Rob Bantin 🇸🇪🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

There it is

*Me staring at shiny things and remembering that I just bought a new oven*

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Amazing games, and so perfect on SteamDeck I bet.

Damn. I should have done that with John Linneman when talking about Star Wars Outlaws on Switch2. I take it everyone else reading the thread also honors the wink-wink suffix?

YouTube video by FXpansion In The Studio with Dom Beken and BFD2

True story. Pixeljunk used several VST instruments I took part in developing, and really got me thinking again about being an audio programmer in games.

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Is a spiked pink leather dog collar too much for a work Xmas party? Asking for a friend.

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I’ve many args against the way gen AI is being positioned and marketed (I am OK with ML in general). My favorite is to ask where the process is when using these “tools”. All products (even art) come from process, and with that there are artifacts you can iterate on. Why do some clients not see that?

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.

Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

All these modern web technologies sound like something fun people do for sexual gratification. I presume it’s because these devs don’t get out much and have pornhub blocked in their browsers. You can’t tell me someone thought “Docker” was a good name after a basic google search.

I hope the emissions afterwards are as low as they say 😝

Photoooos

What is the point of Pinterest really? If I touch anything I set off a bunch of boobytraps that send bots after me. Not even high tech LLM bots. Cheap scripted ones. If you’re going talk me into something, try a bit harder than Elisa here.

Mad scramble panic with loose change. Quick - form an orderly queue. No no mate you were after me.

JFC I remember being given one of those when I stayed at my friend’s grandma’s house for the weekend. Just the two of us. I recall thinking my real grandmothers needed to raise their game after that.

Data centers truly are the tulip bulbs of our time

My buddy at work has reverse engineered the prompt that gets Copilot to recommend changing the name of Perforce’s “Swarm” to “P4 Code Review.” Now, we aren’t saying that’s definitely what happened, but… No smoke without fire… 😝

Greed. That’s why we can’t have nice things.

Legit - I once opened a support ticket about the Error List reporting errors that didn’t exist in the output window, and the support engineer at MS advised me to ignore the Error List window entirely.

Visual Studio’s “Error List” is the cockroach of multiform application windows isn’t it? Does it help me? No. Do I want it? Also no. Can I kill it? Only briefly, and then it pops right back up again. I even rearranged my aggregated layout to not have it, and it found a way to reappear in a new slot.

It’s p4v and I only have my shelf from Friday. #horrormoviedrama

Yes, but it’s p4v. #thehorrormovietwist

The year is 2025. You’ve accidentally performed a “Replace All” with blank instead of a “Find All”. Due to a bug in the IDE there was no Undo step recorded. #horrorstory #gamedev

Is they the prologue to For Your Eyes Only?

I’m calling it. “Casual Breakthrough” is the only true hardcore mode in BF6. Only your deaths count towards your stats, not your kills. Who are these pussies with a K/D above 1.0? Show me how well you play when your kills mean nothing. Only objectives matter!

Splash Damage places entire studio into consultation ahead of redundancies Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley-based studio, which will conclude…

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YouTube are never going to fix their volume control to make it sound natural are they?

YEAHYEAhYEAhYeah *gone*

For reasons that I suspect are stress related, every time I do a GDC talk I gain 20-22kg in the run up to it, then lose the weight afterwards.

At some point I hope to not look so fat when being recorded for posterity. It’s jarring. #gamedev

Same goes for kids that are told they “aren’t technical”. 😉

It’s been nearly a day since my digital audition and I’ve got not response from Taika or his “people”. Frankly, I’m disappointed.