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Literally everything the principals involved here say is just word salad nonsense that doesn't even approach meaning enough to be a lie, but it's also worth noting that the game given up as an example of this tech has 500k downloads on the Android app store. www.ft.com/content/9b1b...

Eddington and Pipe Rock theory are the two most prescient cultural works of 2025 that I think are just like clear Rosetta Stones for understanding this era of internet/social media www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...

Congress of 1910:

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

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

Shout out to the videogame CEOs seeing their peers press the Get-Yelled-At button, and going "hell yeah I want to get yelled at". Really smart, definitely shows you couldn't replace these guys with a Magic 8 Ball.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

‘everyone in gamedev is using AI’ the business dumdums are using it to generate decks and write bad copy. They think it’s good because they think their basic lore ideas make a good game. that’s it that’s who is using AI

Impossible to even describe how many versions of this he could do. He could be the patron saint of the entire world. Instead, they'll have to bury him in a secure location because of how many people will try to piss on his grave.

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

Consider making 2026 the Year of the Personal Website. Even a little thing on Neocities works. It’s just nice to have a home base on the internet that you don’t have to deal with bsky mods are random popping into every post and if something goes wrong with your host, you just move it elsewhere

The sentiment of "soon as you humanize the faceless monsters, it ceases to be a fantasy adventure" is so incredible for a game that pulls from PRINCESS MONONOKE.

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

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Top comment on Reddit sums up Larian head's defense of "additive Generative AI" incredibly well

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

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I've been trying to at least partially see Pluribus' "slow pacing" that people have been whining about, and I just can't see it. Stuff has been happening, consistently! More than that, almost each episode has been reacting to Carol's actions in the previous!

Larian trying to find a way to make a game bigger than Baldurs Gate 3 not only in scope but complexity but also expecting cutting 40% to 50% of development time to finish and using gen ai expecting its going to help while admiting its kinda useless is peak capitalism in game development.

So the guy himself is saying they arent really even seeing productivity gains? He said they are just using AI because they are afraid of being left behind. He is inviting this public scorn by repeating techbro talking points for no benefit at all. The mind of a CEO is fascinating.

If Marvel isn't actively trying to court Coogler for Blade, and possibly featuring him in Black Panther 3, what are they even doing?

If who follow me should know how I feel about real world reference and well if you use ai for your researching your not getting new ideas from the world your simply regurgitating a small fraction of the Internet that’s in the data sets and only the most common stuff. You make dull shit as a result

the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting

Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.

it's all bad but it's disgusting to imply that using genAI for concept art is comparable to placeholder text

I don't know why the idea of developing concept art with AI is somehow meant to convince us that AI isn't replacing creative professions, when concept art is one of the single most creative and imaginative parts of the entire development process.

No words for a studio using AI for concept art/ideas. Literally your bedrock, and you're going to use generic slop for it?

TLJ suffers from the same ills as the other two films; copying the OT's plot, all the interesting stuff happened off screen, nothing changes at the end. Wish Rian was given his own thing outside of this trilogy, or was given full rein of the trilogy itself. Either would've been better.

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Can't shake a recent Marvel Rivals match. After the team won a big fight, a guy who sounded exactly like Jesse Plemons said "Wow, that was a great fight, good job everyone".

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.

Just found out there are people who think Pluribus is "slow", this is like when I found out people thought Andor was slow.

Was over the moon to be able to write a story for this!

Peak's dynamic/moving sunlight that BURNS YOU utterly shocked me. I don't think I've ever seen that in a game!

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rolling in my head the kind of leaps from info that could lead people to believing something like this would work and landing on "disney has seen the insane numbers on youtube frozen family stuff and believes those numbers are from actual interest and not autoplay from parents keeping kids busy"

The fact that you can have 6 billion dollars and not be aware of the existence of other countries is a good argument in favour of the government confiscating 6 billion dollars from you

1. Yeah and how do you think Disney is gonna feel about the first, tenth and a hundredth “Mickey assault” video? 2. Making people use Sora more is not a good thing for OpenAI’s ability to continue 3. This starts sometime in 2026 and lots will happen before then bsky.app/profile/nume...

I have always pronounced Samus Aran's last name as "Err-Awn", because Samus Aaron is the most un-scifi name that doesn't even roll off the tongue. You can have a regular name in SciFi like Luke or Paul, but you have to follow it up with a weirder name. You can't be Luke Paul.

Great way to deal with this, imo. What is funny though, is that New Vegas has a very similar plot to Daggerfall; find the ultimate MacGuffin and play kingmaker. All endings of Daggerfall were canonized with the idea of a magic "warp in the west".

All that work, for something that was still clearly AI (and looked like shit). The future!

The complete collapse of Mythic Games should be framed as a cautionary tale against treating crowdfunding as a reliable business model. Instead, people will likely blame COVID-era greed. And like, yeah. That's part of it, but do not be tempted by the easy scapegoat.

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Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI" woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...