This "ai code/art is already everywhere and impossible to avoid so you should just relax about people using it" shit has to stop, it's not remotely true. Same exact shit as "it's the inevitable future!" or "you can't put the genie back in the bottle!!" We can literally do whatever the fuck we want

As someone who makes standalone games, and is not interested in building games for someone else's platform (nor building my own "platform"), there is nothing I care about in UE6.

all of the UE6 stuff is really exciting news if your idea of a videogame is turning it into shitty Roblox-core slurry for Fortnite otherwise it's a pretty catastrophic misreading of the room, after indies successfully jumping ship from unity with the promise you actually care about developers

the reason I have such a distaste of AI is precisely *because* it's useful that is, if you would like to save time and money, to make hollow creations deprived of humanity, and you're morally okay polluting the world with creatively uninspiring husks to hurt the artists whose work trained your toy

I was in multiple rooms at GDC where management of games studios let their hair down and said "everyone's using it, gamers hate it so we just have to hide it now", but none were actually able to explain if and how AI were making games faster to develop or better at all

"I don't know how to make this" is an opportunity to fucking LEARN.

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

1/ An annoyance for me right now: if you're against the current and future state of AI, stop giving credibility to companies claiming they're laying off thousands of people because AI will replace them. Because no, they didn't - they laid people off for normal greed or stupidity related reasons.

God damn, the protomen are not missing with act 3. Light's Last Stand (and the rest of the album) is incredible.

Wrote a long technical dive into some internals of Unreal's world partition because I've had to go quite deep into this stuff in the last couple of years. Basically none of the internals are documented, so maybe this will be helpful to someone. xbloom.io/2025/10/24/u...

Dispatch is great. That is all.

Working my way through @edzitron.com 's article about the AI bubble. It's fantastic. I do kinda know all this stuff peripherally, but to see it all laid out very clearly with hard numbers is incredibly useful. Thanks Ed! www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

So I'd like to show a demonstration of what this "waffles" thing is. Here's a conversation between *this site's* CEO, some random guy, and the cofounder of "Tangled", a GitHub clone built on top of Bluesky's protocol. Please take a moment to really think, about the shape of this thoughtlessness.

It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses

saw someone refer to "itch's social-media team" and i guess people are still not grasping the size of organization here i am 90% sure the itch twitter/bluesky are run by the CEO, who is also the guy who wrote the website and continues to write the website

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

I am not a Social Security recipient but even if I was: Why am I getting an email from SSA celebrating this legislation? How is this an appropriate use of that ostensibly massive database?

Hands off Social Security. Hands off Medicaid. Hands off veteran care. Hands off our kids’ education. Hands off our rights. We’re going to fight like hell to defend our democracy from Donald Trump. #HandsOff

let's cut the crap and understand america for what it is. every american voter is a 42-year-old left-handed guy named jon who accidentally locks himself either out of his apartment or inside an emergency stairwell every three years and whose knee still kind of hurts from a 2012 wiffle ball injury

Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...

And right after our alpha... an announcement for beta in a couple of months :) youtu.be/Y_gTw7C8IAU #splitgate #splitgate2

Watch some of my coworkers be dorks in voice chat, and then come play on the 27th :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajF...

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

just start saying this plainly to more people i'm serious.

Commit the sin of empathy.

I love paying bullshit amounts for services I don't want and never agreed to pay for.

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

New trailer :) youtu.be/zncj59QzZIM

The comments on this article make my head spin. Yes, activating non-tesla chargers is a stupid awful experience involving too many goddamn apps and failed sessions. And that's entirely the result of cost-cutting bean counters who couldn't figure out how to reliably build a fucking vending machine.

Let's start this off with some non-gamedev stuff! I've been slowly building out a bunch of (locally hosted, home assistant-based) smart home stuff for my apartment. I already have a mix of zwave and zigbee buttons and lights, but I've been wanting to build a cheap OpenHASP-based wall panel.