# getting into it with techbro chuds on bluesky as though the phrase 'unreal engine' isn't in fact a useful catch-most term for 'standard exploitative garmes industry labor practices' seem more than a fair share of 'won't anyone think of the multi-billion dollar corporation' types yeesh just because you personally benefit from the system why should everyone else who doesn't automatically congratulate you on your unearned successes privilege and handy hints for the masses was followed by someone this morning who upon looking at their feed regularly used (was used by) chatgpt and didn't see anything much wrong with outie gamedevs clanker vibecoding genai slop garmes ## was up at quarter to six this morning noticed the light streaming through the foam heat barrier i put up in the kitchen window was creating the most amazing diffused lighting seen but then i foolishly tried taking a picture of it with my partner's phone and it came out awful it was only then that i realized (too late as usual) that the tools we use too often think for us and make us see they way they see rather than anything that's remotely there remotely real sure we don't see things the way they are but only through the lens of thought and so once again the classic underlying question is "what is reality in itself outside of thought" and one is beginning to strongly suspect the answer is "since that question arrives directly out of thought cannot itself be answered within that same thought-system" more on this later // republic of bob