no better way to say: 'I gave this gift zero thought. fuck you'

We had the industrial revolution, which gave way to the information age, and now we are what, the dumb ages? Literally everything coming out of silicon valley right now is fucking idiotic. (monetising 'differing opinions' means they are trying to find new ways of rage farming for money)

canberra had for a while now been the ONLY state or territory in australia to not provide direct games funding. that finally changed today. huge congrats to @jarrodfn.bsky.social and everyone else at Candev who isn't on bluesky for all their hard work!

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I wonder how staring at this ring light for like 6 hours of virtual meetings a day is rewriting my brain....

“.. Three years into the generative-ai wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy. “.. the employment-weighted share of Americans using ai at work has fallen by a percentage point, and now sits at 11% ..” @economist.com www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Tired of your chatbot giving you the wrong answer half the time? Now you can multiply that error rate significantly! Give your workflows all the predictability of flipping a coin and getting heads ten times in a row! Agentic Processes: 'They might work some of the time!'* *not guaranteed to work

These are good credits. Ultimately credits are just going to be (basically) a blob of text in your game resources. It should not be hard to add detail. If I ever manage to move on from my current job working for tha' man and get back to making my own games, I would start doing credits like this.

Nvidia misses its earnings goals? Stock market crash. Nvidia meets its earnings goals? Stock market crash. Nvidia exceeds its earnings goals? Believe it or not, stock market crash.

I first read this as GDC, and I was like: well, I am not super surprised, GDC is making some questionable choices, but that is still a pretty crazy thing to put on the GDC website.

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Don't do any of this.

i see this shit, the game goes in the bin, doesn't matter how much I'd enjoyed it or what my plans to write about it had been

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

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Every ad now

You guys wanna see a dead body?

Go for the eyes, Boo!

sometimes the internet is good, actually

lmao

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Now that Mamdani has won, what am I meant to look forward to now?

rip 😔

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did @serrels.bsky.social write this?

fixed that for you

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

LoL. If you needed yet another indicator that AI is a bubble and they are scraping the barrel to find revenue sources: here you go. Again: if large model AI worked as advertised, then everyone would have been using it within weeks of release. It has been 3 years now.

Everything should have a face, and be adorable. sword? face rock? yep, face gold coin? tiny cute little face Seriously tho; design your items and environments so that players can become emotionally attached to them. Encourages more interesting decisions and helps avoid minmaxxing.

I wonder how Tron is doing? oooft. (its morbin' time!)

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I guess they really believe that 'no publicity is bad publicity'. I kinda thought that was debunked, but what do I know.

Just like Morbius, I will wait for Ares to come out on a streaming service, and then still not watch it because Leto a sex pest shit weasel who ruins every movie he is in. But really, doing WORSE than the morbs is soooo fucking bad.

Probably not. Not for a few years at least. One of the most expensive conferences, and now probably one of the least safe for anyone international.

I just got to see the ACMI Gameworlds exhibit. Very good. Highly recommend if you are down for MIGW/GCAP that you try to go and see it.

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Oh good. This flight has WiFi. I was worried I might be spared from The Horrors for an hour.

"Despite clear Covid-era evidence that GDC could be digitally accessible, and there being no reason but [organizer] Informa’s bottom line for the event being so expensive, GDC remains offline-only and the ticket prices obscene," - one of my quotes in this article www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

as an indie, i've gotta say: you're pretty much beholden to what people with very old computers on steam, and the latest nintendo hardware, can run. because that's where any chance of earning any money is at your level. luckily, those are usually pretty much in sync

me: opens Zork walkthrough; creates trivially simple script that solves the game. also me: I have created AGI! <deep sigh>

This feels like it should be a real 'yeah no shit' thing if you have any literacy at all about what generative AI actually does www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

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lol

hmm... I haven't started a new WoW alt in a few years... maybe it is time again...

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.