The AI culture war seems to be a bunch of people using AI as the launch pad to talk about the wider labor issues, especially in regards to videogame development, and journalists getting a subliminal terror that they're about to get yelled at a lot.

Really funny quote because AI is a problem on all those avenues.

Making an outline, checking it twice

Was Caramelldancin always a Christmas song or am I being punked

Showing restraint by stewing this rant into an article instead of blasting it on bsky

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Found Family (Dating) ((problematic))

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Not sure I understand Jason Schrier's game. He keeps getting mad that people are agreeing with the conclusions re: AI that his articles are leading to?

The thing about humanoid robots is that the human body is one of the most impressive machines in the world. I am not exaggerating when I say that some of the most difficult real-time calculations for a computer to perform are things you do subconsciously.

There's not even one working model lmao

Relationslop

Computer being out of commission for two weeks sucks balls

Gonna start being one of those "name five x" guys but for muppets. "I love how [leading role] treats all the muppets like fellow actors" that's always how the muppets worked. That's the whole thing. They interview on live TV in character Debra.

I've been saying this

Nick *Porsche*? Come ooooooon

Man The Pathless fucking rules. Might add it to my "perfect games" shelf alongside Nine Sols

The thing about thoughtless mook stomping is that ttrpgs have been pretty much supplanted by videogames. Thoughtless violence is a lot more entertaining with exploding pixels and is just kinda creepy when you're GM is bloviating about an orc's guts spilling out.

Adolescence is believing Peggy Hill is the worst character on King of the Hill. Adulthood is realizing Principal Moss should've been killed for at least five different reasons.

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Scrungaloids is coming out in 12 days, and the STLs will come with a version 1 of the skirmish game of the same name Lexie and I wrote this year. I'm incredibly proud of it mechanically and I want to talk about why.

My absolute TTRPG design advice is this: Do it on purpose. Think about your choices and make them deliberately for your project instead of doing something just because some other game (usually D&D) does or doesn't do it.

The internet is famously not mean about AI art

Oh my god bruh

Bringing up your mom both times you answer in the dating symposium - beast mode

I've been a manufacturing engineer for over a decade. If we want to introduce a new tool to the process we need to justify it with a quantitative analysis; you need numbers to back up your ideas because if it costs more money than it saves that's not sustainable.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

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Ngl if I somehow ended up in the position of interviewing Naomi Wolf I also could not resist the temptation to tell her we can't hire her because she's white.

Kicked out of the group chat for referring to 2012 as "the twentytweens"

Zone of Grincherest

To make games you need a seed of entitlement to think you can do something better, but you must never let it make you so stupid as to think you've done something that's never been done before.

It's not just important to leak this report and destroy a PAC that is sabotaging democrats, it's important that we do something really funny like deleting 600 million dollars.

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Welp, Twitter account deactivated

The most daunting game design challenge is that making a Way You Do Not Want Players To Play actively unfun to play does little to dissuade them from doing it.

You know a TERF is washed when she's actually listening to her lawyer telling her to shut the fuck up

Reddit sucks so much lmao

One of my favorite rules is in Goblonia if you catch your players making plans you immediately and visibly tick the Doom Clock up then give them five minutes and if they're still planning you tick it up again.

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Beat the 2nd boss in Returnal on my second try, giving me a surprise warp gate to the boss room was nice. I feel like I'm finally into the groove of the game but it really strains your patience at first.

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People keep saying "what about Pixel" but I think the real answer is Derpixon

Every time I see someone with 🏳️‍⚧️ in their bio/username follow me I know I'm doing things right

I still think SMT demon recruitment is the smartest dumb implementation of a morality system in the world. Demon responses are 100% random, it is physically impossible to play a people pleaser because you have no idea what a demon wants. So the only thing that matters is your personal consistency.

Digital Circus is so good. I love that they dedicate an entire episode just to remind you the villain may be goofy but you actually do need to be afraid of him.

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