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AI Training Slop
It's already done, if you have any photographs of yourself on the internet. No need to fight that battle, accept and push forward.
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AI Training Slop
It's already done, if you have any photographs of yourself on the internet. No need to fight that battle, accept and push forward.
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Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to federal charges in CEO killing
Good, honestly we don't even know if he's the person who did the crime.
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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
The design is bad. The front trunk is a bad use of space, and the Japanese figured this out decades ago with the Kei truck. If you want to see real utility, look at this design.
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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
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You need infrastructure to actually support an alternative, otherwise cars are a necessity for many people to get to work and the grocery store.
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Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny
Oddly reminiscent of the Roman empire.
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Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations
This isn't really anything new. https://signal.org/
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Do you still have one somewhere?
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Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.
This is why the primary will be so important, and why Biden basically handed the win to Trump by pushing Harris instead of having a primary.
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What's your wish?
I wish every human experienced a high level of empathy.
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Daycare cost $2k a month
This is a great summary of exactly why I won't have kids. I don't want to spend all my waking hours working so a billionaire can afford a private island.
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USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world
USB-C and DisplayPort supremacy.
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I think it was because we put lead in gasoline personally. I don't know about orchestrated, I think human greed has existed for a very long time. Empathy is something that requires a high level of intelligence.
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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
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Americans won't be able to afford anything anyway pretty soon.
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FRTL is completely free to play in the browser on all devices https://frtl.dev/
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Thanks again for the feedback. I'll update that information on the homepage, it makes sense to include more info at a glance. It understandable that snake/2048/match may not be enough for a lot of people to keep coming back, but I made it modular, and will be adding more games. I'm going to be making the hexort game give a daily first time play reward as well.
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$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"
Nope, just would play Tiny Tina's Wonderland again honestly, which I got for around $10 when it was heavily on sale a year ago.
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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
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Yep, the Chevrolet Bolt is the closest I could get to a Kei van.
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FRTL is completely free to play in the browser on all devices https://frtl.dev/
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I appreciate your feedback. No real money, no blockchain, no NFTs, no web3.0. The only way to put in real money is to donate on Patreon. Membership can be bought with 1000 pax for 7 days which takes a couple hours to earn by playing the mini-games. I'll probably have to put that on the home page, cryptocurrency severely damaged innovation with what filthy capitalists did with it.
I could curate a library of base creatures and that's actually how the idea began, but the idea has changed and become fundamentally different than a traditional creature collector. I won't be taking the time to manually create creatures. I have been developing it solo, the idea rests on a creature generation algorithm and it leverages AI image generation to make it cheap. As a result, no two creature images will be the same, so what you find is unique and yours on the platform to do what you want with.
As far as the snake game goes, it's one of several games, and I plan to add more games to the platform. I'm not worried about social capital because I've already made it VERY clear no real money is involved at all, and that it's in development. I have very little social capital to begin with.
The .dev TLD is to be clear that it's in development, and I already own the .app TLD for frtl.app in the future potentially. It is a bit of a tech demo in a way, a different way of approaching the creature collector genre.
So you collect things to collect them? Why? And why upgrade their stats?
You can use the upgraded creatures to enter the chaos realm and be rewarded with pax which helps you get more eggs. It's a passive reward system and a cyclical process which ultimately makes it easier to get more eggs/creatures. As far as the stats go, I have implemented Health, Attack, Speed attributes for a potential future auto-battler style game with the creatures, but that's only something I'm considering now that I've built the foundation. Moving forward I'll probably put more effort into the stats system, and I've been thinking about creature modifiers/abilities.
there’s nothing really iconic about FRTL
You summon eggs from scrolls, purely random impossible to know what you'll get. The creatures inherit traits from their eggs. The soul-bind system requires you to sacrifice one creature to empower another creature. These are things that differentiate FRTL from a traditional creature collector.
As for creature image modification, it's something I'm investigating, and I like the idea of creature modifiers that impact the look of their images, which would add more images.
Thanks again for your feedback, I'm going to keep working on it, but anyone can try it out if they want completely free.
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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen
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Yea but we're talking about electric vehicles now, no engine block.
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FRTL updated: UI fixes and a new game Hexort
Here's a look at my inventory and the Hexort game.
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Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.
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Our entire system being like a hostage situation doesn't help, plurality voting is shit to begin with. I don't blame people.