You now planted in my mind the idea of a text editor but it has literally EVERY fancy effect one can think of. Like the text animates fancily when you type it, and every interface element is animated and blur-glassy, and when the color of things changes because of code highlighting it does so generating particle effects etc.

It sounds fucking useless. Someone who’s good at the coding start making this and I’ll donate to your patreon/ko-fi.

Bonus: It’s made in Electron and extremely bloated.

At school.

While the adults are doing adult stuff (fighting on the rebellion, doing science, suffering in the dystopia) the kids have learning to do.

I’m assuming it’s the editor for making things on some game engine or a video editing software, not your text editor. Even the most obese text editor isn’t Like That.

If the artist responsible for the Michael Jackson parody “Eat it” uses the bathroom, is the stuff that comes out of him Al Slop?

Surprisingly reasonable?

I was terrified that entering the corporate world would mean being surrounded by people who are obssessed with AI.

Instead like… The higher-ups seem to be bullish on it and how much money it’ll make them (… And I don’t mind because we get bonuses if the corp does well), but even they talk about how “if you just let AI do the job for you, you’ll turn in bad quality work” and “AI just gets you started, don’t rely on it”

We use some machine learning stuff in places, and we have a local chatbot model for searching through internal regulations. I’ve used Copilot to get some raw ideas which I cooked up into something decent later.

It’s been a’ight.

She ever give a reason, or nah?

Prescriptivists should be shoved into all the lockers in the world.

That was why I mentioned Gen 2

It dropped in 2000 after a LOOOONG development hell. And one flap of the butterfly’s wing would have stopped Gold and Silver from being released

Which in turn would have killed the franchise’s momentum.

Do I have the power to change things on a large scale? Cuz like, I was already an adult by 2011, and I still just sorta watched as shit went to shit. I did ‘my part’, and I warned people when I could about alarming trends they were unwittingly contributing to, but no one cared, and to be honest, unless one can actually hit the powerful folks, there is very little an individual can do.

If I have power to change things, to actually affect the powerful people, then I’m going to Y2K and I have a few ideas:

• Stomp Jair Bolsonaro to death a full decade before he becomes popular. When he was a nobody state representative from São Paulo who was only there to generate more seats for his party.
• Arrange a convenient accident for Steve Jobs years before the iPod drops. People talk about technology becoming boring, I place the blame for that entirely at Apple’s feet. And it all began with the iPod, which in turn, if you believe the stories told, was Jobs’ baby, to the point he harrassed the engineers at Apple for years until it was EXACTLY as he had planned.
• Stop 9/11 from happening, which slows down the US’s descent into being a Police State, which in turn slows down the rise of neoconservatism/neofascism pretty much everywhere. Oh it’ll still happen, but maybe if it happens more slowly, there might be fewer victims and people might do something about it sooner.

Oh and

• “Disappear” Peter Thiel. People really sleep on how much damage Thiel has done because he doesn’t post cringe as often as say, Musk. But he’s the high priest for the techbro “we are building god” faith.

I can’t exactly do much about Climate Change with the time given. For that I’d need the same power-scale but to go back to the 60s, when the first scientists took notice of the trend but had their research suppressed by big oil.

Darling if you want to stop Nintendo from becoming Nintendo it’s not the GameCube you have to fuck with. The GC was already a gigantic flop (although home to 5 or 6 amazing games). Nobody cared about it in the early aughts and in fact it carried the stigma of being “for little kids” and you could be bullied in school for having one.

You need to hit them where it actually hurts.

You need to stop Pokémon. I feel stopping Gen2 from dropping might have done the trick, made it into just another fad that passed instead of STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD.

Nintendo would have died in the n64 years if Pokémon didn’t carry them on its back (and also completely change the face of pop culture by getting the west into Anime).

Every time they made a flop, Pokémon is what saw them through it.

“You don’t need to make up a secret group of wealthy evil people running the world to be mad at – You can just be mad at the group of wealthy evil people that we KNOW run the world out in the open” ~ ROSSI, Milo

Sturgeon’s Law

Derived from a sci-fi writer who was told sci-fi wasn’t respected as “real literature” because “90% of sci-fi was shit”, to which he supposedly responded:

“Well, 90% of everything is shit”

Now that everyone who was old enough to give a shit in 1981 is pushing 60, can we all agree that, like, disco was pretty good actually?

Some genuine bangers in there. Not at all deserving of the backlash it got.

That’s his look for when he’s in the South Hemisphere (he does quickchange like a stage actor mid-flight)

Milk and cookies and a heavy coat don’t do well when it’s a tropical summer, friends.

My aunt and uncle are doctors

Their sons are, respectively, a baker and an aeronautic engineer.

Make of that whatever you will.

glad to help m9

No, propaganda would convince them standing together is ‘woke’.

Also bots would insta-win any auctions by outbidding any human beings.

Pulsar edit was the one I tried.

Vscodium.

Or one of the many variants of ol’ Sublimetext and Atom (Sublime is paid for, Atom has been abandoned, but there are successors)

Not really

Windows 7 was pretty, it was customisable, it was stable. And microshaft had yet to start fucking about with ads everywhere and invasive “features”. Peak windows right there.

XP was also pretty good for its time. At that point Linux and OSX had caught up and surpassed it in many ways, but it did what it had to without getting in the way.

95 was an innovator if anything, ahead of pretty much anything else on desktop at the time, even if it DID fart and die whenever someone looked at it funny.

It was always a proprietary creation by an anticompetitive tech megacorp, and therefore bad from THAT angle, but it didn’t start being truly shite from a pure user experience angle until like. 8.