in video games the word "survival" means clearcutting a forest to build a fortress and "cozy" means starting a small business so you can eventually earn enough money to clearcut a forest and build a fortress

need you all to see this deeply indescribable cooking video

Every time I want icecream I type “icecream” into google maps and it feels so oafish every time. In olden days I would just waddle outside and look up hopefully into the sky

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

people will say it's too soon to criticize enormously harmful people when they die. maybe we should consider that it's too soon to praise them, given the suffering that they inflicted on so many?

The bits in the FAQ where it became extremely clear that they have a narrative of good developers vs evil publishers made me nope completely out of the entire thing. Breathtaking levels of ignorance on full display.

Stop Killing Games is a thing that sounds positive in theory, but the lack of an actual hierarchy beyond a few talking head YouTubers and a Discord full of scene drama, paired with a hazy manifesto influenced by petty grievances, has basically doomed it to be co-opted by bad actors ad nauseam.

This is basically the only stuff I was reading from like age 6 to 10

It took me three years to recognise what happened to me as what it was. It would take so much more for me to pursue any form of justice. I just want it to go away. I'm shocked that anyone ever reports any of it; I certainly haven't reported mine officially and I never will. It's not worth it to me.

Also, like, multi-season Netflix shows now have a reputation for crashing out extremely hard in their final episodes. Why see it through to the end when you don't trust that ending to be worth seeing?

As always

@insertdisc5.com is so fucking real for this. More creatives need this approach. Tell your story then leave the rest up to the fans.

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

In Stars And Time is now the gold standard for video game storytelling. How can a game with that art be that cruel and that beautiful. How. How is it possible.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

referees are not sports cops because the rules of sport are not an oppressive force of violent state power the owners are sports cops

If this ruling stands, it may be the death of this tech. Good fucking riddance.

Chiitan rescued a little kitten🐈‍⬛Got myself a new buddy! 保護猫ちゃんは小判ちゃんと名付けましたっ☆

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I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

There are so few issues where you can get a general 2/3 majority of the public on one side. The anti-AI position doesn't just represent a strict majority, it represents an overwhelming majority. Get this shit regulated and make those regulations brutal.

Programming is far more about the code you don't write than it is about the code you do. Every word in a codebase, changeset, and comment represents a bit more work for your team and your future self. Not making changes is harder than fixing issues, but often necessary.

Yeah ok new rule: if you bring up Trump in a reply to a post that wasn’t about Trump I’m blocking you

Writing is hard. Writing is great. Writing sucks. I love writing. I wish I could stop writing. I cannot stop writing. Please help. Please leave me alone, I have another 3 pages to get through. Please read my work. Please never perceive this garbage I've created. Respect me. Ignore me.

I wonder how much of this is legal ass covering and how much of it is because the company wants you on their app which can serve ads, collect data, and dodge regulations

"Monkey Man" may have meant even more to me than "I Saw The TV Glow." I sent this to my friends after watching it for the first time:

Pugs 2

I swear this used to have a lot more replies and quotes

Acquiring the necessary rights to make a glossy AAA video game based on the standup comedy of Mitch Hedberg.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

I'm blaming TVTropes and its ancestors for this. The idea that a story is about the simple delivery of plot elements and that anything else can be freely removed without sacrifice is an infectious madness that destroys audiences and creators alike.

If AI is equivalent to a "junior dev" but is meant to work extremely quickly, that is a junior dev with the single worst trait a junior dev can possibly have. How is this considered a valid option by anyone?

I wanted to live in a world where people make things that they are proud of making. What does all this corporate shit make? Disposable thoughts, projects that were meant to fail, data for the sake of data. Someone else is always to blame.

Watching AI news is like watching the stars go out one by one, I'm scared that we're going to run out of things to hope for. There's no horizon, we sold the night sky to the monsters for pennies. They'll bring us new stars.

Excellent point. Replacing public servants with AI is like importing your public service from the US. You spend less money into the domestic economy and shovel more NZ financial assets into offshore ownership.

this is a masterpiece

important update

So Sam Altman is now moving from the "please give money am smol bean" phase directly to the "wallet inspector" phase. He's a crypto guy through and through

god it is such a rough time to be single

TVTropes has so much to answer for. The idea that a character in a story can be "a filler character" is such a comprehensively broken way to engage with media. They don't advance the plot? How can you know that?

it sucks that theres still some creatives out there who only seem to take issue with gAI when its in their field, but will happily use it to replace other creative workers. Its remarkably easy to have a bit of solidarity and never use this shit. Up till 2023 it was the default state

The kids are all right

Something about the hypnotic repetition of the same phrases really makes this one bite

Oh! I absolutely thought the "kids are calling stuff AI as a slam in school" was some made up Ruthkanda shit, but I saw it live and in person last night. We had friends over for dinner last night and they brought their 12 and 16 year old kids and it happened more than once. Kids hate it.

This is kind of my internal monologue whenever I cook for myself

Meanwhile, on Wikipedia: "If you have a history of AI use, we will expunge everything you have added since ChatGPT went live, because nuking you from orbit is the only way to be sure" (paraphrased) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Man With No Plans Just Too Exhausted To Go Out https://theonion.com/man-with-no-plans-just-too-exhausted-to-go-out-1819576368/

Make it political call that shit animal double crossing

It's not often that an essay fills me with hope and love 10% of the way in. This speaks to me. These are the words I wanted.