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Released simultaneously with Star Fox Zero (and in some territories, bundled together with it), Star Fox Guard is a unique tower defense game starring Slippy Toad and his uncle Grippy, who runs a mining business. Taking place after the...
Famously, for years I have read every single blog post in NetNewswire, every tweet on Twitter (when that website existed), and every toot on Mastodon for the websites and accounts that I follow. It was sort of a disease that I couldn’t...
In a session today there was some discussion about agentic skills. A skill is mostly a markdown text file often named, yes, skill.md with a natural language text plus some front matter, describing some specific workflow or bit of...
Had a bit of excitement in what should have been a routine day. Brad the Builder had ordered two cement trucks with conveyors. The cement company sent one truck with a conveyor, and they started pouring the footers. A little later the...
My sister showed me her phone with some hotel Instagram accounts. “They all look the same. I wonder if it’s AI,” she told me. She was visiting profiles of two small hotels in our city. Same colors. Same layout. No way to tell one from...
I’ve talked a bit about large language models (LLMs), and I do have friends who’ve been at odds with me for my reluctance to call these predictive algorithms “artificial intelligent”. Still, I do use LLMs frequently for coding both...
After the release of Star Fox Assault and Star Fox Command in the mid-00s, the franchise went dark for awhile, leading to an enhanced port of Star Fox 64 in 2011 for the 3DS. A brand new title, Star Fox Zero for the Wii U, wouldn’t...
Arriving in Germany in the summer of 1990, James C. Scott is surprised to find that Germans seem entirely unwilling to jaywalk across a narrow road, even when no cars are evident for miles. On the occasions when he or someone else dares...
Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott (Princeton University Press, 2012) In this series of short explorations of anarchist thought, James C. Scott proposes a “process-oriented” view of anarchism, or what might be termed anarchism by...
Chimeri standard dress watch (Photo by Unattributed, License CC BY-NC-SA) “What are hobbies about?” is a question I started asking myself when I was watching YouTube videos about watches and fountain pens. The answer to that question...
YouTube used to be one of my favorite spots on the internet for years. I'd watch endless videos from various creators (half of which got outed as being absolute freaks [derogatory] in the last 10 years, but that's neither here nor...
Today I missed an airplane at EKSN because I spent most of the day debating with myself wether I should bike to the airport or not. Note to self: next time you're in doubt, just fucking jump on the bike and pedal away. Worst case, you'll...
A good year after Star Fox: Assault, Nintendo followed up with a portable entry, Star Fox Command. The back of the box indicates that it’s a return to the franchise’s roots, which is partially true. The game was co-developed by Q-Games,...
Mine Bouy is a sporadically-posting Minesweeper enthusiast who posts interesting strategies sometimes, including one video about dealing with one of the most frustrating, yet sadly common, events in playing that game: “fifty-fifties,”...
Forget me not flowers symbolize true love and respect. 13 Forget Me Knot