This is an excellent analysis of the entire shitshow this week. The Far-Right have successfully showcased that they can trick the Irish down a path we shouldn’t walk. Not only that, it’s fractured the left. I don’t trust Paul Murphy or PBP after this, the less said about Sinn Féin, the better.

"I asked Grok and..." Well I prayed to Gork and 'e said to hit 'im wiv a rock WAAAAAAAGHHHHH!!!!

This makes me actually interested in Thick as Thieves. (The PvPvE concept didn't really appeal to me at all.)

lunch break! #pixelart

In any reasonable world, patenting medicine would be illegal, and medical research would be done for the common good.

We don't want AI on Bluesky at all. We don't want AI anywhere. It's an evil technology with a massive list of negatives (massive bias, user manipulation, theft of all art, massive power usage, rising costs of hardware), and no positive ones. Stop trying to force this garbage on everyone.

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Does anyone know of a handy place where I could move the git repository (and release packages) for the Thief Enhancement Pack? Looking to move it away from GitHub, but it's huge (the current files are 3GB), so smaller Git hosting like CodeFloe isn't really suitable here.

The source code and official releases of NVScript, my object script module for Thief / Thief 2 / System Shock 2, have now moved to CodeFloe. codefloe.com/NamelessVoic...

So, GitHub just opted everyone in to letting them steal your code to train AI models. Honestly, I had expected them to do this and was in the process of migrating all my repos away from GitHub anyway. Time to get a move on with that.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

I'm now going to try the Spectra demo!

Once again, the point of placeholder is to be replaced and thus easy to identify. If you're using machineslop to get "as close as possible" - that's not "placeholder", that's either being incredibly ignorant or being a liar hoping to get away with it. There's really no third option.

I finally got my RX 9070 XT back from RMA, after its fan enclosure suffered a critical failure back in January. Time to play some modern games again!

Something I haven't seen anyone mention about the whole DLSS5 fiasco yet is - wouldn't it be inconsistent between scenes? I could easily imagine it completely changing the appearance of a character each time you look at them, especially if they are in different scenes/lighting.

Saint Patrick's Day, celebrating a man who supposedly drove the snakes out of Ireland. We can easily see that this is a myth by just looking at our politicians.

I had the honour of being asked to illustrate the marketing piece for this amazing Steam event coming up for Paddy's day presented by IMIRT - The Irish Game Makers Association. Games from Ireland!

Remember how we once assumed state-corporate media reported the truth rather twisted our minds with fake news to fit with their state-corporate interests. How's that going after Iraq, Libya, Corbyn/Starmer, Ukraine, Gaza and now Iran? Is the picture not clear yet?

Working on an #UnrealEngine project and looking to easily add save and load, without having to set everything up yourself? My Save/Load plugin is currently on sale on Fab for 30% off (~$26). www.fab.com/listings/75b...

The US pedophile regime and its allies will condescendingly school the world on Iran's regime oppressing women, and then bomb a girls elementary school killing more than 50 children. Of course, never mind that Iran has the 3rd largest oil reserve, after Venezuela.

Israel and the USA have just tried to start WW3. Remember that any news source that doesn't call this a barbaric, unprovoked attack is lying to you, and you should stop getting any news from it immediately. Any politician who doesn't condemn it is an evil monster and you should never vote for them

@rte.ie are complicit in genocide, and holding them to account for their crimes will be high on my list of demands for the upcoming election.

Ahoy! Rise of Piracy is NOW Available on STEAM in Early Access! We've surpassed my wildest expectations already & I do hope you enjoy playing the game I look forward to bringing the game to v1.0 with your feedback Thank you all! John #newreleases #steamgame #gaming #indiedev

After making ⤵️💾🔌, I'm taking a break from 🕵️🕋👨‍💻➡️💵 to play around with a prototype of 🧌🗡️🥷📹.

I've created a filter list to block AI content (such as AI summaries and AI assistants) from various webpages. Compatible with uBlock Origin and other ad blockers that use the same list format. It's very small right now, but it's available here: codefloe.com/NamelessVoic...

