isofarro (@[email protected])

I'm doing a project based on an old RPG series called Ultima! I know there are lots of Japanese and European friends who know this series and might be interested, and now I can talk to them! It's called Ultima VII Revisited and it's designed to turn Ultima VII into a true 3D RPG. If you're from overseas and remember Ultima, let me know what you think! u7revisited.com

Imperdible mensaje de Chistina Koch tras su vuelta del espacio. Oratoria 10/10. Contenido 10/10. Emoción 10/10. Gente que sí ♥️

This solo indie dev spent 10 years making an RPG game that looks 3D… but is actually 2D. - Camera shifts from orthographic to perspective views - Depth is simulated using parallax & warped sprites - Hand-painted semi-open world Would you play this? It’s called Bridgebourn.

I'm back on X. Took a couple months hiatus after the death-threat phone calls to my family from the crypto weirdos. They can all fuck right off, permanently. I will not agree to speak of crypto again, so don't ask, not even in person. Thank you for respecting my family's privacy on this. I've been trying to find some lipstick on the LinkedIn pig, and god damn if it isn't a weird, weird place. Almost all negative signal there has been suppressed, and also all quirkiness, it's all smoothed and oversaturated and Stepford-Wives-y. Always been like that, but now it has been terminally infected by AI writing, which has sent it into a spiral, and it's worse than it has ever been. (Note that I never use AI to write, I've taken to using comma splices as a shibboleth.) Everyone on LinkedIn writes their posts with (bad) AI. C-suites, coaches, leaders, principal engineers, product managers--they all have the same banal writing, the same stupid tells. It's like combovers, do they really think nobody else is going to notice? I could sort of stomach LinkedIn when it was just a weird cult. But when everyone started sporting AI combovers, I had to nope out. There are no human cognitive contributions happening there. So fuck it, I'll take the weirdos here along with the great people. I don't think you can find the one without the other. I am officially back, howdy howdy, will post a lot. Feels good. DM me and say hi.

@Mlambm @ELuttwak As I understand it, the 10% were chosen by the group being decimated. And the 90% had to kill their chosen 10%. It was a reminder to the other 90% of what faced them should they mutiny again.

@ELuttwak Seems like a mild punishment for mutiny!

Decimation was a Roman military punishment for mutinous soldiers, the execution of one out of ten (decem). These days one hears illiterates using the term as if meant 90% destruction, whereas it means that only 10% of the targets were hit: a case of inadvertent accuracy .

What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity. Thanks to everyone at @NASA for making this mission possible, and for taking us along for the ride.

@DeveshsK_ @EndgameaiChess Here you go: englishchess.org.uk/24-hour-chess-… April 18 - chess.com/play/arena/311… it's 5|0 time control.

@isofarro @EndgameaiChess That's amazing. I have only played one GM until now, Ben Finegold.

I just played 8 Games with an FM on @EndgameaiChess and holy shit it was so fun despite me losing all games. You don't get the opportunity to play with titled players every day! Since the platform is new, I think you have good chances to catch a few titled players in the lobby.

That's using hardcoded tree sized (depth 8,width 5). If I set the depth to 5 and the width to 2, I get the simpler tree: Could be quite useful if the tree size was dynamic based on the variance of eval scores... With the idea of finding promising/difficult continuations.

Quick 10 minute play with Codex and Stockfish. I was thinking that the engine could output a move tree instead of a multiPV, so we could see the neighbourhood of the position. And the engine hash tables already have the data needed for it: #chess

Ludwig, the hit new BBC comedy drama series starring David Mitchell, has reportedly been recommissioned for a third series before the second has even aired. comedy.co.uk/tv/news/8701/l…

So turns out the “London is collapsing” narrative isn’t grassroots at all. It’s being pumped out by bots, content farms, and foreign-aligned networks then laundered through politicians and media. Manufacture the fear. Repeat it enough. Turn it into policy.

@boswell5028 @DeborahMeaden Sun and wind are natural resources on our doorstep. And they haven't been sold off to private companies yet.

@DeborahMeaden I mean in a financial sense plenty of of families are finding it difficult to make ends meet. If we want to make ourselves less vulnerable to world events we need to take advantage of the natural resources on our doorstep

No idea why these guys don’t like clean air, energy security and a future for the next generations…and…

The category is: iconic space quotes I use daily.

this is more damaging than the actual cheating - the prize money that cheaters steal is less impactful than the damage it does to honest players' ability to perform

Ende einer Ära. ChessBase, die Firma, die den Schachsport über Jahrzehnte geprägt hat, wird verkauft. Der kasachische Milliardär Timur Turlov übernimmt. Jetzt exklusiv bei den Perlen: Was hinter dem Deal steckt. perlenvombodensee.de/2026/04/09/che…

Chess commentator @DavidHowellGM talks about cheating in top-level chess. Is it still an issue today? He recalls that once his opponent cheated, and it left him feeling paranoid for months after. #chess #podcast #cheating

If this part doesn’t convince you of the true character of the chess mafia I’m not sure what will. They lied and manipulated their closest partners, and when it came down to the day of judgment. They had absolutely no evidence and were forced to cover their tracks.

There's a lot to process on Day 8 of the @NASAArtemis II mission. With Earth in view from Orion's windows, the astronauts are packing up and reflecting on their lunar journey.