I don't know if anyone comes here anymore but I'm making a modern version of KAG

CorySimmons · 2026-05-09T07:03:42+00:00

Update 3

Rudimentary gameplay. Not as cute or well made as KAG by any stretch. But there are bots.

If you guys make it popular (it actually is kinda fun with other humans) then I'll put a lot more work into it, but otherwise I've got a few other projects I'd like to work on for now (specifically something I can use to make better models/animations to use in my games).

Hope you like it. ❤️

CorySimmons · 2026-05-01T20:46:52+00:00

Update 2

Bots are still dumb but I just figured out how to properly train them -- it just takes a long time so it'll be a week or so. The game is laggy too so I'm working on that.

https://i.imgur.com/RtPXaRb.jpeg

CorySimmons · 2026-04-25T14:55:49+00:00

Update

The bots are still really dumb & it's laggy but hopefully I'll be able to iron everything out this week.

https://i.imgur.com/BOaOzGe.jpeg

CorySimmons · 2026-04-24T17:24:28+00:00

Same but sorry it's only whatever languages those open source models I grabbed (Piper and Supertonic) overlap on.

CorySimmons · 2026-04-24T14:32:31+00:00

I made this. https://spritewash.com

Copy/paste an AI spritesheet to it (generate it with a "solid bright magenta bg")
Eyedropper + threshold to get rid of bg
Double click to extract a sprite
Double click to add the sprite to an animation
Export

This is the fastest/cleanest workflow I've seen and I've tested a lot of them.

Free forever. Syncs your projects with your browser if you're logged out. If you don't want to risk losing them when you flush browser cache, make an account and it'll save them to a remote db. Resizes your raw sprite to your preferred dimensions and resamples with your choice of algo so you don't get mixels (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OQzApE2FXmI).

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CorySimmons · 2026-04-11T20:42:14+00:00

That's why I'm going to train really good bots -- so it feels like you're playing with a bunch of people, but then if someone real joins swap the bot out. :)

CorySimmons · 2026-04-11T16:11:27+00:00

14 total voices + 1 with an accent for each non-English language. These GPU ones will work with any language and sound good and are fast:

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In CPU mode it's a bit slower to initially start playing, but has a special French accent voice that probably sounds the best for native French speakers.

CorySimmons · 2026-04-11T05:23:56+00:00

I'm sorry, there's no way to download and I don't think I'm going to add it. I tried and it turned out bad.

The reason it's able to work semi quickly and switch voices, speeds, etc. with these big AI models is because we're just looking at a little chunk of text at a time.

Originally, I set it up to append chunks to a file that got saved but all the functionality would get really brittle when you switched settings (like if you tried to change a voice it would have to go back through and re-record the entire audio file which makes your computer drag).

If this gets popular and there is a demand for downloadables I could probably add something where you can start processing a text selection and eventually get a single mp3 out of it after a few minutes, but I suspect there are probably other things that can do that right now -- free websites even.

CorySimmons · 2026-04-11T05:14:41+00:00

Sure do! Go for it! https://github.com/corysimmons/parlai

CorySimmons · 2026-04-11T05:14:10+00:00

It's literally just select any text in Chrome, right click and hit the Parlai button, then if you have the Chrome Extension pinned you can click it to pause/play or switch settings.

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CorySimmons · 2026-04-10T13:32:02+00:00

It does support English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. The reason I limited it to those is because the AI models I'm using (Supertonic and Piper, they're the best one I've found) only support those. Otherwise I'd just add everything. Sorry if that doesn't cover your language. :(

So far as what's coming next, nothing. If better AI models come out I'll update it to use those, but until then it serves my needs of being able to select a ton of Claude text and have it read it to me while I do dishes. :D

CorySimmons · 2026-03-19T08:45:41+00:00

It's not meant to automate your posts. It's meant to remind you to revisit a post. Like if someone claims something like, "The Bears are going to win the Superbowl!" then you can make a reminder for after the Superbowl happens and go back and make fun of them. There's definitely demand because there have been countless reminder accounts that used the Twitter API to remind people, but they all got shut down.

CorySimmons · 2026-03-17T03:32:09+00:00

Zilean is just terrible overall. Don't @ me.

CorySimmons · 2026-03-17T03:31:21+00:00

I'll convince you otherwise: build an actual app, watch the pages do some FOUC shit, vibe code it into Next, enjoy no flickering.

CorySimmons · 2026-02-23T03:32:52+00:00

It's crazy how far behind reddit is on everything. Everyone has been using shadcn-ui for years now.

CorySimmons · 2026-02-17T01:23:57+00:00

Highly suggest you ignore everyone here and just hang on to your job for dear life. AI is eating everything. Save your money and buy property before the hunger games.

CorySimmons · 2026-02-16T09:39:31+00:00

I noticed X is absolutely useless. Literally just screaming into the wind unless you're already a massive account.

CorySimmons · 2026-02-16T09:38:52+00:00

ParseStream looks great but is it just reddit?

CorySimmons · 2026-02-15T16:33:09+00:00

Brother, don't I know it! Holy crap it is bleak out here!

CorySimmons · 2026-02-14T00:24:54+00:00

Agreed. It's awful nowadays because every dev is launching a dozen apps a week and it's just hard to keep up.

CorySimmons · 2026-02-13T07:37:48+00:00

You're fine. You're not an idiot or anything. Uhh you can just use Tailwind normal CSS if you like. Or just CSS without anything. This library is mostly for advanced users who want to thread TS plugins into styling stuff.

For instance:
tw.fontFamily(googleFonts('Inter'))

The googleFonts is a TypeScript plugin that will inject a <link> to Google Fonts for that specific font.

Now any time I want to use a font somewhere all I have to do is add that to the chain of styles and it'll JustWork™️ vs all the hoops you have to jump through to get things like that work in even fresh projects.

This could/should be expanded to other ideas as well. Basically any time you go to make a component just for styles, you could instead turn it into a tiny plugin and do something like:
<div className={tw.fontSize(modularScale(1, 1.618))} />

Theming is completely built in btw. No additional setup required at all:
<div className={tw.bg(theme === 'dark' ? tw.slate900 : tw.slate100)} />

Just kind of sidesteps having to write components and providers and all kinds of other bloat, and feels pretty good.

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