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Yet another overwhelming W for small creators thanks to copyright

Fauxgramming

This feels like the same principle as "measure twice, cut once"

I'm reminded of this story about the Thompson SMG in Wolfenstein Enemy Territory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxiuHdR_T4

Could be something like "Karen" or "boomer" where you're just using the predominant demographic of a behaviour as a label for anyone who engages in it.

I haven't touched it in years, but I don't think anything is going to surpass World of Warcraft in hours played anytime soon.

Next up would be Monster Hunter World and Dark Souls III with 2000+ hours each.

It's an amusement park builder and not a city builder, but Parkitect might be worth a look. It sets spatial limitations for your park and has more focus on individual buildings as opposed to zoning and traffic efficiency (though there are still things you can do to optimise guests' paths through the park). There is a "beauty" system which gives you incentive to decorate the park and hide infrastructure from the guests, and you can get pretty creative the the decorations.

Each level sets an income goal for your park to reach, so outside of building you'll primarily be managing your park's budget. You set prices on park entry, individual rides, shops, and restaurants, as well as paying for staff and upkeep. You can take out loans to finance construction and buy advertisements to boost sales. You have the option to continue playing after you compete the level.

It lets you design your own coasters of course, but it comes with prebuilt rides if you're not into that. You can also use other players' ride designs and upload your own. And it has co-op, if that's your thing.

Yeah, at that price point I'll just hold on to my DS4.

No bro you don't understand, Claude needs access to backups so it can restore them in case something breaks because our senior dev ($50k, 2YoE) doesn't know how to do it

In case anyone else is curious, the essay is simply titled "On Noise."

Edit: here's a Project Gutenberg link

I thought this was referencing Will Smith at the Oscars until I read the alt text.

The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage.

This is an insightful point I haven't seen made before. I'm going to start referring to vibe code as "subprime technical debt"