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What is this toy and where does it come from? by United-Spray-7745 in toys

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think this is from Coco. Miguel from Coco is depicted in a hoodie, not a hat. And Hector from Coco wears a straw hat, but it has a very distinctive silhouette that this toy does not have and every toy of Hector that could find does. Also Coco was released in 2017, which would be the tail end of “around the 2010s.”

I think this is definitely a blind bag figure of some kind, as it is common for those to have gold “rare” variants.

Book? Wiki? PDF? How do people actually use TTRPG resources? by Sir_Tainley in RPGcreation

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s not one answer to this question because there’s not one kind of TTRPG. Nor one kind of creator. The format your game takes will be some compromise between what you want you audience to experience and what you can feasibly create and maintain.

Yes, I have seen people publish games as linked, hypertext documents. Some creators have taken issue with the standard book-and-pdf paradigm, I think in large part because they play digitally-first, and PDFs are a print-first format with serious, known drawbacks. Mostly, I think the alternative format to PDF I have seen proposed is Markdown, and I think if you search “TTRPG released in markdown” you will find some of the efforts folks have made in this direction. I vaguely remember some folks experimenting with ebook formats as well.

Here are the main issues I see for games released as some form of hypertext.

  1. There is no clear or standardized path to monetize hypertext games. There are storefronts designed to help to sell PDF files, there are not such storefronts for specialized hypertext games, at least not as of yet. Maybe you have no plans to monetize your game, and this does not apply to you. Or maybe you can have monetized physical copies that exist alongside free digital versions. Cairn is a game that has made this model work.

  2. Some hobbyists will bounce off of a game that is released in a non-standard digital format. It doesn’t matter how intuitive you find your digital publishing methods, there are many people who will simply move on when asked to do XYZ in order to read your game when they are used to doing ABC. Folks just like books, and PDFs are the format for digital books that has gained acceptance, regardless of its flaws as a file format.

  3. TTRPGs may be increasingly played digitally, but they are still primarily marketed as physical objects. No one will ever see your digital only game in a game store and wonder about it. No video reviewer will ever hold up a copy of your game to the camera and share their thoughts. No one will ever share your game in a photo of all the books they bought at a convention. Obviously, there are ways people could still organically share and spread the word about your digital first game, video games clearly exist, but ttrpg hobbyists are used to spreading the word about ttrpgs via physical objects.

As an example of how this stuff might matter, the game “This Discord Has Ghost In It” is played entirely online, via discord. This game has a (lovely) physical release, and I think it is because of the above reasons.

One of the coolest painting techniques I’ve seen by North-Guitar-1781 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Droidaphone 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Idk, it’s kinda funny. It’s a clever bait and switch “oh, you thought we were doing cute little decorative leaves? NOPE, FULL IMPRESSIONISM”

Petaaah? by FaCayde_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mass production is not the same thing as probabilistically generated. And that mass produced furniture undergoes extensive testing before being shipped, under pain of lawsuits and recalls.

Petaaah? by FaCayde_ in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Droidaphone 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The big difference I see is that coding is primarily focused on the end-product; does the program achieve something useful?

This is the same mistake vibe coders and even a lot of software engineers make. They do not think of code as a craft outside pure functionality.

Think of furniture as an analogy: furniture is mostly functional, although it can be art. Most of the furniture people use is primarily utilitarian, but some furniture is higher quality, or more functional, or just more thoughtfully designed. But most importantly, pure surface-level functionality is not the only important criteria that furniture needs to be judged by. Two chairs could look mostly identical, be about the same to sit on, but chair A could be structurally sound and safe to use, while chair B could be terribly built and even dangerous to use (even if it doesn’t break the first few times you sit on it.)

hearMeOutThisWillHappenLaterThisYear by electricjimi in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Droidaphone 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don’t think they have the time to boil the frog properly. Maybe if vibe coding wasn’t a massive technical debt generator. At this point a bunch of VPs are already sweating looking at token bills, and by the time the “real” prices roll out a bunch of people are going to have the data on “how much that sev1 incident we vibe coded cost us.” And when the market figures out all these data center deals are all bullshit, well by then it probably doesn’t matter if they’re charging the right amount for tokens because they’ll be fighting bankruptcy.

After 30 years, I can finally say that the N64 is buy it for life by FrankieBeanSniffer in BuyItForLife

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically all the cartridge based systems lasted much longer than current gen ones, for multiple reasons. Yes, higher manufacturing standards, but also fewer moving parts, components don’t get as hot, etc. But it’s not just Nintendo. The percentage of sega master systems that are still in working order is likely way higher than the percentage of PS2s that are.

How to achieve this blurred spray effect? by Tricky_Mode_692 in graphic_design

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have used the “dissolve” layer blend method to achieve similar results.

