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Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 24d

The Odyssey? I'll tell ya what's odd to see - a move that's over three hours long!

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 25d

Me: The Gunblade in FFVIII was cool as hell This one guy in Dishonored Death of the Outsider: Hold my beer

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 25d

Surely no such thing even exists???

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 25d

Phwoar

A Sony pocketstation. A terrible black kitten is in the background

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 25d

A police officer is injured at work. His workplace pay for treatment.

Describe your favourite movie as boring as possible.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 25d

I have wanted boots like these for YEARS. They are half price! The ONLY size they don't have is my size! Do...do I risk it? Do I trust big socks? Dammit I just want to dress like Brendan Fraser in The Mummy :(

A pair of brown Doc Marten knee-high boots. They have a buckle and are fit as fuck.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 27d

This idea for a youtube thumbnail entered my head at half eight this morning and I could not rest until I made it real. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Right. So. It's a parody of youtube thumbnails. A red boarder mostly surrounds packets of silica gel (do not eat), and my face (white, male, beard) is looking all shocked and wide-eyed. Poorly laid out drop-shadow impact font reads "Day 3 of eating silica gel until I become The Raisin Man!!"

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 28d

Ahahahaha oh my GOD. Fuck off.

Guy Kelly (You) 10:40 AM
I disagree. The way we learn and develop is through friction. We *do* still teach people to do maths without calculators etc. There are many studies (eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721) showing that AI use can damage reading and comprehension. And that's before we get into the damage that can be done through "talking" to something that comes across as having thought/agency without having anything behind that (eg https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis)
Anonymous user 10:52 AM
Sure. Good luck on your crusade Guy.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 28d

Back on my bullshit. God the TEMPTATION to just reply "fuck off, quisling"

Screenshot of a Q&A from an AI training session. On an AI and complacency note, what work is being done to ensure that "AI natives" retain their skills? There is evidence that reliance on AI can de-skill workers (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-ai-ruining-our-skills-early-results-are-in-and-theyre-not-good/) and I am worried that if/when AI use becomes prohibitively expensive or otherwise unusable, there will be a lot of staff who will need re-training to recover skills that five years ago were not even in question
Anonymous user 10:31 AM
Similar to the argument of "what if your calculator runs out of batteries". If you look at several disciplines, such arguments have been going on forever. "How will engineers be any good if they calculate beams using software, etc etc" Plenty of bridges have been built since Brunel... Writing by hand vs typewriters, personal computers. Software programming as it went from binaries to abstracted languages.....
Guy Kelly (You) 10:40 AM
I disagree. The way we learn and develop is through friction. We *do* still teach people to do maths without calculators etc. There are many studies (eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721) showing that AI use can damage reading and comprehension. And that's before we get into the damage that can be done through "talking" to something that comes across as having thought/agency without having anything behind that (eg https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/urban-survival/202507/the-emerging-problem-of-ai-psychosis)

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· 28d

Back on my "I am in an AI seminar" bullshit

Talking of skills and tokenisation, is this going to cover the research that has shown that reliance on AI tools can degrade these skills and abilities of its users? (eg here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1) Will there be anything covering what might happen if a user becomes reliant on an AI tool which then becomes too expensive to use through tokenisation etc, and how that skill gap can be rebuilt?

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 13

I slept really badly last night. Like, horribly. I woke up this morning, rolled over, and this was staring back at me. In my addled state there was a moment of genuine fear.

The back of my wife's head as she lies in bed. She has bleach blonde hair with pink tips, and is wearing an eye mask. And this all sounds fine! But the thing is, it actually looks like a hellish muppet is growing out of the back of her head like that one victorian guy. The strap of the eye mask looks like an awful open mouth, and the way the hair is bunched looks like a swollen pink eyesocket with a horrible eye bulging out of it, with a jagged pupil made by her hair tie. It was fucking horrible.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 11

Cain slaying Abel, Abel has a speech bubble

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 10

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 9

Here's the mugshot of one of the kids

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 9

I am not a complicated man. A flashback in the new Doom DLC where one set of doors resembles the Doom logo? You better believe that's going to make my day.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 7

Hell yeah I'm into FINDOM FIghtiN Da OMnissiah

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 7

There was context for this I swear

AI is dishonorable - analyse meaning through battle!

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 7

Honestly heartening that people in the chat are also responding in similar ways about AI use. Fuck me these tools are sinister. Rainforest burning polygraphs.

I am sure this will be covered, but what work, if any, is being done to strip bias from these analytical AIs? For example, autistic people might find eye contact or public speaking difficult, but that does not alter the content of what they are saying. I am worried that reliance on these technologies might adversely affect disabled people in a way that is baked in.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 4

Huh. Not the ingredients I would have expected

Half empty glass milk bottle. Beneath a union flag it says "fresh British milk supplied daily by local farmers eggs, potatoes, bread, juices, yoghurts"

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 2

yesssss Not my picture but LOOKIT

Retroid FLip 2 clamshell console in seethrough green plastic like from the PAST

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 2

I was on this yesterday, for "how big is englanx" reasons, and was genuinely surprised to learn that we don't have an official national anthem. What?!

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for England. Specifically the bit that says "anthem: none officially"

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jul 1

If wrestling is fake then explain THIS

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 30

SEND NODES I present to you: the entirety of 'i will strangle a horse'

Twine screenshot. Lots and lots of boxes all linked together.

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 30

So what sort of scam do we think this is? DM from an account that doesn't follow me and hasn't posted.

Hey! Your page popped up for me earlier, and honestly I almost just lurked like usual, but figured, why not actually say something? Do you get many people reaching out like this, or is it pretty rare?

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 30

Huh. What will they think of next?

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Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 28

Can we work out why this chart made me cross?

A google chart about couscous measurements per person. The couscous per person column suggests an exponential amount of delicious grain orbs

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 28

Oh shit. I've found an actually good joke in GTA 5.

A carpet store called DEEP PILE NATION. Letters have fallen off the frontage so it reads "depilation".

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 26

Okay fine google is broken but SOMETIMES its ai emits a funny result

Google results for i will strangle a horse. The AI summary reads If you are referring to the text-based adventure game, you can play i will strangle a horse on

itch.io.

If you are speaking literally, please do not harm any animals. Inflicting harm or suffering on an animal is a serious criminal offense under animal

welfare laws. If you are experiencing

Brainmage.itch.io@brainmage· Jun 25

Right. Transformers dorks. I bought this big bastard, and now I am broke, and so I need rid of him so I can spend money on eg groceries. What is the best place to get a fair price? Slinging it here? Hoping for ebay? Complete with unused sticker sheet etc.