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@anishmoonka >quietly @pangram ai?

At any moment in RollerCoaster Tycoon, up to 4,000 cartoon people were walking around your park, each one living a tiny life the game tracked moment by moment. The game knew each guest's name, how much money was in their pocket, whether they were hungry, thirsty, tired, sick, or needed the bathroom. It also knew which rides each person liked and how strong their stomach was. The sequel handled 9,621 of them. Then there was the money. The game gave you a $10,000 starter loan from a fake bank, often at 10% interest. You also paid for staff, ride maintenance, snack stall restocking, and loan interest charges that came out four times a month. Take the maximum $5 million loan to build a giant coaster, and the interest alone would bankrupt you before your park opened. Kids were getting their first taste of running out of money to pay the bills. Every ride had to pass a physics check. The engine looked at three things: how exciting the ride was, how intense, and how likely it was to make people throw up. A turn too sharp pushed the sideways force past 2.81 G's. Guests refused to ride. Push a bobsleigh past its safety limits and the cars would fly off the track and kill the riders. Your rating tanked, guests stopped showing up, the in-game news ran the story, and your scenario quietly failed. Every level handed you a hard target. Get 250 guests in by October of Year 1, with people happy enough to stick around. Pay off your loan and build your park up to $500,000 in value. Hit a monthly profit number from food and merchandise sales. You could buy advertising near the deadline to bring in more guests, but only if you still had cash to spend. One person built all of this. Chris Sawyer wrote 99% of the game in assembly language, working alone from a house in the Scottish countryside. That's the hardest kind of code to write, talking straight to the computer's chip with no friendly tools. Two years coding solo. The game sold 700,000 copies in its first year, brought in $19.6 million, and crossed 9 million copies franchise-wide. Sawyer walked away with around $30 million. In 2014, a guy named Nicolas Gunkel wrote about it after finishing business school. He said playing RCT as a kid had already taught him most of what his MBA later did: customer value, pricing, return on investment, how to keep a place running at full capacity. The school just used fancier words. The meme is funny because half of it is true. Kids playing this were running real businesses. The cartoon coasters were just the wrapper around a business simulator.

@kylejfleming Wait you do? What makes for the change of heart?

I regret all my red votes (I don't regret voting red on glosso though. I REALLY wanted to see the fallout from that. I'm still salty she never followed thru in banning people who didn't vote)

@ArtirKel @Romy_Holland @kylejfleming I just complete a pretty ideal divorce where my ex spouse did not take half my money. But the nagging worry I had for many months created avoidable stress and I'd rather not deal with that next time

@Romy_Holland @kylejfleming (written as I just granted my brothers general power of attorney in Spain, where they can even gift themselves all my property if they want)

well at least now a bunch of ppl know why they’re single

@phenoatypical damn

:)

@RatOrthodox @mcbungleweed @basilYam nice, at first I thought less of OP but with this additional context it's p sweet

@mesolude @mcbungleweed @basilYam I was asked first, and cropping out my name was offered

@RatOrthodox @mcbungleweed @basilYam how do you feel about people posting screenshots of private conversations?

@mcbungleweed @basilYam Is it? That was just my actual thought

Just saw a man holding up a blank piece of cardboard while panhandling It was like a deconstructionist art statement showing us how unnecessary the text was for me to understand what he was asking However, he was balancing a rock on his head

@TylerAlterman @rob_mcrobberson He did the Snow White thing partly *because* of memes like what you're spreading Please be careful around wild animals guys, things can go from calm to fatal very quickly

@TylerAlterman @rob_mcrobberson A very spiritual and loving person I know recently saved two deer who were entangled in rope, using his nervous system to calm them down. Then one of them attacked him, he went to the ER, it could have been fatal What you're suggesting is dangerous

I see this factoid repeated a lot. I would not make prolonged *anything* with a predator in the wild that could kill me, but I have made prolonged eye contact w predator animals in other situations & they have been some of the most beautiful experiences of my life. The predator did not get aggressive. Animals can sense intent, they’re not automatons. They can feel your fear or aggression even when you can’t

@seanta___ Ah I didn't know the venue rules so when I saw the pile of shoes followed suit

for the record no one told anyone at this party to take their shoes off, they just all did 😂😂

wait I think he longhoused me, now I cook for him

longhousing milestone: I got him to go to the dentist regularly

@Romy_Holland well done!!!

he is here! he’s perfect, but pushing out all 8lbs 6oz of him turned out not to be chill.

9.5cm dilated they tell me. i guess im about to push an entire human baby out of my vagina. still not really sold on the mammalian reproductive design, but maybe it will be chill.

@bashu_thanks This is adapted from Meisner technique, I can send you a doc that has more exercises and stuff It transformed a whole year for the better. Now I kinda need a refresher

@mesolude how has this been going

I've got that people pleaser socialization, if someone frowns and wants something from me I've historically felt panic in my body and like I need to do what they want BUT I practiced some exercises for ~15 minutes and it's been dramatically better since then

@csvoss ah!! congratulations!

sweet little guy, welcome to the world <3

@Timeroot No one talks about how much energy it takes for me to listen to it say "You're asking all the right questions"

Everyone talks about how much energy AI uses listening to users say "Thanks", but how much does the AI use saying "You've found another excellent and subtle point" ad nauseam

It reminded me of twerking. I'll casually bounce my butt while laying down (insp by @azmythalauris) and it feels really nice—maybe it does a similar thing

I tried this yesterday and was able to tremor for >10 minutes (then I got bored). It was interesting, but I don't feel any different in the emotional tone of my body Still, well worth the 20 minutes to try something low cost that works well for so many people!

@ArtirKel @bananamelter I went to Dr. Newman in East Bay. I personally know 4 other people who did lasik with him. We all had pretty good results. My eyes are a bit dry, but 20/20 or better

@bananamelter @mesolude

@BecomingCritter This is in my doorway. Made by @GabrielSchama

I need to buy some wall art, what's your favorite piece of art that you own?