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anyway overall I mostly enjoyed it and I think that Liam deserves more credit than he's getting, but it is absolutely in every episode violating the cardinal rule of a piece of media that references other media, "don't just remind me of a better thing I could be doing instead" except in this case the better thing is the game *that it is adapting*.
Mastodon Feedso Silver is the way that you tell if Something Is A Monster, the medallion shakes or doesn't shake, blah blah, but he _doesn't have a silver sword_ and they only bring the medallion back … once, in the whole season, I think? just to point out that it's still there, and mostly to remind you about its significance for the bounty hunter bits?
Mastodon Feedthere's also the silver sword / steel sword thing which I thought was really poignant and interesting and said something quite thematically interesting about the Witcher's role in society, literally carrying a "but what if mankind is the real monsters" allegory around on his back at all times. and again, the show doesn't need to do this, they could just ignore that to make screen time for other stuff, but then they periodically drop in an out-of-place line about silver arrowheads or something!
Mastodon Feedand, again, if the show wanted to do something _different_, fine, love to see an Interesting Artistic Adaptational Choice. But they didn't! They're just like, hey look at all this great lore that Geralt and Ciri know about specific monsters and how fighting them with kindness and compassion and understanding is WAY more effective than random violence! except… 100% of that is off camera. nobody _else_ fights monsters with random violence, so there's no contrast.
Mastodon Feedand it's not just "potion". you gotta think about it. what's going on with the monster? why is it here? what social ill does it represent? and which one of the MANY potions, which have often CONTRADICTORY effects, would make the most sense to use?
and like… the wraith scene. if you've played the game, and you know the difference between Aard and Yrden, you can understand the clever thing he's doing and why it makes sense. but the show just *doesn't tell you* what is happening, or why!
Mastodon Feednot to mention the mechanics around stuff like potions. in the show there's just… potion. He can take it in which case he's really good at fighting, or he can not take it in which case he's … really good at fighting. but the whole point in the games is that Geralt *is Batman*. everything's prep time! if you just fight a monster by barging in and murder-hobo'ing it, you get absolutely wrecked, immediately, even if you are quite high level.
Mastodon Feedgranted, I am a fan of the games and have not even read the books, which I will have to rectify at some point. but there's just _so_ much thematic richness in the game that is absolutely erased in this adaptation. and it would be one thing if they just, like, didn't talk about the Path at all, if that wasn't part of his character, but they are CONSTANTLY alluding to the blank space where his ambivalence about the Path would be
Mastodon Feedin the early 2010s I remember being frustrated that everything was too much of a procedural, every piece of media was just season 9 of a monster-of-the-week show. but jeez they made _The Witcher_ and they forgot to make it a monster-of-the-week show. that's literally his job. he kills a monster every week
Mastodon Feedso much complaining about Hemsworth's performance but he actually did … fine? it's just that the writers, perhaps worried that the show's audience would be too put off by the re-casting, forgot to give him anything to do
Mastodon Feedeugh The Witcher Season 4 was frustrating
Mastodon Feedglancing through my blog archive I just realized that while https://blog.glyph.im/2026/01/the-next-thing-will-not-be-big.html did not pop off quite as much as some of my other posts, maybe people had better stuff to do over the holiday break, apparently I just recreated Ed Zitron's "The Rot-Com Bubble" from first principles without having read it
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Shopping for a laptop. Lenovo is still the only real choice, but OMG what a pain is navigating their catalog! Slow, jerky, and no logic to what goes with what and can I just select what I need?
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gingerbeardman@mastodon.gamedev.place ("matt sephton") wrote:
Dottie, my pixel art app for macOS is OUT NOW!
After about one year of development (on and off) it's time to set it free.
Whilst the price is not quite free it is ON SALE for the launch period…along with most of my other apps!
Mastodon Feedall I'm saying is that I want to exist in perfect eternal rapturous bliss and that shouldn't really be so much to ask
Mastodon Feedsimilar vibes to "hey does this medication have this unpleasant side effect I would like to Take Charge Of My Health Through Understanding" when what you actually mean is "I would prefer to stop experiencing persistent adverse effects, please"
Mastodon FeedTFW you find yourself asking an elaborate personal system administration technical question of the Internet, and realize halfway through that you already know exactly how to solve the problem and the thing you want to ask is "someone please take this admin task off my plate, I am ever so tired of filling out forms on web pages and entering commands into my terminal"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
mood:
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
littlegem: the design is starting to come into focus and i've started noodling around on the bit of the prototype that isn't presyntax.
so i think the type theory i'm aiming for is quite similar to kovacs' super-mega-poly from elaboration zoo, which is a bit more than i really wanted to implement but oh well, i suppose i was going to have to go there sooner or later and at least this one has been implemented and i might have a chance of hacking in all the other stuff i want... https://github.com/AndrasKovacs/elaboration-zoo/tree/master/experiments/super-mega-poly
in terms of data structures, i was thinking to start with simple c-style structs which could be easily exported for use with C, but it seems a bit weird to go aggressively first order if you've got a fairly powerful type theory there. although it kinda feels like it would work out similar to zig if i did. we'll see on that, i guess. i can't say i hold out much hope for it staying that simple forever 😬
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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:
One thing I really like is knickknack little charms. This past year, which has been so brutally hard, dice have become an important symbol to me, both for my love of seeing probabilities and the idea that we can better the odds by refusing to give up. Found this guy and taking it as good luck.
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durumcrustulum.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Deirdre Connolly¹ ²") wrote:
"LLM-generated patches did not resolve the vulnerability, added a new vulnerability, or both, an average 53.9% of the time."
👁️👄👁️
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3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:
Last month: "We are transitioning to being an AI-native company! We're still figuring out what that means. Get in there, use the tools, get your hands dirty, and we'll find out what works!"
Today: "We know y'all are seeing the notifications on our Copilot page. We are indeed going through tokens at an unsustainable rate..."
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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117049333496122205
Back in 1999 or so, I was on the team that helped Minnesota Public Radio choose a long-term storage format for their (extensive and valuable!!) audio archives, which they were about to digitize.
The conclusion we came to was that there was •no• storage medium that met their long-term preservation goals — true then, and almost certainly still true today. The best approach is perpetual and redundant forward copying of the data, from one physical storage device to another.
An archive isn’t a physical thing; it's a process.
Mastodon Feedtaking a moment today to appreciate the decency that JRR Tolkien exhibited by dying before letting us know if he had any strong opinions about trans people
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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:
"We're forcing something on our users that they don't seem to want or find useful but on the other hand it fundamentally destroys the unit economics of our entire business, so who can say if we're right or wrong?"
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nzakas@fosstodon.org ("Nicholas C. Zakas") wrote:
Now I get why Anthropic offers a free six months to Claude Max 20x. Using Opus 5 as your default model is intoxicating.
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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:
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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:
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MartMichaelis@mastodonapp.uk ("Martin Michaelis (he/him)") wrote:
This will not go down well in future history books... #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/rwe-deal-wind-leases
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
can anyone identify this bird?
