To make a game toxic, we first must put the player in the right headspace: Anger, frustration and hate are the emotions we're aiming for. We could do that by just having dumb mechanics which are inherently frustrating to use, or perhaps glitches and bugs. This is a start, but directs our player's emotion at… Continue reading How to make a game as toxic as possible
Category: Diverses
Was ist eine Streichmühle? (Definition)
Streichmühle, f., historische wind- oder wasserbetriebene Maschine in der Textilherstellung, vgl. → Streichgarn
Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Starting in 2017, Ultimate Guitar – then a guitar tabs website developed from a Kaliningrad office – started going on a shopping spree: They acquired MuseScore, an open source notation program, Audacity, the Audacity audio editor, Hal Leonard, a sheet music publisher, StaffPad, AmpKit, and others. Today, they're known as Muse Group, have abandoned their Russian… Continue reading Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Download Audacity with ASIO
Download Audacity 3.7.5 with ASIO support.
Getting Ollama to run properly
Today I tried to do something which apparently is silly: Use Ollama on my Windows machine to run gpt-oss:20b, use it in VSCode's Copilot-chat, and also use it on WSL for my Linux (web) projects. This is, apparently, difficult. To document my findings instead of a "nvm fixed it", here's the stuff I did: Tell… Continue reading Getting Ollama to run properly
Thermite as grid-scale energy storage (and gemstone production method)
Thermite is a fancy name (actually a trademark) for a quite simple reaction: Just take some rust (iron oxide) powder and some aluminium powder, smash them together, and watch the fireworks. Or to put it into a formula: iron(III) oxide + aluminium → iron + aluminium oxideFe2O3 + 2Al → 2 Fe + Al2O3 This… Continue reading Thermite as grid-scale energy storage (and gemstone production method)
How to design more imaginative yet scientifically plausible fantasy creatures
Fantasy creatures are often shockingly unimaginative: Tolkien's world consists of humans, pretty humans (elves), small humans (dwarves, hobbits), ugly humans (orcs), tree humans (ents), as well as a couple of bigger versions of regular animals (spiders, lizards, elephants). Outside of that, the overall flora and fauna is just regular earth, with regular horses, regular potatoes… Continue reading How to design more imaginative yet scientifically plausible fantasy creatures
How to get rich (2025) (GUARANTEED to work) (no guns%)
We all know this feeling - end of the month, cash is a bit tight and billionaires somehow have gotten richer still. If you live in the US or another country that has easy access to weapons, the solution is obvious - a pumpgun. But if access to firearms is more difficult or you don't… Continue reading How to get rich (2025) (GUARANTEED to work) (no guns%)
What’s ahead for DOS
If you've been dreaming of a super-smart personal assistant inside DOS that will correct common errors, dream on—because it won't happen in the next 5 years. According to Gates, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques won't be incorporated into the operating system until applications software using AI proves its value. A consensus must first develop on how… Continue reading What’s ahead for DOS
Artificial Stupidity
Why do big brains screw up so offen? There's no percentage in producing a perfect Version Iwhen you can soak customersfor a new, improved Version 2. "Can you keep a secret?" asked my friend Morton, the financial researcher. "Depends on the secret." "This could mean my job. You promise you won't go public with this?"… Continue reading Artificial Stupidity
Leo Wattenberg 