@fastfinge

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completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those.
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Location Ottawa

Birthday 1987-12-20

Pronouns he/him (EN)

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@lynessence It could also be that because you’re reading intentionally, you’re only getting the “good” Asian fantasy. If someone asked me to recommend western fantasy, I’d probably give them wheel of time, not xanth or a Minecraft novel.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I hate it.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I see it every time I go to the homepage or load any forum or post.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I wish the admin would just come back, period. Eleven cloudflare challenges per visit seems to be an easier solution than actually updating the forum software.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes @blindndangerous But without audiogames, where can I post space bang? It's my new release written in BGT that goes "bang!" whenever you press the spacebar! How many times can you press the spacebar? Soon there will be a scoreboard and an online account system that costs $18 and goes down three times a week! Just click this dropbox link!

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes You absolutely should play one of them, at least once. What's living without playing at least one pornographic RPG?

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes Sounds like you've never played Flexible Survival. Or Lessons in Love. Or Endless Summer. Or inheritance. Or corruption of champions. Those are just the ones off the top of my head that have at least some mechanic that could be described like that LOL.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes @blindndangerous Nah, they like incomprehensible space muds that you can only play with a sound pack and that are based on stolen codebases. I find they actually have pretty good taste in choose your own adventure pornography, oddly enough.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@blindndangerous @jscholes I wouldn't call it "bad". Ranger Legend I might, but this one isn't nearly as buggy, doesn't crash, the interface and translation are better, and it overall feels a bit more polished. I've noticed AG is highly xenophobic; I wouldn't trust most of what they say about anything. Warshovel is a better game when it comes to progression, story, and mechanics. But Call of Fate sounds nicer. So take your pick, I guess.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes I'm pretty sure you need eleven golden chess pieces and a heavenly star phoenix level of at least five to unlock vomiting.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@lynessence Thanks! Honestly I was a bit worried I might be revealing a bit too much cultural ignorance/internalized racism LOL

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese #audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be #accessible to both #blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Review: The New Dawn by Icalos: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/24/review-the-new-dawn-by.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@kaveinthran Oh, these look neat! Kind of what I was thinking of doing but better.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@neurrone not really. It’s about a terminator cyborg who gets transported to a fantasy world with stats etc. it’s good fun! Just beware that the stat sheets take up maybe 25 percent of the book in the first two.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@jscholes now I wish it was, though.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@mcourcel I do. But Tweesecake strips them out because it incorrectly displays the HTML formatted link.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Review: The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG by Icalos: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/16/review-the-beeginning-a-dungeoncore.html

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@simon @KaraLG84 The context contained:
* 250 lines of CSS
* a hundred or so lines of HTML
* The question "Why isn't the footer working?"

I also had web search checked, and in the customization section of my profile, I have that I'm blind and use NVDA and Voiceover.

I've noticed that chat gpt has been a lot more random recently. I'd assumed it was the new model release. But after a bit of investigation this morning, it's actually the new memory feature! Setting a chat to Temporary brings it right back to normal. I think what's happening is it's putting too much weight on previous conversations, and learning to copy my writing style from them. Also, I frequently test AI for content and work, on top of using it in my personal life, so it's got some unhinged stuff in its memory. Then, of course, as its responses become more unhinged, that encourages future responses to become even more extreme. This is making me worry that Chat GPT having memory might create the same sort of problems with radicalization and extremism that the YouTube algorithm has created. I also suspect we'll see a lot of people sharing Chat GPT absolutely go off the deep-end for them, not realizing how much effect the memory is having.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@aardrian I'd be happy to collab if you wanna make this happen.

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