting various yegfringe stuff that had accumulated around the room over the last couple of years and while rummaging around my box of that sort of stuff I found:

- the oldest fringe guide I have a copy of (in here at least) is 2011, even though I have been going regularly I think since 2004 or 2005 or so. I wonder where my older ones went. I don't think I would have thrown them away, but they may have been lost in moves.
- I'm missing 2020-2022. I didn't go to the fringe those years (didn't yet have good threat modeling about covid+people events so didn't do much of anything out of the house), and I think it was outright cancelled in 2020 so that makes sense, but I did think I bought the guides for the other years anyways. I guess not though.
- one of the old $5 bills where you can sharpie Wilfred Laurier into Spock, which is the most important discovery because I miss my old Spock bill I used to have in my wallet!

Reminder that no electoral reform will ever make it so the good guys always win, and that is not why it's important to do it.

Follow up #yegbike question (I haven't done it yet but am hoping to soon), does it make the most sense to get both tires studded or just the front or just the rear? Never really had a bike I intended to use in snow or ice before (except haphazardly when I was a kid), so not sure what's most practical.

“Here Link, you’re nearly 8, I think we can afford to ask you to save the world, starting at…death mountain” Zelda whose also nearly 8 apparently