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Nathaniel

@Idlingaround

20+ Currently procrastinating/ Celebrating 21 years of Drakengard... 💙☁️🦋@cyboly.bsky.social

Garreg Mach Monastery, Fòdlan Katılım Temmuz 2014
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@moneybags_mm @Pendragon776 @SchmarvinHarv I'm starting to think you never actually worked at a GameStop, because no one goes in there but greasy nerds, leading me to think you're probably a greasy nerd in denial trying to hide behind random game hate because Blorbo doesn't get games because FE is more popular in Japan
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@moneybags_mm @Pendragon776 @SchmarvinHarv I'm coming out of my grave to say this, the only people going into GameStop past the year 2016 are fat greasy nerds, like what normal sane person is going to GameStop for games when there's much better places now with less nerdy geek ass products like Funkos taking up shelf space
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🎅 Merrybags 🎅
🎅 Merrybags 🎅@moneybags_mm·
@Pendragon776 @SchmarvinHarv A pattern of exclusively the same kind of people wanting one specific franchise over a fairly significant period of time is indicative of nothing? Sounds like cope
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anonymoushater@ahaternumberone·
@jnelson01 @kiaraapee “everyone”? who tf said that? and there are very obvious solutions to this (non-existant) “problem” that are not literal communism
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@MoncureIvan @jnelson01 @kiaraapee I actually think if our current system can be so easily broken by an outbreak there's actually something very very wrong with our system. It punishes more than it rewards and at this point working never even feels like enough even with 9 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@Louxs__ @emphabet @RoyDelfino @kiaraapee Ok but why does someone own multiple empty houses? Why can one person own more than like 2-3 houses minimum? And why do y'all love to defend these rich people who buy all of our housing
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Sausage@Louxs__·
@emphabet @RoyDelfino @kiaraapee These houses you speak of, empty or not, belong to someone somewhere. What does the owner do while you’re just giving his or her houses out to strangers?
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@zebbel4289339 @kiaraapee @2ndHandTardis Maybe you're just lucky but not many people get the luxury of a "good" landlord, my landlord refuses to fix the holes in the walls left by the previous tenants, one of my previous houses the landlord kicked us out of the house despite promising they wouldn't do that
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@JoeCool_WiiU @KenKnowsItAll I honestly would probably not played as much Splatoon if it was an e-sport focused game because games made to focus on competitive only playing makes them completely unplayable to someone like me
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@JoeCool_WiiU @KenKnowsItAll Honestly I think it's a good thing, I don't know why people would want it to be an e-sport game when e-sport games have done nothing but harm the reputation of their games in the eyes of many
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@Chaosbringerkey @Grandis_Granva Bioware did, they were at the top of their game during this era, problem was the fact they definitely never worked on a DS before, didn't know it's limits and ran out of time.
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chaos_bringer_keybae@Chaosbringerkey·
@Grandis_Granva sega needs to approach square enix with an idea of a sonic rpg or at least somebody that knows how to make rpgs really well
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Osmash1@omegasmash1·
@Grandis_Granva the sonic jrpg by rgg or atlus that'll finally make sonic big in jp after frontiers will happen trust
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@PotatoHildy @mid_day_meals Many Christians don't care, because it is taught extremely hard that "there's only one religion, one God and that everyone else is wrong" with zero leniency, just another way they're using religion to censor and control
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@BNMY1287 @phames_ @westcoastwinter Just say you don't respect other people, that's the issue here mostly. Doing this for yourself says a lot about how you don't give a shit about inconveniencing people because "it's a small thing." I'm not the type to usually bitch about this but people have just gotten more rude
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Ceddanne fan club@bmcc8712·
@phames_ @westcoastwinter Taking a picture of the title screen isn’t bothering anybody and if it bothers you, you should stay home and wait for the movie to go to streaming
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ava@westcoastwinter·
We’ve lost the plot as a society unfortunately
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@ashhhjjb @_Combatticus_ @bastardherty @westcoastwinter When you disrespect the rules for personal gain people tend to push the limits to see how much they can bend before it snaps. I don't care what you're doing put the phone away you're already ruining it for everyone
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@ashhhjjb @_Combatticus_ @bastardherty @westcoastwinter When you're in public it's generally understood to respect the rules, in the movie theater when the movie starts the phones are silenced and pocketed, at first they're taking pictures at the start, then they're constantly on it the entire movie, it happens every time
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AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝@ask_aubry·
She wants to use her imagination, asks her father to turn off AI, so he continues to turn it back ON if it's off. Crazy how he thinks this is a cute moment.
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On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long) I got my 6yo Daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isn't like other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things I've built and interacted with them, chatted with chatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc') So a very interesting experiment happened after @_magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround! thank you!) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and then... learned to turn it off, and doesn't want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top hat that we made together, but every time I ask her if she'd like to chat with it, she says no. The few times I turned it back on, and she did speak with it, she chatted for a bit, and then just... turned it off again, not wanting to engage at all. I gently asked why, and wasn't able to really understand where's the resistance, it's not weird to her. In fact, at one point she was pretending the dino was a baby, and it was turned on, so I told her, let's ask it to.. pretend to be a baby, and it obliged and said ok. So we asked it to cry. Granted @_magicaltoys don't yet have the amazing advanced voice mode like openAI in there, so it did it's best but it sounded weird, which made her laugh really hard. it was basically making crying sounds like talking. And also, there are some technical issues still, the voice is sometimes choppy, so it could be that it's still uncanny for her? I'm honestly fascinated about why the AI aspect of this toy didn't connect with my 6yo (and btw, I have a very curious 4yo boy, who could give 0 fucks about this toy also, he's very observant, and usually wants everything his sister has, wanted 0 time with Dino) Is this uncanny valley? a couple of times she didn't want to talk to it, and came to me to whisper to ask me to turn it off (the same happened a couple of times with chatGPT Santa mode btw now thinking about it) Is this just now knowing what to say? 🤔 It could be the simple fact that she was playing with some other things, and the toy kept wanting to engage and take the attention to itself vs the game that she was playing. I know that I have a sample size of 1 kid here, and I'm sure many many things will change, as she'll grow and learn to interact with more AIs in different forms, but the first "toy" contact was interestingly almost a complete failure (from the AI perspective, the Toy experience as I said, was dope) Anyway, this area is def unexplored, will keep you guys posted how this goes and if she shows interest or picks it up again.

