Why are we doing Final Fantasy hot takes? Anyway mine is that Ardyn Izunia is a fantastic and tragic villain and could have been an all timer if not for the absolute mess of the storytelling in FFXV

Jeffrey Epstein’s reported financier, Les Wexner, is set to give a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee today at his home in Ohio. For all that screeching about “transparency,” Republicans sure seem to want to keep Epstein-related things private.

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

It's almost time for Ramadan, as Muslims tonight peered to the crescent moon to see if the month of Ramadan starts tonight or the day after. As with every year, I'm starting this thread so that people can ask questions, and learn about Ramadan from one person's perspective of it.

Under the Island is FINALLY OUT! After more than 7 years of development, the journey comes to life today ♥️. Huge thank you to everyone who supported the game along the way! Enjoy the Launch Trailer Shop Links in the comments 👇

These detectors are rubbish, they're LLMs too and they're trying to sell the poison and the cure. It said my book was 70% AI-generated. It was published in 2016.

What the fuckin shit that’s cool

No. None of this is happening What's happening is Unity's management (and maybe even dev team) have no understanding of casual games or why people play them, they're understood as just containers for ads So they're doing that "well it's not good enough for thing We like, but good enough for them!"

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

Shovin more metroidvania into my platformer. Added a charged up slide ability that can bust open and slide thru little grates where a normal slide cant. Works pretty alright as a knockup in combat too without havin put much into that side of things yet! #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday #3DPlatformer

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

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BRRROTHERRRR!!! I dreamed of a world free from the Patriots Free from ID control Free from the system! FREE FROM FOXDIE!!!

If you work with UI in Unreal Engine, make sure you check out Project Settings > Editor > Widget Designer (Team) It lets you disable the should-be-deprecated Property Bindings, change what widget is automatically created at the root when you make new UserWidgets, set custom Debug Resolutions, and a

After spending a year learning to walk again, I had a fall on Christmas Day that left me paralyzed and stuck with a tough financial situation. Please consider donating and sharing my fundraiser. gofund.me/609b599d1

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Fun news! We're looking for a narrative designer to join our team. Help us work on Star Wars Jedi! ✨ jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

Game writers! I’m curious. When it comes to character barks in gameplay, how much pressure do you put on yourselves to ensure they’re unique to the character’s voice versus settling for a more generic line?

I didn’t know the parietal lobe was a thing that could grow back, but apparently I’ve almost regenerated it completely. Woo!

Outline coming along. Got a plan to build this thing that could feasibly work if I stick to it like glue and show up for people. Now I just gotta outlast a fatal illness for a few years, overcome chronic depression, and stabilize financially … in the post-2025 US. 😅

I maintain that this is the moment a lot of folks realise that they can just do direct deals with porting houses and marketing teams. Publishers got used to low risk thanks to platform deals and crowdfunding. They need to remember that ‘absorbs risk’ is their primary non-replaceable role tout suite

Usually 60% minimum in my experience, but yeah, Doc is spot on. It was this bad seven years ago, now if anything it’s worse.

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So anyway, it’s now come out that several of the board members of Activision Blizzard during the time of our walkouts around the treatment of women were all heavily featured in the Epstein files. This is my not shocked face.

Elon Musk when he realizes putting people on the moon is difficult: Within 10 years we will put humans in Delaware

I was REALLY REALLY hoping that when Discord chose to enshittify it would be like "Sign up to Discord Premium to post 5 Gifs an hour!" or something. Not "Please Give me your face so we can trade it with multiple private and government partners... oh oops... also a random hacker."

Is anyone else mad at the fact that they have to pay federal taxes for bullshit they don't want? Like new ballrooms, the Gestapo, child torture, and human trafficking. I wanna pay for education, social services, UBI, and universal health care! I'm so gotdamn mad right now, I need to lie down.

The reboot of Planet of the Apes has been one of the greatest gifts to cinema. They took the core concept of the original, built a brand new world around it, and (and this was the clever part) they made it so good. They decided "You know what? We'll actually give a shit with these stories." Love it.

everyone should cancel their nitro subscriptions on discord asap, hit them where it really hurts

Feel bad for the boring fucks that struggle to watch old sci-fi stories about the future "cause actually that's not how [past year] was", or conversely "why does [future year] have significantly worse tech than we have now?" Have some whimsy and enjoy things.

Btw I know this is preaching to the choir but reading these stupid high jump rules truly a great example of why dnd is a bad template for anything. If your player is like "can I jump that high" the answer should never be "let's compare the height of the wall in feet to blablabla"

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

Commission Mason! He’s good and can make game-ready low poly models!

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

Finally, I can reveal the release date of Under the Island (even though it was kinda leaked already 😅) I hope you'll have a lot of fun with this game I've poured 7 years of my life into. Mark February 17th on your calendar! Enjoy the trailer!

Me on every project

Technology that doesn't work is a desired feature to the surveillance state, not a bug. When everyone is a "maybe" match, then probably cause can be manufactured to justify whatever it is one wanted to do in the first place. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

I never fucking understood people laundering “prompt engineer” like it’s a real thing. You play guess and check making requests from a slop machine, whose underlying behavior you don’t know anything about. Fundamentally no different from an unskilled user, no engineering involved.

No heroes, no mentors, no fonts of inspiration or fondly remembered friends. Just an increasingly unkind mirror that offers nothing back. Lord preserve us from such a hollow vessel of a life

I am jobless at the moment.

Man. I’d like to buy new skin. That sounds great. Don’t need a 2000 pound chair though

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

D&D campaign with elastic continuity like Mad Max/The Simpsons. Once an adventure arc is complete the PCs can change their class/background/etc a little and everyone acts as if that's how they always were. Sometimes dead people come back for no reason. Frank Grimes is there

I’m on the couch, I look over, and Uhura’s looking at me like this and wagging her tail. “You can’t see me, I’m camel-flajjed.”