weird thing about enjoying exercise is that anytime you talk about it, someone thinks you're either bragging on yourself or shaming them i deleted a post about a run earlier for that exact reason, and it's silly it's a hobby like any other; i guess it's just one you're not supposed to talk about

you can fully get someone's pro-LLM take, have plenty of experience with LLMs and deep knowledge of the history, applications, and types of computing that fall under the AI heading, and still disagree with them and they'll still believe you're "afraid" of LLMs because you just don't understand them

the only thing worse than an ai slop youtube thumbnail is a real person doing youtube face against an ai slop thumbnail

i can't prove this or anything, but i'm pretty convinced everything happening with Unreal comes down to AI psychosis and a certain someone asking their chatbot if obviously stupid decisions were secretly brilliant chess moves

we don't have to do this. we could actually ban LLMs and generative ai (except it's not ai because ai doesn't exist ofc) we could criminalize slop-based fraud. we could punish slop-based appropriation. we could fix so many things with a few simple laws, but we won't feed the capitalism it's hungry

the thing about ai-generated content is we already had it before LLMs started generating slop every time someone "optimized" for "the algorithm" or "the market" when developing, creating, and publishing "content," they were normalizing to statistical averages to create "what sells" product slop

why is apple still making airpods out of the bounciest plastic imaginable? drop one on a hard floor, and it instantly achieves warp speed, bouncing its way under the nearest couch/chair/table/desk, or just whatever piece of furniture presents the hardest challenge to retrieving it flubber plastic

random youtuber just referred to WASD as "ASWD controls" and suddenly, i don't understand anything about the world anymore

chatbot advocates

filled up my medal holder today! still waiting on four more medals to ship, then I’ll finish up Lord of the Rings and might maybe possibly take a break that’s 35 challenges across over 3,000 miles completed since i started them on New Year’s Eve won’t mean much to anyone else, but I’m proud of me

not to brag or anything, but over the weekend, i foiled a plot by multiple individuals intent on deploying giant robot spiders to steal pills from old people across several metropolitan areas i don't ask for thanks, but please respect my girlfriend's privacy at this time. she goes to another school

i never said not to play games that use gen ai, just not to buy them the way i see it, plagiarism is theft, and since plagiarism is fundamental to how LLMs function, anything touched by gen ai - at any level - is built upon stolen work and if selling stolen goods isn't a crime anymore, then...

valve could easily add an ai-generated tag and content or product filtering option to games featuring the ai disclosure so we can use it to exclude as much slop as possible while browsing steam but they won't, because unlike the toothless disclosure, that would actually be effective and cost sales

This extension for Chrome adds a nice big warning every time you open a Steam page for a game that uses AI-generated content. Perfect for Next Fest browsing. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

exhausted from living in a world where there's too much of everything and not enough of anything

i somehow just talked myself out of buying an old emotional support big box game* off ebay, which either means i'm growing as a person or i'm just depressed enough to know i'm too depressed to successfully mask said depression with nostalgia *technically, it's an emotional support feelie, but still

copilot is microsoft's heroin; they'll sacrifice everything to keep it going one more day, shove it into one more thing, force one more reinstall close down game studios add more copilot close a bunch more Add More Copilot ruin thousands of lives ADD MOAR COPILOT destroy everything MOOOOOOAAARR!

don't think i'll ever care about anything as much as the entire world wants me to care about the world cup

Drop something GOLD

hate to break it to Rubio, but UFC was just advertising for the Gracie family's Brazilian jiu-jitsu it's why fights came down to grappling: because the rules (yes, rules) were specifically designed to favor Royce Gracie, so his wins would convince insecure dudes Gracie BJJ could make them badasses

Maybe if your PR team is so terrified of you having to answer questions about your use of AI, because they know there'll be huge blowback, you just shouldn't be using.

welp, that's another game i was interested in that has now been removed from my wishlist and tossed in the Never Buy bin IF THEY USE AI, DO NOT BUY no exceptions no explanations no excuses no purchase - not on sale, not in a bundle never buy

we're on the cusp of artificial scarcity being replaced by actual scarcity, and i don't think people are ready for any part of what that means but let's keep arguing about things that don't matter while keeping each other down so no one gets ahead i'm sure the rest will sort itself out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i miss when games just got released instead of dropped into Early Access for years

sega can "clarify" their gen ai use all they want, but the rule remains: IF THEY USE AI, DO NOT BUY there is no middle ground we may not be able to push back on a lot of the gen ai forced onto us, but games are optional - and there are PLENTY of games worth buying that don't use chatbot bullshit

