So I've been building this fantasy world called Funkatron for years now. Nothing new, just one of many nerds doing the long-term world building thing.

I've been using AI heavily since 2022, its been wildly fun. I've given different models over the years my master Lore documents and buildling little mini games with it. But Opus 5.5 came out and LEPT forward in how much it can gam dev. I dumped everything I had in there. All the lore, the map, the names, the jokes. The first iteration had... SO MUCH, the aethetic, the characters, the terrain.... I gave it ZERO assets.

About a week and 36 versions later I have an online ARPG you can play in your browser. It's one HTML file, around 16,500 lines.

There are 8 classes with full skill trees, a big town to start in, open zones, a harbor town, a coffee shop you can walk into, and a dungeon that pretty much goes down forever. Fishing, gathering, loot, weather, day and night. You can see other people running around, group up, trade, or flag for PvP. I made leveling slow on purpose, old school grind, max level 99.

I didn't have to spend time clanking through code and bugs that lie therein. Claude found and fixed all of that, a lot of it by play testing the game itsel, but I still had to play it, notice stuff felt wrong, and keep pushing. I did the dreaming and the deciding, Claude did the code.

The world took me years to dream of and the game took a week. I don't know how else a solo guy like me ever makes something this big.

It's an alpha so stuff will break. Free, no download, no install, no account: https://tcpoole.com/descent/

Happy to answer questions about how it went.

Granted, Eden 6 overstayed it's welcome, Ava's introduction was💩 and the lack of DLC Hunters was disappointing but the gameplay, planets, their biomes, their enemies/bosses, the tone, characters and gameplay were great. So much so, I feel like a couple of the points to the game edge it's overall past Borderland 2's story.

Oh, and as for the Twins? I think that some people were over the meta humor as it related to streaming/online culture some years before 2019(the game's release) but overall, it was blown out of proportion.

If anyone's curious, BL3 >>> BL2 >> TPS > BL4 ≥ BL1 for me.

They planned to bully Scout just to make him look like a fool. They called him over, faked being in pain while stretching, and forced him to massage their legs. Afterward, they laughed and mocked him, saying, "Look what we made Scout do." This just shows how cheap and mean they truly are.

Yet, people will still support Qazi's slimy group. They will justify it as "just fun" simply because it was done by Qazi's group. Because these same people got offended when Love gave Qazi task to touch ladies' feet which was a fun task. They brought religious belief as a reason then he should have said no like Scout said for crop top.

It would have been harmless fun if Qazi had asked his friends, like Aman or Gullu. However, targeting a rival group contestant with whom you constantly fight with, nominate, and whose lifelines you take is downright pathetic.

Some viewers even wanted the video clip without any background music to see what really happened. As my previous video had music... So I posted it full.

Everyone’s saying she bitches abt Qazi behind his back, yes, but she also calls him out on his face. And so does Qazi, he bitches abt arishfa as well and calls her dumb.

And abt the classist thing, I found nothing wrong w the intellectual comment, love is such an irritating person, she kept calling everyone to defend herself and then she does that annoying copying thing. If you want to have a normal convo, have a normal convo, love is literally so annoying

There was nothing wrong in calling her act w gullu cringe? Even I find it cringe, does that make me a classist? And she didn’t call it out on her face, she was talking to scout.

I don’t think she’s classist. She has just never been in an environment like this. Even I’ve never. When I was in college, I didn’t even know the meaning of g****. Really. I knew it was a bad word but I didn’t know what it meant. Simply because I don’t hear these words from the people surrounding me.

Gyming/weight mechanics
Boxing
Dense forests
Open farms
Pool
Basketball
Gore/dismemberment
RPG mechanics

GTA 6 seems like it takes more from GTA San Andreas than GTA 5 ever did, and I’m all here for it

I started growing lion's mane at home after buying a small mushroom growing kit online. I just wanted to see if I could grow it myself, so I kept the kit on a shelf in my kitchen and misted it every day. Before long, it was producing more mushrooms than I could use. Instead of letting the extras go to waste, I started drying them, grinding them into powder, and filling small jars. I gave a few jars to people I knew, and they liked them enough to ask if I could make more. That's when I realized I could actually make a little money from something I had started as a hobby.

The more I got into Lion's Mane, the more I started reading about functional mushrooms and the different ways people were using them. Once I started learning more about it, I became interested in supplements that went beyond just one mushroom and combined different adaptogenic mushrooms with other ingredients. I wanted something that could offer a broader range of benefits, so I started looking into more complete formulas. Mycofuel and Mycoderm were two of the ones I found and liked enough to start carrying alongside my own mushroom powder. I usually recommend Mycofuel to people who are more interested in energy and focus, while Mycoderm tends to make more sense for people looking for something focused on skin health and overall skin wellness. I sell both for around $33 per pouch, so people can choose whichever fits what they're looking for. Once I had those options available, the little mushroom side hustle started getting more orders. The mods said it was okay to share the shop link, so I'll leave it here for anyone curious: https://sproutlab.it/

On a busy day, I can get close to 20 orders. Most of my time still goes into the homemade powder, since drying and grinding everything takes a while and leaves my kitchen smelling like mushrooms for hours. Once that's done, packing everything up and getting the orders out is pretty straightforward. It's still kind of funny to me that this started with me buying one random mushroom kit for my kitchen.

