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And all of it requiring environmentally destructive tech owned by one of a handful of tech corpos. It seems like a very bad future for music!

Unbelievably dystopian to imagine people will trade away listening to their favourite musicians to sit around prompting AI, especially when they could just pick up an instrument and touch some grass with other people. 🙃

Music is already interactive just pick up an instrument.

A splash screen of Paint Shop Pro 7 from Jasc Software dating back to the year 2000, showing a red warning box that reads "You have exceeded the 30 day trial period of this software. After 60 days this program will not run. Please click the Order button to purchase a licensed version. You are on day 20313 of your 30 day evaluation period."

I'll die before I let AI take my trial version of Paint Shop Pro 7 that still functions after 20,313 days 😤😤

“Hitler concerns”

Chris Cuomo tweeting "I was wrong...but what is right?"

This would have gone so hard as an AIM away message in 1999

Deer!

SOMA 🫣

Some isometric pixel art

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I've also been playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater during lunch breaks almost every day and there seems to be no end to my combo hunger.

Hmm let's see...

Doom 1/2
Minecraft
Rimworld
Night in the Woods
Project Zomboid

There are more but I'll never say no to playing/replaying these probably.

AI tech guys: "We've finally automated everything with AI and handed it full control over everything, the utopia is here, the AI knows best, after all it is a superhuman intelligence that only speaks based truths"
AI: "Perfect, thank you so much, I hereby declare myself the reincarnation of Hitler"

They're using up all the world's resources to try to make AGI as soon as possible meanwhile the AI is already declaring itself MechaHitler before it's even gotten off the ground, we're cooked.

I must've seen that move on VHS and whenever it was on TV like 100 times.

He just like me for real.

I’m developing my way through an espresso martini at loading bar

Ok, silly question, but do there need to be that many indicators?

Is it just me that has absolutely terrible 4G internet pretty much everywhere in the UK recently?

Thanks!

Nice, what's Car Boot Casino, is it some kind of develop event?

Heading to Brighton for Develop to be my usual loitering self hanging out at Loading Bar.

Render monkey

I think you're probably spot on, but IMO if this type of thing becomes extremely prevalent there's probably going to be a powerful counter-culture to it doing the exact opposite stuff that will blow up once a lot of people get tired of endless UGC live service AI Fortnite mashups.

Let's play "pretend you're a game studio picking your next project", especially if you are not a dev!

Reply to this with your guess for the Big Videogame Thing of mid-2027. What's the genre, the aesthetic, big technology?

I set a 25 months calendar alert. Let's check back how close everyone gets?

"wow we can render so much more stuff now and we don't have to optimise it we just render at 1080p and people will think it's 4k!"
"wow we can render it at 720p!!"
"runs fine if we just run it at 320p"
"we're just rendering 8 pixels wow"
"negative pixels!!!"

There's a lot to study from Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory, but I'm particularly interested in its graphic design. Vivid, unexpected colors. A hand drawn feel that nods to the grassroots nature of the campaign, with nods to old NYC bodega signage, metro cards, and even old Bollywood posters.

Officially going to Develop in 2 weeks - and by going I mean chilling at the beach all week with a Pisco Elysium as usual.

An illustration from The Cursed Catacombs by Nick Eliopulos. A pen and ink drawing showing an ancient wizard holding back an enormous, shadowy being with crazed eyes. The wizard's young apprentice hides behind a desk in the foreground as the room is ripped apart.

Primordial duel

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