can you not just call me out by my full name here jeez

my favorite procrastination strategy is to clean my apartment instead of doing the thing i need to do because hey now my apartment is clean thats pretty sweet ive been meaning to do that (not that a clean apartment helps me do the thing i actually need to do in any way)

sure but one would hope that if the agent is interpreting content from the web as instructions that there would be literally any security measure between the webpage and the agent - whether that’s some input sanitization, explicit user confirmation, or prohibiting the agent from interpreting web pages as instructions at all.

complete insanity that the browser/agent doesnt even ask for user confirmation before interpreting web pages as instructions. this is just AI XSS, just mental that the AI was configured to trust and execute instructions from unsanitized web content. how was this not one of the first problems raised during development prior to release?

i’m glad you posted about it - it’s something i, and i’m sure many other people who are struggling, tend to think about.

i think it’s generally a good thing to talk about these sorts of topics, especially ones like depression where it’s easy to get lost in your own thoughts and it can feel like you’re the only one suffering like this. i know for a fact that it helped me realize that i’m not alone and that there are ways out of the pit i found myself in, despite feeling like it would never get better and my suffering was so unique that there was no cure.

granted, commiserating alone won’t get you back to a happy baseline, but it does broadcast this to others who might not realize it: you are not alone, there are people who care, and it is not impossible to be happy again. i wish you the best.

time for competitive ranked conversation

remember: never share anything and never engage with others. keep all of your thoughts and emotions and ideas to yourself at all times. especially on the internet, a platform designed to enhance global communication!

yeah it’s hard to meme about my nether chest full of rats when reddit still has all the polytetrafluoroethylene smh

i agree with op’s take but only in the sense that games made with the intent to be esports end up being antithetical to what makes games enjoyable, at least for me. it kinda feels new pvp games are exclusively targeting competitive gamers and the casual online pvp space is shrinking or being driven to older games.

but that might just be my own aversion to being told to take my own life by an angry teenager when I make a mistake while playing with a digital toy to enjoy my time off work.

that’s a good point - i might be letting my dislike for discord-as-a-wiki color my argument. i will say that i’ve had mixed results using the search - sometimes there are no results and sometimes there are plenty of irrelevant results. that’s just what you get when basically hitting ctrl+f on who-knows-how-long worth of conversations instead of a purpose-made knowledge base.

i still think that a dedicated wiki/forum/repo available on the web for anyone with the url is far better suited to this purpose than discord is. discord is (arguably) good at being a chat app and its features aren’t well tailored to being an easily navigable knowledge base. it feels like jumping through unnecessary hoops to have to join a server on the app i use to share memes with my college roommates to get help troubleshooting some software, or worse, to get access to the only official release of the software.

i can understand your point of technical support, but what the op is calling out is when the only source of docs/support are discord.

i’ve had multiple experiences firsthand where I needed basic information about a piece of software that really should have just been on a readme or a wiki or something. instead my only option was to repeatedly ask a discord tech support channel and wait for someone who cares/knows about my question to actually answer me.

unless the options are limited, i’d rather simply pick a different solution than be forced to ask a busy discord channel for tech support.

you can’t honestly be saying that there are no issues with hosting documentation/support for a project exclusively on discord as opposed to a classic forum or wiki.

even ignoring the issues that you are dismissing (and would not exist on a better suited platform), the people using the discord server do not own it. discord servers have no backup functionality. what happens when an admin goes rogue or gets hacked etc? what happens when people get tired of discord for the next chat app?

you shouldn’t have to use a burner email to download a videogame mod or view documentation for an open source project.

anything with turn-based combat as a core mechanic is an instant skip, nothing else about the game matters

thank you for posting that here! love your stuff and wouldn’t have found it otherwise.

while funny, the accolades you listed aren’t enough for billy to be elected - clearly he isn’t that great a conman!

just picked up embroidery and knitting, been lots of fun making things for myself and i know what my friends are getting for next christmas lol

what? are sharks not animals? not fish?

mosa lina rules! i love that people are finding that game because it’s very unique and executes it’s simple concept extremely well.

everyone knows as long as you haphazardly defend some arbitrarily chosen animal (digital btw) on the internet it offsets the tens of billions of real animals humans kill per year

got a handful of games in the steam sale, and I’m currently about halfway through bugsnax - it’s really enjoyable so far. planning to start either hypnospace outlaw or the new ultrakill update after.

your point about them trying to federate as a defense against new regulations is one i hadn’t considered before. however, that doesn’t reduce the potential harm of federating with threads. facebook/meta have proven at practically every possible chance that they are not to be trusted with even the most inconsequential of things and should be avoided by anyone smart enough to recognize this.

it sounds to me like you are suggesting that federating with threads will prevent them from having that out of “see? we tried”, but i feel that cooperating with facebook/meta in any way is a compromise on my morals that i simply can’t justify.

i’d love to hear what potential benefits you (or anyone else who wants to contribute) believe federating with threads will bring to us other than a ton of users from a different ecosystem, as the discourse around this has been pretty all over the place recently and i think we need more measured opinions on this.