LocustOfControl

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[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This one gets weirder the more you look. There's the guy typing on an imaginary keyboard (or using an invisible mouse), the fact that no-one really has any eyes, or that dark character who's got some device suspended in front of his face?

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

and back up again, like a yo-yo.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They're back!

e: err, 3 days ago. I wasn't paying attention I guess

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News from AR (reddthat.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by LocustOfControl@reddthat.com to c/trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

Bad news - another case of a missing admin with the only keys to stuff.

From a reddit post:

Just seen this on IRC:

"the TLDR is basically: Best case, site comes back up we continue and change things in the backend, okay case, site is down for a little bit while we rebuild backend with likely a new domain, and worst case we close out and refugee you all elsewhere (we might still do this last part too hook up the community even if we are working on the backend"

ETA: IRC admin wrote "I'm currently trying to set up a place where refugees can go to"

ETA2: As far as I understand, someone went away and I quote "without the return of (this person), AR's continued existence is up in the air, we are attempting to work on solutions but he unfortunately seemed to hold more keys to the castle than we were fully aware."

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

I wonder if it's reflecting the dogs playing poker image:

I did cherry pick this one tbh, but most of them have different types (and colours) of dogs.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 5 points 10 months ago

AI gets the joke that was a bit obscure even by the 90s when I first read those books.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 12 points 10 months ago

The more I look, the weirder it gets.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

It kinda looks like it's been painted, which is a fun twist on pixel art.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I was surprised to see the artifacts when I looked at the full-sized image - even though I shouldn't've been cos AI gonna AI.

It's really cool that it understands that it should look blocky, but not that the blocks should be aligned on a grid. It's accidentally been way more creative with the brief than if it'd emulated pixel art better.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A tiny fraction of their users paying upfront (remember opportunity cost of money) is hardly going to doom them to insolvency.

Look at this way - investors give money to a company now to receive money later. They risk capital now in exchange for future rewards. Lifetime subscribers pay a large fixed amount now to receive free service later. Same thing.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 9 points 10 months ago

I do miss that really detailed block download page, but that's only cos I'd watch it instead of doing something useful with my life.

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (35 children)

Perhaps some Youtube's done a video on it... I feel like I've seen a headline or link saying something like "Why Paul is underrated" recently.

I didn't know there was an extended version, do the extra 6 minutes add anything? Maybe not

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This should be be a local link for most: !opencracks@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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