There is a text and you are reading it....
Who are you? I think there are two types of people here. I will write to each of you separately. The first audience is Umineko-curious. You've seen the memes of it and have seen it near the word "peak" enough times to enter your Someday Queue and you're reading this to see if you should adjust it up or down. I will write to you first, about the story from the outside. The second audience has…
This is a collection of thoughts on the visual novel Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It , created by Ferry // Nopanamaman. It's free and it's about 6 hours of reading. This post contains spoiler discussions for the whole thing, and will probably not even make sense without the context of the game. This isn't a review, just a repetitive and scattered collection of thoughts I had in…
In 1999, as reported by the Washington Post, the National Security Agency put out a "Furby Alert" on its internal network. The alert said that Furbies were banned from the premises, due to their ability to potentially record and repeat confidential information when taken back outside. This was widely treated as a funny human interest story, an unusual confluence between top-secret government…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is good. I have played it in its entirety, and resonated with many of the ideas it puts forth. I'm writing this for three reasons: To collect my thoughts about it shortly after finishing it, before I forget all of this stuff, or to cement it in my head before I forget it. To develop those thoughts; essay-writing is one of the best ways to think , after all, and there's…
I recently came across a lot of people 1 2 3 saying that this code from the game Balatro is awful: I wouldn't say it's ideal, but I also don't think it's awful. There is plenty to defend about the approach here, and not nearly enough of that defense in the various comment sections discussing it for my tastes, so I'm going to go ahead and defend it myself here. I'm by no means an expert in Lua, but…
I recently came across a post on X, The Everything App, where a mathematician talks through his own reasoning when approaching a research task that he's using an LLM (specifically OpenAI's Deep Research) for. I want to say up front: I don't mean any shade for this guy in particular. Instead, this is meant more as an indictment on the way these are advertised and talked about generally. He wanted…