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it's my favorite of the three dark souls games!! people love to shit on it for the things that were janky or poorly executed but it has its charm! it has some really gorgeous environments and some of the best lore bits in the series, and it introduced mechanics that became major staples of their later games (like powerstancing and flask upgrades).

plus like, SOTFS is a major upgrade over how the game was on release day. DS2 still had a lot of the same charm on release but between the DLCs and the basegame changes SOTFS improved a lot of places where the original game was kinda lackluster. (and made others worse/more annoying… shrine of amana i miss the old you)

@mcc I have a sense that Blender, which has the Blender Institute working on code and the Blender Studio working on art, is split... the code side is adopting more LLM output (though a bit more cautiously than some other orgs) and the art side, I think, is remaining steadfastly against it.

So how many FOSS orgs are choosing to not use genAI at all? Obviously I know @spritely takes that stance, because I work there.

But who else?

Godot, maybe? (They played with it for a bit then enacted a policy against it, IIRC.) The Document Foundation, though I am not sure by what degree? Zig, certainly.

But who else? The room seems to be shrinking, alas :\

@xan I remember thinking that the X parasite and SA-X especially was implausible.

Me, playing Metroid Fusion in college: A cold, dead-eyed fascimilie that looks and acts just like what it was mimicing but had no life behind it, no care, no will other than to reproduce and fill the world with misery? What bad writing!

2026: Oh

The deck builders are finally here to re-do my deck.

It so happened that the team manager is a handsome bespectacled young man with a ring in his nose.
A mix of lumberjack and hipster if you want.

Honestly my 1st reaction after I talked to him was "Shit, as if being twice his age wasn't bad enough I must have looked terrible in my old yoga pants and shapeless sweater."😭

i've figured it out

Before one may hack the planet, one must first document the planet.

Inktober day 14: "Lady".

#inktober #inktober2026

DJ khaled voice: another one (account takeover vector)

Phazon is highly toxic, radioactive, and quickly reproduces. The Galactic Federation identified various other planets where Leviathan Seeds like that of Tallon IV brought calamity. Of course, a Space Pirate homeworld planet quickly pivoted to industry around the exploitation of this "free" source of Phazon.

The Galactic Federation's outpost on Norion was a destination for one of these Leviathan Seeds. Samus Aran and other Bounty Hunters were on site to attempt to neutralise this threat.

｢ Many employees now commute to the office only to spend each day on video calls with colleagues who are elsewhere, or even down the hall. They’re in the office but still working remotely｣
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/in-office-remote-work/688993/

#remote #remotework

@xan Also "The X Parasite"

a little on the nose, actually

@nina_kali_nina One of these is a horrific and vulgar deviant obscenity, the other one is just an erotic subgenre

I’m sure I’m not the first person to have this realization, but it just occurred to me today that the Muppets and professional wrestling fundamentally operate on the same principle.

One of my favorite Muppet stories is how more than once, when Kermit was on a talk show, the production crew was confused by how bad the sound was for Kermit only to realize that they had put the mic on Kermit, because of course you would put the mic on Kermit.

@xan And also, at the very same time, LLMs manage to be the X Parasite, and especially SA-X