Matt Mason

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

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That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

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Just moved to a new place, shelves weren't feeling complete until I unboxed the Weird Science collections and put em next to Fletcher Hanks. Now I can sit down, all the other boxes can wait a while...

Quote forever.

man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

Ow.

I am looking forward to being Adam, prince of Eternia and defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull, along with Cringer, my fearless friend!

#15moviestogettoknowme
1. The Thin Man
2. The Big Sleep
3. Footlight Parade
4. Swing Time
5. F For Fake
6. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
7. Megaforce
8. Tron
9. This Is Spinal Tap
10. UHF
11. Goldeneye
12. Double Team
13. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
14. Johnny Mnemonic
15. Ronin
16. Kill Bill

“The Abomination is somewhat…exaggerated…”

Oh no. It's true. Why did you make me do this?

Currently leading a game prototype team which is like freebasing the standard ‘we’re geniuses’ to ‘we’re incompetent’ to ‘we’re brilliant’ to ‘we’re morons’ game dev wave.

I design for it, expect it, and am still surprised every time how much of a difference it makes.

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is...

As someone who has loved TRON for most of my life, the one thing I have never wanted to see was "what if the computer people and things that you like and look cool came into the 'real' world?". I'll still see it, tho.

Been my desktop background since I found it a while ago. Love this image.

a colorful visual alphabet labeled AI Ethica Alphabet, with letters, icons, and brief explanations. Examples include: B is for Bias with "Consent: AI can reflect and amplify unfair prejudices"; G is for Governancs with "Governance: Rules and oversight for safe i deployment"; G is for Governance with "Justice: injured indegeend If train ing snhzenic data repeordity"; P is for Regulation with "Oversight: Humans must se-powy important AI tasks"; R is for Regulation with "Guality Data: Good data prevents poor or biased outputs"

There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.

They looked so fresh!

It's probably not a great economic indicator that I've stopped getting spam claiming it wants to give me a million dollars and started getting spam claiming it wants to give me a job at Walmart.

Had this poster on my wall...what a time.

The reason I have a banana to my ear is that I'm trying to lure the monkey out of my head...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

YouTube video by Second Wind The Standard Mario Biome Checklist Theory | Semi-Ramblomatic

youtu.be/Gvr0qU1kPng?... A fun discussion of why level biomes might happen in roughly the same order in various games since they suggest specific narrative elements.

Yep. This one.

Aww, man.

My childhood + my childhood = I'm smiling so big right now.

Anyways, the tell for all of this is that if your CEO has to threaten your team into using a technology?

The technology isn't useful

Nobody had to stand on artists and say "you don't get a budget increase to hire new people unless you do 20% more work with the clone brush" cus it's just useful lol

How do I get this?!

Having now done quite a bit of data gathering, I have concluded that hashbrowns inside sandwiches/wraps are almost always zero effect or negative to the end product. Outside, their crispiness and potato centers can shine and be great...inside a sandwich they just become filler. It's a shame.

Played both when they came out, which now seems crazy to have done both the same year given how much time I spent with each...I suppose I had lots more time on my hands as a young lad.
1997, man....FFT, FF7, Fallout, Diablo, Goldeneye, Age of Empires...what a year.