Notices by Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social), page 14

@charlyblack @norwin these renderings do 100% look like something from someone's geocities page circa 1999

todo, find out if there's a way to make it so "X reacts to Y!" videos on youtube are never shown to me in lists or suggested to play next

and the covers of animorphs books https://duckduckgo.com/?q=animorphs&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images

the new york magazine approval matrix is another example http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/approval-matrix-2017-03-20/

(the unifying characteristic here being that with any of these methods you could—at least conceptually—"interpolate" between two items in the space in order to invent/discover a new item at the point between them)

e.g., eadweard muybridge photo illustrations (if you unwrapped them into a single line) http://www.eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/ would be a one-dimensional example of this (where the dimension represents time); t-sne visualizations would be another example (where the dimensions don't have a set meaning) https://lvdmaaten.github.io/tsne/ maybe even the periodic table of elements would qualify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table (though in that case the "representations" are just the names of the elements)

okay so here's a weird question. scott mccloud's "big triangle"— https://wordsonplay.com/2009/10/the-big-triangle/ is there a general term for this kind of thing? a space with extremes where items in the space are annotated with illustrations/representations whose position in the space corresponds to the extent to which the properties at the extremes describe them?

there should be a game like animal crossing that structurally imposes through game mechanics the inability to accumulate things. they are adding gyroids to pocket camp and that fact reminded me of starting up my 300hr+ game of new leaf recently after years away thinking "ah my pastoral life now continues!" only to walk into my literal mansion filled to the literal brim with hoarding nightmare, gyroids and christmas bonus items stacked on golden furniture and scifi movie sets

@charlyblack this is great, thank you for sending the link :)

the list of misidentified chemical element names on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misidentified_chemical_elements is extremely evocative and all of them seem like they could be plausible fictional unobtaniums; they also look like they could have been generated with a recurrent neural network ("alkalinium", "berzelium", "decipium", "ptene", "wasium")

@Tryphon yeah the weird thing about this data set is that (as i understand it?) it's asking people not to adopt the role of a helpful person but specifically to adopt the role *of the car*—reifying the abstract behavior of the automated agent instead of seeing the property of the appearance of automation to be undesirable. like having a dataset for text-to-speech where people are encouraged to read the text in such a way that they sound like a computer

@andrey i have chrono trigger (for the ds) and it's like ff6 for me—i've tried to play it multiple times and i lose interest after hour 5 or so. i didn't have an snes when those games were contemporary and i think there's something about the 16-bit era jrpgs that just doesn't click for me, sadly

@andrey i play probably 100-200hrs of jrpgs every year but could never really get into a final fantasy, other than ffta on the gba :(

wow i wish mass effect andromeda was a better game. i keep playing it because i like the combat and it has the trappings of the games in the series i actually liked, but the whole thing is just clumsy and glitchy and kinda boring