I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

They are so, SO desperate for people to resub. PLEASE don't resub your Nitro everyone. Props if you aren't already subbed, props if you were subbed and you unsub right now. NOTHING changes unless a company FEARS for their bottom line. Feel free to use Discord still, but don't give them a penny. 💖

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

They would not have stepped in on this had the public outcry been so loud, so please don't give them any credit.

AI entrepeneurs in a nutshell

I've been running CachyOS on my laptop for a while, and I get the funniest bugs ever. My keyboard randomly stops working when I have Davinci Resolve open, but only if it is focused, or if I'm on discord. Everything else is working normally.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

It's kinda funny that it took 5 iterations for people to realize DLSS/FSR is GenAI

Been having some fun at university lately.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

This is blackout poetry to me

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

get it right

What's this? New Merch in the @hinterland.bsky.social store? store.hinterland.com/products/the... 👀 > Shirt designed in 🇨🇦 > Shirt manufactured in 🇵🇹 by our partners at KOTN (also 🇨🇦) ____ * NOTE: If you're shipping to the US, you will (sadly) have to pay tariffs up front.

Mastodon vs Twitter. If you’re wondering why is it like this, the answer is bots. AI companies not only have the means of generating comments, they also have the best web crawlers known to mankind. Their business model is astroturfing. Most of the people praising AI online do not even exist.

VIVA O SPORTING

Hi everyone please do not pay $400 for a tiny TV that "emulates the CRT experience"

The latest Doomsday trailer made me realise that I have zero motivation to see it. And I can't even understand if that's meant to be good or bad.

discord took down their ai questionnaire this means: 1) they saw how everyone hated it and how negatively all of their users feel about ai and 2) they're gonna fucking implement shit no one wants anyway

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping

I'll give you a better option instead, host Jellyfin on a pc. You can have all those songs on a server that you can access anywhere with a VPN, or, if you're lazy, use Tailscale. It also doubles down as a streaming service alternative if you have shows and movies saved locally.

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

Stranger Things finale made me cry in a really nerdy way. Without trying to spoil much, anyone wanna play some D&D?

My worst trait is wanting to build every cool robot I see online, rather than the more normal approach of buying one.

i wonder if anyone is going to ask the other question: why are kids confiding in AI how they feel about *insert mental health topic* and not confiding in a real person? or are we just going to use this as another “AI bad” thing and move on? getting rid of AI won’t fix the problems that got us here

I could make a bigger list, but all that matters is that I got into university and I'm finally pursuing my dream of game development.

In a movie with gods and monsters, the unrealistic part is the helmets. In a certain way, it's funny how ignorant people can be.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

Every day that passes the world just gets a little bit more dumb and it's incredibly depressing to find hope.

Not every AAA game needs to be 80+ hours long and take 7 years to make and sell ten million copies to hit “targets.” We don’t need to keep doing that.

Most players aren't even playing more than 2 games(and those are usually multiplayer f2p titles), let alone playing recent games.

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser " #AI #Mozilla #Firefox

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

I guarantee you that not using X will piss off Elon Musk a lot more than staying on it to dunk on nazis

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

there must be a name for using early investors' money to pay off newer investors

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

What's really funny about this is that they could've just pay some random youtuber 100€, embed the youtube video in their platform, and the entire community would love them. But no, this is the idea that comes first to the idiots who control this industry.

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

I usually don't give a crap what everyone's definition of indie is(especially since dredge) But E33 is really a specific one that makes zero sense to me, because no matter which defition of indie you want to believe in, E33 doesn't fit