I recently finished reading the entirety of The Horus Heresy - 67 books which I started reading with a Warhammer Humble Book Bundle back in 2017. It took me almost nine years! Those books really were a mix. Some parts were very good, many were okay, some were bad - sometimes all in the same book.

A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.

Discord's ID requirement is part of a larger push by governments in the West to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of information. Pretending that it's to protect children is just a convenient excuse to enact draconian measures that wouldn't be accepted any other way. 🧵

It's so wild that we live in a world where the response to "teenagers don't like genocide" is politicians pushing "let's stop teenagers from using the internet" so hard that Discord has opted to shoot its own foot off www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

Does anyone know a good alternative to Discord? Sounds like they're intent on destroying the platform. Mandatory censorship and privacy invasion, in the name of "protecting children".

A reminder that if you notice that your main source of news has lied to you, or kept important news from you, then there are a hundred instances where they did the same thing and you didn't notice. Don't think they're just bad on one issue but reliable on others - find more trustworthy sources.

I made a very short horror game as part of the Galway Global Game Jam site. You play a small child who has awoken from a nightmare and has to make it to their mother's room at the far end of a long and scary corridor, armed only with... well, your arm.

Depressing that @gog.com, long positioning itself as a more ethical storefront, is now sinking to using generative AI. Generative AI is inherently unethical and entirely based on theft. You are alienating your customers for no good reason. No one asked for AI art.

I see a lot of people talking about moving to UpScrolled, and I still can't see the point of a platform that doesn't have a web version. I can't even understand why someone would develop such a thing app-first, when browser versions work across all platforms.

Ooh, LXR - a light-level detection system for Unreal - is currently free on Fab. I'll definitely have to check that out. It's a particularly complicated problem to solve, and I've never been happy with my own implementations. www.fab.com/listings/5ac...

Today I discovered that someone has recently made a huge fan patch for Evil Islands, my favourite forgotten gem of a game from 2001. Fixes bugs, updates textures, and makes it not instantly crash if I try to run it in 4K. Link to the mod: www.nexusmods.com/evilislandsc...

Sign! For ECIs to be considered by the European Commission, each country must meet its threshold, for Ireland that's 10,080. We are currently at just under 6,000, approx 58%, so we need a big push! Belgium, Finland, France and Spain are there, let's get there too! eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results https://voteyesornoai.com

Been playing a strategy game called Driftland, mostly because it sounded a bit like Majesty (it isn't really.) But it's set on a world shattered by magic, which is honestly a cool and underused setting. You can even magically drag chunks of the shattered world around to build on them.

I wonder if the real reason I'm called Nameless is because I'm really bad at coming up with names.

Last week, I opened my PC's case and discovered that my Radeon 9070 XT had torn itself apart. The entire fan enclosure had dropped off the bottom of the card and fallen down. Looks like the plastic pillars that held the screws were too weak. I'm back using my old GTX 1080 for the moment.

I made a system for physics object impact and scraping sounds. Working with the collision impact events in #UnrealEngine is annoying, it generates huge numbers of hit events that I needed to filter. (Video has sound.)

Hello #portfolioday! I paint fantasy worlds and Thief fan art. Follow for moody worlds, sneaky rogues, and lots of atmosphere. 🔗: www.instagram.com/pandemoniuma... 🔗: www.pandemoniumart.net

Good on Games Workshop for taking this stance!

The Steam game "Hardest" is being deleted, after the developer's girlfriend made them realise that its AI assets are "a disgrace to all game makers and players". (Hardest store page)

If you live in a country where the vast majority of people support a certain stance on an issue, but the government take an entirely difference stance - then you are not living in a real democracy. It's that simple.

Hey @discord.com, if you already know these answers, are you just like, evil? Or what?

I really wish there was an alternative to @firefox.com and their push for AI garbage no one wants. Ladybird Browser can't come fast enough.

"No fucking AI assets" - a reminder that many good publishers that will disqualify any prototype with genAI placeholders, and that using it is at your own peril. Hooded Horse happens to be one of the best publishers out there at the moment, so this is a big one. kotaku.com/hooded-horse...