this thing is stacked

hey it's not just fortnite it's rocket league as well

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun! I'm still about 1300$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Finished God of War Ragnarok and many a tear was shed - such thoughtful reflections on grief, family, and justice the writing was killer and even when it was doing the same expected things they were perfectly executed

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

Apocalypse World is profoundly important work. It has shaped the landscape of roleplaying games for over a decade, and with this third edition, I'm sure it'll continue to shape it for a decade more. Clever, gripping, and human. There's still a few hours to snag your kickstarter copy!

That's a hell of a lot of video games to enjoy over the break! Also, look at the little Clickold @christapaolucci.com drew! She's the best at "lilguyification".

pro tip: make sure you eat more sugar that you normally do before a tattoo

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!

sleeve session #3 is upon us, praise Alvis 🥳

not me saving off PS5 screenshots to show my tattoo artist for the next tattoo while I’m finishing up my first piece

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

I somehow missed that Dan Savage was on Bluesky now. If you missed the memo, consider this your reminder that Dan Savage is a racist transphobe who has allied himself with Jesse Singal (!) and written racist screeds attacking Black people while dismissing the racism of white gays.

If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.

As near as I can tell a bunch of engineers saw how good Claude was at coding, incorrectly said to themselves "coding requires intelligence" and sre now following that out to its illogical conclusion

It is genuinely remarkable that this shit kind of sort of works sometimes, but the use cases people are trying to deploy on this stuff are basically DOA without general reasoning capabilities.

There is a lot of mystification going on in that world, really reminds me of SEO guys. But it basically boils down to: welding together prompts and opening agent sessions and then a ton of infrastructure to try and tell if the random token generator even did the thing that it said it did.

deeply amusing to see one of the most unrepentant AI influencers write a post "stop holding it wrong. don't use it to generate slop. your job is to deliver code you have proven to work." after pretty much daily announcements on how great the slop future is

Crunch makes launch titles unstable messes that require panic patches in the following days to fix. Crunch gains you *nothing*. Delays have *zero* impact on final sales numbers whereas a poor launch can quite literally kill a studio, even one as large as Naughty Dog.

I just kind of have to assume all the Hard Core Gamers (TM) doing soyface about generative AI workflows are going to eat crow in 4 years when projects actually start coming out that jettisoned anyone unwilling to use LLMs and they are worse generic garbage than what they already complain about

the thing about "AI" "agents" is a depressing number of people move through the world as if they are the only real person in it. when they "talk to" these chatbots they don't notice the shallowness because that's as far as they ever plumb anyway. the obvious if:then shadowplay fools them completely

way back in the day I challenged SOE over the definition of overtime (as it was “rote and repetitive” tasks) and lawyers were in my face IMMEDIATELY never been paid overtime or crunch pay in the 18+ years of game dev

omg people thought overtime in video games was actually _paid_ overtime?? 🫠🫠🫠

I think everyone has approximately the same amount of conspiracy energy, and if you don’t dissipate it decoding taylor swift lyrics or debugging linux drivers, it inevitably comes out as beliefs about faked moon landings

i'm gonna be real I did kinda lose faith in games journalism as a force of change when after months of articles about the brutal crunch on red dead redemption two, those same publications turned around and covered the game as a masterpiece, a triumph, a new high water mark for the industry, etc

Horrific - and also looks like substantive escalation

One of the shows that raised me, alongside Golden Girls and The Addams Family

Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the big difference between procgen and "ai" is that procgen is straightforwardly a creative/authoring process like any other, whereas "ai" by its nature precludes both things. but even with procgen you can approach it from a cynical direction and fuck yourself www.joewintergreen.com/an-insult-to...

NEW from me on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: I wasn’t going to write about the Larian AI backlash. Then I woke up at 5:30 this morning with a whole dang blog in my head. How can you know if your workers are “okay” with using genAI tools if you have so much power over them should they push back?

Love this damn show

Just a reminder that makes this confusion even more "fun..." teams at multiple large studios (which will remain unnamed) are rumored to be labeling more classical algorithmic techniques (like anything proc gen) as "AI" to mollify execs/investors' desire to slap that sticker on everything

It’s pretty cool that the entirety of America is at the whim of a dementia-addled pedophile’s tummy.

tfw you receive a data breach notice from a loan provider but it’s a name that absolutely isn’t yours

Speaking as someone who was responsible for hiring actors in 3 big AAA video games, VO is one of the cheapest assets in the game. Gargantuan bang for buck. I think we spent as much on a single character model as we did on all the VO for the whole game.

it’s intensely amusing that a tech journalist, without a shade of self-awareness, is happy to say shit like “it’s [AI] not going to go anywhere so get used to it” like they aren’t gonna be up against the same wall with having their livelihood ripped out from underneath

he did a heckuva job raising these boys

And just like any stepdad that didn’t do a goddamned thing but marry your widow mother and spend the entire next decade being an online shit lord and thinking every thought he’s ever had as perfect and pure and beautiful? Hard pass

Not every AAA game needs to be 80+ hours long and take 7 years to make and sell ten million copies to hit “targets.” We don’t need to keep doing that.

we have a really good dev rel engineer here throwing himself to (i would say) a small number of very loud, hungry wolves because the new ceo did (i would also say) a very weird announcement that sounded like it was written in 2024 by an ai startup

listening to Make Yourself and it’s entirely @jcsalterego.bsky.social fault

With the power of the gym and/or Southern and Nigerian genetics, you can fight BACK!

Imma need more men proving them wrong in the comments, you know, for science 👀

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

We’re at the point now where people are calling being anti-LLMs as “outrage” as a convenient way to characterise it as unreasonable, and it’s annoying. I’m not outraged, I’m repulsed. I don’t want your stolen shit. It’s gross. You are a fucking loser to me

When the subject of artists’ earnings comes up online, a question that often gets raised is ‘Why don’t you just work together to negotiate better rates?’ or ‘Why don’t you just form a union?’ If you don’t work in the arts or a related industry, this is fair question to ask. 1/

psa: when you're moving the goalposts be sure to lift with your knees

i cannot stress enough that you are stone cold crazy if you think the probabilistic output of tokens machine is sentient

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