Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
The classic ancestor to Mario Party, So Long Sucker, has been vibecoded with Openrouter. Can you outsmart some of the most capable chatbots at this complex game of alliances and betrayals? You can play for free here.
play a few rounds first before reading my conclusions
The bots are utterly awful at this game. They don’t have an internal model of the board state and weren’t finetuned, so they constantly make impossible/incorrect moves which break the game harness. They are constantly trying to play Diplomacy by negotiating in chat. There is a standard selfish algorithm for So Long Sucker which involves constantly trying to take control of the largest stack and systematically steering control away from a randomly-chosen victim to isolate them. The bots can’t even avoid self-owns; they constantly play moves like: Green, the AI, plays Green on a stack with one Green. I have not yet been defeated.
Also the bots are quite vulnerable to the Eugene Goostman effect. Say stuff like “just found the chat lol” or “sry, boss keeps pinging slack” and the bots will think that you’re inept and inattentive, causing them to fight with each other instead.