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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Tiktok shows you more of what you engage in and throws some randomness in there so you don’t get stuck in a local minimum. It’s like when YouTube’s algorithm kinda worked and you could see how it’d possibly be better; bytedance actually pulled it off instead of enshittifying.

    And it takes time for the algorithm to learn your tastes. If you’re a mouth breather at heart you’re gonna get mouth breather content no matter how much you try and change it. If you’re a perv and linger on thirst traps… You’re going to see more thirst traps.

    With your described scenario, that’s not unique to tiktok- that can happen on any platform when the child is unsupervised. It could have been twitch, Roblox, Instagram, Snapchat, it myriad other platforms; the real problem there is inattentive parenting.

    I’ve learned about more shitty local government practices from tiktok than any other platform. I’ve been exposed to points of view I’d never otherwise see. Random videos have triggered just as much progress on my mental health as years of therapy. I’ve found people far more articulate than me explaining shit that combats my family’s far right talking points in a way where they actually listen and change their mind, and vice versa.

    I’ve also consumed an inordinate amount of white hot memes and mountains of brain rot lol

    But yeah. The TT algorithm is a mirror (given time). It reflects your persona back at you with the type of content you see.





  • Slay the spire, FTL, and Into the Breach probably have the most hours from me because the controls are entirely cursor driven and can be paused indefinitely.

    Balatro is quickly taking the space that the built-in Windows solitaire game used to.

    Those are the ones that I open when my brain can’t brain.

    At least one idle game. I just finished antimatter dimensions after a year or so. Starting on NGU idle next.

    And one “100% attention” game like outer wilds or hollow knight.







  • The game was done at launch. I played through the campaign the first month after it was released. I would have been happy with what was in the game a year ago

    People bought the game and that enabled larian to keep working on it. So they got to polish and add in the stuff that had been left on the cutting room floor we’d have never otherwise seen due to that pesky reality of not being able to ship a finished product if the scope kept growing.

    So now, a year after release, there’s a whole DLC’s worth of content in the game that we just get for free.






  • If someone is so socially inept and surrounded by equally socially inept people who don’t call out this behavior, then it’s possible they don’t have anyone who is part of society at large that would inform them of how their actions will be perceived by most members of the public.

    I’m not commenting because it hurts me in any way. I’m commenting because this person is going to have a relatively difficult life socially if they continue with the behavior they currently exhibit.