Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
Anyone who believes Elon has some grand master plan is falling prey to very basic human biases.
We want our billionaires to be competent at what they do so their obscene wealth doesn't seem so unfair.
But they're not. They're idiots stumbling around in the dark, and pretending they're geniuses is about as accurate as anthropomorphizing your cat.
A number of bright friends have long been convinced Elon is intentionally bringing down #Twitter. I remain skeptical. But every few weeks, he does...
@kierkegaank Yes, which perfectly explains his brilliant decision to achieve that lifelong dream by naming his failing chat app after it.
Real disruptive geniuses buy businesses for $40 billion only to fire all the employees and dump the worldwide-known brand name for no apparent reason.
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I live in a country, ostensibly run by adults, where a major political party can't decide whether it's Mickey Mouse or Barbie that poses the greater threat.
@chrishudsonjr Right there with you, hence the response to your prompt. That's the thing: I typically don't disagree with her message; It's her methods I don't like.
I don't like that the adults around her let her become a political mascot before she was even an adult. And I don't like her endless thirst for attention since becoming an adult. She's like the worst parts of activist celebrity and reality TV star were smashed together. With each stunt, you're left wondering if it was for the cause, or for raising her own clout online.
Seriously, Netflix, when do we get a sequel to The Old Guard?
@chrishudsonjr Greta Thunberg.
I think a political activist could be referred to as an "intellectual".
But she's always annoyed the shit out of me since she made her first headlines.
@bruce That's definitely possible in the game, but the democratic reforms I enacted prevented me from doing so without a fair trial. If I took a more authoritarian bent from the start, then I could've "This is Sparta!"ed them out of the country.
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Hey folks. If you haven't played "Suzerain", you need to give it a shot. #game #review
It's a political game where you run a fictional country, but it's the best political simulator I've ever played. You really get to try to form the country into the image you want... and the other people in that country will hate you for it.
I tried to build a democratic-socialist utopia. I made voting easier. I passed civil rights laws. I reformed the constitution to impose more limits on my own office to balance the branches of government. Where I went wrong was my insistence on running the ultra-rich out of town. They took the whole economy with them and then had me assassinated.
That was a week of text-based gameplay and I still can't wait to dive in again.
Seriously, though. 10/10. And it's only $15.
@cathygellis What's the difference when they connect to Musk's servers either way?
@chris They're doing that *while* cutting costs by removing old shows and movies that have expensive royalties. Max even recently cut some of their own first-party content just so they could get a tax write-off.
@chris For a year or two until they have no competition and can start endlessly cutting costs without losing customers.
@chris Isn't that just a cable subscription at that point?
@emilygorcenski Even if they have a jank-ass menu?
@chrishudsonjr Fair enough. For me personally, I feel like even trolling them is giving them more attention than they deserve. They should just be ignored into oblivion as the irrelevant powerless weasels they are.
@chrishudsonjr I think it's pretty safe to say that Mises has tainted the entire label. We may just need a new label to move to.
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This is truly absurd and delightful. The "first human computed shader". You are assigned a pixel, given the equation, and need to show your handwritten manual calculation of its RGB value.
"405 different people have been computing pixels by hand for 4 days"
It's made by Inigo Quilez the undisputed king of shaders.
(HT @dpiponi )
Hey folks. If you haven't played "Suzerain", you need to give it a shot. #game #review
It's a political game where you run a fictional country, but it's the best political simulator I've ever played. You really get to try to form the country into the image you want... and the other people in that country will hate you for it.
I tried to build a democratic-socialist utopia. I made voting easier. I passed civil rights laws. I reformed the constitution to impose more limits on my own office to balance the branches of government. Where I went wrong was my insistence on running the ultra-rich out of town. They took the whole economy with them and then had me assassinated.
That was a week of text-based gameplay and I still can't wait to dive in again.
Seriously, though. 10/10. And it's only $15.
@lawfare Two months ago? That's a typo, right?
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
