nathaniel

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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it's pretty simple, you don't need to say you're art; just be art

man in the high castle was not a good show imo but he was fucking outstanding in it

and look I know i rt'ed shadow but

it's so funny that there are both sonic and shadow versions of "media prof who does a ton of theoretical writing on games and also made a successful web based game that largely plays itself"

HmmmMMMmmMMMmmm.... guessing I know who this was lol

f you accept that these platforms represent the totality of the medium you are implicitly allowing them to define the limit of expression

cf punk bands in the 80s making their own venues bc mainstream venues wouldn't let them play. when we talk about art as challenging, what is being challenged?

sorry this is so funny

deaths due to car crashes <--------> deaths due to being hit on the head and your teeth turning into little piano keys

hahahah

lol he's so cute, he's like "when I got it at first my hand was shaking and I couldn't double click the link"

YouTube video by FINAL FANTASY XIV FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XC

man the first raid encounter track has extreme j punk anime op energy!!! youtu.be/5PrMcKUqQU4?...

lol i'm so happy for soken, look at that joy lol

I have found chatGPTs true weakness - it is WRETCHED at explaining the UI of apps

weirdly, chatgpt has been pretty good about generating appscript for me lol

look, even where AI is concerned, I'm a "don't knock it til you tried it guy" but I didn't expect gemini to basically just tell me to get fucked lol

YES, this 100%. the least insightful people in our industry want to push it in places where it has no business because, frankly, it's pretty dumb. but actually... it's honestly great for a bunch of very very dumb stuff that is part of our jobs!

sorry but if you like Marc Antony more than Augustus Caesar you're on one

it's insane to me that execs will see ChatGPT as a tool and instantly think "ah yes this should do NARRATIVE DESIGN" instead of like, the system designer work that you never get around to because it's too stupid for you to spend your time on. it's so good at insanely dumb menial system design work

I will say, the funniest thing is seeing some data that looks incredibly sus and being like "oh chatgpt you are hallucinating again" but no, in fact, it's right and the data is just dumb

I do think it's funny that it will fess up to hallucinating data if you push back. "Oh, yeah, gosh I did that"

like I'd 100% fire chatgpt if it was an employee but it's not zero value

the idea of getting this thing to do creative work is insane. it's actually pretty good at doing the most boring stupid shit you can imagine, tho

chatgpt really just is like the dumbest but most enthusiastic person you've every worked with huh

oh no when I saw they split the team and started a second project… everyone thinks it will work out and it never does lol

as a “gameplay guy” the thing I really really loved about blue prince is that it proved that the roguelike genre is completely divorceable from combat. Extremely nontrivial design insight imo

like on top of everything, their taste in all areas is just so BORING. I can’t imagine living in such a tiny world

you’re 12 years old. ask jeeves just hit the market. and you can search for one thing.

It's December which means it's time to post the generic Hallmark version of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" that the kids are calling "probably not legally actionable"