martin pichlmair

One of the massif of hills I'm planning to die on is that two party systems are proto-democratic. To fully form a state that represents everyone appropriately you need a majority system. Some progressive countries might still get there through reforms.

This pretty much sums it all up.

Easing Functions Cheat Sheet Easing functions specify the speed of animation to make the movement more natural. Real objects don’t just move at a constant speed, and do not start and stop in an instant. This page helps you choose...

I posted a game dev cheatsheet yesterday and here's another important one. easings.net

I’m not talking about their actual role in (US) culture. I’m talking about what an average person here in Denmark, where I live, would say if asked.

I’m not talking about their actual role in (US) culture. I’m talking about what an average person here in Denmark, where I live, would say if asked.

Yes that is a real issue. It exacerbates existing challenges of how facts can be communicated.

I’ve got no doubt about that

Maybe creativity has finally been unleashed? (You do recognise sarcasm, I hope). Art just doesn’t sell well to military I guess. They found more interesting targets than the starving creative class.

Hard to tell but I guess it went viral for a reason. Struck some nerve. Personally I find e.g. most pop music neither funny nor interesting nor relevant to me - says little about how others see it 🤷‍♂️

Also upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

This will break all threading but: what if it’s just a little bit boring that all the glitches have been ironed out? Or maybe generic GenAI even was always boring?

Your photos are literally capturing moments of reality. That is not the case when carving a slice out of a lossy compressed mess. They are references to references at best. Making them is the magic moment, not experiencing the result.

Yeah I think they are ephemeral slop and their value is only in the dopamine hit. What’s new is that this extreme accessibility destroys the value of the artefact. But what if seeing them as objects is the mistake?

Without that manual effort, far bigger than what’s needs to do the same by hand, there would be no value.

Ok now I get it. You’re saying something different than Paolo. Yeah I’d print that sentence from many years ago (and did so with one other from a Baudelaire-tuned GPT2). But those were carefully handcrafted (I.e. finetuned after a lot of text wrangling) models, not just simple prompts.

That 99% of photos only have value to the people on the image and the person taking it doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to make art with photography. Most writing is maybe emails & todo lists. I could argue both of these media are statistically unlikely to produce art…

All the cheap slop clogs the channels but people will make (conceptually) interesting stuff. There’s a lot of potential for critical practices in having a biased faulty database. Not gonna go big because the tech is better when exposing its limits, that’s sure.

I love a specific line that a fine-tuned GPT-2 wrote in ~2021. But also I’m pretty sure 5 years in, painting wasn’t delivering many Taylor Swift level hits yet either. I don’t want to be the guy defending that technology but I think this is a strange line of argumentation.

I think people outside games don’t recognise much cultural impact of that medium. Just as an example of another medium one could complain about not delivering bangers in wider culture. Not that I expected it from any of the two.

I get you and share the sentiment but people outside games would say exactly the same about video games don’t you think?

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Needless to say most money in that fund is coming from dirty sectors like oil and mining. But it's being invested in all kinds of other sectors so I guess that's better than using it to drill even more.

People being surprised about the Saudi investment fund that bought shares of EA should take a glance at this list of the biggest sovereign wealth funds – a brand you have feelings about might already be owned by a state you have different feelings about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Interface In Game | Collection of video games UI | Screenshots and videos Explore a collection of video games UI interfaces, screenshots and videos. This creative tool is for video games lovers and game designers to get inspiration and help the creative process.

I think building on a solid foundation of conventions allows you to be radically new where it counts. For games, that means a database like interfaceingame.com is indispensable.

YouTube video by PepperHead This New Bird Deck Builder Might Take Flight...

A joy to watch PepperHead playing Sparrow Warfare for the first time as part of his "finding the next big roguelike" series & immediately dominating the leaderboard!

This was Playtest #1... Playtest #2 will fly in on November 10th, if you want to try it out too!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNz...

Well I mean there’s honesty in that GDC was always very much about that wasn’t it? And now it’s more official.

It’s launch day and we’re at the top of Popular Upcoming! 🥹❤️🎉

Wish us luck - we’re pushing the button on ‘As Long As You’re Here’ at 4PM CET! 🎉🎉🎉

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I’m teaching a workshop to students of game technology today. What should I tell them, chat?

FINDING THE NEXT BIG ROGUELIKE - YouTube Going in blind into new roguelikes from developers of all levels. Playing, evaluating, and discussing game design until we find THE NEXT BIG ROGUELIKE. Have ...

Pepperhead got the hang of our game in record time. A pleasure to watch a pro at work. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I hope to carve out some time to make something with music this time. Excited that it’s happening again!