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Fun fact! If you ignore the game, then click on the creator, go to their page, and hit the gear and ignore, it blocks them from your feed (some don't have pages). Second fun fact! It only takes ruffly 30 minutes to go through them all! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628...

AI Gaming Festival

Learn how AI being used to games faster than ever, and see some of the games that are being created with the technology.

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Level-5 is dead to me They made some interesting games with cool styles and character designs they are one of the only companies that got to work on a game with Studio Ghibli for christ sake and now all their stuff is just AI shit. I can not support them any more

The thing folks using AI on games don't understand is, they are expressing destructive hatred towards the medium. Congrats, you made the thing make -insert genre here-. You've destroyed its market. That genre is over now. I hope you enjoy recombinations of past ones, cuz, that's all their is now.

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

The UK government refuses to release the register of interests of the Prime Minister's main adviser on AI, depsite her being an ex-OpenAI exec. There is obviously a possibility she owns OpenAI shares, and it is vital the public knows whether or not she does. Why will they not release it?

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I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.

Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.

This is actually so sad to see. If you finish a short game that quickly, and enjoy it, you should not be refunding it just because you can. The developer deserves to earn the money from the sale of this.

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If you're mad about Playstation dropping physical games in 2028, then your best bet is to boycott GTA6. The most expensive AAA game ever drastically underselling due to a lack of a physical disk is the level of message that would be needed to get Sony to change their digital-only plans.

"There's games made for women." Do you mean animal crossing? Because I've seen many men play it. Myself included. Cozy games aren't just made for women, just as competitive games aren't just made for men. The only thing that matters is that you're enjoying the game. Video games are for everyone!

Incredibly sad news that John Blanche has passed away, for so many of us he was an inspiration, a man who literally shaped the spiky contours of our imaginations when exposed to his work at, probably, far too young an age. I’d say that British gaming would be unrecognisable today without him but…

John blanche’s painting of the skeleton horde marching to war

Gravity Circuit is going FREE for the next couple weeks. Legit my favourite platformer of 2023. Grab it. Enjoy it. It's fantastic, and replayable with tons of modifiers and difficulty customization. The Mega Man Zero successor we needed. This is all to promote the sequel, which was just announced.

Save 100% on Gravity Circuit on Steam

Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adven...

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⛏️ ANNOUNCEMENT ⛏️ Carve out your own underground world in Fosoria, a underground colony builder about digging rooms, managing residents, and discovering what lies in the depths. ❤️ RTs are very appreciated ❤️ Steam page can be found in the thread #gamedev #indiegame