Matthew

work in game dev, mostly here to lurk

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@AngAesthetics I'm sorry, but I don't understand the argument. I'm not trying to be obtuse.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@SarcasticCupcak @petespiliakos ?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@ThomisticDan @BMcGrewvy I worry it's a circular proposition. The same toxic positivity that prodices the current crop of mediocre, failing western AAA slop is what structurally forcloses having the sorts of PMs who would right the ship. Allergic to anything chud-coded.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@petespiliakos My sense is that all the conspiracy talk of "stolen" elections let's them avoid accountability or need to change when they inevitably start losing. But we'll see how the party is in 2028.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@pegobry_en What's the principled difference between video games and board games? Or do you view them as a waste of time too?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@ThomisticDan @BMcGrewvy Similar dynamic in the video games industry, where older developers were scrappy and newer ones tend to come from highly educated, wealthy backgrounds. It's part of the reason AAA is having trouble connecting with majority of players (who are non-college, more working class).

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@Quinurum @FriesIlover49 @ChaseBrowe32432 Try tilting your device up or down and pretend you're looking at the top or bottom of a soda can.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@johnddavidson The technology has other purposes (programming help, materials science, agricultural applications, weather prediction, medical diagnosis) that go significantly beyond better YouTube recommendations or other atomizing technologies. How does this factor against your concerns?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@lymanstoneky Why gamble when I can just fire up Diablo II?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@ReformedArsenal @GShaneMorris I was cautious before, but university studies changed my mind; Pangram is highly reliable with extremely low false positive rates (which is not too surprising given how the model is designed) e.g.: https://t.co/BZN3it5DD5

[Matthew @orangecmp]

And the growth rate will be -1%.

[meta thomist 🇻🇦 @metathomist]

America will become Catholic.

Sundays will be non-work days.

All feast days no school.

All restaurants will observe lent.

Married couples will have no income tax.

All schools will teach the Catechism.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@nebweber @aethelamerican @RichardHanania I'm genuinely curious: what other plan is there?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@BMcGrewvy Now I want to know her opinion of Charles Taylor's work.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@WxRiskGrains @earlyvotedata This has all the markers of AI generated audio.

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@aaron_renn Where does TV fit into your three worlds hypothesis? Do you think it was an accelerant --> dissolving community bonds and undermining transmission of Christian institutions/values to children?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@ZyMazza @Valuable Didn't the early church fathers treat this passage as ecclesiological--a reference to the Church?

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@kitten_beloved @politicalmath I'm not sure the author is selling anything: https://t.co/R7NXd7zv0m

[Matthew @orangecmp]

@JasonCorley78 I'm pretty sure Substack integrated Pangram into their site. FWIW, I randomly copied 400 words from The Old Man and the Sea and it came back 100% human; screenshots might use their alpha image gen detector. (Pangram's university studies made me far more confident in the model.)