The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.
assortment of pokeys
i may be burying the lede here
a hand holding an eight herbs tea box
EIGHT herbs?! in this economy??
If you can't be bothered to ask the Brazilians, the Iranians, the Koreans, the Chileans, the Irish and so so many others, ask the Black Americans on how to fight authority.
you start making a game on a whim in your living room and a couple of years later the vinyl soundtrack is sitting on display in a Japanese record store. crazy
so AI is supposed to revolutionize every single aspect of the reality as we know it, but it's something we shouldn't rely on for anything serious or important cause it's so fucking unreliable, do I get that right my dude ?
I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
A lot of my research into the history of play covers tensions around gambling and play. There’s a real history of people being more concerned about the aesthetic of gambling as “corrupting” compared to the design of it.
Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring
I have said this many times.
There is no ethical way to work in AI while there is no UBI.
Your Livelihood is based on stealing bread from the mouths of others.
Your profession is "poverty creator".
I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time
i know writers who use AI and they're not writers
"Sorry, nothing we can do about schizoid lunatics just tanking your ratings, thanks for 30%" - Steam
Mind you bluesky was shading X on X about adding AI tools 5 months ago
Three panel comic. (SPOILERS for the movie Arrival, but it’s like a decade old at this point so personally I think it’s chill.) Panel 1: the aliens from arrival are communicating in their circle writing language to Amy Adams’ character. Panel 2: Amy Adams is back with the other humans, standing in front of a whiteboard, and frantically trying to explain the meaning of their language, connecting their symbols to words like “WAR”, “HUMAN”, “PURPOSE”, etc. Panel 3: the aliens are hanging out drinking brews and one of them is like, “and then I drew a circle with a bunch of squiggles!” His buddies are cracking up.
Arrival
The gameplay theme is that you will be forced to make important choices with an incomplete understanding of what has happened and what is going to happen and the consequences will feel unpleasant and also this is all of us for all history and will be us forever.
Fan of the idea of game devs releasing a game and then being done with it. Esp true for indies; if you do not want to be shackled to a project indefinitely, you should be given the grace to say "This was fun, I'm gonna do something else" and then leaving your game to vibe on the store or whatever.
Video games don't belong on the stock market. Giving shareholders the right to have a say as co-owners, and granting them the freedom to decide the life and death of a studio in a game based on an unrealistic, capitalist dream, the illusion of constant growth, is negligent and should be prohibited.
Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:
Tim Sweeney on xitter says: “In the coming days, employers will see a stream of resumes of their once in a lifetime quality folks. An important thing to understand is that Epic never lowered our hiring standards as we grew and the layoff wasn’t a performance based rightsizing as companies call it nowadays. It’s a sound bet that anyone with Epic Games on their resume is in the few percent of their discipline.”
I don’t think this is the flex he thinks it is when other companies don’t have any slots left for hiring after he’s fired a thousand people trying to chase Steam. They were your best developers and you still fired them. In this economy.
'Oh you have to accept it' 'you have to get on board it'll be everywhere' 'it's never going away' suck my entire fucking arse! I hope they all lose unfathomable amounts of money! I hope everyone is very embarrassed and ashamed!
very easy and not even really untrue to say "not even Fortnite can make live service work now", but like. Most generational hits don't then try to brute force a new Steam and try suing the entire tech industry. People are losing their jobs in service of insane vanity projects.
*taps the "profit losses are the fault of executive leadership, who are conveniently never affected by profit loss" sign*