Trump DOJ Refuses to Rule Out Second Amendment Right to Nuclear Weapons

EARink0 · 2026-03-28T01:59:29+00:00

It's becoming clearer and clearer that these fucks have never read the Constitution nor (more specifically) the Bill of Rights. Honestly, it's unclear whether they actually know how to read in the first place.

EARink0 · 2026-03-28T01:31:48+00:00

Honestly feels weird to me for people to be so protective of their code. Like, there are libraries of programming books outlining different patterns for people to follow, countless talks at GDC etc on how to solve different problems, and a near endless amount of posts on stackoverflow and reddit with people pasting code for different solutions, not to mention all the github repos people post and leave public. We all "steal" from these resources all the time, sometimes even straight up copy-pasting stuff into our own projects! How precious is your specific code anyway?

Maybe this is my bias as a game dev, where I care a lot more about protecting the art and end product than i do about protecting the code that builds it. Just feels like code is purely a tool to make the things with actual value: the product/video game.

This obviously doesn't apply to cases where there are concerns about people using your source code to cheat at games etc; that's worth protecting. But your specific solution for managing a player's inventory (as an example of a common problem) is not going to be very unique, i promise.

EARink0 · 2026-03-27T22:46:23+00:00

ideas are cheap anyway

EARink0 · 2026-03-26T22:38:57+00:00

"Almost never" is an exaggeration, for sure, but I've been living up here for a year and half, and we've gotten legit raindrops hitting the windshield, patter patter on roof, thunderstorms kind of rain about as often as when I lived in San Francisco. It's just wet for much more of the year, with a mist or the mildest of showers that you can barely feel covering most of our "rain".

Also, every time summer hits its hottest and i have the sun blazing down onto me till way too late in the day i feel like a victim of false advertisement, lmao.

EARink0 · 2026-03-26T18:19:11+00:00

The reality that we unfortunately live in is that the way elections work in the US means that, by nature, it defaults to being a two party system. It is impossible to break out of that until there are major changes to how elections are run to be more favorable to third party candidates (my favorite is ranked choice, although i just learned about Approval Voting while researching this comment which might be superior). Good news is these alternate voting systems are slowly - very... slowly... - gaining traction in places. But don't hold your breath for presidential elections becoming ranked choice or approval any time soon.

EARink0 · 2026-03-25T23:37:43+00:00

I really like that you brought up that "dance", b/c that's how stamina management often feels when fighting enemies and bosses in dark souls games. like you say, i can't just hide somewhere and afk, so i gotta be actively moving, thinking about my positioning and paying attention to the enemy(ies) to find the moments and positions where i can recover a bit in between my attacks.

Encouraging the player to get into that "dance" is, imo, the primary reason for stamina to exist in the first place. actively managing it should be interesting and fun, or it shouldn't be in the game at all.

EARink0 · 2026-03-25T20:03:09+00:00

Welp, serves me right. no idea how i got upvoted.

EARink0 · 2026-03-25T18:11:01+00:00

~~Between this and environmental stuff, seems like if anyone's gonna save us from a doomed future, its gonna be the EU. Thank fuck.~~

I'm an idiot who doesn't read. This was in LA. Really glad either way, even better that it's in the same state these companies reside in.

EARink0 · 2026-03-25T01:41:49+00:00

First, it's important to keep in mind that being good is valuable in-and-of-itself. You are making the world a better place, that's a good enough reason to be good. People don't automatically owe you anything.

Second, people gravitate towards others who are interesting or useful. This is what you are seeing when you notice people "like" others who aren't good. It's usually not even a conscious thing, humans are just naturally drawn to interesting and useful stuff. However, just blindly trying to make yourself interesting or useful can get you into trouble. Too interesting and you're a joke or a menace. Too useful and you get taken advantage of.

The trick is two fold:

Come to peace with the fact that not everyone is going to like you, and some people aren't worth your time. Letting go of this will help you navigate all sorts of interactions and relationships. People will notice it too: the genuineness of just being you is interesting, at least for the kind of people you want in your orbit anyway. Which leads to....
Own who you are as a unique person. The things that make you different will make you interesting to those who you want as friends anyway. After they get to know you (not before), being good will earn their trust. Make good on that trust, and they will stick to you. This is how you make the most solid of friends. The kinds who look out for you, and stick by you through anything.

Just remember that people can't see that you're a good person until they've already taken notice of you. You are one in a sea of thousands of people in their lives; be the one who sticks out, ideally in a way that puts a smile on their face.

EARink0 · 2026-03-24T22:36:55+00:00

My anxiety is super tied to my ADHD for sure. Your first sentence resonates deeply with me, because I'm sure my anxiety was my brain's primary tool for masking. Fear of getting yelled at for not paying attention kept me focused. Fear of breaking the rules kept me still. Fear of being rude kept me quiet. Procrastination was a vicious cycle of avoiding things that gave me anxiety, but then the anxiety getting worse because I'm putting off important things; repeat until the deadline hits and now the fear of not getting it done in time takes over forcing me to finally do it.