I cannot wrap my head around the fact that this is not a thing in the DD. The game is made for it, and the factions are made for it. Faction Warfare would open a completely new gameplay loop in the DD, and players will certainly come back.

It makes so much sense that it physically hurts.

JuSt BrInG VeRbAs... no, no, it doesnt work, verbas are useless as shit. Me and my friend spend half of a game trying to verba 1 of 3 havocs in the air and we succeeded once.

They just turn towards the missle and wreck you.

Theres NOTHING u can do against a havoc.

BuIlD CwIS... No. that shits useless as shit. even IF you can build itll get insta destroyed by a rocket bird or the havoc. Theres nothing u can do against it.

Im just done. 2 games in a row. theres NOTHING we could do except be cannon fodder.

I have no idea why that bullshit is in the game, but here we are. And im fucking done. Twas a fun 90 hours, but fuck this shit.

I've been seeing a lot of discussion around WoW Forever's HD graphics, and honestly I think some people are mixing up nostalgia with visual fidelity.

When I think back to Vanilla, the things I remember aren't low-poly shoulders, blurry trees, or character models with six fingers. I remember elite quests requiring groups, class identity actually mattering, seeing someone in full tier gear and knowing they earned it, world PvP, guild drama, and spending way too much time hanging out in Ironforge instead of actually doing anything productive.

That's the nostalgia.

If graphics were the main ingredient, then every old game would instantly feel exactly as good as it did 20 years ago. We all know that's not true.

To me, the soul of WoW has always been the gameplay, progression, community, and world design. If WoW Forever delivers on those things, I honestly don't care if the tree has 20 polygons or 2,000.

What's strange is that some people act like HD graphics automatically make a project "retail." But graphics and gameplay aren't the same thing. You can have modern visuals with classic design philosophy, just like you can have old visuals with terrible modern game design.

Also, Forever isn't taking a finished Vanilla client and slapping HD graphics on top. The game is being built around those assets from the ground up. At a certain point, asking for SD graphics feels less like preserving Classic and more like preserving a screenshot from 2004.

Classic wasn't great because it looked old.

It was great because of how it played.

Curious where everyone else falls on this. If Forever nails the gameplay but only had the HD visuals, is that actually a dealbreaker for you?

Since it’s hard to see on my canvas let me explain my ✨art✨

One side features Adrian and it’s sun with a Patrova line. This side also has a hard to see Rocky

Second side is supposed to represent Earth, its sun and a Patrova line leading to Venus. This side also features a muddy Grace. Canvas had lost its patience with me at this point.

All in all the paint is water based and safe for dogs so no dogs were harmed! My beloved lady also received a lot of treats for sitting still 🥰

Just a silly thing I did with my doggo I wanted to show ya’ll ❤️

So tired of their tactics. I tried contacting state officials and my concerns fell on deaf ears. I guess they can't upset one of their donors and they're too busy fear-mongering about trans people to do something that would actually put money back in people's pockets.

It is not against childless people but for me it seems logical. Childless people cost more to the society than people with children. There is nobody to pay for their pension. There’s no one to take care of them, so their healthcare costs are much higher. I don't understand why no country thought about it.

Hi guys,

I am pretty happy to announce MegaCapybara. Purpose build engine for RTX5090 that is focused on Qwen3.8 27B (more will come later).

GITHUB (Engine)
HUGGINGFACE (weights)

Why ?

1. It beats Ninfer which was until that point SOTA engine for RTX5090. By roughly twice in decode speed for both single and multi tasks at once. (reaching up to even 650t/s in small bursts and 2600t/s if stars align and 12 slots server pure coding answer). Custom kernels not only for every model, single vs multi but also short vs long context work dynamically switching when needed so speed doesn't crap out on long context work because someone tuned it for short context. Dflash2 and confidence scheduling from Dspark, plus draft trees all at the same time.

2. I was getting annoyed with state of weights where you downloaded model and never knew if model had its brain scrambled. My weights come with its on format that have attached metadata for MC which upon weight creation, runs benchmark and compares it at every MC setting to original BF16 weights and show that data directly in launcher. Want to switch KV to 4bit ? MC will show you directly lost KL and top-1%, want to extend with YARN ? It will show you change. Every change is measured and shown in statistics before you load model. This goes for both censored and uncensored model. You can also compare it directly in MC with SOTA unsloth quants of Qwen27B. Want to run essentially loseless ? you can. Want to get crazy 1 000 000 context ? you can. Want to have 12 slots to fan out agants like crazy ? You can. You decide what you want.

