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That’s really shitty. These things happen mercifully infrequently, but it’s always a big deal. I distinctly recall collecting cash for Ghostown’s bus back to Poland (I think) when their stuff was stolen at Revision 2016

That’s very cool. We barely have any Amigas here, so I’ve never seen an original accelerator. Ended up buying mine fresh from Individual Computers, since Blizzards go for many hundreds these days

Ooh nice! That a Blizzard?

Well, that’s fair enough (and I share your angst), but it’s not about the demo scene per se…

Because a good demo is more than the sum of its assets, and a bad/dull demo is bad regardless of its assets. I’m not saying you should watch boring demos, I’m saying you shouldn’t discount great demos because they include (or even entirely based on) generated assets. My opinion, of course

Mind you, I’m not advocating for gen AI, I’m trying to point out that it’s just another tool. It lowers the barrier of entry, sure, but it doesn’t fundamentally change the art form.

Arguably the scene was always about standing out creatively. Even skilled artists/musicians put out crap; slop is slop, no matter the tool. If AI becomes “creative enough” that a simple prompt is all you need, perhaps the scene (or any art form) doesn’t matter, but I don’t believe that’s the case.

If you manage to integrate off the shelf assets into something unique and exciting, that’s worthwhile in an of itself (as a creative endeavor). If you don’t, then it’s boring and will be relegated to compo filler at best. Put another way: there’s no difference between a riptro and crap AI slop

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

I wouldn’t advise it nor intend to change mine. I’m gritting my teeth in preparation for the next 2-5 years where this will be a point of contention, is all 🤦‍♂️

As with everything, it just becomes a rule of the game. Word/grammar nerds will just have to adjust, unfortunately - and until this becomes a court issue, there’s nothing to be done about it 🤷

Respectfully disagree. I’m not a fan of the current tech and how it’s used, but I’m old enough to remember similar arguments about 3D acceleration and streaming music (I.e. MP3s). As with everything, it’s not the tool the counts but how you use it; if the result is boring it’ll go away naturally.

I hear you, been there myself. Some days just suck, hope your tomorrow will be better than you expect…

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Beyond good and evil
Wolfenstein: New Order
Tron 2.0
Undertale

The worst thing - professionally - about the AI craze is that it gives everyone in the industry an excuse to ignore the hard-earned lessons of how software engineering works and fails. The Mythical Man-Month comes to mind

Too lazy to set up OBS or whatever, but between the EVA suit puzzle in SQ5 (just, no), the duck puzzle in The Longest Journey and the topsy turvy acid trip world in Chronomaster, my cup runneth over

12 hours in, Azure is incredibly high-friction. Obtuse security model (EntraID App, AD SP, Graph permissions... oh my), problematic availability (East US is nigh unusable), broken ecosystem with e.g. Terraform provider bugs...

The only selling point is that customers demand it.

Ah. Our respective countries’ curriculum differs somewhat 😅 is it worth watching for a non-US liberal? (From a strict “is it any good” standpoint)

I’ve never seen Eyes on the Prize, googling….

Niche humor at its finest

The Wave, somewhat ironically

Yes indeed.

D’you suppose he has a GUS?

Well. I can think of several things that happened then, so I’ll leave it at that 😅

1971 could be a few things… probably not the size of a certain FC intro?

Should is the operative keyword there. Plenty of executives make decisions arbitrarily - that’s very much part of the job - and decisions of the “for security/compliance/future” variety are easy to justify when you’re the high authority. Doesn’t make them good (or bad!) decisions, mind

Look at it this way: if CTOs are happy to dunk a ton of resources on K8s unnecessarily, why expect more from the often-even-worse-informed CISOs?

You lost me on the first part of that sentence. Yes, they absolutely are; a sufficiently inept CEO/CTO/CISO may very well preemptively decide on invasive security measures because “they heard it was good,” and those are more common than not.

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My point is you don’t always NEED these tools. Not every company is in a space where compliance matters, yet they persist in implementing arbitrary policies that don’t even matter in their case. The ones that have these requirements built in have a pretty diverse set of options, too.