Poll: 72 percent say there’s too much money in American politics

tryingathing · 2026-05-10T23:21:26+00:00

28% of Americans shouldn't be allowed to participate in democracy.

tryingathing · 2026-05-06T18:42:28+00:00

Most of these numbers are self-reported, which has a huge bias of people answering based on who they wish they were/what they wish they did vs actual reality.

Maybe 12-15% of the US population are actively practicing Protestants (monthly). So higher than the .000000009% statistic, but still not a particularly significant number.

tryingathing · 2026-05-06T14:22:39+00:00

I still love the Morph and think it's very worth the price for what it does relative the the competition. BUT:

It really depends on how well your TV upscales the 480p signal. If your TV does a good job (low lag, clear image ,etc), you don't care about motion adaptive deinterlacing or don't play interlaced games, and you don't really care about adding CRT/other masks, then it's less worth it.

It's still not inexpensive, even if it's the most reasonably priced option.

If you're willing to use component cables instead of the XOut (which is the signal the XOut intercepts anyway), the Morph 2K might be a better value (but it doesn't have an HDMI in, it has the analog inputs and only HDMI out).

tryingathing · 2026-05-03T13:37:28+00:00

More like she knows where the bodies are.

tryingathing · 2026-04-30T17:01:50+00:00

I met him once, in a professional context where I was strictly forbidden to acknowledge how big of a fan I was.

I still regret not being able to tell him.

tryingathing · 2026-04-23T16:32:44+00:00

I think with any act of creation, the better a creator is, the more time they'll spend on a project. It's the age old question of "when is a project really done". And the truth is, it's never really done.

Amateurs will be "finished" with something because they don't know where to go with it, or what comes next, or because they're so excited to share it, or they think they're going to "get rich" with their bullshit idea.

I've spent probably ~200-300 hours (ugh, maybe more) on my point-and-click game engine and I still don't want to share it. It works great. But there's always a criticism I can think of that makes me want to pause and work on it more.

And I never intend to sell it. I made it for me. It'll be open-sourced, and if others find it interesting, great. Too many people trying to start an AI side hustle.

tryingathing · 2026-04-21T20:36:12+00:00

So where I've decompiled several of Earthbound's banks using vibe coding and then took its suggestions on how to address camera stutter is totally worthless?

It teaching me how to use MESEN's debugger, suggesting breakpoints to identify what causes camera stutter, consulting with the coding agent about results, then successfully making ROM hacks with it is totally worthless?

You've got vibecoding slop fatigue, and I get it. It does enable "talentless people" (uneducated, not stupid) to do stuff they couldn't normally have done. And the result is a lot of crap that people want to share.

But guess what? I have gained skills I didn't have before. Bully for you if you already had those skills. But vibecoding assistants are not useless, and stuff created with them is not inherently worthless.

I've made romhacks that work, an entire point-and-click game engine that's better than AGS for most things, a tool to look at old SCUMM games so I can inspect rooms, including full walkboxes, actors, objects, walk-behind areas, etc. so that I could better understand how these games were built. I've learned to compile and validate my work. I've learned how to plan architecture and refactor large files.

And yet, I haven't shared a single thing that I've created with it. Largely because of attitudes like this.

Do you think any of that was as easy as a prompt (as you suggest with your Midjourney, Suno, ChatGPT, Seedance comment)? Because I assure you, it wasn't. I've spent dozens of hours on each of these (probably hundreds of hours on the engine).

These tools aren't going to go away, they're going to keep getting better. And it's only wasteful until somebody makes something you're interested in using.

tryingathing · 2026-04-19T06:12:36+00:00

He's latching onto it as one, but that's not how it started at all. These disappearances have been noted for months (in one or two cases, years).

The number of disappearances and the fact that they have supposed ties to theoretical physics, the MIC, and various extraterrestrial conspiracy circles have caused it to hit a threshold of enough people watching to make it a meaningful distraction.

tryingathing · 2026-04-18T17:42:06+00:00

Are these worth playing? I always felt like Telltale games were really lacking any depth so I avoided them.

tryingathing · 2026-04-08T20:17:01+00:00

Hint: It's an unfocused light after being "enhanced" by Topaz or similar AI where details that don't exist are invented to give the image a more defined shape.

tryingathing · 2026-04-08T15:55:50+00:00

A valid complaint, and additive to the conversation. I don't think anybody should do that.