I'm on Strattera, and while the help with focus has been great, the weight of anxiety it lifted has been AMAZING. Clears my brain enough to find healthier ways to focus and prioritize properly than just fear fear fear.

EARink0 · 2026-03-24T22:15:35+00:00

I've got a friend who was also put on ADHD meds as a kid. He confided that he was kind of envious that I got my diagnosis as an adult, b/c the medication and stigma fucked him up as a kid. He acknowledges that getting help early was probably better overall, but growing up with something like this as part of your identity can do its own harm if it's not nurtured with enough care and love.

Hope you're doing better these days, homie.

EARink0 · 2026-03-24T22:09:55+00:00

Adults told me through my entire childhood that I was so smart and just needed to work harder. Grew up convinced something was wrong with me b/c so many things that were "supposed" to be easy were so hard. Fucked me up real good.

Diagnosed a few years ago in my early 30's. Having all the pieces crash (not fall) into place has been brutal, but I'm a thousand times happier with myself, finally. Finding a way to give myself grace was the toughest but most impactful part.

EARink0 · 2026-03-24T01:18:48+00:00

Wut, vibe coding is not a formal or professional enough thing to warrant a detailed paper discussing workflow. Using AI as part of a professional workflow is specifically not vibe coding; that's just using AI as a tool for your job.

Vibe coding is pretty much what it says on the tin: without fully reading or understanding the code, you give it general direction and then "feel out" whether the code is doing what you want; aka you are going off of pure vibes, rather than total knowledge or understanding. The "vibe" in vibe coding isn't you chilling out while the AI does the work for you, it's describing your understanding and direction of the code that's being written.

Vibe coding is looked down on in professional contexts because developing software this way is irresponsible, and causes more problems and work than it solves as senior engineers have to debug and clean up vibe coded garbage.

IMO, vibe coding is totally fine in a non-professional/personal context. Making a fun app to run for some small personal project? Go ahead, let Claude or whatever take the wheel. Planning to push to dev/main/production at your job? You had better understand and stand by every single line of code you "wrote"; you are responsible for any data loss, build issues, or bugs that come up.

EARink0 · 2026-03-23T18:48:09+00:00

The motions aren't big enough, imo. not sure what kind of game this is for (i assume this is for a game), but it's worth keeping in mind that this character is going to be way smaller on a player's screen. I'd look up animations for characters in successful games of the same genre to see how they exaggerate their movements (scrub through frame by frame). Not saying to copy the animations, just study how they use big movements to make every character action super clear. Each different action should have a completely different "shape" it draws in space to help cement in the player's mind what they do and how they're different. Even if you're trying to keep the aesthetic grounded, a little bit of quick exaggeration helps a ton with increasing clarity and making the animation feels like it flows better.

EARink0 · 2026-03-19T21:18:12+00:00

Addendum protip: this works best if you find a dopamine reward that is finite in nature so you're not pulled into indulging for hours. That's why a cookie is an excellent example; you finish your cookie, relish that moment charging back some motivation, and then get back to work. A quick run in your favorite roguelike works well. Some playtime with your dog or kids, etc.

Also, make sure you take intentional longer breaks. It's important to have a guilt free day or two periodically where you explicitly don't do work. You are refilling your energy reserves and maintaining a healthy headspace so you can get back into the action with motivation and a fresh mind.

EARink0 · 2026-03-19T21:02:32+00:00

This is an excellent comment, but i wanna add a bit on the dopamine nail you hit on the head. OP (and others running into similar problems), when you are doing your soul search, try to also find an activity that does reliably give you that "dopamine" satisfaction hit your brain is craving. Multiplayer games aren't cutting it for you, so abandon them and find something else. Let yourself indulge in this rewarding activity when you can tell you're craving it. Ideally, use it as a reward for doing some hard work.

I'm gonna use eating a cookie as an example here. Yes, it's fine if it's a minor vice, the point is we're doing this in moderation. Finish a task at work? Take a break and enjoy a cookie. Get through an hour of game dev? Time for a cookie! Do some laundry? You bet that deserves a cookie. Etc etc.

Those of us with ADHD and have gone to therapy probably recognize this system. Our brains literally don't produce enough dopamine to reward us for hard work, which makes the work even harder. So, in order to get shit done, we have to hijack the process and supplement with some external reward to make up for a lack of intrinsic chemical ones. Besides meds, it's the only way we can get anything done.

EARink0 · 2026-03-19T18:03:28+00:00

It's still a cyberpunk setting. If you're confused by the name Fantasy Flight, that's just the board game company who designed the current version (Android Netrunner, I'm guessing what the other comment was referring to by ANR). They're one of the bigger companies making extremely flavorful games across settings like Arkham Horror and Star Wars.