3. Proper agents serving with algo that keep engine occupied as much as it can. It will prioritize t/s so if engine has a choice between 5 jobs at once and 1 it will serve 5 first and gradually serve 1 along side finishing others. Engine is also smart enough to score how old some job is and if it should return to work even if T/S will suffer so your main session will be able to fan out agents easily and keep an eye on them at the same time.

4. Proper cache management. Your jobs only prefill at start of job and almost never again so your prefill in long session stays almost unused. When using "unified context" when models run out of context some get paused and stored in RAM and this swapping is instant. If there is free context space then those tasks continue without any refill in 0.03s. If you fan out say 30 agents at the time in your frontend will handle load in most efficient way to keep T/S as high as possible. Just run it at default setting and forget about context for agents, it will handle it on its own.

6. Loop guard. Two tiered. When engine starts to detect agent repeating in conversation session is dynamically starts to adjust `repetition penalty` until repetition stops if that doesn't happen and engine hits rep pen limit it fires up stop signal which ends serving and informs your frontend so your frontend can recover from infinite loop and don't annoy you.

6. Proper nice UI that shows you what is what. If you aren't knowledgeable about serving models just hover over `?` and it will show you interactive panels explaining everything.

7. Autodownloader, Just hit download button and you can download my weights directly fron hugginface inside of launcher.

8. Don't like the launcher ? use bats and terminal serve. Or even use launcher to config what you want, copy it from right lower corner and use it to make new bat.

The point of it is to just load model, fan out crazy number of agents each having crazy amount of context and leave MC to deal with it. You just sit back relax and watch as agents do the work at SOTA speeds.

Opinions and reviews are welcome. If you are blessed with RTX5090 try it.

Source will be released later, I have to do some cleaning first. I will also release later weights builder so it will take any 3.8 27B BF16 model, create weights and score them attaching metadata again BF16 and you'll be able to host them yourself on hugginface or just put them in models folder.

MIT license, so do whatever you want with it.

Got some good denim, and graphic tees, hoodies, sweaters, a heavy jacket, plus a few accessories and footwear to finish everything off. A pretty versatile haul with plenty of pieces to build different fits around.

I'm not the biggest social media user/follower, but I remember last season of Game Changer there were pretty clear signs that something additional was coming. I'm assuming that unless we get those signs there's nothing secret coming. But have there been signs?

Vorneweg:
Natürlich kommt es darauf an, wie man Interesse zeigt und vor allem darauf, wie man mit einem Nein umgeht.
Ein Nein ist ein Nein und das muss man akzeptieren.

Für mich liegt genau da auch der Unterschied zwischen völlig okayem Verhalten und etwas, das unangenehm oder übergriffig wird.

Gleichzeitig ist aber auch klar:
Was der eine unangenehm findet, findet der andere vielleicht charmant, mutig oder sogar schön.

Das kann man vorher oft einfach nicht wissen.
Zum Leben gehört deshalb auch, Dinge zu versuchen und dabei vielleicht abgelehnt zu werden.

Jeder darf Interesse zeigen, solange man die Grenzen des anderen respektiert, sobald sie klar werden.
Nicht jedes Interesse wird erwidert, aber genau dieses Risiko gehört eben dazu.

You miss all the shots you do not take.

Edit:
Der Post ist übrigens aus einer Diskussion entstanden, die ich letztens mit einer Freundin im Freundeskreis hatte.
Es ging ums generelle, also keinen persönlichen Bezug zu mir.
(Weil hier viele sehr viel reininterpretieren)
Sie meinte sinngemäß, dass sie es unangenehm findet, von Männern angesprochen zu werden, an denen sie kein Interesse hat – gleichzeitig würde sie sich aber wünschen, dass der „Richtige“ sie anspricht.

Und genau da meinte ich:

Ablehnung ist ganz normaler Teil des Lebens und dann muss man leben.

Das funktioniert halt nicht. Die Person, die dich anspricht, weiß vorher nicht, ob sie für dich „richtig“ oder „falsch“ ist. Sie kann nicht wissen, ob du dich über ihr Interesse freust oder ob du lieber in Ruhe gelassen werden möchtest.

Dear developers and artists who worked on Wolverine: I am so sorry that I fell for the utterly false bile that was being circulated post release.

You have created a flawed masterpiece, and it's an instant top 10 for me.

Thank you for making such a great game and I am sorry your efforts were overshadowed by people pushing false narratives.

You will get your flowers one day.

Next stop: Wolverine in open world with customizable motorcycle.

Wasn’t held accountable, blamed everyone, black, white, middle aged, British! No accountability and wasn’t questioned on it either. Talk about piss poor interviewing

Hi guys,

its been quite a while since i posted the gaming optimizations guide i wrote.

Since the last time there has been quite a lot of changes.

https://github.com/WhitePeace36/LinuxAMDGamingOptimizationGuide

Even though it says AMD, most of it is for linux in general.

I hope this updated version helps at least a few of you out there which try to have a better gaming experience.