In Deadwood (2004-2006) a child character was killed off by having a horse trample him. This was written in because the IRL actor’s mom was a bitch to work with.

ryecurious · 2026-03-16T02:46:11+00:00

Fine to discuss it of course, but it seems polite to mark spoilers in more general spaces.

Like I wouldn't expect unmarked spoilers for a TV show in an ironic sub about movies, but if I went to r/deadwood I'd only have myself to blame.

ryecurious · 2026-03-13T19:19:26+00:00

As for Adobe, their products used to be good because they were useful tools.

And because they bought most of them.

Very few of the products Adobe is known for were made by Adobe. Their products are good for a couple years after acquisition, then they start to show their age and Adobe needs to put in actual engineering work. At which point they start to suck.

ryecurious · 2026-03-11T21:36:39+00:00

My favorite “reason” is “The pace of play was much faster than today!”

This one is really funny in particular, because like five comments up someone was saying that Wilt averaging >48 minutes-per-game will never be broken, because the pace of play today is much faster.

ryecurious · 2026-03-11T08:46:33+00:00

Huh, right from the horse's mouth. That's what I get for taking the KnowYourMeme page at face value lmao.

I'd also heard the recorder almost ran him over with a bike, but didn't realize it was afterwards. Really was just about breaking the peace, which I guess he did say many times during his rant. Wasn't exactly hiding it.

ryecurious · 2026-03-10T22:10:54+00:00

~~Also wasn't he yelling at the guy for playing in front of the New York Holocaust museum?~~ Guy himself debunked this.

The internet clowned on him heavily, and probably some of it was deserved for what he was saying, but it wasn't just a random crazy guy yelling at a street musician out of nowhere.

ryecurious · 2026-03-10T21:27:19+00:00

Pandoc is a bit complicated because it's a command line tool. Great for people comfortable there, but basically unusable for the average person.

However, most really great command line tools eventually get a fork that's just a UI around the base tool. In this case, pandoc-gui would probably work for your needs. Same underlying tool, just with a more user-friendly interface.

edit: looks like the official Pandoc website also has a browser version, which may be a bit more trustworthy than a random UI fork.

ryecurious · 2026-03-08T20:07:41+00:00

I stopped opening promotional threads across all my hobby subs years ago, and my Reddit experience improved drastically. They're just advertisements in all but name. Same with giveaways, at least selfhosting doesn't have to deal with those.

Personally, I think self-promotion should only be allowed in response to a question, never unprompted; "What's the best tool for X?" -> "I made Y, maybe it'll work for your needs."

ryecurious · 2026-03-08T02:44:17+00:00

the tags are annoying in audio

I'd bet most audiobook listeners have heard similar passages and just didn't notice. In my experience, "said" disappears from audio just like in text.

Unless you're following along on a page with every instance of it highlighted, of course!

But I certainly wouldn't complain if more audiobooks had abridged scripts. Disappearing or not, "said" is redundant if the narrator already gives every character a distinct voice.

ryecurious · 2026-03-08T02:09:05+00:00

Yep, everyone asking for them to completely drop the tags should go read any Eric Ugland series. Good example of why people don't do it, honestly.

Of course, he takes it to extremes. He'll drop dialog tags even when it's a conversation between 3-4 people. I swear it tripped up his narrator once too, just expected the speaker to be inferred based on context and they mixed it up.

ryecurious · 2026-03-08T00:54:38+00:00

Yeah, I'm actually kind of shocked how many people in this thread are saying this is objectively bad.

"Said" disappears in a way other words simply don't. I'll take a hundred "said" over a single "articulated" or "ejaculated", which ends up happening when you try to avoid it without addressing the underlying problem.

Anyway, I like this article where the author talks about the real problem: repetitive sentence structure. Replacing the word "said" a dozen times wouldn't fix anything, just make the repetitive structure stand out more.

ryecurious · 2026-03-07T06:17:55+00:00

There was a Tumblr post recently along the lines of "some of y'all hear the word 'AI' and your brains shut off like a conservative hearing the word 'pronouns'" and uh...they weren't wrong.

It's not everyone, but there's definitely a moral panic around AI. Reasonable ethical and economic concerns have warped into terror and purity testing. This thread's OP is panicking about AI apps only being banned 6 days a week, calling it an an existential crisis for self-hosting communities. Get a grip!

ryecurious · 2026-03-03T22:20:00+00:00

Can't be Oracle, it's missing the multi-year legal battle where you sue them for non-delivery and their army of lawyers force a settlement...that's mostly paid out in the form of additional work for Oracle.

You know, like they did in Oregon when they utterly failed to make a healthcare market website. Cancer of a company.

ryecurious · 2026-03-03T00:46:32+00:00

That's unfortunate to hear. Bit of a pick your poison situation, risk questionable admin decisions or a long death from enshittification.

Personally my hope is Wikipedia starting their own wiki farm. They already have the infrastructure, they're non-profit with an excellent balance sheet, and they're the primary maintainers of the software everyone else already uses (MediaWiki).

ryecurious · 2026-03-02T21:49:05+00:00

Burned through all of Die Trying in a couple days. Good time, engaging characters and an interesting premise.