Dear Steam, There are too many Fests nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

i used to be able to instantly identify just about any game from a tiny cropped area of a single screenshot, but now i can't tell one game's boring, high-fidelity, photorealistic rocks from another game's boring, high-fidelity, photorealistic rocks how far we've come

another one for the "if they use AI, do not buy" pile

why does every thinkpiece on nostalgia always overanalyze everything except the simple fact that we all just miss who we used to be before the world made us who we are

ok but why are there, like, 57 different mini-E3s now

wow...i had no idea this story even existed until a few minutes ago, and now that i've read it...wow. he somehow got LLMs *and* techbros right over 70 years ago The Great Automatic Grammatizator Roald Dahl, 1954 gwern.net/doc/fiction/...

kinda miss when video games looked like video games

looks like it's time to go ahead and grab an external drive to download all my @gog.com games to before walking away gog used to be such a great place, but a toxic undercurrent has been growing, they seem fine with ai slop, and now they're pushing nazi bullshit? pretty sad about it, but i'm done

we named our dog (the objectively best dog in the world, btw) Mister Giles after the best character played by one of the best actors on Buffy he's very british, and we're very sad today

What am I now that I was then? May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. shut up, time!

chatbots are just beanie babies for c-suite collectors

it's a pretty simple rule, really: If they use AI, do not buy it even rhymes and everything

Happy Global Running Day! Did you know that if you go far enough fast enough often enough, you can totally stay ahead of the existential dread chasing you? Don’t let it catch you It wants to catch you Never let it catch you It needs to catch you Keep running Don’t look back It’s right behind you

motion to impose a moratorium on all remakes and remasters until the NOLF games at least get digital releases

The Peabody Awards are television’s most prestigious awards. On Saturday, Tony Gilroy accepted a Peabody for the second season of “Andor”. The first season won a Peabody three years ago. “Star Wars” is not dead.

opposing LLMs isn't the same as being anti-AI because LLMs aren't AI; they aren't intelligent at all, because AI doesn't exist a chatbot has no awareness of anything; no awareness of itself, no awareness of its prompts, no awareness of its output never had it, never will...you know, like with 7-Up

the whole Bricks & Minifigs situation reminds me of two of the most important rules of life: the first is never do business with any company headquartered in Clearwater, Florida; the second is the same, but with pretty much anywhere in Utah

people like to say baseball is the great american pastime, but i'm pretty sure it's just mistaking wealth for talent and intelligence because we do that a lot like, a lot a lot

wearables are mostly equal parts fitness status symbols and manipulative tech scams their data can sometimes be pretty accurate, but their interpretations are just algorithmic gimmicks to optimize/gamify your life around while keeping you hooked on subscriptions also, biometric surveillance is bad

i can't scientifically prove it with science or anything, but i'm pretty sure Gen X breaks down like this: if your teen angst movie was The Breakfast Club, you're basically Boomer Lite® if it was Pump Up The Volume, you're mostly Millennial (if it was Fast Times, remember to take your pills)

max maxxing to the max

you don't have to care about guitar pedals for this video to be worth a watch; you just have to be concerned about people who use llm chatbots for "research" keep in mind, the entire american public education system is pivoting to llm chatbots for instruction and evaluation what could go wrong?

it’s been a long run, but i finally made it from Chicago to the end of the Santa Monica Pier if anyone needs me, i’ll be on the ferris wheel, eating a hot dog on a stick and maybe a churro

it's kinda wild how adults will do all this hand-wringing about what phones and ipads and tiktok are doing to the minds of children without ever taking a second to realize all these things are having the same effects on their own minds immunity to pernicious tech is an illusion you're not special

after absolutely wrecking my knees last june to the point where i could barely even move for a couple of weeks, then needing a walker to get around the house for the next month or so, i’ve focused on slowly and painfully rebuilding them (as best i can at 51, anyway) from that to my best 5k (so far)