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Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.

she's just doing what she was hired to do

Slight tangent, but I can't even imagine being so incurious about every aspect of art or game development or software engineering (or music composition or music production or any of my other interests) that I would just ask a bot to do it for me. I want to know how it works! I want to do it myself.

Thinking today about this sentence: "Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."

Doing your budgets or schedules with a technology that routinely hallucinates is a terrible idea (as is contracts, legal advice, etc.). Doing docs with AI is making the primary source of truth unreliable for the team and creates ambiguity or conflict, and thus also a terrible idea.

actually I changed my mind, I love celebrity boxing matches now. I think everyone I hate should do them, because I'm really enjoying watching the worst people on earth get their shit rocked

They should do a remake of BIG right now and it’s a 13-year-old but he grew up online so he’s just like talking about how Warner Bros. doesn’t understand Batman and Sidney Sweeney is a four

democrats are very capable of fighting to defend their core principals, like 'insider trading'

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

This is awkward, but as of yesterday I'm no longer employed with Nightdive Studios. I'm currently looking for full-time work and would be happy to share more info via DMs. I'm also open to freelance work!

really important video from pmg to the point where even complimenting it feels in its own way like a damning failure because this is a couple independent games journalists covering one of the most sophisticated systems of extermination in the history of humanity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

PSA: Please do not send me or my colleagues your story ideas for the game we're actively working on. Especially do not send us your long, detailed manifesto about what changes we should make and your ideas for improving the story. We can't read it. We won't read it. Don't do it!

The distinctions that generally matter to people ethically are about mass scraping of data on the open internet (something that is strictly required by generative AI, and not even a consideration or possibility with procgen) and the labor/aesthetic/creative side of it (idem).

GDC talk on the professional importance of keeping it in the group chat

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Can't believe I'm doing this again but: I don't believe the "using AI as a placeholder" excuse studios make. Placeholders are supposed to be bright and ugly so you remember to change it later. "Placeholder AI" is being used so that if they don't remember to change it, it's "good enough" to ship.

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

I am still in job-searching hell. If you have any leads in remote work in writing, editing, marketing, publishing, or adjacent, I would be grateful. You would not egret pointing me in the right way

This group has shipped something like 15,000 whistles in the last week or so. Incredible stuff happening here.

Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...

The statement is a lie of omission. "We are not looking to downsize teams via AI" may be technically true but ignores the fact that for you to use AI, there existed some amount of workload to assign that AI which you thought was worth doing, and that's work another seat on your team could have done.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

Folks I emphasize as always, if you don't actually show up for the things you want, they stop getting made. Sometimes you gotta be okay with taking a chance on that 7/10 game knowing it's the only way those creators get to keep making the stuff you wanna see

epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this there are other, better franchises - let this one go

Deeply disappointed to hear that the BBC has pushed out one of the most brilliant presenters in all of science communication for speaking with integrity and honor in support of human rights and dignity.

QA. They face disrespect both within the industry and with audiences, and none of your favourite games would ship without them.

It's Sunday, and while you may be tempted to rest, the Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator markets are OPEN! Go live your best life, even if the babies whose simulated futures won't. Make money off their joy! Make even more money off their misery! store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

Is Google using their shit AI to alter search queries using their auto complete drop-down? Like a dozen times in the last week I select the right thing in the drop-down, see a bunch of slightly wrong results & look at the search bar & see the wrong text.

Do you know a relatively well seasoned Community Manager looking for work? Does this person like shit posting, understands charities, can corporate speak AND has experience in marketing technology? Probably not, but hey I'd take one or two of them? Reach out! I am looking to hire someone soon.

I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.

so uh, announcement time?! got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉 if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀

What are abstract ideas like “being happy” and “having fulfillment” compared to real world achievements like “working full time for a company and still needing food stamps”

The House will have been in session for fewer than 30 days between July 1-December 31 and just had a 53-day recess. He makes $223K/year plus benefits including 75% of all health expenses for his entire family. Affordable Care Act subsidies expire Dec 31st for everyone else’s healthcare coverage.

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

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

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

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Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

So... spells. We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning. And trapping evil cars in circles of salt. The old ways are new again.

I was doing a rough tally. About 25 people already confirmed on BSKY that they want to attend. 5-10 have mentioned to me offline that they're down too. March 7, time TBD, venue TBD (Toronto), cover maybe like $5. Anybody else want to attend? LMK so we can firm up numbers and plan! PASS IT ON

psst, no one is struggling with this - we are trying to create singular things that resonate with a huge audience or resonate hugely with a specific audience. We "struggle" with how tech and VC funding has broken almost every creative economy we have. So thanks but no thanks

Just spent a few minutes after watching this wandering through my house with a sort of dial tone combined with an atonal shriek in my head while my dog followed behind me confused as to why playtime abruptly ended. Sorry bud, had to take a break until The Memories submerged again.

This might be the most realistic portrayal of being an artist working for indecisive directors/leads I've ever seen on tv. Everyone needs to be watching The Chair Company.

Not a big fan of these maximally self-absorbed rich twerps calling themselves journalists tbqh

this is obvious but hades has been out 5 years and no hades but gundam. weak sad low energy industry

h/T to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social who did this and really made me laugh: Olivia Nuzzi bio Mad Libs GO