WorkingBits but haunted

Oh right. Intro post. WorkingBits builds things on the web, anything from very straightforward static sites on up to complex apps. We exist because there's vanishingly few places anymore where you can actually...build stuff for people?

If any employer ever attempted to “re-interview” me I am pretty certain I would have 100% worked to get fired instead

We should nationalize Steam

oh, you used ai? here's your non participation trophy

AI proponents cling to the idea that the tech is going to enable boundless creativity, but I've seen what it enables; endless spam. It's enabled people without a single ounce of creativity in their bodies to make endless Balatro clones, genuinely no thoughts of their except Balatro but slop.

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

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

I am incandescent with rage because I did not think of this first

I genuinely think those who love video games for what they are and are searching for *somewhere* to call a spade, a spade in this weird era of AI slop, should start looking to @aftermath.site. I'll put it as succinctly as this: giving a shit is a superpower, and they do.

"ai is unavoidable" lmao it's not, you can just hit the bricks

One of the miserable things here is that EA *is* choking. They’ll be dead or as good as before too long. Their only purpose now, saddled with debt and controlled by private equity, is to liquify any substance left into money, leaving only husks behind.

✨Your Daily Reminder✨: We don't have to build technology to surveil and kill. We can build technology that helps us fight for a better future.

I’m old enough to mourn what Electronic Arts used to be, too. Watching that shambling…thing…wear its skin for the last couple decades has been a different kind of sorrow.

Nominations are open for this year's GameMaker awards! There's a new category for best Community Resource... as a completely unrelated reminder we have over 13,000 game assets + GameMaker tutorials and game design articles on our site :) gamemaker.io/en/blog/game...

I played the shit out of BG 1&2, had the back of my head blown off by the reveal in KOTOR, and ate up Mass Effect and the first three DA games. I’m sad about the death of the entity, but the *people* are still out there and still making games

In memory of BioWare, let’s all drag the installer icon for our favorite Mass Effect or Dragon Age game to the recycle bin.

The companies are all in massive debt. The venture capitalists have all over leveraged themselves. Everything you see crowding your vision is their desperation.

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

The All-New Child.

Good outcome: Blue Wave but all the Dems who ran on transphobic platforms wash out Better outcome: Overwhelming Blue Wave and all the Dems who ran on transphobic platforms wash out Best outcome: Ludicrous Blue Wave and all the Dems who ran on transphobic platforms shrivel up into corncobs.

Given that the person who had their game "replicated" is also an AI slopper, is lying about that, and the "replica" was on Steam before their game was: I feel ok using this as a jumping off point for discussing why I don't think this is anywhere near as much of an issue as people are worried about

Here's how to build a wardrobe that lasts 10+ years. 🧵

Feels really great to see people waking up to the calamity that is CoreWeave, even if it is far too late to stop it from hurting the average investor conned into buying it

I really need more journalists to just ask (even if only themselves) “does it though?” when writing up some thing that generative AI models allegedly do. Like, try doing it? Or ask someone you know who can? Most of this shit falls over at the slightest attempt to do something other than the demo

Ravenous for tax purposes

"this isn't the time for purity politics" the white man said whitely

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

The company said the platform, where users can have one-on-one conversations and roleplay with AI characters, became “costly to develop and grow,” in filings to the Delaware District bankruptcy court. ---> by CJ Haddad @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/c...

And with that we have our first dead AI startup

Current discourse about AI “remakes” is still in the “we’ll be cooked in 3-5 years” mode. Like everything else involving fucking gen AI it’s always *about* to be impressive but somehow never actually gets there.

- Fully open source - Free - No Generative AI whatsoever. Godot Asset Store: store.godotengine.org/asset/philip... I want to send huge Thank Yous to all contributors, this release would literally not exist at all without them.

I am assuming that this is more of a Ringu sort of well and not The Well, which presumably has lots of email already and therefore contributes to the problem

“‘No more hand-written code,’ a director told staff.” In a few years, this is going to produce the same kind of “well duh why would you say that?” anecdotes as judging performance by LOC written or bugs fixed.

Wait what?!!?

Ha ha gross!

watching this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=spq0... and he just said an RPG "featured AI images in place of art" and i fucking love that phrasing not "AI art" but "AI images *instead* of art"

I've been way too tired to talk about the bullshit math papers but yeah Bruno did here You can't take any of this at their word at this point, a bunch of these are bullshit, and it takes so much effort to verify that some might be better ignored They're making a mockery of my fucking degree field

Anyways, proofs aren't math problems. The point isn't to get a fucking answer and walk away like homework you phoned in in fucking high school algebra. The PROCESS is the fucking point. How that informs future work. Math is a chapel built by generations of minds standing on eachother's shoulders.

I just want to flag for anyone who listens to me and might be understandably under the Double Fine spell (despite their propaganda show depicting some pretty grim shit) that there's no way this is true. These union efforts don't just happen. Huge amounts of care go into getting these things lined up

Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

pdx alert: there's a video game drag show tomorrow (saturday), perfectly timed with the retro gaming expo. retrowithxo.com