1. Yes, I know it's janky, I know it probably requires the energy output of a small town to operate but I also know that investors will love the idea and that will mean less money for new projects, more layoffs, more uncertainty, more dread.

I'm looking at Google's Genie right now and, as with most advances with genAI, I see nothing to be excited by, just existential dread.
There is no joy to be had, no craft, no learning, no pride that can be associated with a dependence on a subscription service.
They want to kill games.

I've always liked this one, the cypress trees a great touch.

The other day I was day dreaming about what the landscape around me would look before we built all the crap around us, I imagined how I'd feel about my own home standing incongruous on a primordial Welsh hill.

The plot of idiocracy

It sounds like you're saying that because you want it to be true, not because there's any evidence that it is true.
The creators of Blue Prince have *explicitly stated* that they didn't use AI so either you know their game better than they do or you're lying or they're lying.

Which is it?

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a crowd of people at a awards show . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a crowd of people at a awards show .

Is that Steve Buscemi?

This is often awkward. I've worked on some big games but even with those, the probability of somebody having heard of them is inversely proportional to their connection with the games industry.

There is a gremlin that lives in all windows installations that feeds off the panicked energy generated from specifically that situation where you're in a meeting with a person whose opinion of you can shape your future, desperately trying to figure out why the audio has chosen today to fail.

I'd completely forgotten about this one! I have fond memories of driller (even ran on a spectrum!) and 'Total Eclipse' running on the same engine. Their games had a unique feel.

I'm not sure if/when trumpers will learn that their bloc routinely accuse others of what they do or plan to do.
It's a childish form of rhetoric designed to deflect but it can be quite useful if you want to figure out what they really want.
Pizzagate was an example. Epstein files now, please.

Then they pivoted to AI like every other corporate bastard because the essential *meanness* at its core appealed to them in a way that well crafted VR games never could.
Stick them all on an Elon Musk rocket and fly it into the sun.

Meta didn't listen to game devs, the made a bunch of boring, soulless beige corporate chatrooms because that's what's in their souls and called it a revolution.
Meanwhile, teams like 'Read at Dawn' were creating amazing games like 'Lone Echo' that showed what could be done.

That's exactly what I felt about it - I was genuinely excited by the push for VR - that was nothing but a good thing for the games industry and creative work but they fluffed it by spending billions doing what a game dev team could do in half the time for so much less.

Maybe, I'll see what they come back with.

Facebook just blocked my account, absolutely no idea why.
Is it a crackdown on people who're anti-trump or left-wing? Was I hacked? Can't tell as its all totally locked down. Has anybody else experienced this?

Oh totally, I've had quite enough of Unity's boardroom shenanigans: they've burned through an awful lot of loyalty and goodwill, it makes me wonder if the c-suite there undersands the concepts.
Tim Sweeney is a developer himself and has been there since the start, the difference is obvious.

I think the main thing is having a pressing need to do it - if somebody were to ask (ok, pay) me to do something in Unreal then I'd do a deep dive but so far I've really just tinkered. It's easier than Unity for getting nice visuals quickly though.

I've never got much further than exploring shaders and making test scenes in Unreal. It's on my list of things to learn but that list seems to grow faster than I can learn things.

Is unreal fighting you?

It's a nice thought but the needs of shareholders and the needs of customers and employees are, in the long run, antithetical to each other.

PLCs are a cancerous way to organise collective effort. They've managed to gain legal personhood but if a PLC has a personality, it's that of a psychopath.

I didn't make a ship a day for #shiptember but I enjoyed making these. The more polished ones are blender + krita, the physical media ones are a mixture of pen & ink, marker, gouache and watercolour (consistency wasn't my goal :D) .

It's not a hard message to understand and it's been shared many times but with less gross genAI, which is a tool the few (those who're rich enough to own data centres running plagiaristic genAI) use to disenfranchise the many (talented artists trying to earn a living).

I'm 100% prepared to accept that trump believes in simplistic fairy-tale mysticism involving going to heaven for "being a good boy, the bestest boy ever, everybody's saying it, it's true" as this is much easier for a simple, gasping, narcissistic moron to comprehend than reality.

And if you don`t love the work of it, it`s not the right work for you.
I don`t turn up to a 100m race on a moped and expect to be praised for it.

Yeah, AI is even worse.

At least that would have been painted by humans rather than this plagiarist garbage