#coder problems

[valiant-if]

Hey, everyone!

I'm currently working on a very basic implementation for short stories to be read in the actual game, but I encountered something that I wasn't aware was an issue.

For some reason, dialog popups that exceed a certain length are overflowing off the page, and this happens even when I go into the style sheet and change the dialog overflow property accordingly. (And, yes, this happens on both PC and mobile.)

Thankfully, I don't think any of the dialog boxes so far exceed the length of the box, which is doubtless why no one has ever reported this issue to me before. But it does mean that, until I can figure out why that's happening, there is a possibility that future dialog boxes will have this problem.

As for short stories, I wanted to implement them with dialog boxes because I think it looks nicer that way (on mobile specifically), but instead I'll be doing the more simple (and probably expected) implementation of making passages with the <<return>> macro.

The demo update this week is going to be pretty sparse on account of the holidays, but it will have the first four "Snowed In" snippets of the bunch. The last four will be released with the January 4th update, which will be the last day of the free month of ko-fi benefits.

[sunless-not-sinless]

one thing i love about tumblr is the queue. i have it so five reblogs a day will go up cone rain or shine.

but the queue has a max size of 1_000, so that could mean 200 days between me seeing a post and reblogging it. 200 days. even at ~30 days ive forgotten most of the posts and theyre fresh to me when i see them on my dash.

200 days. thats a pretty long time.

posts ive made have been dead for months and then suddenly someones queue came around and theres a new spark

whenever i see current political posts i fast reblog and queue. sure pretty much no one sees my posts but i see them! i get to be reminded of important events the collective consciousness stops talking about them!

if im ever too ill for screens my blog remains the same.

its my memories that i chose to share with my future self. its something there even when im not. its a reminder its nothing its jokes its memes

yknow what? its comforting

[agendratum]

饮鸩止渴

[pyramultimuse]

I have to zoom out to 67% so I can minimize IMs. PC tumblr is NOT laptop friendly for my 14" screen.

[complainblogforthevoid]

I've finally figured out an argument that convinces coding tech-bros that AI art is bad.

Got into a discussion today (actually a discussion, we were both very reasonable and calm even through I felt like committing violence) with a tech-bro-coded lady who claimed that people use AI in coding all the time so she didn't see why it mattered if people used AI in art.

Obviously I repressed the surge of violence because that would accomplish nothing. Plus, this lady is very articulate, the type who makes claims and you sit there thinking no that's wrong it must be but she said it so well you're kind of just waffling going but, no, wait-- so I knew I had to get this right if I was gonna come out of this unscathed.

The usual arguments about it being about the soul of it and creation fell flat, in fact she was adamant that anyone who believed that was in fact looking down at coding as an art form as she insisted it is. Which, sure, you can totally express yourself through coding. There's a lot more nuance as to the differences but clearly I was not going to win this one.

The other people I was with (literally 8 people anti-ai against her, but you can't change the mind of someone who doesn't want to listen and she just kept accusing us of devaluing coding as an art) took over for I kid you not 15 minutes while I tried desperately to come up with a clear and articulate way to explain the difference to her. They tried so many reasonable arguments, coding being for a function ("what, art doesn't serve a function?") coding being many discrete building blocks that you put together differently, and the AI simply provides the blocks and you put it together yourself ("isn't that what prompt building is") that it's bad for the environment ("but not if it's used for capitalism, hm?" "Yeah literally that's how capitalism works it doesn't care about the environment" she didn't like that response)

But I finally got it.

And the answer is: It's not about what you do, it's about what you claim to be.

Imagine that someone asks an AI to write a code and, by some miracle, it works perfectly without them having to tweak it---which is great because they couldn't tell you what a single solitary thing in that code means.

Now imagine this person, with their code that they don't know how it works, goes and applies to be a coder somewhere, presenting this AI code as proof that they're qualified.

Should they be hired?

She was horrified, of course. Of course they shouldn't be. They're not qualified. They can't actually code, and even if by some miracle they did have an AI successfully write a flawless code for every issue they came across that wouldn't be their code, you could hire any shmuck on the street to do that, no reason to pay someone like they're creating something.

When actual engineers use AI what they do is get some kind of base, which they then go though and check for problems and then if they find any they fix them, and add on to the base code with their own knowledge instead of just trying different prompt after prompt until they randomly come across one that works.

People who generate code like this don't usually call themselves engineers. They're people who needed a bit of code and didn't have the knowledge to generate it, and so used a resource.

And there you go. There are people who have none of the skills of artists, they don't practice, they don't create for themselves. When they feed the prompt to the AI they then don't just use the resulting image as a reference point for their own personal masterpiece, and if they don't like it they don't have the skills to change it---they simply try another prompt, and do that until they get something they like.

These people are calling themselves artists.

Not only that, these people are bringing the AI generated thing to interviews, and they are getting hired, leaving people who slave over their craft out of the job.

And that is the difference, for the tech bros who think AI art isn't a big deal.

[evisiontechnoserve123]

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[mahiloo]

*Sigh*

I really need to try and work on an actual look for my blog in order to properly organize my posts and differentiate my art from the rest...

But I can't code for shit

[confluencechimera]

man I miss when we used to have competent IT at work LMAO

[xirayn]

The inability to crumple up the paper and toss it across the room in frustration is definitely a downside of digital.

[elprupneerg]

doctors really do fucking suck huh

[1tsjusty0u]

i am my own worst enemy…..

[misterghostfrog]

This is almost comedically common with any program that's meant to be for folks who can't code to make games with. It even goes beyond the devs a lot of the time, I fiddle with that stuff on a regular basis and 9/10 times if you go on a forum to find out how to use a tool or implement some mechanic almost every answer you'll find will have people saying 'just learn (scripting language the program uses) and code it yourself it's easier' forgetting that the main audience is meant to be folks with no coding background

"RPG Maker lets you create games without knowing how to program!" is both technically a true statement and a trap.

[agendratum]

just realised that was a whole episode without nanzhu

but an episode without nanzhu is like an angel without its wings 😞

[insouciant-king]

it's so cool that vagabond just fucking crashes my game sometimes after his skill ends he's so great

[courtingwonder]

Robert Martin's Principles of Information, No. 2: Don't force users of a system to depend on things they don't care about.

[evisiontechnoserve123]

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