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Matt Farrow

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Unreal Engine game dev (game mode design & code / UI coding / c++ / lua / BPs / mods / &c). 'Solo' game dev on unannounced project. UK & EP patent attorney. Pro photographer for a while (weddings, festivals). Writes bad sci fi. Give ☕ pls.

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What if bleach wall and paint hair

08.08.2025 00:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I suppose if you told it to do its best to turn user input into verb and noun combinations, that might be the most achievable thing. Quite bounded, doesn't require an extensive history. Though probably inconsistent and needs the context and history to make sensible choices.

07.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The good news is that my business is booming. The bad news is that I hired my opponents and now they are blowing it up.

07.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure what happens if I ever stop paying my bills (so will keep local backups going ofc), and next stop will be setting up a build server ... but not just yet.

07.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Getting P4 working took a bit longer, because P4, but now I've successfully done check-ins on desktop and on laptop in various places, and I feel a lot more secure vis a vis having it properly backed up and version controlled.

07.08.2025 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just to update: I got the basic P4 (up to 5 users, yada yada) set up on AWS, following a vid on that by Perforce, and it's looking like around $1 per day for all of the infrastructure costs (running server, HD space, IP address, etc), and I can live with that for now. Wasn't too hard in the end.

07.08.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If I read it correctly, the solution to the AI improvising and then losing the record (context) of the improvisation, they are forcing the AI only to describe places, people and things in the world. So maybe AI can add some bells and whistles to the text, but it is essentially a designed game...

07.08.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'll be interested to see if people familiar with ChatGPT will get their heads round it. Probably not. Glorious failure all the way though!

07.08.2025 15:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for looking into it so we don't have to. I am, as it happens, making a game with text adventure portions. I was asked if I was going to use AI/LLMs for the interpretation, but ... how? Why? For better or worse, I've knocked up a very old school text parser.

07.08.2025 15:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I always have to stop and think when I see bloots like this and double check I wasn't that guy

07.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm more of a Spectembre kinda guy

07.08.2025 14:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I have met people who fully grasped maths and economics, and the two are not mutually exclusive, I would say.

07.08.2025 10:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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07.08.2025 08:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This will tell you my age, but my go-to for this is the Windows character map

07.08.2025 07:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's about to get real pessy in here

07.08.2025 06:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for your patience. May tomorrow bring us better news on the AI front, if not more coffee

07.08.2025 06:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I shut down sexy times, one sexy word at a time

07.08.2025 06:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's a ... three em version? If I could easily type heart emojis on mobile BSky, I'd be all over this...

07.08.2025 06:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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You say that but

07.08.2025 06:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not at all. Agree with you 100%. Sorry for coming across as random angry Internet man. I mean, I am angry, but not at you. In my defence (it is a poor defence) I have not yet had coffee today.

07.08.2025 06:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I am sorry if my post came across as confrontational. Not my intention at all. Just trying to clarify.

07.08.2025 06:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fair, but my point is that if a company or person provided the advice that AI has provided, they would be sued out of existence or in prison by now. AI, and the people pushing it prematurely onto customers, are not held to the same standard.

07.08.2025 06:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm tired of people pretending liability and quality of service is no longer a thing just because some techbro or linkedinwanker said so

07.08.2025 06:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Embrace AI and die > embrace AI or die

07.08.2025 06:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nobody likes a family row, unless it is a family row

06.08.2025 07:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can relate (apart from the sewing). Glwt!

06.08.2025 07:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of life's cruel tricks is that you are not limited to one midlife crisis, I find, but may yours at least remain financially bounded and creatively sensible.

05.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not forgetting that a large part of their business is AI that doesn't work well enough, but which they are desperately pushing out with robotaxis and suchlike, because they, like everyone else, are desperately trying to keep the AI bubble puffed up. They will soon have bigger problems.

05.08.2025 13:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Shame on Osborne Clarke. It is a stain on their reputation.

05.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And you can also get that one weird thing that is only on US Netflix

05.08.2025 07:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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