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Outlets like the BBC regularly reused film stock and destroyed their archives. Many episodes of old shows like Dr. Who (the first season especially) are lost media due to this practice. The show's were considered like stage plays: performed once, broadcast, and the money was made. For how "innovative" capitalism is, it took the corpos decades to realize the latent value of media IP.

The ongoing push towards *AAS is the backlash to realizing that physical media gave consumers a permanent version of things. They actually prefer it under the broadcast model where you got what they felt like putting out and liked it.

My point is that capitalism and culture are fundamentally incompatible. The illusion that capitalism has culture is only because it steals culture from the people who actually create it by alienating us from the process of creation (automation, assembly lines, AI, etc) and then using IP law to claim ownership over the artifacts of culture, which they sell back to us. The owner class have never been good stewards of anything.

A tremendous amount of issues in the world stem from people not understanding what abuse is and passing it on to others as "the way it has to be."

I started painting in my late 30s and love it, and get regular compliments and good natured critiques of my work. I have never cried about it, and if someone thought I needed to be torn down to improve, they would no longer be in my life. But I don't hold any delusions that I'm making high art either.

People tend to have a really shitty grasp of context and nuance. People also do use AI becaue they want to skip the work and go straight to rewards. These all stem from the same issue: lack of care. We've been trained to see the world like rich people: devoid of empathy, compassion, and care. It takes time and energy to understand your situation and formulate a proper reaponse. Sometimes art is a struggle and it takes time and energy to overcome your limits or figure out what it is you actually want from the work. Properly offering good critique requires empathy, and it requires the time and energy to dedicate to the critique.

It's easy to cruelly criticize. It's easy to throw out slop. It's easy to just let the machine do it.

Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World's and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won't be announced any time soon.

I'd never noticed that in this order, it's almost π!

Off by 0.001 and some change; that coincidence is going to haunt me.

🧐: 0 is the origin of time, the big bang (if you believe in that kind if thing)

The problem then is figuring out when earth (and then human) time starts, but we can just add some arbitrary offsets that feel right and everyone agrees on.

Xenu makes a dollar

Don't trust the birds or limes

Thats why I shit

In liminal spaces and times

Back when it made the transition from flash game to retail-release megahit, PETA put out a joke clone game called Super Tofu Boy. In response, Team Meat added tofu boy as a hidden character to later releases. His jump height is so low I don't think you can even easily beat the first level.

Anyway, i think this article was just an excuse to promote some games the author likes and get out some easy content. Celeste and N++ are both godtier platformers, and Dustforce is severely underrated, so I'm fine with it, haha.

How can sole maintainers work with multi-billion corporations without being taken advantage of?

They can't, thats why GPL is noncommercial. Capitalism is an exploitative system that relies on power imbalance. As soon as MS reached out, he should have made it clear they can't even look at his code for ideas without a contract and payment. He shouldn't have told them anything else without a contract. Papers with legal claims on them are the only language business speaks.

It isn't just about intuition as randomly judged by how you or anyone else feels about it. Humans do a lot of things on 0 to 100 and 0 to 10 scales. Literally the basis of the metric system. But all measurements are arbitrary comparisons to some target object: "the meter".

So a temperature scale that closely aligns the 0 to 100 scale to the minimum and maximum commonly experienced surface temperature of the planet we live on is going to feel more natural to use than one which aligns to the boiling point of water, something we don't usually encounter in nature.

Now we do encounter boiling liquids, and hotter, in labs and in kitchens, which is why C probably feels natural to scientists and people who cook a lot.

But the resolution of it isn't particularly intuitive. What does 1\100th of the aggregate temperature of boiling water have to do with anything? Why a linear scale? It takes more energy to add 1°C of heat to an ice cube than to the equivalent amount of 20°C ("room temperature") water.

Measurements are about both precision and repeatability, but also about conveying information in an easily understandable way. Sometimes those goals conflict, particularly when a scale of measurement is used in both informal and formal settings.

"Includes" was the wrong word, its like the opposite of hyperbole here. The range humans can survive in is roughly 0 to 100 in F, the full range of the scale. The range in Centigrade is roughly -17 to 30. It isnt that it "includes" it, the entire useful portion of the meter is dedicated to it.

Yeah, it begs my blood pressure too. I usually say masala chai to avoid redundancy and be specific to the kind of chai, but garam masala just means hot spice blend, similar to melange. Spice Melange is the name for the magic spice in Dune, but Dune is called Arrakis by the native people (which probably just means sand dune in the Freman language.)

100F was originally set to roughly human body temperature. 0 was the freezing point of a brine mixture (water, salt, and ammonium) meant to be similar to sea water. It was used because the temperature would self-stabilize at a particular temperature, which was defined as 0 degrees.

That's why its "humanistic," the scale roughly includes the temperature range we can survive in, and provides decent granularity within that range. Metric based everything on pure water, which is pretty arbitrary also, as evidenced by both scales being redefined as more precise and repeatable means of defining measured units have become available.