honk shoo theory

production costs are not compensation and they are not "perks"

an LLM that corrected you if you address it as a person would be a start I guess

Save 25% on Miniatures on Steam A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.

miniatures: store.steampowered.com/app/2428840/...

four short animated interactive stories, all quite stylistically different from one another

Promesa on Steam A contemplative experience where you’ll wander through the dreams, memories and fantasies emerging from a dialogue between a grandfather and his grandchild.

promesa: store.steampowered.com/app/1345370/...

an art piece where you explore various dreamlike scenes, something to experience in one sitting and very open to interpretation

Season 31 on Steam April 14th 2131. The races are going well. There has been a minor accident yesterday, nothing dramatic. Audiences even went up by 4 millions. I saw a flock of birds taking off this morning by the ante...

season 31: store.steampowered.com/app/3775580/...

a text adventure about running a racing tournament during the end of the world. short and well written

The End of Gameplay on Steam droqen's desperate attempt to explain, or explore, or understand the true meaning of "kill gameplay."

the end of gameplay: store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...

wherein @droqen.bsky.social explores what gameplay is and why and how it should be killed

Save 30% on Mini Mini Golf Golf on Steam Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a n...

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an artsy narrative thing about culture and maybe the end of the world which for some reason is communicated via tron-flavoured mini golf

CIPHER ZERO on Steam A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

cipher zero: store.steampowered.com/app/1332180/...

spatial logic puzzler where you have to figure out the rules, full of things that make no sense until you have that eureka moment

Venineth on Steam Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant w...

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marble platforming on alien planets, mechanically interesting and impeccable vibes

Phoenix Springs on Steam Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.

phoenix springs: store.steampowered.com/app/1973310/...

surreal and existential point and click adventure with stellar art and animation, I cannot recommend it enough

I didn't think I had particularly niche taste but turns out I've a bunch of favourites under 500 reviews that deserve more attention, so...

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update: Blade good actually

update: Blade good actually

also, ergonomics and human factors are responsible for a ton of people's preferences. some things are a good idea but feel like too much effort, and a lot of bad ideas are easy to do

that, or it's highly situational. "you should always take runic pyramid bro it's o.p." [user already took snecko's eye]

actually an awful lot of it is just this

I had Void Form and a bunch of other energy buffs. I basically had infinite energy and if I'd had more draw it would have been over

I just managed to lose to act 3 boss despite having the sword dealing nearly 300. baffling

RIP to truly one of the greatest to ever do it

it's the economy (stupid)

the thing about slay the spire is they invented a game that's really fun to absolutely suck shit at

am now getting email spam promising to "promote" my open source work via chatgpt. I cannot say this forcefully enough: eat shit

right this is how JS works, code runs without interleaving until you hit an await

20 years ago we got "git means you can work offline". now you have to be online all the time to use your LLM and meanwhile github can't stay up for 24 hours at a time

what happens to your usage costs when you're subject to large amounts of packet loss. can your session preserve the responses you dropped server side, or do you have to re-execute your previous failed prompts

this reminds me: I wonder what using these tools with very chatty network round trip protocols is like in areas with bad connectivity

LLMs are also opaque blobs (even local ones) that are hard to reliably extract specific facts from, whereas a website is a transparent body of work that you can download, mirror, index for your ends, etc

I realise working offline is considered a niche use case but it shouldn't be, imo

if you have some other way of expressing the atomicity or other consistency rules of blocks of code, then I guess you could hide the difference but this feels equivalent to just "assume anything could be async" and I don't get why that's useful

it's nice *not* to have to wrap everything in a mutex

and importantly you can't *hide* the difference between them. the JS execution model means the consistency of functions depends very strongly on "I can assume nothing else gets to run between two consecutive statements"