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Cake day: September 3rd, 2023

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  • I think I would put Super Mario Maker 1 and 2 here. At least, the online run part. The course editor is fantastic, and if you know some good builders or have a way to find curated courses. it’s great.

    However despite how much I’d like to be able to jump into a hundred-course run of Mario platforming (believe me, I would), it’s almost entirely shit. Not even entertaining shit most of the time. It’s either absurd enemy spam, empty courses, trap pipes/doors that lead to either instant deaths or inescapable dead-ends, invisible blocks over pits to trip you when you jump…

    And a favourite of mine, the course that would be almost impossible except there’s an invisible secret shortcut to the end right at the beginning. The infamous “dev door”. Because you have to be able to complete your course before you upload it, and the worst kind of trolls obviously don’t want to engage with their own crap.





  • A co-worker not long ago had AI (fucking copilot in this case) randomly trying to analyze a spreadsheet report with a list of users.

    There wasn’t any specific need to do this right now, but, curious, he let it do its thing. The AI correctly identified it was a list of user accounts, and said it might be able to count them. Which would be ridiculously easy to do, since it’s just a correctly formatted spreadsheet with each row being one user.

    So he says OK, count them for me. The AI apologizes, it can’t process the file because it’s too big to be passed fully as a parameter in a python script (OK, why and how are you doing that?) but says it might be able to process the list if it’s copy-pasted into a text file.

    My co-worker is like, at that point, why fucking not? and does the thing. The AI still fails anyway and apologizes again.

    We’re paying for that shit. Not specifically for copilot, but it was part of the package. Laughing at how it fails at simple tasks it set up for itself is slightly entertaining I guess, thanks Microsoft.




  • I was quite surprised when Terry Bogart was announced for Smash.

    Lots of people were like “is he even notable enough to get a spot as a DLC character?”, and I was not far from thinking that too. KoF is basically that niche series only a couple fighting game nerds care about where I live.

    And then there were the South American people, etc coming into the thread saying “Are you crazy? of course he is! Who the fuck is Ryu anyway?”


  • Discord is terrible for assistance.

    Search is ineffective, you have to actually fight the UI to go back to older messages, depending on the device there are still somehow cases in which you can’t go back to the beginning of a thread. But thank you for putting a huge reminder that I am currently “reading through old messages”, silly me, why would I want to do that.

    Oh, you’re trying to scroll down through old posts? Let me suddenly refresh the list for no reason and bring you back to the most recent ones. Everything past the third screen might as well not exist anymore.

    And of course, there is the slight problem of every useful info written there being completely invisible to the rest of the internet.