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A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say 'this looks like trash' and stop watching it. They're right, and it's a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.
I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. It's a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.
Happy Death Day 2: You Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Has anybody digitized the tapes used in first-generation melotrons?
Scott Alexander is clearly not a neo-nazi. The fact that he considers democratic socialists to be as far to the left as neoreactionaries are to the right, however, indicates he's in a right-wing bubble.
Lemurs are like catfoxmonkeys
Band name of the day: becoming symmetrical
Band name of the day: quasi-deified victims of collective violence
Band name of the day: creative misunderstandings of the source material
Band name of the day: pan-diatonic clusters
Band name of the day: extruding the universe
Band name of the day: the surreal humanism of the future
GPT-2: only slightly worse than tracery (tm)
Re: GPT-2 -- sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.
Band name of the day: solar monopoly
Band name of the day: data void
Band name of the day: persistent metabolic youth
A lot of large software projects are so bad that liking them should automatically disqualify someone from working on them, unless you like them in a masochistic semi-sexual way.
Who the fuck decided to call it The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead of Fourth Generation Warfare With Fourth Generation Languages
The 'paradox of tolerance' is not a paradox, any moreso than "my car requires gas to run but if I drive too much I run out of gas" is a paradox. Abstract machines are still machines. Society is a machine for living in, & if you break it living gets harder.
A lot of 'paradoxes' are just the result of substituting a conditional for an absolute or treating a heuristic as axiomatic.
Media mix is interesting. You can optimize a work for adaptation but that keeps you from taking advantage of features of your medium. The best adaptations are sometimes difficult-to-adapt medium-specific forms that forced creativity (ex. Bakemonogatari)
1024 possible protocol plateaus
Band name of the day: chill panic
I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I'm not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.
Band name of the day: break space
Band name of the day: play architecture
Band name of the day: doctor chainsaw
Band name of the day: borderline content
our last, best hope for peeps
Medium has changed their policy. Now, recommendations are controlled by curators, & anything paywalled gets submitted to them. This probably means fewer but higher-quality recommendations...
Public service announcement: markets & capitalism aren't the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).
A Softer World Tarot when
Band name of the day: lethal automated weapons
Band name of the day: ghosts from the future
Band name of the day: speculative negativity and the revolutionary pessimism
Society for the Promotion of Describing Social Constructs as 'Eldrich' and 'Uncanny'