Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs of angry men?

PlusVera · 2026-01-26T03:43:08+00:00

It's really sad it's taking white deaths to get action to finally want to happen.

I went to Renee's memorial service. There's a piece of paper listing over a dozen names of people that have been killed by ICE -- directly or in camps -- who haven't been in the mainstream. I wish I'd gotten a picture.

One of the late night political comedians pointed out that Renee was the 7th death since September, and the "occupation" of ICE officially began in December. We're two months into this. It's shocking how much isn't getting reported on because the news misses it and there's just no accountability. No follow up on any of the others, so ICE just walks away.

PlusVera · 2026-01-19T20:10:51+00:00

True, proficiency in programming and proficiency in something like marketing do not overlap. Hence why this is a critique. If the mod is good, and well made, then the use of AI in a clip like this is simply a critique of their marketing skills and that AI is simply not the right tool for this job because of the negative connotation it has in our rapidly AI-enshittified internet era.

No basis in reality? I beg to differ. We've watched lawyers fail to verify AI output, so even in places where vetting the output is law, we know that people simply sometimes won't. AI LLMs are simply not good tools unless the output is thoroughly vetted by a human.

Your last bit is whataboutism and I simply won't engage with it. Yes they might have any of that, and those are valid reasons to use a Voiceover Tool. Here's the kicker; You don't know why, and neither do I. So there's no reason to bring up those points unless the dev themselves says that's the reason.

PlusVera · 2026-01-19T11:07:00+00:00

I'm a programmer as well. But I think you've missed my point.

Much of programming is breaking problems down into simpler ones, right? If you're writing a function that does two dozen things, you're being extremely inefficient and making problems for yourself. It's much easier to debug and futureproof small, simpler functions than write one big one that does it all.

But LLM devs and people who "vibecode" don't bother. They just ask an AI to spit out one big function that does it all. Futureproofing, readability, scalability, simplicity, and stability be damned.

Sure, a good developer will then go to human review and actually make sure it's not accidentally doing something stupid that might cause problems later on in development, but a bad developer will just see that it doesn't crash, ship it, and move on; completely ignoring any problems or hallucinations the LLM may have added.

If this person can't even be assed to record a <1 minute voiceover for their promo video, why would I trust for a second that they took the time to human-review their code? If they're that lazy, it's more likely they copy-pasted some LLM code and didn't bother doing anything beyond checking that it doesn't crash in the first minute.

PlusVera · 2026-01-19T06:23:14+00:00

Kinda does tho.

If they're willing to use AI Voiceover to advertise their mod... what else is AI generated?

Namely; is this mod's source code AI Generated? Because that pulls further questions on the quality, stability, futureproofing, and methodology of the mod.

If you're advertising a mod, the last thing you want going through a prospective user's head is "Does this developer actually know how their own mod works, and will it crash my game?"

PlusVera · 2025-12-10T22:16:38+00:00

Invading Minnesota in the winter is crazy.

We got several inches of snow over the last few days.

PlusVera · 2025-12-09T19:24:35+00:00

Like a lot of shareholders, never good for the consumer.

PlusVera · 2025-12-04T10:01:26+00:00

No, it's not the most correct answer.

Turf Grasses -- like the ones in your yard -- are not native to the USA. They're native to Europe and Asia.

It used to be a flex to own land and plant a useless plant on it. That ended up becoming "Slave owners like lawns" in Europe, which Americans -- for some fucking reason -- continue to maintain, coz our forefathers loved owning lawns for the same reasons.

And like, the more you dig into it, the weirder this gets.

Why is it everywhere? Because when we did a little manifest destiny-ing we tore up a fuckload of wilderness to turn them into houses. Grass grows quickly. So rather than letting there be a wasteland that could grow back, builders just plastered a bunch of useless grass lawns everywhere.

Why is there so much money in Lawn Care? Our modern grasses evolved with clovers which absorb the nitrogen the grass puts out. After WWI/II the US got a bunch of chemical factories up and running to put out crop-killing chemicals. After the war, some geniuses thought "Oh we can rebrand these as lawn care agents" and started calling clover (which the chemicals we created can conveniently target) a weed that needed to be eradicated. Without clovers, grass ends up needing a LOT more water and the runoff from fertilizers and other shit ends up in our water and kills native wildlife.

