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doom and wing commander had bullet time sprites

it's wild to see how trivial the use of this effect is that when it was first popularized 27 years ago cost eleventy gajillion dollars wait *calculator noises* 27 years can't be right *calculation noise desperation intensifies* no that's not right *loud mechanical calculator clacking paper printing*

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

I contracted as a paid media strategist at agencies for many years, basically auditing efficiencies for PPC clients. Throughout 24-25, they axed me because various AI tools made my job “unnecessary”. Seeing this contextualizes the “how’ve you been” text I got from a former colleague last week lol

We’re moving into the “Find Out” stage.

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r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

larp

as a kid i don't think i quite realized just how incredibly difficult literally everything they are doing in the olympics is.

a nintendo video game shows a hockey game being played on a ice rink . Alt: nes ice hockey

watching olympic ice hockey and thinking about how i used to play ice hockey as a kid

follower-count-go-up charts might be useful here.

i think twitter used to have those?

good thing they've shut down now, right?

right?

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

like little tiny flying velociraptors

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Somewhat frustrating that I am not allowed to share my thoughts about this, specifically relating to what should happen to the staff

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Hanlon's Razor

not necessarily evil, although there is plenty that to go around.

no, not necessarily evil, just stupid.

as a quick offhand example, confusing LLMs for all of AI.

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this is a great read on why doing development and talking about development are fundamentally different things

Boundaries are good. If someone sets one with you, strongly consider respecting it. If you are inclined to tell them that you think they are only setting a boundary because of mental illness, perhaps reconsider.

were you expecting roses and red carpets?

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

cortana not now

I’m the CEO of Colocation Corporation (CoCorp), and we’re building a 118MW data center. For the sake of this example (and simplicity), it costs around $1.4 billion to do so, of which I’ve financed $840 million at an interest rate of 6%, with a term of 6 years. Construction takes a year, which means that I’ve been paying $4.2 million a month - or $50.4 million a year - of interest payments to stop the loan from ballooning. Once payments start again - a year later - I’m suddenly paying $16.239 million a month in interest and principal payments (or $194.87 million annually), with principal payments ballooning thanks to the loan now having an effective 5 year term. I’m about to find out exactly how rickety the world of data center leasing really is. Finally, my big, beautiful data center - which features 100MW of critical IT load on a 118MW building - is finally ready, and my new client, GPUCorp, moves into the building and starts paying a colocation fee of $130 per kilowatt a month, or $156 million a year. Pretty good, right? Using a simplified version of depreciation - where we depreciate over 15 years - CoCorp would have about $93 million a year in depreciation costs, which leaves us with big, sexy, honking profits of $63 million a year. That’s 59.6% gross margins! We’re printing money! I’m going to be rich! Wait, fuck! Shit! Ass! I just did the minus of $156 million and $194.87 million! That’s…that’s $38.87 million a year! And that’s when I’m getting paid! I have negative 24.9% operating margins! This sucks ass! Though everybody I know says my gross margins ROCK, gross margins are only on paper! Reality sucks! What am I going to do? As I pace around my office with my hands in my pockets, I get an email from the CEO of GPUCorp (His name is “Glent Fudge”) with a subject heading that says “uh oh.” Turns out that GPUCorp can’t afford to pay its own loans, which means it can’t afford to pay me for my big, beautiful data center. I email back a simple request: “PAY ME …

I go to Guns Dot Com and I purchase a rifle. It’s time to kill Glent Fudge. I get a phone call. It’s the bank. “Hey Ed, how are you?” my banker (Shelton Crelton) says. “I just read on CNBC that Glent Fudge ran out of money, and your contract explicitly states that we loaned you this money based on you having a tenant for that 118MW data center.” I begin to sweat. “Do you have another to replace them? If not, you’re in default of your loans.” I do not have another tenant. I try to buy another gun, but guns dot com declines my credit card. I am in default on my loans to the bank, and Shelton Crelton can seize my data center.

Found a nuanced way to explain the rickety finances of data center development

the nihilistic manifold embrace of a new platform as absolute totality can be freeing at first - so many things you no longer have to worry about, you can just *create* - until you, ehm, have to actually worry about those little details a bit, and you realize you have little or no control over them.

video games are the stuff of dreams and that inspires new dreamers.

unfortunately, it also inspires business practices that prey on the dreams and unfulfilled desires of the less fortunate and less experienced to sell things that promise to make dreams come true at the push of a button.

in games, we know a pipeline grift when we see one because for the past 25+ years, theres been an entire b2b industry hocking us all sorts of tools and engines and services that we all need right now or you'll get left behind don't forget to visit us at our booth at the expensive FOMO conference