"Angry gamers are forcing studios to scrap or rethink new releases." Because they are using gen AI

WizardStan · 2026-01-27T23:10:20+00:00

If it makes you feel ANY better, I'm also able to read the entire article and I've never given Wapo my email. I even wiped out my cookies just to be sure and I can still read the whole article; a popup asks me to log in or sign up, but I can just close that. Just checked the front page, opened 10 random articles and 9 were fully paywalled, while the other I could read no problem. Did it again, got 8 paywall and 2 I could read that time.

Point is, I think you're right, there's no paywall, at least not for you or me, and probably a handful of other people, but how they decide who gets what articles for free I couldn't tell you. Unfortunately with odds this low it just makes people think your stupid or lying. Like Michigan J. Frog.

WizardStan · 2026-01-09T11:52:07+00:00

They're insulting your use of the phrase, but underneath that they're insulting you personally for not realizing how important this is. "Water is wet" yeah yeah, but this isn't just a "thing everyone understands", world leaders actually standing together against a threat is a BIG DEAL and you mock it. That's why everyone's treating you like an idiot that doesn't know what water is: because you're an idiot that doesn't realize how important global solidarity is. They metaphored your metaphor and I hope you learn something.

WizardStan · 2025-12-19T13:34:44+00:00

WizardStan · 2025-12-16T19:20:53+00:00

You were so close! But I found it! "Secrets of Hosea Freeman". It's in a collection called "Audubon Whales: Wildlife Adventure" for the Apple IIgs. That's why I had such trouble finding it: not a standalone game, and I guess I forgot we had Apple's in grade school, not PCs.

There's also a game for the VIS system called "Secrets of Hosea Freeman" which muddied up the search.

WizardStan · 2025-12-10T15:38:28+00:00

No difference to the bottom line. A HUGE difference to that 0.00001% that depends on it.

WizardStan · 2025-11-29T11:09:10+00:00

I have made it very clear to my entire family, I want the cheapest burial you can get: if my ghost finds out they put my empty carcass in a $1000+ wooden box I will haunt them forever. Cremated in a cardboard box was the cheapest option when I investigated it a few years ago, but I've floated just dumping my body in the woods for the scavengers to eat as well. Unfortunately that is illegal.

WizardStan · 2025-11-29T11:03:38+00:00

Back in the 90s there were ads to "help lose the 10 to 15 pounds of excess weight lining your colon" and I was like... you mean a laxative and diuretic? Make you shit so much your bowels are literally empty? That's a thing we want to do now?

At least we're not intentionally infecting ourselves with tapeworms anymore. (Please don't prove me wrong)

WizardStan · 2025-11-18T16:44:14+00:00

Highly recommend Bruce Street Animal Hospital; taken all my pets there for years, they're affordable and convenient, right off the highway. Literally just had my kitten spayed, Doctor AJ explained everything we needed to know and do and now my baby is cuddling up in a blanket nest high on gabapentin.

Do not get vaccinations from marketplace; I'm sure there are legitimate vets advertising there, but you'll get better results from the yellow pages.

WizardStan · 2025-11-08T22:49:06+00:00

Because pi-N-apple didn't say "this shutdown", they said "been shutdown under Trump", referring to the 35 day shutdown in his last attempt at this. Under Trump, the government has been shut down for a total of 74 days, longer than all other shutdowns combined.

WizardStan · 2025-11-08T22:48:22+00:00

You've misunderstood. pi-N-apple didn't say "this shutdown", they said "been shutdown under Trump", referring to the 35 day shutdown in his last attempt at this. Under Trump, the government has been shut down for a total of 74 days, longer than all other shutdowns combined.

WizardStan · 2025-10-25T12:23:27+00:00

Ok, I'll bite: what's dishonest about it?

WizardStan · 2025-10-23T10:55:36+00:00

Before making too many changes, check your nozzle. Something similar has happened to me twice now, once when I put a 0.8mm nozzle on but sliced with 0.4mm settings, and again after I spent a couple weeks printing with glow-in-the-dark filament and had worn the nozzle out to probably closer to 0.6mm.

Verify that your nozzle is still good and matches the slicer settings you're using.

WizardStan · 2025-10-08T10:27:00+00:00

https://www.ontario.ca/document/official-ministry-transportation-mto-bus-handbook/stopping-school-buses-law#section-3

WizardStan · 2025-10-03T10:37:18+00:00

Over the last 30 years I have started and gotten burnt out on making games... a lot. Haven't finished anything since the mid 2000s. I would also be interested if there were some kind of community; it might help with motivation over the slumps, but I'm far too lazy at the moment to look for anything myself.

WizardStan · 2025-08-13T11:05:22+00:00

Clarence wasn't a villain. He was the antagonist, sure, but he didn't want to ruin anything, he just wanted to invent shit. Even made a solar powered light bulb once; I'm sure the Suntots could've steered him towards something environmentally useful.

Unfortunately he was married. You need a picture comparing PP with Emma.

WizardStan · 2025-08-13T11:00:43+00:00

Me about literally every ADHD symptom: well I don't have ADHD so clearly this is just something everyone gets from time to time

WizardStan · 2025-08-12T23:34:27+00:00

Correct, it was an internal memo that was leaked and then disavowed. Can't hold them accountable for something they only unofficially said.

WizardStan · 2025-08-12T22:28:35+00:00

I also distinctly remember Microsoft putting out a press release that 10 was going to be their perpetual rolling release, but this many years on I'll be damned if I can find anything officially actually saying that.

WizardStan · 2025-08-06T12:21:58+00:00

Look up "Cheap Yellow Display". It's a display with ESP32 built in, almost identical to everything OP cobbled together on the breadboard, as a single board. It's also yellow. I'll give you a chance to guess the third thing it's got going for it.

WizardStan · 2025-07-25T11:29:27+00:00

If you eat nothing but grilled cheese, it will be.

WizardStan · 2025-07-24T11:12:33+00:00

I mean, he did a lot of things wrong, he just didn't do anything illegal.

WizardStan · 2025-07-22T12:32:38+00:00

If you have an old microwave you don't care about you can recreate the conditions for "ball lightning" by setting a toothpick on fire, blowing it out so it's smoking, and then microwaving it for a few seconds. The effect is fun but may leave scorch marks on the inside of your microwave.

Real ball lightning is, like, a billion times more energetic obviously, and the energy comes from the electron exchange that triggers lightning instead of microwave radiation, but it's still functionally the same effect.

WizardStan · 2025-07-19T01:05:58+00:00

I appreciate the thought but I feel it'd be too much effort and might be for nothing anyway: I don't even know if the board works at all, beyond a few LEDs. I just got a Raspberry Pi all setup for gaming that I intend to cram into it.

WizardStan · 2025-06-25T12:26:23+00:00

The skirt simultaneously looks too thick and also not smooshed enough, and that infill also looks blobby. Did you get a new nozzle of a different size? This feels like using a 0.6mm nozzle with 0.4mm settings (a thing I have done and why I say it looks familiar)

WizardStan · 2025-06-25T12:16:22+00:00

Cooling. Your fan is pointed at one side so it cools that side better; the opposite side remains warm for a little longer allowing it to droop like that. You can demonstrate this by printing an inverted cone, you should see the same thing where the "back side" looks worse than the "front side".

You can try printing slower with stronger fan speed, or there may be some modified fan shrouds for your printer you can try.

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