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Me: I don't see any reason to use AI Slop peddlers: You know how you want to sell books but you hate writing? Me: No, I love writing. The only reason I care about selling books is so I can afford to write instead of getting a real job Slop peddlers: Oh. Well... You know how you hate your kids?

People are like "be careful of that trans woman, she was socialised male so she's dangerous" and then you look at her and see the most timid creature in the world who has never heard "I love you" from someone who didn't hurt her

Why do we persist in making games despite weeks like this one? This:

Great day for people who like bad news

Not so much a "crash" as a "burning and pillaging"

holy shit, do you have any idea how many indie games you could make for negative 80 billion dollars?

I would read the hell out of an article collating historic quotes about the inevitability of NFTs and the metaverse from the current crop of LLM-poisoned boosters. Important context.

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

Take on Me filter in Godot!! Pen-and-ink style compositor effect with real vector polylines. Normal-Driven Hatching and Depth-Based Contours in Godot Compute Shaders. I've had the idea for a while now and decided to try it out. I'm very happy with the result. And it's fast too. #gamedev #godot

can we express the depths of human philosophy through the medium of pushable blocks? i don't know, but we're sure going to try

Trench run in #picotron w procedurally generated greeble textures and props. #indiedev

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

I don't know what can replace it, but it simply can't be the system going forward that people who make things lose income because ten seconds of a two hour video has a copyrighted song in the background, but gAI companies can steal data to make bots to try to replace those same people's jobs

blender particles

people like my parents or people back home often ask me if the reason why the industry is being killed in slow motion is due to AI, and it's a 15 minute long conversation to understand the real reasons why, at the heart of which are: people who own TV don't make TV and don't want to make TV

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

the obliteration of the video games industry has to be one of the biggest destabilizing events to ever hit the neurodivergent population of earth. this was... the job we could do

In Mario Kart Wii, asphalt is slightly shiny, reflecting a band of light ahead of the player. This is implemented cleverly by leveraging something that the Wii is already doing, allowing it to not need to use any sort of additional lighting or post-processing.

📢🚨 FIRST STEAM PLAYTEST! Yes. Come through and play this Friday, 9/18 to Sunday 9/20 on Steam or browser. Wishlists appreciated! 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/3041800/...

Trans people are constantly asked to treat their full and equal rights as human beings as something LESS than absolute, something LESS than a red line. "Oh sure he's bad on the trans stuff but he's good on other policies!" It is obscene.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

Shot - Chaser

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

Adding to the collection

We tried to warn you, we warned everyone

Hey I'm sorry the Michelin star restaurant you worked at laid you off and you're trying to figure out how to pay your bills. Have you thought about opening up your own Cafe? This is a post about the game industry.

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Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

-taps the sign-

The Overton window keeps sliding.

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

I think it's taken me like 20 years to truly internalize why creativity thrives under constraints I used to conflate creativity with some notion of competence and the ability to realize your vision, but creativity is more about being able to find a meaningful artistic path in spite of constraints

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Constraints are horrible soulless things that somehow ironically turn out to be what produces art