Save 10% on Subversive Memories on Steam Subversive Memories is a story driven survival horror set in Brazil during the last military dictatorship. Explore the backrooms of an oppressive regime, escape ominous presences and scavenge every co...

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Hey folks, I'm adding Subversive Memories to my curator page, a survival horror game set during the military dictatorship in Brazil, and really stands out thanks to its historical and cultural setting. 👍

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Twitter post of Slava Cherk happily posting his own games art that's been put through an AI image generator to make it simpsons themed while another user named Javi Lopez is praising him for doing so while calling for people to embrace Gen AI

Slava Cherk claiming ChatGPT's image generation is fun while posting a screenshot of his prompts to generate images based on his game stuido "Lazy bear games"

Slava cherk asking for technical help with AI code generation from cursor_AI

Co-founder of Graveyard Keeper dev Lazy Bear Games regularly posts AI art & asks for help with AI gen code

Going as far as feeding his own games art into the slop machine

The game itself is from 2018 so it predates the stuff, but they announced a sequel & I expect it to be full of AI-gen slop

It Sucks to Work in the Video-Game Industry Right Now Even developers who successfully release big hits, like Fortnite and Battlefield, are losing their jobs

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

As a result, these convos are too often framed as “how do we use AI in X domain?” - as though finding use cases for AI were an appropriate role for anyone other than an AI company’s PR department!

The art of Esoteric Ebb:

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We've reached a weird era in human history where we have this web of institutions we call the "tech industry", and they don't produce technology, they produce *business models*.

RE that RT.. it’s wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most.

sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again.

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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder “The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.

Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.

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What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like

"We need to adopt new tech or be left behind" no you don't. Every time when entertainment industries adopt new tech, the successful works that embrace that new tech happen when that tech is old and mature.

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

O Modo Easy matou toda a minha família! Por quê resistem tanto ao modo fácil? Nunca me esquecerei do dia em que cheguei em casa depois do trabalho e o Modo Easy havia raptado e matado toda a minha família. Ele destruiu minha vida.Dos mesmos criadores de "Jogo é arte?" e "Pode t...

A única pessoa que pode falar sobre "MODO EASY" nos jogos sem desencadear a timeline das redes é a @scienza.bsky.social 🎮

Texto GOXTOSO colocando thr00 g4m3r 🔥 no seu devido lugar

🔄 Leia e compartilhe 🙏

www.controlesvoadores.com.br/post/modo-easy

#jogobr #indiebr #gamedev #indiegames #silksong

Horizon Chase representando! 🏁🏎️

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Good god, I have never watched a single Pirate Software video in my life, nor any videos about the guy, and yet there is at least one video about him in EVERY SINGLE YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATIONS LIST now.

Clearly farming 'lolcows' is lucrative. Also ethically fucked and you should just leave people be.

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
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Reflecting on the "stop killing games" conversation. I think folks don't realize that the petition is bigger than what fans want . Fans want a right to repair and for volunteers to be able to tinker and reverse engineer.

But the petition wants developers to alter how they make games

I Asked Panic About GenAI in Playdate Season 2 - exp. Here’s what they said.

For some reason no one else was going to do this, so I did a journalism. I asked @panic.com About GenAI in @play.date S2 after @brandon.insertcredit.com raised that Wheelsprung used it. Here's what they said:

Regardless of how you feel about AI, I'd strongly advise you don't do this. This is going to sabotage you in the long run.

Game funding is in a drought, yes, but not because good games aren’t out there.
It’s that no one with money wants to fund something that isn’t already a success in disguise.
That’s not investment, or partnership- it’s financialization of art.

Video-Game Companies Have an AI Problem: Players Don’t Want It Publishers like EA and Take-Two are warning shareholders about the potential “reputational” risks of AI

In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Dad's Coming to Nintendo Switch!!!
It launches on May 22nd, prepare to play it in any house, or even outside the house! Will Dad arrive there too?
#gamelaunch #nintendoswitch #indiegame #pixelart #indiebr #jogobr #gamedev #indiegames

Title card slide: "20 magic tricks for developers"

So this was a talk about magic tricks. Things that anyone, at any scale of development, could do to make their work more special. It's also a bit of a manifesto, it's kinda funny how much of this I ended up applying to TRON: Catalyst, which we started on a couple years after I wrote this.

‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: what it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its developers

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galera trata desenhar como se fosse um superpoder. isso é sua frustração falando. quando você tinha 6 anos, você gostava de desenhar. eu também. mas você parou de desenhar. e eu não. essa é a única diferença entre nós. e você pode voltar a desenhar. vem comigo. o lápis e o papel estão te esperando.

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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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