There is literally no reason to be mad at E33. None. You are out of your god damn mind and missing the entire point of why this shit is bad if you seriously want to devalue and condemn an entire human made work of art because they tried GenAi when it was new and hated it for the same reasons you do.

Yeah new Expedition 33 interview was out. The generated texture was just part of them experimenting with GenAI when it was brand new years ago when they were first starting working on the game. They didn’t like it, said “it felt wrong”, stopped using it, and a single texture from that got missed.

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

Clover's Quadrants has a trailer! If you've wanted to get a better idea of how the game actually plays, this video should help.

in Team Fortress 2's second trailer, during the segment where the soldiers are rocket jumping you can see a giant window in the sky in one of the shots for some reason.

shark tank 🦈🦈🦈✨️ #art #sharks

a lesson i want everyone to cement in their minds in 2026: Read your friend's fanfiction. Read your friend's poetry. Listen to your friend's music. It doesn't matter if you don't like it. Take the time to ingest it and find something to compliment. It'll make their MONTH.

The "AI" bubble is gonna burst and everyone's gonna act like they never were into this shit, but keep tabs on who was, because most of them are useless and destructive AI or no AI. You don't wanna work with em

Wow, kinda wild how most of Doom 2's city maps were made by Hatsune Miku. Of course Petersen is so brain-poisoned that he's (at least in part) subscribing to the 'arts grants are sinister liberal indoctrination' conspiracies.

i think scene composition is an important skill that a lot of level designers lack

being disabled fucking sucks. not just because I'm disabled but mostly because of the way society at large treats me and others like me. I'm tired of it

to this day i still find myself doing the silly dance from lethal company

That… seems pretty worth paying attention to.

still looking for level design work! I can work in Unreal, Unity, and probably whatever in-house engine you'll throw at me. I have worked on DLC for Sniper Elite 5, various community mod projects, and custom maps for TF2 and Half-Life 2. portfolio ➡️ iibo.games

This also applies to cartoons and comics and basically everything. It doesn’t matter if you have a concept of something already out there. If you love it, do it. Your work will have your unique mark on it by virtue of being made by YOU. (Also two cakes.)

“AI is inevitable” yeah so is dying, bro. Go create something with the time you have left here

How did we get here man. Fuck off

Rimworld fails to disappoint: i just got attacked by 30-50 bluebirds all infected with the game's equivalent of rabies

1978 JVC Video Capsule 3100R

mane 6 (redraw) ✨ #mlp #mylittlepony

Geoff made love to Miss Piggy.

I don’t spend a lot of time on Reddit these days but the half life forum doing the “US goes to war” thing for a possible HL3 announcement is killing me

every game looks the same these days

this is what an actual horse looks like

Rimworld? more like GRIMworld with how much my colonists keep dying 💀

hopefully 2026 has some good surprises for me

hi. yeah sorry to call you so early in the morning. just letting you know that you're going to die later today. yeah its a story about moral failings and reaping what you sow. we'll publish it in a fairy tale collection later. yeah your name will be changed to something like saint propheteer. sorry.

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Through many years of iteration and no regulations, we managed to distill the perfect sensory stimulation designs that are literally just Fisher Price toys for susceptible adults except every time you hit a button it charges your credit card. There's not even a game in there anymore.

i should learn how to do high poly -> low poly modeling

i feel like one of the last people on earth who still scrobbles

Oh shit waddup

rimworld is lots of fun

oh Windhawk is amazing

will games layoffs ever actually stop or are we just in a perpetual freefall?

thing which drives me mad me in tf2: when you uber in and whoever you're ubering just has no idea what a sentry gun is and is way more interested in destroying dispensers and killing enemies which pose no threat at that moment

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

HEALTH be like (synths) (guitar) (bass) When you're sad... You always are... (drop) (video of Rei Ayanami fighting Hank Hill in the background)

in a world where some software can install updates automagically, why is there ever a situation where a piece of software sends me to a website and expects me to download and run a new installer to update instead?

oh jeez it's gonna be my birthday in a few weeks. did not think I'd make it this far.

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads): mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...

game design 101

my toxic trait is that i think "ps1 aesthetic" is both overrated and largely misrepresented

In honour of everyone thinking Half-Life 3 might be about to be announced (lmao), and me being the biggest worst/best Half-Life sicko, here I exclusively reveal to you the identity of the Gman

Unions ain't busted. Our campaign against @rockstargames.com continues - reinstate your workers now!

Tonight.

First Half Life, 3 Screenshots