sol (extra spiders, seasonal)

sol (extra spiders, seasonal)

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web dev, game dev, obligate parasite making games about bugs but very slowly he/him ⚠️ THIS IS A MOIETY RESPECT ZONE - PRO-GEHN D’NI ⚠️

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It’s odd to me to see people taking anthropic’s risk factors in its public disclosures at face value, when they’re written like the rest of anthropic’s doomerism—that is to say, highlighting how powerful and inevitable this technology is, and how crucial it is that only they be allowed to control it

“It could contribute to wealth inequality” would almost seem like the exception if it wasn’t understood by investors to mean that they could be richer than the rest of the plebs

I just saw someone saying that as anti-ai sentiment is an Elitist view, which lmao, but also a specifically American one; which ????? I know accusing someone of being a bot is pretty overdone but if you’re pro-ai why wouldn’t you outsource being an annoying little noodle to the machine too

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flashback to the time my friend was really excited about Walton Goggins being in the fallout show and I didn’t remember who Walton Goggins was so I thought Walton Goggins was just a character from the fallout games that was well beloved

make like the weird hazardous medical waste you are and get in the fucking BIN

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

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What I wrote about Gavin Newsom a year ago is never more applicable to several Democrats today. I foresaw this coming, and I continue to hold this true.

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found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

ive seen a few people say that they think using AI for code is less bad than using it for art, and like, there’s a part of me that sees it! code is supposed to be a series of outputs that work or don’t. deterministic, functional. I think it misses a lot of points, though.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

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So yeah idk I get the surface level “well I’ll boycott a game that uses it for art but not code”. But if you draw a line that includes some uses of genai but not others then sooner or later, one way or another, you’re gonna be moving that line.

ive seen a few people say that they think using AI for code is less bad than using it for art, and like, there’s a part of me that sees it! code is supposed to be a series of outputs that work or don’t. deterministic, functional. I think it misses a lot of points, though.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

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But what makes me *despair* is when I feel like, despite that, nobody else cares enough to ask whether racing to replace ourselves with chatbots is doing ANY good, for us or our users. I can’t be the cynical curmudgeon and also the guy who wants the product he bags on to be held to a higher standard

ive seen a few people say that they think using AI for code is less bad than using it for art, and like, there’s a part of me that sees it! code is supposed to be a series of outputs that work or don’t. deterministic, functional. I think it misses a lot of points, though.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

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But even setting that aside something Chris gets at great in this article is that programming, like most crafts, is social. It depends on communication and collaboration and there’s none to be had with people who don’t respect the skills enough to learn them.

Vibe coding replaces the human networks and human knowledge with an LLM scanning the entire system every time it needs to do something; it atomizes us when we desperately need to be social, when technology in specific desperately needs us to be social

ive seen a few people say that they think using AI for code is less bad than using it for art, and like, there’s a part of me that sees it! code is supposed to be a series of outputs that work or don’t. deterministic, functional. I think it misses a lot of points, though.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

First; as in any creative endeavors, the output is rarely exactly a spec. It’s a series of decisions you make consciously that shape the output. Maybe that means subtle differences in the product, maybe it means more maintainable codebases that result in fewer regressions.

The best programmers I know, in addition to knowing code fundamentals, know their domains. When they’re discussing a technical solution they say “ok but that breaks this niche business case that lives in a related repo”. the craft isn’t ones and zeros it’s turning them into a *thing* that is *used*

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See now we're fucking talking One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes: *No AI or No Convention* Conventions are made by and for the community

dexerto.comFighting game legend SonicFox pulls out of gaming event over AI-generated art - DexertoThe competitor was advertised as a special guest at Nexcon 2026, taking place November 14–15 in Norman, Oklahoma.

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All filmmaking is unethical. those people could've been doctors

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One thing that's really Getting me today: Bioware being shuttered hurts, but it should hurt worse. We shouldn't be as numbed to venerable, beloved studios being torched for no reason by business idiots as we are. This deserves to be all anyone talks about for weeks, not forgotten in a day

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it really does feel like they just got away with unprecedented amount of theft of expertise, and are now profiting off of it while replacing the professional opportunities for the very crafts and humans it trained on I never thought I would see the concept of expertise get so devalued

Why are these people switching sides unwilling to tell pollsters but happy to gossip with concern trolls

Philip Bump@pbump.com

This is functionally equivalent to the CBS exec who hollered at the reporter about how much better she knew Mideast politics.

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"This work of fiction was designed, developed and produced by a multicultural team of various cultures, faiths, sexualities, and dental plan eligibilities."

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

I feel every time anyone writes "developed with a core team of XX" about a game, they have a responsibility to write "developed by YY developers with only XX developers being employed"

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i love when video games have a complex moral choice system like you get all the way to the end of the game doing basically the same thing but then it asks you if you want to be good or evil and then if you pick evil it shows you a sad scene and if you pick good it shows you a happy scene

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I hate this learned helplessness shit I hate the aggressive insistence that learning things is impossible

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"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

eternal darkness gets remembered for its fourth wall-breaking sanity gimmick, which admittedly is a lot of fun, but I think the real ingenuity is the narrative structure

6th Gen Bliss@6thgenbliss.bsky.social

Eternal Darkness, GameCube Silicon Knights, 2002 Re-post because I accidentally deleted the original >_> Anyway, Eternal Darkness is great. Deserves a remaster, or at least a re-release on Switch.

Not only does it let you settle into its locations over centuries, it cleanly escapes the horror game trap where you can’t ever die for real since most protagonists need to be there the whole game. Instead eternal darkness’s player characters only have a shelf life of the current chapter and then!!