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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@EliasDaler Don't like it? Don't play it, it's not for you then. The fact they're even making a game I think is way more impressive than what most people can do anyways because I'm only a simple artist, I can't make a damn engine let alone a game
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@EliasDaler Tbh tho...why does it matter? "This wouldn't run on a PS1" Good because a lot of games ran like crap on it lol. I get people use the PSX aesthetic as an excuse but like let people make the game they want, they want PSX graphics but not limit to the hardware? Cool it's their game
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Elias Daler@EliasDaler·
People greatly overestimate what PS1 can do because of the recent "PS1-like" indie games some of which might struggle to run even on PS2...
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@David_____1 @Brownkyl1 Like am I living the best life rn? No, but I'd rather be able to kick back sometimes and enjoy my day rather than grinding at a shitty job every waking hour of my life to eventually die never having experienced all the joys I have up to this point
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Nathaniel@Idlingaround·
@David_____1 @Brownkyl1 That's all these people see as living, being successful, which usually means making a fuckton of money. They never got to actually be human growing up so they don't know how to have fun. It sounds like an awful way to live honestly
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Kyle@Brownkyl1·
Growing up, I saw lots of kids raised exactly like Vivek recommends. It typically didn’t pay off at all. (1/12)
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Vivek Ramaswamy@VivekGRamaswamy

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH: Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers. (Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates). More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.” Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve. Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest. “Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China. This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness. That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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