originally, generative AI was approached as like. a shitpost machine, essentially, and that's what it still is, but people eventually started trying to pretend it's not just that. but to me its like. you want me to use the shitpost machine to do real work? no thanks lol

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> My uncle worked for ICE for about 15 years before he retired last year. Family dinners got... complicated.

> Here's the thing nobody really talks about: the job attracts two very different types of people. There are folks who genuinely believe they're protecting communities and following the law as written, and then there are people who were probably looking for any job where they could exercise authority over vulnerable populations. My uncle was the former, but he'd come home with stories about the latter that made his stomach turn.

> He told me once about a case where they picked up a guy who'd been in the country for 20 years, owned a small restaurant, employed like a dozen people, had kids in college. No criminal record beyond the immigration violation. The guy's daughter showed up at the detention center and my uncle said watching her beg to see her dad through the glass was one of the worst moments of his career. He processed the paperwork because that was his job, but he stopped sleeping well after that.

> The cognitive dissonance was real. He'd justify it by saying "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them," but you could see it eating at him. He'd talk about actual dangerous people they'd caught—gang members, people with violent records—and feel good about that work. Then in the next breath he'd mention a grandmother getting picked up at a routine check-in after 30 years here, and he'd just... go quiet.

> What really got to me was how the job changed him. He used to be this warm, joking guy who'd give anyone the shirt off his back. By year 12 or 13, he'd become harder. More suspicious. Started talking about people as "illegals" instead of using their names. My aunt said he'd have nightmares and wouldn't talk about them.

> He retired early. Didn't even make it to his full pension. Last Thanksgiving he'd had a few drinks and admitted he wasn't sure anymore if he'd done more harm than good. Said the hardest part wasn't the job itself—it was realizing that following orders doesn't absolve you of responsibility for the outcomes.

> I don't have a clean answer here. I love my uncle. I also think the system he was part of is fundamentally broken and causes immense suffering. Both things are true, and I've had to learn to hold that tension without resolving it neatly.

everybody knew it was a bad thing lego had ended up with the license for brick built pokemon sets, because previous companies like mega had actually made little playsets that kids would like (and that weren't over the top expensive), and we all knew lego would just do extremely expensive, overwrought, massive part count statue type sets, and lo and behold, we get statue of pikachu where you have to shove the stand up its ass. $650 set with the kanto starters. everything's always gen I of course. and they release one thats kind of neat, a kanto region badge case, but you can only get it if you preorder the $650 starters set

not even a normal gift with purchase. only with preorders. I'm going to lose it

well that's a new one .. I was playing super mario all stars on the switch, and then... whatever this is started happening. I can no longer beat the level. is this a known glitch?? I've been playing this game for years and never ran into anything like this. what the hell happened lmao

Gonzo from the Muppets should transition #GonzoEggTheory

One cancelled game mystery that’s been on my mind lately has been an apparent Jazz Jackrabbit game for the Game Boy Color, listed as being published by Take 2 on Nintendo’s website in 1999 (https://web.archive.org/web/19990302091604/http://www.nintendo.com/gb/gamelist.html), with the listing seemingly lasting until some point in 2000.

This is pretty much all that’s out there about this, and even though Jazz made it to the GBA some years later, that was published by Jaleco, and it’s not clear if the supposed GBC game has any relation whatsoever.

Going by Wikipedia’s GBC game list, sorting by publisher, I’m gonna take a wild stab in the dark and assume that maybe Tarantula Studios (later Rockstar Lincoln Limited) had something to do with this? Just my speculation, there is basically nothing about a GBC Jazz Jackrabbit out there other than its listing on Nintendo’s website in 1999.

#GameBoy #Nintendo #JazzJackrabbit

new policy: pseudoscience is pseudoscience whether or not its harmful. i don’t care that its not hurting anyone, astrology and mtbi is bs and i won’t pretend its not

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RE: https://wetdry.world/@FawnOverFun/115891460513009765

as good a time as any to remind people do NOT target their families

their families probably fucking hate them and can be brought on side

oops oops

A 1986 Japanese guide on how to program using the Family BASIC software for the Famicom features many cute illustrations of Mario and Pauline (known as "Lady" in Japan at the time).

to me, one of the oddest things Nintendo's been doing lately is withholding switch 2 dev kits, barely anyone has them still, which has left the switch 2 library feeling a little bit wimpy, especially compared to the start the switch got off to

like nitrome, for instance, has a game I've been looking forward to for, getting closer to a year now, called Mouse Work, that they mostly have finished but haven't been able to release because they haven't gotten a dev kit, and they said not only do they not have one, developers bigger than they are that they know also do not have dev kits yet either

oh? you want to switch to linux but use photoshop? you can use Flunkly, which is almost feature complete except for the one feature you use in PS every day or you could use G.R.O.N.K., a FOSS alternative with the worst UX you have ever seen and does not support JPEGs for ethical reasons

somethirg feels deeply wrong

"oh yeah i'm totally this fictional character if she had this debilitating fucked up hormone condition"

An official Japanese 1988 guide for Super Mario Bros. 3 contains a small drawing of a Thwomp on the cover that, instead of the usual grimace, has a mischievous, cat-like expression. I have created a high-quality recreation of this Thwomp.