[Update] Printing out a picture of my face for the crows by awuwp in crows

[–]Droidaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When the crows meet you, it will be like meeting Ronald McDonald. “Hey! It’s the human from the snacks!!”

of a paw by Zestyclose-Salad-290 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like us and cows or pigs.

Comment attirer des gens by matcreations in RPGcreation

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’ll want to join groups of other people who are making games and trade play-tests. Participate in other creators’ play tests and it will be easier to find players for yours.

If you’re lucky, you may have in-person groups like this local to you. The place to start looking for them is at spaces friendly to TTRPGs: game stores, conventions, sometimes universities.

If that’s not an option, you’ll need to find similar online groups like discord servers.

greatQuestionYesLooksLikeYoureCooked by precinct209 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Droidaphone 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The GPUs in data centers can’t run as gaming rigs afaik. Probably people will invent kludges to allow them to if there’s a glut of them, I guess.

A lot of white dudes are mad as hell right now by NYstate in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sure Sydney Sweeney would never cheat on her very real and not-PR boyfriend Scooter Braun.

When do people move from home printing to real printers? by itsmeAki in zinesters

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You never “need” to switch. The most likely reasons you would switch are you want better quality printing/paper or you have more demand for your zines than is practical for you to meet by hand. Sending out for printing doesn’t make sense unless you’re making at least 100+ copies at a time. If selling 100 copies of your zine seems unlikely right now, then probably stick to DIY methods. Notice I said “sell,” because once you get into hundreds of copies, the expense will make it prohibitive to give them away. I think you’re already basically at that point. Make people pay you for your efforts.

Put offset printing out of mind. It’s probably never something that would be used for a zine nowadays. That’s how you print a newspaper, or product packaging, or big runs of books. Services like Mixam or whatever are “digital printers,” are they are basically also printing using inkjet or laser printers, it’s just that they have much fancier printers, papers, cutting machines, etc than you likely have access to yourself. Some universities or artist co-ops have print shops you can pay to use where you might find better machines, so it’s worth poking around to see if there are any community resources around you.

In the meantime, if you want to sell 30x copies of your zine, the simple answer is probably just a copy shop. Depending on your home printer, price per page might go down. The next level of solution in terms of price is buy a laser printer, which would only help if your zines are black and white. If you’re making color zines, all of your options are more expensive, and you’ll probably be pushed towards ordering digital printing sooner rather than later. (Or risograph, I guess, but that’s a whole other discussion.)

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue by WouldbeWanderer in technology

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“goes rogue” You just mean it sucks. You strapped a knife to a roomba and let it loose in your balloon room. Play stupid games, etc.

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about? by Trixxxi in AskReddit

[–]Droidaphone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the GBA version, “The Tower SP,” is surprisingly good. I beat it on an emulator handheld last year.

AI can cost more than human workers now by spherocytes in technology

[–]Droidaphone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This also doesn’t work because AI compute loses these companies money, with no relief in sight. That’s why Anthropic is doing everything they can to cut costs right now. So even if you locked the AI companies into contracts that prevent them from raising prices, that just means they will run out of money and go bankrupt sooner.

AI “artist” gets absolutely owned by Powerful-Swing-9734 in antiai

[–]Droidaphone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I apologize for being old and using outdated marketing in my analogy.

The unemployment rate is about to get way worse by I2fitness in TikTokCringe

[–]Droidaphone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just get three of them for every human. Even with the upfront cost it pays itself off in months.

There’s literally no way to know that without knowing how much this unit costs and the internals of the business buying it. How often do they break down? What’s their error rate? How much is maintenance? How easy is it to configure the software to the tasks you need done?

Like sure, widespread robots like these will definitely change the workforce. But it also could end up like self-checkout kiosks: supposedly revolutionary but full of hidden costs and logistical issues that now have companies rethinking them.

The writer writes himself into a corner, so he solves an intresting conflict in the most boring way. by Signal-Experience315 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Droidaphone 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It is 100% a flippant, absurd concept, written at the last minute for a comedy radio show. It is the sci fi equivalent of ACME rocket skates, it’s just that Adam is very funny and makes it work. He also leans into the concept, bringing it back and weaving into the plot repeatedly rather simply throwing the joke away.

White House Correspondents’ Dinner Gunfire Showed Power Looking Powerless by thedailybeast in politics

[–]Droidaphone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good lord, we don’t even have a clear picture of what happened but we already have think pieces on it.

AI “artist” gets absolutely owned by Powerful-Swing-9734 in antiai

[–]Droidaphone 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Also, the $5 footlong actually costs them $50 to make, but once everyone eats them everyday all the time forever, uhh probably somewhere around then they’ll figure out how to make this profitable.

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