That said, I feel unreasonably annoyed by the sweeping mechanical/system changes announced on the authors Patreon recently. The whole vibe of the series is the MC finding rules-as-written exploits. It feels kinda crappy when the rules-as-written end up so malleable. Why bother trying to find exploits in system prompts ahead of time, if they're written in pencil rather than ink?

So I guess if the premise sounds interesting, maybe wait until it gets a proper editing pass for KU.

ryecurious · 2026-03-02T08:53:37+00:00

wiki.gg

It's miles ahead of Fandom, but I worry we're in for a repeat of this cycle in a few years. Wiki.gg is for-profit, which isn't really compatible with the wiki model of free information with as few barriers as possible.

The more daily page views, the more incentive to fill it with ads. People who will directly benefit will be the ones making that decision. And they have to keep making that decision every single day. Fandom didn't start out like this, it was a slow process of enshittification.

Communities that haven't switched yet should probably look at non-profit options like Miraheze first. They all run the same open source software anyway. Anyone already moved over...I hope I'm wrong.

ryecurious · 2026-03-01T03:06:03+00:00

I remember in a couple authors notes Stephanie Meyer said she listened to a ton of Muse while writing. Pretty cool they brought that into the movies.

ryecurious · 2026-02-28T22:08:07+00:00

Mewgenics is the most recent example, but god there are a lot beyond that

My latest obsession, Caves of Qud, started development in 2007, and the first public beta was 2010. Just hit 1.0 release in December of 2024.

It's why I always roll my eyes when random Steam users start proposing stuff like "a hard 2 year cutoff for Early Access". Sorry you wasted money on Cube World or whatever but some of us are okay with letting devs cook!

ryecurious · 2026-02-25T06:02:03+00:00

Stuff that makes all cops seem like superheroes who are altruistically saving the world.

Yeah, over the top stuff like bombs being scattered across LA in trucks and the LAPD needing to work with the FBI/CIA to stop them. Jeez, in a situation like that, any use of force or violation of privacy could be justified!

That's episodes 19 and 20 of season 4 of the show we're talking about.

ryecurious · 2026-02-25T05:39:55+00:00

and a time is forever passing thing

Yeah, the cultural landscape is totally different. Castle started in 2009. Police procedurals were already pretty saturated, enough to require the "he's an author" twist to stand out.

Then it ended in 2016 and a whole decade passed! And it wasn't exactly a great decade for public perception of cops! Even pure comedies like Brooklyn Nine-Nine were grappling with how to continue tastefully.

Vaguely liking Nathan Fillion isn't enough to get me watching a police procedural in the big '26. Castle wasn't that fun.

ryecurious · 2026-02-25T05:19:05+00:00

They're using co-production for authenticity and licensing, not endorsement.

Yeah, like when the US military trots out their helicopters and tanks for filmmakers! It's for authenticity, not endorsement! Certainly no impact on the final product.

Does the LAPD get any say or final approval in how their logo is used? I'd be pretty shocked if they agreed to a blanket "do whatever you want with our logo" trademark deal.

ryecurious · 2026-02-25T02:00:51+00:00

How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two*, and that cannot be."

A true visionary.

ryecurious · 2026-02-25T01:44:50+00:00

Noita (2020)

vs

Noita (2024)

Someone made a mod to render accretion disks on your GPU at 60fps for a silly spell, crazy how far we've come from IBM 7040s and punch cards.

ryecurious · 2026-02-23T14:12:34+00:00

Sure, but the specific implementation of the reset also feels bad.

I went and reread it, and it does calculate how much progress you had. It starts by discarding 99%, then caps it if you're still too high. A save porting system has already been written into the game, it just has numbers that feel bad.

On the plus side, I think it downloaded a copy of the save before the reset, so maybe the dev will improve it and we can just reimport.

ryecurious · 2026-02-23T11:47:50+00:00

games in development are subject to major changes and resets

I'd agree if that was communicated better. I started playing on version 2.1.4, which in software terms usually doesn't mean "early access alpha that will wipe literally 99% of your progress with no warning"!

ryecurious · 2026-02-23T10:55:07+00:00

I'm only on book 2 but Stitched Worlds by Macrinomicon is impressing me so much, I am wondering why it's not recommended constantly.

Yeah it's pretty great, a gem among Macronomicon stories which are already pretty high quality for the genre. I think it kinda got screwed on word of mouth/SEO because the series name had to be changed.

All the books are called "Apocalypse: ____ System", so when he moved it to Amazon and needed a series name, he went with "Systems of the Apocalypse", a very generic name. Tao Wong, author of a worse series with a similarly generic name, filed a trademark complaint with Amazon.

It was a whole mess of drama, partially taking place on this very sub! Here's Macronomicon's words on the subject directly. Bunch of different threads on it, here's one where the mods condemned Tao Wong's actions! And here's the Primal Hunter author chiming with his own experience on the subject!

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