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...
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.
Seriously, Netflix, when do we get a sequel to The Old Guard?
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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.
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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.
It'll be interesting when there's only one company left making AAA games.
Update: #FTC withdraws its case before an in-house judge that sought to block the #Microsoft $69 billion acquisition of game-maker #Activision, rep...
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With the millions of dollars that DeSantis and his Republican legislature have spent on court challenges against their unconstitutional laws, flying immigrants around the country, paying for his election police and his disastrous state military police, they could have shored up the crumbling insurance industry and assisted those still trying to rebuild from multiple hurricanes.
DeSantis, Florida officials sued over felon voter eligibility rules, ‘election police’-
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/07/19/desantis-florida-officials-sued-over-felon-voter-eligibility-rules-election-police/
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On this day in 1969, humans walked on the moon for the first time. Celebrate this monumental achievement with this online reprint of LIFE Magazine Special Edition from August 11, 1969:
https://www.life.com/history/apollo-11-to-the-moon-and-back-life-magazine-lunar-landing/
#History #tdih #space #InternationalMoonDay #MoonDay
🤦♂️ toothless bullshit
#FTC to pause its in-house trial against the $69 billion acquisition by #Microsoft of #ActivisionBlizzard, opening the door to potential settlement...
So, I bought some cheap projectors on sale, and I thought I got a good deal, and they arrived in very professional looking boxes and on the side there was even a prominent email address for customer support... at hotmail dot com.
It drives me nuts how many people say "AI is bad because corporations will use it to exploit people."
Like, how does anyone say that with a straight face and not realize that the AIs aren't the problematic part of that sentence?
Google is running a serious scam with Workspaces. All over the place, they advertise rates as low as $6/month, but then when you actually sign up, the only option they give you is 3x that!
Fair warning: Do not buy Anley products. They're garbage.
This flag was up less than a month, and it already looks about ready to be retired.
It blows my mind that, with all the scientific advancements humans have achieved, the best idea we have for keeping our teeth clean is "idk, have someone pick at them with metal spikes a couple times a year"
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"If we raise taxes on the extremely wealthy, they will leave"
Good. These people are parasites. They became billionaires by paying minimum wage, and relying on government programs to prop up their businesses. They pay little to no tax.
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This is your reminder that potatoes are an objectively superior currency to Bitcoin or any other crypto
A Potato:
- Shows inherent proof of work
- Hacker proof
- Valid in any country
- Works in any century
- Accessible at any tech level
- Delicious and nutritious
- Is also a battery
- Can be turned to rocket fuel (AKA vodka)
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Self-knowledge is the beginning of all wisdom.
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
