Rayquetzalcoatl

Yeah the AI without consent thing killed it for me, too. Shame we couldn’t totally tank the whole site with poisoned answers.

While I find the site so helpful, humans that help AI like the team at StackOverflow did deserve to be on the losing end.

I am absolutely not above cutting off my nose to spite my face.

Do you reckon it could be different people posting?

Why Washington State?

They’re building the internet for AI now, and were building it for advertisers for years before that, what with SEO choking up search results.

What should have been a wonderfully expressive, collaborative, and unifying medium is just being completely ravaged.

I, unfortunately, work in web development.

How long have you been sitting on that, Darth Haemorrhoid?

Or that prehistoric women and girls were extraterrestrial beings who, by and large, simply teleported away and died off-world, thus not leaving remains for us to find.

Hale-Bopp is absolutely chock full of the remains of prehistoric women. It’s crazy up there. Can’t even play hopscotch, what with all the femurs and skulls everywhere.

That’s good of them. We’ll see what their Canva overlords think of those nice intentions 🫡

Awh fuck. I bought a lifetime thing for the whole Affinity studio like two years ago when it was on sale. Is there a decent alternative to Affinity? I would rather not go back to GIMP for images, just cos the UI/UX isn’t so smooth!

Oh no, when did they get bought by those ghouls?

The piss filter is back baby!

I always assumed it was a drink, either a coffee or a whiskey or something

Omg absolutely! With the “not holding your hand” thing, I think a lot of the magic and enigmatic feeling of the PS2 games catalogue is that you’d only hear about Easter eggs, rather than knowing theyre in the game via dlc listings in storefronts or anything. They felt weird and slightly messed with understanding how big games were. Even up to Halo 3 with that weird developer monkey family and Black and White 2 where it would whisper your windows account name if you played after 10pm?

Games were just slightly hostile back then, or at least had the developer’s agenda in mind rather than the marketing algorithm’s

Weirdly enough, I am currently smoking weed and playing Airblade on my first PS2 lol

Is this about uni?

Unless you get shat on by a bird; in which case, everyone tells you it’s good luck, but ultimately you’re still covered in bird shit.

Do you miss how weird and liminal some of the games on this system were? Maybe it’s because of the magical thinking of a child (I was like two when this came out but played mine every day until I was fourteen, loved that thing like a religion lol) but even the startup screen and disc read failed screen were so… Weird? Freaky? I don’t know, I know there’s plenty of indie games now and plenty of shovel ware on current gen but it feels different, there was a strange magic to some games on the PS2 that seems to be sort of inimical

You’re not wrong about seeds. The saying doesn’t mention, refer to, imply anything about, or have anything to do with seeds, though.

What’s Freudian about it? I don’t really know anything about Freud other than jokes, but I thought he was all about penis envy and mothers… Or something like that? 😅

I know how to reproduce with one father, but unfortunately he’s my wife’s father and if she ever finds out we’ve been trying for a baby she’ll kill me

Oh! I assumed it was something to do with the city of Ur, being some sort of analogy for the root of civilisation or something