aismallard

programmer, scp wiki author, admin, tech co-captain, wikijump dev. loves black cats. friend of blåhaj.

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2026-03-30 22:52:14 UTC

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おはようございます

2026-03-07 23:04:27 UTC

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おはようございます、まめもさん！

2026-01-20 00:24:30 UTC

lmao
https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/woem-space/f8fc1c0dc7646f73ae138fb096cfbd2cd0229c2284be1196d540a98c0a0120c6.png

2026-01-13 22:23:02 UTC

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mamemo, グッドモーニング！

2026-01-06 21:27:38 UTC

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おはようございmす

2025-12-03 18:53:32 UTC

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I guess I would call it vibe casting

2025-10-28 22:00:28 UTC

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がにょさん、まめもさん、皆さん元気でね！

2025-09-03 17:23:03 UTC

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I agree except for the last line — Dwarf Fortress *does* have an economy. It just doesn't have a *market*.
In fact, long before I read this post and learned about the abortive money feature, I liked using Dwarf Fortress as a good example of a non-capitalist economy:
It shows what an economy *is*, at its core. Dwarves, like humans have material needs, like food, alcohol, shelter, safety, healthcare, etc. Some of these are composite needs, like safety involves making weaponry and getting military training to fight Forgotten Beasts and Were-giraffes etc., dwarves have needs to socialize and produce art, which requires having free time and resources to engage in such crafts, etc.
So we see that what an economy is is a way to take the world, extract and process resources from it via labor for the purpose of providing for the material and social needs of that society.
I find this a helpful reminder, since in our actual world, the meaning of "economy" has been distorted to mean like, "the stock market", and other indicators of the status of the wealthiest people in the world. What a fortress in DF has is definitely an economy, even though it doesn't have money or speculative markets or other stuff.

2025-06-13 14:34:20 UTC

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This is from The Hard Times though: https://thehardtimes.net/news/democrats-will-continue-relentlessly-doing-nothing-if-you-just-pitch-in-5/

2025-03-05 02:25:00 UTC

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I mean "disembarking" is kind of annoyingly long. The japanese word for it is only two characters

2025-02-25 01:54:59 UTC

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I did not, I only heard vaguely that Musk wasn't technically in charge for legal reasons

2025-02-25 01:31:31 UTC

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oh that's what it is lmao

2025-02-04 05:52:00 UTC

Billionaires are not "self-made men". Trans men are self-made men.

2024-09-27 22:15:17 UTC

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the way the internet is going, this sounds like a real startup in five years or less

2024-08-22 16:50:45 UTC

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"description of a telescope" - this seems like some kind of LLM-generated product copy