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Beastieball is so dang good.

It didn't even cross my mind at first that this needed to be clarified, but: To hell with anyone doing a direct sponsor spot - that's a choice - but YT midrolls and stuff are all on the platform holder, not individual content creators.
Act accordingly.

If you still follow Alt Natl Parks

Wow, that background looks like a pre-rendered skybox in a PS2 game.

They should at least put a dancing werewolf on the horizon or something.

What an absolute waste of human creativity.

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Cant go wrong with ‘Numerous’.

How many? Who knows, but it definitely means a lot.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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I kinda want to start a ‘pre-2022’ retro review series/podcast, just to maintain my enthusiasm for media without the suspicion that it might have been poisoned by AI.

I PROMISE you it is better for your activist flyer or pamphlet or website to have bad art, rather than AI art.

People correctly see the usage of AI generated art or text as a betrayal of the laborers who the owners of this technology seek to replace.

Are you for the bosses or the workers?

It is an extreme bummer that the guy who provided one of the most adopted creative commons music libraries for the internet is now an AI bro

Consume Me just got delisted in a wave of delistings on itchio. It's a semi-autographical game about disordered eating. It won the grand prize at the most recent IGF awards.

When storefronts start mass bannings, everything is threatened.

Unhinged thumbnail art is the best. I seriously need to dedicate more time to them.

I just wish I could buy ROMs directly from somewhere like Steam. So many romsites are super sketchy, unless things have dramatically changed in the last… 10 years since I emulated a game.

I would be over the moon if this happened more often.

Some games are functionally perfect, and a sequel/prequel/remix with most of the same assets is such a good way to cut down on dev time.

I got into Age of Sigmar a few months ago and its been a massive mood booster. Theres just something special about putting together and painting cool little guys.

Oh and playing the game I guess.

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Great take from @tietuesday.bsky.social about AI being used for "Placeholder art" in video games.

Two games in a steam library: "The King Is Watching" followed by "He Is Coming" - which is just a wild combination of games to release so close together.

My Steam library has become significantly more risque than I expected this weekend.

"WayForward was not involved in any decisions regarding licensing, production, or publication."

Two days later...

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Cowardly stuff!

Two games in a steam library: "The King Is Watching" followed by "He Is Coming" - which is just a wild combination of games to release so close together.

My Steam library has become significantly more risque than I expected this weekend.

Virtual On.

No clue how it would translate, but that game’s aesthetic has lived in my head for decades so Id love to see it elsewhere, and Mecha RPG’s always rule (rare as they are).

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An open playtest until launch.

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I'm glad they have an AI disclaimer, but it really does make it sound like they used AI for everything and then painted it over in the end to make it look "real" while hoping it wouldn't offend people.

Sorry, I know the word has already outstayed its welcome, but I think the main reason I don't like 'friendslop' is because I associate 'slop' with genAI, and I think it's useful to maintain that specific association. Let that be its rightful home, not as a descriptor for low-budget multiplayer games

I want more of these games to have XP, but you can only level up goofy things, like the size of your hat, how much you ragdoll on death, or how fast your characters legs move when running (without increasing your actual speed).

Sounds like they’re being uncritically tribalistic, because Cons have been consistently screaming about Disney for years, thus Disney must be progressive and worth defending.

Which is of course, nonsense. Disney isn’t operating in good faith and only does progressive things because it markets well.

This is quite possibly the best TTRPG bundle I’ve ever seen.

Spire, Wildsea, Apocalypse World, Mazes, Dragonbane, Cipher, Root, and Vaesen are among my favorite TTRPGs ever made. If even 2-3 of those catch your eye then the full bundle is worth picking up.

100%.

There are more games in my library from before AI than I can ever finish in my lifetime, and by the time I run low I would likely be ready to replay many of them anyway.

Not to mention the new games by devs/publishers who are and likely will remain anti-AI (Supergiant, Hooded Horse, etc…)

You could still make your own version pf the idea. People love incremental wizard sims.

Orb of Creation, Arcane Research, & Arcanum are other great examples.

I just have a big pride flag up at all times and most of them leave on their own. The rest usually try to argue with me about it and summarily get the boot.