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I don't expect porn games to have top-notch gameplay, but I do at least expect them to engage with the mechanical conventions of the genres they're pornifying. "RPG where you have sex with the monster when you lose a fight" bullshit – I want to see porn versions of those tedious filler puzzles every indie RPG is apparently contractually required to have. Let's see an erotic version of the Towers of Hanoi.

every single thing involving a computer is designed to put something into our senses. until a human looks at it, and interprets it, it is nothing. it isn't 'data'. it isn't 'ones and zeroes'. it's just some electrons and photons moving around, as is their wont.

but if we arrange those electrons just so, and let them do their thing, we can create a pattern that someone will experience as bits, registers, numbers, letters, instructions, algorithms, messages, financial transactions, videos, thoughts, worlds, etc etc.

the whole project of computer programming is corraling the electrons into situations where they will obey rules we have in our heads. electrons are surprisingly predictable, so this isn't a fool's errand. but every layer of the stack of abstractions is something we built: arranging one thing to produce a pattern we want to see. the chip arranged so the 'high and low voltages' fit our idea of 'bits' and 'logic gates'. the screen whose lights create a 'field of colour' for an organism that has this level of visual acuity, this frequency response in its cone cells, this capacity to see shapes and edges. these bits and logic organised into an 'algorithm' that takes 'data' that we think of as 'vertices' and 'triangles' and produces the appearance of 'perspective rendering', which approximates our concept of a '3D object', of even a 'virtual world'.

we have gotten so very very good at producing these patterns that it's easy to see them as something natural, and miss all the layers of orchestration behind even the simplest operation. computers are a game played between humans.

I just love this image so much. How is anyone supporting him on patreon.

I distinctly remember ranting on tumblr about a problem in my code like half a year ago and I was frustrated with arrays of strings in c++ and I REMEMBER a furry adding a comment that just said “you could try parsing the string uwu” and I did it and it WORKED and I was so relieved because I had been fighting with it for like a week.

The only problem is I can’t find that post and I think I dreamt it up. I think God came to me in a dream as a furry responding to my tumblr post to help me fix my code. I am going insane why did my brain do this.

coding got me saying shit like “target the child” “assign its class” “override its inheritance” like the third wife of a dying oil baron discovering his of-age son born out of wedlock

Computers be like "omg bestie so true" and it's just the number 1

I distinctly remember ranting on tumblr about a problem in my code like half a year ago and I was frustrated with arrays of strings in c++ and I REMEMBER a furry adding a comment that just said “you could try parsing the string uwu” and I did it and it WORKED and I was so relieved because I had been fighting with it for like a week.

The only problem is I can’t find that post and I think I dreamt it up. I think God came to me in a dream as a furry responding to my tumblr post to help me fix my code. I am going insane why did my brain do this.

I hate when I tell people I'm into Comp Sci and programming and they go "ooh there's a lot of money there". I'm not DOING it for the MONEY I'm DOING it because I want to FUCK the COMPUTER!!!!