carter vail’s stuff is great! some required watching for those not familiar:

dirt man (self explanatory)

song about his taste in women

a cowboy song

and one of his more serious music videos, for good measure

i tend to only comment when i feel like i have something to add, and i only post after putting in far too much effort into perfecting what i made.

i have ideas for shitposts down in writing. the first thing i posted was sort of shitposty, even. with the time it takes for me specifically to make a shitpost though, i figure i might as well create something more meaningful.

and i hope that adds more value to the fediverse than if i posted as often as i could. some folks are better at that than i’ll ever be, anyways.

tell you what. for every post on Funhole specifically, i will add an extra panel in the comments where Tony (the cat) gives his FOSS oriented thoughts on the post.

that way, i don’t have to rewrite anything to include a Tony, and the UNIX mentions are contained in the Funhole, where they belong. does that work?

thanks a bunch for your feedback, and glad you’re looking forward to more! should be done with the next one soon™.

additional context; Katie Scott, a former exec at ubisoft, will be the “Head of Vanilla Minecraft” in 2026. this source writes:

Scott left Ubisoft in November, but her role as vice president of the company’s global creative game office saw her specialize in “competitive, live service, and free to play experiences to create games with lasting impact, high retention, and monetization results.” She also writes that she focused on “live service strategies and ambitious retention and monetization” in Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six games

now that sounds bad on paper, but it’s unclear to me what exactly she’ll be doing in this position. best i could find was this linkedin post advertising the position 7 months ago, which reads:

Join us in shaping the future. Minecraft isn’t just a game. It’s a platform for creativity, learning, and building community. We’re seeking a senior leader, based in Stockholm, to guide our talented teams toward Minecraft’s evolution. Help us build a better world through the power of play.

my interpretation of this is that she’ll still be under other managers, and wouldn’t be making any big decisions alone. regardless, this is not a good look for Mojang, especially at a time where the community are getting impatient with Bedrock’s issues.

i wonder if there’s a limit to adding “slop” to things

live service games are liveslop, fast food is foodslop, making smalltalk is conversationslop, charities are kindnessslop, being awake is wokeslop, dreams are sleepslop, everything is thingslop

and this post, too, is just contentslop

idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.

take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?

is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.

yeah, i’d say there’s a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.

English specifically has a ton of loanwords - “tycoon” is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning “great prince/high commander”, “balaclava” is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), “pet” is from the Scottish Gaelic “peata” meaning “tame animal”… and that’s just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.

so i’m not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of ‘respect’ is strictly good or not.

now, i don’t speak AAVE, and i haven’t done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it’s interesting to think about.

I agree with your point in general - there’s no use in being skeptical if you call stuff fake at the first sign. Innocent until proven guilty or whatever.

You’re right that the image could be clipart, and a human could have made those typos, but there are some non-human tells in here other than that.

The P in protection is a lowercase capital, and one of the r’s in irŕritation is accented. The latter could’ve been mistyped on a phone keyboard, but in that case it would’ve been autocorrected, and that still doesn’t explain the P.

There’s also some weird GPT-like descriptions that are thrown in for no reason. Why does the bandana being “fashionable” matter? How are arm warmers “subtle”, exactly?

As another commentor pointed out, a T-shirt with a graphic is more likely to make you recognisable, so that part’s just wrong. I also don’t get why “tactical/military bags” should be “avoided”? Seems like the kinda misinformation AI would spout.

What I really don’t get here is why someone would use AI to generate the entire thing, rather than only using it for the graphic (still morally questionable but excusable) and adding the text in manually (something you can do in MS paint).

kinda crazy that they made it impossible to follow the only rule