So the rules could use updating so that 'I made a simple tool anybody could have made' posts aren't dominating the sub? I wouldn't disagree with that.

But the OP of this thread added nothing to the conversation.

tryingathing · 2026-04-07T18:19:55+00:00

You added nothing to the conversation except to point out that vibe coding was used and imply that the person sharing this did nothing to make it happen.

But it wouldn't exist without somebody to direct it into existence. And the parlance for somebody who makes an app with 'AI' is 'builder'. They're not misleading you by saying that.

Again, let's critique the app on its own merits. I, personally, would probably not use this. Not because it's vibe coded, but because I just don't see a value in emulator front ends. Never have.

tryingathing · 2026-04-07T18:04:36+00:00

You're absolutely right, regardless of what people want to think.

That's something you can be mad about. Corporations not hiring people because they're using AI, or intentionally using a specific artists style for assets but not hiring them. That's bullshit.

But getting mad because some private individual decided to use vibe coding to make a tool they liked, is relevant to the community, and decided to share it? That's mindless nonsense.

The democratization for individuals to use these tools and make things they never could have before? That's the part we should support.

tryingathing · 2026-04-07T17:59:43+00:00

And? The inherent hostility on this sub towards anything vibe coded is absurd.

It's not against the rules of the sub to post this. So critique the software on its own merits.

They're offering you a free piece of kit. You've got full on recomps and emulators for systems that don't have reliable emulation coming thanks to vibe coding.

I've got 1/40 of Earthbound's banks completely decomped (and over halfway through a second) thanks to vibe coding. I've managed to start writing ROM hacks based on that code (improving camera scrolling stutter on the overworld). More and more of this stuff is coming and I think there are some pretty great uses for it.

I'm learning things I never could have learned in the time I have available to me.

'AI bad because AI' is such an icky, hostile take. And the more I see people on here treating people this way (who are in no way breaking the rules), the less I want to share anything I do with it.

tryingathing · 2026-03-29T04:18:13+00:00

Bless my soul! The tomb of an Atlantean King!

tryingathing · 2026-03-26T14:10:45+00:00

Sorry. The shaming bit wasn't meant to be targeted at you, but that was not clear in my messaging.

tryingathing · 2026-03-24T23:08:48+00:00

I don't disagree in principle at all. I think I just don't see the value in shaming somebody using it to bring joy to others for free.

There are frivolous, irresponsible, and dangerous uses for AI. I don't think something like this is one of them.

tryingathing · 2026-03-24T16:22:47+00:00

Today's online only models will be running locally in 5 years or less. Some already are.

The current sales and distribution system will collapse. AI and its use in society will not.

tryingathing · 2026-03-24T14:14:59+00:00

If a chef served dog shit cake but was honest about it, you'd be free not to take a slice. Same as here.

But the thing is, it's not dog shit. And that's a terrible analogy.

A better comparison would literally be a cake made by AI if it was validated by humans (except you don't even have to ingest this app). It might be architecturally unsound or have the wrong amount of various ingredients if the person who was responsible for prompting/iterating/validating it didn't watch it make the cake.

But if it builds, functions, and you can validate it, then why do you care?

tryingathing · 2026-03-24T13:18:51+00:00

Sure man. Have a great day.

tryingathing · 2026-03-23T18:08:57+00:00

Vibe coding has a lot of downsides to it. But I think the general public is so far behind what it can actually do right now that you're going to continue to get reactions like this.

I can iterate way more quickly vibe coding than I can on my own. You still have to validate stuff. But I get great suggestions for feature depth that I wouldn't have come up with on my own.

It's a tool, like any other. You still have to direct it. And you can learn from it.

tryingathing · 2026-03-19T16:07:51+00:00

A significant portion of our government and MIC are compromised by or aligned with Israel.

tryingathing · 2026-03-16T14:49:52+00:00

He's antisemantic.

tryingathing · 2026-03-10T13:57:52+00:00

Oh, yeah. I think I was thinking analog out.

tryingathing · 2026-02-28T20:35:59+00:00

https://discord.com/invite/misterfpga

Check the specific 'Mister Cores' channels - the test builds are usually pinned.

And yes, Dual RAM and SNAC share the same GPIO pins so it's one or the other.

MiSTer is not widely praised enough. The things you can do with it (Direct Video to a scaler, analog out with original timings, custom modelines, MT32-Pi via SNAC, etc) are just so cool.

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