Of every country I've been to, Poland is the place where I would least like to fistfight the average man. Every 1 in 4 of them look like they belong in the UFC.

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The greatest grift of AI is hiding the part that is "the mass theft of all creative property" in with everything else it does. I don't think it's reasonable to say "if AI, then bad!" because AI is so poorly defined in the common lexicon and I think that's very much on purpose.

One of the many reasons that the promise of AI won't come true is how many of it's evangelists immediately assume the role of nightmare management, and assume that the people who do a thing, don't really know how to do the thing and they know better.

Chet Faliszek@chetsucks.com · 2w ago

This is just so fucking tiring. An HR guy from a VC company is insisting the UK game companies are short sighted by not having all the concept art they base their games on - be built by AI... Make it like zelda? Or that simple mechanics of iphone games are all there is... So this non-technical guy

One of the many reasons #gamedev is in the mess it's in, that I don't see discussed much, is how much ladder and salary chasing in 2016-2023 destroyed coherent development teams. I saw a lot of people go from solid teams to riskier ones for big pay and title bumps. Many haven't panned out.

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

Yes! But also, if more than X% of a team turns over in less than Y years, they should have to change the name of the company to something new. Too many people diefy what is little more than a corporate entity and a logo. Same rule should apply for bands.

Sam Barlow 🔥@mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 3w ago

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

There is a little girl singing loudly on my u bahn train. That might used to annoy me but she's the only person smiling among all these grim fuckers, so I'm rooting for her now.

It just shouldn't be this…sh-hard…

If you get thrown out of the Toontown Tent, you really, really need to stop and reflect on where your life has gone wrong.

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Here's a bad thing about the state of #gamedev: the industry has been too big to support it's own weight for many years now. Some contraction was inevitable. Here's the worse news: the same people who let it get too big are the ones who decide who stays and who goes.

Do you ever wonder how much of pushing Cloud storage was done knowing they'd eventually steal all your personal shit to train AI?

Here in Calgary I show people this graph and if I get any further guff I ask if they know what a graph is. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #Wildfires #smoke #cdnpoli #abpoli

Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

Christopher Nolan's take AI: "Its like a trojan horse but we know the Greeks are inside!" youtube.com/shorts/ORfFS...

Nolan’s Take On AI #christophernolan #ai #cinema #filmmaking #theodyssey

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Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

@jadelaw.bsky.social Great to meet you last night. Happy to chat about guns anytime!

The hot part of my trip is over. I am now in this place.

After reading about executive salaries firing people to cut costs, I'm curious how they spend that money in ways that affect their quality of life. Unless their only satisfaction is competition and accumulation of wealth, I envy that Italian guy drinking for breakfast more than most C suites.

Game companies: oh now everyone is playing old games instead of new games Also game companies: let's stop selling the means to play games when they're old.

The other day, I was walking down the street in Italy at 11am on a weekday. A modest but stylishly dressed Italian gentleman sat down on a bench, cracked open a beer, lit a cigarette and groaned "ehhhhhh." I think that's what I want my life to be.

I'm very proud of our little videogame, and it's like 12 bucks in the Summer Sale, so allow me to bang on about it once more! 100% Human Made, with an eye watering amount of hand drawn art & animation - If you'd like to support work like this, spread the word! that's one of the best ways to help ❤️

Robust Games@robustgames.bsky.social · last mo.

Loco Motive is 30% off in the Steam Summer Sale - you can grab our award winning adventure for just $12! 🗡️A darkly comedic murder mystery aboard a train 🎨Beautifully animated pixel art 📣Full voice acting! ✅ Verified on Deck 🧠100% Human Made 🔗 s.team/a/1709880

The problem with Italian food in Italy is that you have to eat it in front of Italians.

I wrote a song in 2023 in California when it was really, really hot. Now it's 2026 and I am in Italy but it's really hot again. Recorded by my good friend Dan, here's "Fuck You, Sun." #heatwave #heatdome www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQGy...

Fuck You Sun (Single Version)

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One thing I don't see people talk about much around AI, is what the advertising model looks like, once they've created trust and dependency on the bullshit machine and need to make those trillions back. Remember how you used to google "McDonalds" and it would list McDonalds before Burger King?

What if some birds' mating calls are just as annoying to female birds as they are human but they don't really have any better options?

Bon chance to every poor bastard with a black, company tee shirt in this 35c heat. #annecyfestival

Stop motion #animation is really having a moment with tik tok and Instagram instructional videos. It's cool to see carpenters and mechanics using it to spice up their presentations.

@riggingdojo.bsky.social apparently we were only connected through Twitter but I hear you might be in Annecy this week. Let's meet up if so!

Oh, and I am at #annecy #animation festival! Hit me up if you want to talk animation or hear me rant about what's broken about the video game industry. Ideally, animation. I don't want to talk about AI.

Talking to a TV Animator yesterday about tight deadlines: they have them, they don't move so the scope and quality adjust accordingly. What a novel concept.