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Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

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ugh, pro-chess dialogue is so exhausting :/. at this point, everyone should know that the gap in ability between a new and experienced player is really too wide for the new player to give informed consent. they might not even know the rules! by normalizing this behavior, you're opening them up to en passant.

anyway, play chess responsibly, and take it slow when you're first getting involved with the community

yeah I mean I don't think there's anything wrong with playing chess. as long as it's between 2 consenting adults

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I need any and all of y'all who are attracted to men and considering Khajiit as even close to an option to remember the barbs.

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my mother is the straightest woman I've ever met. my father, on the other hand...

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Oh accounting is thriving, and, crucially, getting more accessible to entrants.

To any unaware, accounting is the backbone of pretty much all business, from Mom and Pop pizza joints to Fortune 500. It's the underlying system of recording and reporting transactions that makes possible all financial analysis, strategic decision making, and anything within an organization where money moves. You want your payroll done? Accounting. You want charitable donations logged? Accounting. You want to know if you even made money last month? Accounting. It also plays a vital role in uncovering fraudulent, corrupt, or unsafe business practices, through audit or forensic roles. Last and least, accountants do taxes. They exist in every industry and their work is usually legally mandatory. That's job security *and* flexibility. You're bound to find some option you like.

Now the gold star for (American; I'm not in international, so don't ask me any hard questions) accountants is the CPA (certified public accountant) license. It adds over $1 million to an accountant's projected lifetime earnings. It permits you to actually file tax returns or audit reports independently (or sign off on them, if you're with a firm). Licensure is a challenge, and a major sticking point. There's at least four exams to take, and most states require both a year of work experience and 150 credits worth of education.

Key word: most. States are beginning to drop the 150 credit requirement. 80% of the accounting workforce is set to retire in the next decade. Like I said, accountants are the backbone of business. We need more and we need them quickly. Internships will pay $28+ for undergraduates. It's uncommon not to receive a full-time offer after an internship. Accounting students are in such low supply that you'll get job offers a year or two out from your start date. It's insane.

Anyway, TL;DR: accountants are old. Replace them. Promote corporate accountability, support a business of your choice, and get a ticket to the good life with nothing more than basic ethics and arithmetic. I love accounting.

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no, yeah, this is right. you leave your pointers resting on F and G. that's why they've got the little raised lines, so you can find your spot.

I remember back in my compulsory education they taught us to use the keyboard like this but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person type like this ever.

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the fact that this says "primarily" leaves a possibility of combat. I choose to imagine the maid fighting off large mice. toddlers. vicious space aliens of a size smackable with a broom.

Game with a DMC style combo meter, callouts and everything but you play a maid and it’s primarily about cleaning

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my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush

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You're right. We should start nailing (rolls d20) character sheets to (rolls percentile dice) congressmen or whatever it is that Luther guy did

At this point in think that D&D has more ardent support than lutheranism. And it's adherents are somehow even more annoying.

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I have barely touched any Pokemon media ever but no one will convince me that there's a better Pokemon than Spheal.

every pokemon is someone's favourite and i'm determined to find a person for every pokemon so please reblog this and tell me what your number one favourite pokemon of all time is

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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Spin this wheel to choose your race

Spin this wheel to choose your class

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To Be Alive

by Gregory Orr

To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but… If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

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Since it's you, it's gotta be Pokémon. But also, a) I've never played Pokémon, and b) how the hell would it be??

We'll go with an old comfort game: be whoever you wanna be (within six options) and marvel at the mysteries of medieval poverty, violent rebellion, and infectious diseases transmittable by blood. Through the power of friendship (and infectious diseases transmittable by blood), save the world! If you like goth women, you'll live.

Tag Game based on This Post:

Tag your friends and describe one game you particularly enjoy poorly! I'll go first.

"Crying, Pissing, and Shitting Yourself in your mother's comically large basement."

Bonus points if you can guess prev's game.

@noomycatz @emthesteves @splatting-stampede @bl4z33467

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This is the single best antidote to defeatist dialogue, makes progress possible in a divided system, and still lets you talk to grandma over Christmas.

They say that the way you should view disagreements in relationships is “us vs the problem” and not “me vs them” and I think that to a certain extent that mindset can also be helpful when engaging in political or ideological movements

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I submit for your consideration *They're Made of Meat*, by Terry Bisson. Readable online here.

I found humans are space orcsblr.

I have always liked Humans are Space Orcs. It is funny.

But so many posts are like

Alien: *notices weird thing about human* Alien: *asks about it* Human: *responds as if normal activity* Alien: wtf

And I just can’t help but unsuspend the universal translator disbelief. Like, yeah, it’s easy to say you could change one sound to another so that aliens who physically couldn’t make human language sounds can still communicate, but consider:

Aliens who can’t make noises at all.

Aliens who can’t see so sign language isn’t a thing.

Aliens with no sense of touch so even haptics are impossible.

Imagine aliens who communicate by smell (something that happens on earth with some animals) or taste. Aliens who sense different kinds of radiation and communicate that way. Imagine humans are completely incompatible with alien species because we don’t have the organ that senses gamma rays. Like, we take ears for granted because everything on earth can hear (if not disabled). But in the void of space, there is no sound—what if no one is listening, not because they’re not there or because they don’t care, but because we’re talking at a blind person in ASL?

There are so many cool options for communication for aliens—temperature, pressure, microwaves, electric signals, you name it. Like, imagine a species that communicated by the physical sensation of wind.

And, like, you might think, “how could an alien communicate in radiation? There’s radiation all around and we don’t sense it. Plus, there’s so much of it, there’d be no way to tell it apart from natural radiation!” But then consider. We communicate in vibrations of fluids. There’s vibrations all around, and we can sense them all—yet we still manage to pick out human sounds from nonhuman sounds, and distinguish between!

Imagine in head.

Alien, learning how use a sound interpreting machine, being excited with being able to identify a human sound from a mess of nonhuman sounds. Then, realizing that not only can we do this effortlessly, we can tell one human’s sounds apart from another, even if we’ve barely met them. We can make patterns of this incomprehensible gibberish, much in the same way our alien can determine which of their friend’s protons are being reamalgamated.

Then.

Humans have their own unique “voice” in other alien languages, much in the same way aliens would still make sounds just from moving around. Or reactions we didn’t even know we had because we can’t sense them, like alien purrs they couldn’t tell they were making because they don’t have ears.

Just something to think about.