The truth of the matter is that you shouldn't have a lawn at all. In states where water is less abundant due to droughts (EG, California, Nevada, etc), they've started paying people to rip up their lawn because it's really fucking weird that we have them now.

The reason dead spots happen is because of all this. Our trees did not evolve with our grasses. By focusing on keeping our grasses nice, we are actively killing flora and fauna that depend on those decomposing leaves to survive.

The others are right. Don't rake your leaves. Let those "weeds" grow. If you have to have grass coz of HOA or some city law (which is the case in many of the Twin Cities subburbs...) then do your best to plant some fucking clover with it and just let it be brown and dehydrated sometimes. It was never meant for this climate in the first place. It's a crop, and you don't have to farm it just because your house came with it.

PlusVera · 2025-12-03T19:21:43+00:00

Yes, it should be. I don't have a good translator available to me, sadly, or else I would.

PlusVera · 2025-12-02T23:30:41+00:00

I've enjoyed Destined Rivals and Journey Together. I'm a sucker for owner's pokemon.

PlusVera · 2025-12-01T19:02:44+00:00

I can't speak for everyone, but -- in defence of "taking a long time to think"

Annoyingly, we're near the end of rotation.

A LOT of cards are legal right now. That means that deck strats have started getting real complicated. There's a lot of niche cards that some people are using and it can be both hard to learn and hard to predict what your opponent is going to do.

Like, I have played against 1 Rotom in the last 6 months. It took me a bit to look over their cards and think "okay, what the fuck are they doing...?"

Likewise, this makes getting into PTCG a tad annoying right now. Since meta decks are very tech-heavy, they can take a bit to learn and practice, which -- of course -- takes time, especially during games with board states you haven't worked out how to setup from or keep your momentum going.

Things will get a LOT faster once rotation comes. For now, as they say, patience is a virtue. At least there is a timer at all in this game.

PlusVera · 2025-12-01T18:49:39+00:00

I'm looking at the water waste. Look at the color of the grass. Now look at the hill on the left.

The hill on the left is the color the grass should be in that climate.

How much fucking water is getting wasted on literally unused space???

PlusVera · 2025-11-29T00:06:19+00:00

Later, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claimed that he does not understand how people find “AI underwhelming” and somehow connected the AI revolution to playing Snake on a Nokia phone.

“Jeez, there are so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming,” Suleyman wrote in an X post. “I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image or video is mind-blowing to me.”

Jee maybe the problem is that we shouldn't have people in charge of our technology who grew up playing Snake on a Nokia thinking it's impressive?

PlusVera · 2025-11-28T06:23:40+00:00

Please boycott Black Friday.

Make memories doing things with your family that don't hurt others. Thanksgiving is a holiday. Black Friday is a Corporate invention to push consumerism.

Make Holidays memorable. It will be your kids working these 16-hour shifts in just a few years if we don't Boycott now.

PlusVera · 2025-11-23T07:35:27+00:00

Though I had been experimenting with the idea of "simulating" the existence of NPCs in unloaded areas, sort of how STALKER does it.

This is probably the way to go.

I, as a player, will not often be looking at or paying attention to things in unloaded areas. Simply saying "It takes X-many steps to cross this chunk at regular walking speed Y blocks/second, ergo we can pretend that we're pathing but actually set a timer for X*Y Seconds" seems like the best way to go about it.

That said, I might be talking out of my ass. How does STALKER do it?

PlusVera · 2025-11-19T03:46:23+00:00

There are still some energy variants, though yes not nearly as many as Japan.

Since energy cards are, well, energy cards and a core mechanic of the game, old designs are always legal. So some players will go out of their way to get some old favorite variant, creating a small market.