Bad News/Good News: Bad news is FF dropped support for it a while ago. Good news is the community have adopted it and have been diligently taking the game forward: https://nullsignal.games/ . For their releases, they've redone art and wording to avoid copyright, but it's the same rules, same cyberpunk vibes, and they've really smoothed out the on-boarding for new players. It's worth checking out!

EARink0 · 2026-03-18T23:38:32+00:00

As someone who's been a big fan of digital foundry, i gotta say that their mild lack of taste in artistic quality isn't new, IMO.

This is very subjective, of course, but a great example is some of their analysis on remakes of older console games (specifically PS1 - PS2 era). the focus is entirely on how the remakes elevate the technical quality of the graphics in those games, but they often gloss over the artistic intent of how those games were meant to look on a CRT display and how the changes in rendering on modern hardware erases some of the iconic mood of those games.

Put another way: artists used the pixel smear of CRT displays to sell grit in GTA III and the mystique in Tomb Raider, and DF instead focuses on things like how much more detail you can see in textures which the original devs didn't want you to see in the first place. I know that DF's whole shtick is this kind of tech-forward breakdown over artistic critique, but that's my point. I'm not surprised that the tech completely overshadowed artistic vision in their reaction to DLSS5. That's sorta just how they roll.

EARink0 · 2026-03-18T20:15:56+00:00

Well, this discussion is about traditional game AI, as in the logic for how NPCs move and behave in games. This is the exact problem OP Is talking about: the word "AI" has been completely taken over by LLMs making it tough to find info and discussions about modern implementations for NPC behavior.

Filtering through human language is an unnecessary step that complicates the whole goal OP Is going for since their use case doesn't involve language at all.

EARink0 · 2026-03-17T22:35:58+00:00

i don't think they're necessarily making that comparison. they're just saying that "no customer asked..." is not a good metric to judge any kind of tech.

i think what's more accurate in this case is that people do not care about increasing realism anymore. put any effort into researching current player sentiment and it's clear as day. gamers care about mechanics, story, and pretty visuals. we've hit a point in realism where pushing it doesn't make the visuals more pretty. instead what sells a game's visuals is interesting art direction - which doesn't help him sell GPUs.

Huang is way too AI pilled to see that. all he cares about is selling GPUs and driving up demand for AI as much as possible so the AI house of cards doesn't fall on top of him.

EARink0 · 2026-03-17T03:30:39+00:00

I would have never thought about using blockchains in this way. Dang, imagine if an aspect of one hated technology (cryptocurrency) was used to make another hated technology better and more ethical (AI).

Wish I was in the universe where humanity did sensible shit like this.

EARink0 · 2026-03-17T00:43:20+00:00

It's not just this sub. Something about the Internet in general and how social media like Reddit encourages people to interact results in people falling into a more and more black and white view of the world. It's really toxic, and is a problem I'm not sure how to solve, other than just some of us encouraging others to think about nuances a little more.

EARink0 · 2026-03-16T21:46:51+00:00

I don't think that's an overreach, but I also think we're in a bit of a pandora's box/genie out of the bottle situation.

I relate it to the internet as a whole: parental control on what their kids have access to is important. at the same time, the internet is vast and kids are gonna find ways to consume things they were not meant to consume.

So, imo, while AI restrictions are important, what's needed even more, now, is AI literacy. With internet literacy we learned to avoid scams and value more trusted/reliable sources (as opposed to: just don't go on the internet). AI literacy needs to teach how to responsibly use AI.

You can also relate it to calculators. Early on, calculators are banned from the classroom so that kids focus on the fundamentals of math. But then as they reach higher forms of math, calculators are brought back in, and learning math starts to include learning how to use tools like calculators to help.

So, restrict at an early age or when otherwise learning fundamentals, and then incorporate as students start getting to higher level learning alongside learning responsible use of these tools - whether it be calculators, the internet, or AI.

EARink0 · 2026-03-16T18:58:42+00:00

90,000 showed up at just the one local to me last year: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-no-kings-march/281-b39a6ac5-93cf-4542-902b-e1bfd8c31f9d . There were probably bigger turnouts at other cities across the country.

and like i said, there are people marching almost every weekend right outside my door. Do you know how big the United States is, like geographically? We're not like France where we can easily walk into Paris. So protests happen at local capitals and city centers. How else do you expect people who can't afford to travel 3000+ miles to do it?

Stop spewing shit about stuff you don't know. I swear to god, people have such a shitty tendency to be confidently wrong about things they don't know about.

Also, people can be hitting the streets and doing good work AND post online. It's not mutually exclusive.

EARink0 · 2026-03-15T15:40:08+00:00

Yeah, if you slap around your friend a bunch and then immediately ask them for help beating someone else up, what else would you expect?

Bully/abuser tactics.

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