I'm sorry but as a Canadian this is just the funniest thing.

Obviously, yes.

No corporation should be allowed to require copies of your government issued ID for any purpose, ever. If age verification is required by law then there needs to be a government service to provide that without putting me at risk of identity theft.

This line at the end of the article killed me: So for scientists, the production of gold at the collider is in fact more of a nuisance than a blessing.

My first job in IT was a summer position in Toronto and no small part of it was Y2K testing and patching bank systems. It was a coordinated, cooperative effort across the board that ultimately made Y2K a non-event.

Mega Man says

Not my house, but I know my way around.

Ah game dev. Some days you spend the day making a cool new feature that makes the game play or look way better. Others you spend a whole day refactoring an important system and the end result is that it looks and plays exactly the same.

tfw you write a task for yourself that you know is going to suck but it's for future you and fuck that guy

Slightly diminish a game. Dragon Errand

Well my fort doesn't ever attract migrants but I keep having entertainers of every stripe petitioning to live there so I guess we're a centre for culture or something.

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

This is how code merges work in game dev

We all know how this goes. This isn't good news. It's a sign that it's time to start looking for a replacement.

There are multiple layers of problems here that need to be solved before "game plays itself" is the solution...

What is a sprite? A miserable little pile of pixels.

Sat down and did a high level list of accomplishments I made on my project over the last year and... yeah. I did a lot more than I thought I had. Good exercise, for sure.

OH COME ON

How I'm kicking off 2026

Continuing to uphold the New Years resolution I made 26 years ago by not making any New Years resolutions once again this year.

If you see this post your favourite Final Fantasy character

Always feels good to block in the silhouette for an animation you've had rolling around in your head and nail a real physical feel for it.

Wake Up, Dead Man? Nah, let him sleep. Not worth disturbing him.

"Creative search, inspiration or vision coordination" This is an absolute dereliction of human creativity and instead investing in using stolen work harvested from the internet. None of this needs to be AI generated.

This is a pretty clear cut no, in my books. Using AI to make assets, generate code or documents, or parse data which will be used in decision making and budgeting all end up affecting the product. It's still replacing work that can and is being done, better, by humans.

Clearly we need to thaw it so @innes.bsky.social can drink whatever is inside

I've reached the point of exhaustion that I'm just blocking any and all AI stans and their useful idiots.

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Well... that tracks.

If you've never done the work but you're sure that there are shortcuts that people should be taking, you're just wrong. Full stop. If you want to use those those shortcuts because you don't like doing the work, you should find something else to do with your time.

Playing Tingus Goose

Started concepting out the first enemy for my encounter system. Pushed some pixels around and am relatively pleased with the results so far. Of course animating it will be something else entirely...

People reacting to Larian's CEO talking about AI is, much as I hate to say it, a filter. They don't want people who don't want to do it their way. He knows what he was saying in the interview. Mining your outrge was entirely the point.

Well just everything about this is just an unmitigated disaster. blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

video games be like

The best pixel art tool just keeps getting even better!

Vd ams

Obviously no, the idea is ghoulish. Part of being alive is creating new connections and we have huge amounts of data that mental stagnation leads to decline. Sorry Grandma, you were great, but you're gone.

I am so tired of "Announcement of and announcement" posts. It makes me not want to even hear about your announcement when it happens.

Been making solid progress on my side project these last 2 weeks, which is excellent, but it'll be a bit longer before the next article for No Right Answers gets written.

So while I've been enjoying the spectacle of the Fallout TV show as I watch it with my son, I am eternally disappointed that, at every turn, it is determined to suck the weird mystery out of the entire experience.

This is indeed very silly. Highly recommended!

Forever burned into my young mind

I've actually told bits and pieces of the story so many times, I wrote an article about it! www.norightanswers.net/posts/there-...

In case anyone hasn't caught on yet, CEOs saying words means nothing. They don't understand or care about the basic principles of what they're talking about. They're there to pump stock prices for investors. Reality need not apply.

New article on No Right Answers - Game Design Framework: Gameplay Challenge Types This is a methodology for defining common challenge vectors and terms while crafting gameplay with easily tunable intensity. www.norightanswers.net/posts/gamepl... #gamedesign #gamedevelopment #norightanswers

Started rewatching DS9 and have hit the original scene this was made from, so I had to rewatch it. Absolutely in tears laughing again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdlX...

As long as an AI/LLM model is trained on stolen data, replicates the learning of a model trained on stolen data, significantly contributes to resource depletion/climate change or is used to displace/replace human workers, there is no ethical use.

This morning's outages are yet another example of why having a single point of failure is real bad. It's always been hell to get the budget to support diverse network paths with fail-over and I feel for all the IT folks who are up to their necks in it this morning...