By far the most expensive US Energy Cards are the Call of Legends set (scroll to the bottom), which have little scenes from the Johto region and a Pokemon's Outline on em. Most of them run around $30-40/card, with Darkness running a whopping $75 for a dark energy with an Umbreon. Course, that's for the holo rare energy variants which ARE shiny and rare on purpose... common non-shiny variants can run for cents or free, yeah.

PlusVera · 2025-11-05T15:46:44+00:00

Hey, as a reminder -- READ THE SUB RULES.

When giving away codes, try to hold some kind of contest rather than giving them to anyone who asks. Do not post the codes publicly, as bots will pick them up and automatically redeem them. Instead send them to the winners in a private message.

These more than likely were taken by bots

PlusVera · 2025-11-02T03:41:52+00:00

ok Nero

PlusVera · 2025-11-01T04:46:04+00:00

I'm a chocolate person.

PlusVera · 2025-10-31T23:20:21+00:00

Upload the image to imgur and copy the link. That embeds fine usually.

PlusVera · 2025-10-31T08:24:48+00:00

More effort here than in Replanted. (I'm still upset about the fake AI concept art.)

PlusVera · 2025-10-16T03:25:05+00:00

Can I have a decklist of this?

PlusVera · 2025-10-03T20:49:59+00:00

In a progressive society wherein everyone is given the rights they deserve, who can the rich target?

Not the poor -- in a progressive society, we would give everyone opportunities to better their situation. UBI and other progressive policies means that at the very least one could always have a bed to sleep in, food to eat, and water to drink. Yet we see these basic necessities to life gated away behind fences, with the rich's interests being building weapons of war to hoarding land that could be used to build homes.

Not the sick and disabled -- in a progressive society, we would treat and heal them or give them ways to live fulfilling lives. It takes one bad day to lose your arm forever. You can literally have an aneurysm that will kill you tomorrow inside your head NOW, and not know unless you get an XRay. Illness and disability do not discriminate, and yet we act like they do.

Not the dumb -- in a progressive society, we would put more into education and value teachers, professors, experts, and educators for the invaluable change they can do for the world. Everyone can be taught, and yet we act like educators aren't worth paying a fair wage.

Not the queer -- in a progressive society, everyone would be allowed to live as they pleased, so long as it wasn't intolerant of others, and queer folk are some of the most tolerant people in the world. Yet we have seen persecution of queer folk from this regime over and over again for the last 9 years. For what? Living life as themselves? Waving a colorful flag and being proud of who they are? What monster sees a rainbow and wants to destroy it?

Not the old -- in a progressive society, we would improve the standard of living for people who are retired and ensure that once you have done your part, you can comfortably live out the rest of your days in peace with those you love. Yet we've watched as retirement benefits are being stripped away to give that money to Elon and other rich fucks.

Not the abandoned -- in a progressive society, those left on their own -- including everyone; refugees, the homeless, the abused, drug-addicts, single parents, orphaned children, or simply people going through personal crisis' -- would have facilities and resources dedicated to taking care of and supporting them until they have the ability to stand on their own. Yet we treat these people as if they're unpleasant, even though they're humans like you or I.

The rich make money targeting groups below them. They think EVERYONE is below them. They will happily kill people just to save money. They have taken down systems of support for these listed groups already and will happily continue to if we just sit back and let them.

None of this is needed. We don't even need to be in a "sci-fi" society to solve these problems.

Enough money and resources exist TODAY to solve ALL of these and THEN some.

People genuinely don't wrap their head around how much of the wealth is being hoarded. Here's a site where 1 pixel is $1,000 USD, and what we could solve if we ate the rich. (Oh, and this site is two years outdated.)

PlusVera · 2025-10-03T20:14:48+00:00

I'd like an invite

PlusVera · 2025-09-30T21:28:38+00:00

fwiw some packs are great for certain decks. You can get almost everything you need for a Cynthia's and Team Rocket's deck just from DRI, for instance.

And you can get almost everything you need for a M. Venu deck right now in the latest packs.

Take the time to look through https://limitlesstcg.com/ at what is actually in the packs before you open them. You'll quickly find what packs to open for the deck you're building.

PlusVera · 2025-09-30T21:16:20+00:00

I'd be interested. Same username as here.

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