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Niclas D. Karlsson

@endikay.bsky.social

Game designer and writer from Sweden. Currently working on THE FINALS. Previously on the Magica franchise, Stellaris, Dustborne and The Cycle. Behaves in a silly manner in public and talks about game dev and politics(bleh) online. https://www.ndkdesign.se

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Latest posts by endikay.bsky.social on Bluesky

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

16.02.2026 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6111    ๐Ÿ” 2173    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

ร…ratal av nazistpropaganda pรฅ youtube har gett resultat...

17.02.2026 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Frequently wrong about themselves
Sure, there are complex psychological issues at play, but surely people can at least be trusted to tell you about themselves, right? Unfortunately not.

A particular AAA developer I know of once sent surveys to 1000 players asking them which game they had played the most, then compared it with the data of what they had actually played. Not a single one answered correctly.

Zero out of one thousand players could remember their own habits enough to tell which game theyโ€™d played the most. Player answers were so consistently wildly wrong that the team involved thought that their data must have been corrupted. Upon validating that it was in fact accurate, they went back to the players and told them what their actual most played games were, and every single one said something along the lines of โ€œOH! Right. Well, that makes senseโ€.

When people tell you things theyโ€™re really telling you the stories they tell themselves about themselves, and those stories may not have anything at all to do with reality.

Frequently wrong about themselves Sure, there are complex psychological issues at play, but surely people can at least be trusted to tell you about themselves, right? Unfortunately not. A particular AAA developer I know of once sent surveys to 1000 players asking them which game they had played the most, then compared it with the data of what they had actually played. Not a single one answered correctly. Zero out of one thousand players could remember their own habits enough to tell which game theyโ€™d played the most. Player answers were so consistently wildly wrong that the team involved thought that their data must have been corrupted. Upon validating that it was in fact accurate, they went back to the players and told them what their actual most played games were, and every single one said something along the lines of โ€œOH! Right. Well, that makes senseโ€. When people tell you things theyโ€™re really telling you the stories they tell themselves about themselves, and those stories may not have anything at all to do with reality.

there u go, bless

14.02.2026 01:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 747    ๐Ÿ” 202    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

08.03.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18092    ๐Ÿ” 4374    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 120    ๐Ÿ“Œ 145
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Hollywood is COOKED

I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI

17.02.2026 01:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4138    ๐Ÿ” 786    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 55    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
Picture of No Option But Sabotage

Picture of No Option But Sabotage

My bookโ€”No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisisโ€”comes out today!

It's the result of 3+ years of research and 150+ interviews with 100+ activists and experts.

16.02.2026 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Oh nooo that thing literally everyone warned me could happen has happened, how could I have ever anticipated such a turn of events

15.02.2026 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2060    ๐Ÿ” 489    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Uppgifter om initiativet | Europeiska medborgarinitiativet

Nu har vi gjort vรฅrt - nu gรถr vi lite till. Den svenska andelen รคr avklarad, nu behรถver vi fรฅ in sammanlagt en miljon namn frรฅn hela EU. Dรฅ mรฅste EU-kommissionen ta upp frรฅgan om sanktioner mot Israel.
Hjรคlp oss, skriv under och dela!
citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

15.02.2026 09:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 72    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

12.02.2026 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6537    ๐Ÿ” 1485    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 79
11.02.2026 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4737    ๐Ÿ” 817    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 80    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

11.02.2026 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11920    ๐Ÿ” 3974    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 192

It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines.

'"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

11.02.2026 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1006    ๐Ÿ” 356    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Banks Backing Green Steel Fund โ€˜False Solutions,โ€™ Report Says Almost all major banks that have pledged to finance low-carbon steel are backing initiatives that will lead to additional greenhouse gas pollution.

Almost all major banks that have pledged to finance low-carbon steel could be backing initiatives that will lead to additional greenhouse gas pollution.

11.02.2026 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Men hoppsan, som det kan gรฅ

10.02.2026 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nya SD-vรคrvningen Emilie Pilthammar: Ryssland bรคttre รคn svenska styret โ€Ryssen kanske hade varit en bรคttre lรถsning รคn styret vi har nuโ€. Det skriver Emilie Pilthammar, som รคr nytt toppnamn fรถr Sverigedemokraterna i Jimmie ร…kessons hemkommun Sรถlvesborg, pรฅ sin blogg. I en...

Aj dรฅโ€ฆ
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10.02.2026 08:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

"Blood 'was spraying all over' โ€“ even landing on an Acclarent representative who was observing the surgery-"

(repping the company that decided AI was a great idea to jam into the tool)

You know reality has reached peak satire when *god* looks dead-eyed straight into the camera

10.02.2026 05:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | https://www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | https://www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

07.02.2026 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2653    ๐Ÿ” 824    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

"Epstein class" is terrific not simply because several of them are directly tied to Epstein's crimes, but because it strikes at the corruption, immorality and impunity of that entire circle.

07.02.2026 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5956    ๐Ÿ” 1438    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 36

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.

What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

02.02.2026 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9373    ๐Ÿ” 2887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41

The truth of video game production is that production labor is a fixed entity; the work of production *must* be done for the game to ship and it will be done. The difference between good and bad producers is that good producers do it, while bad producers have it done around them.

02.02.2026 06:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 583    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

if Musk is doing this for London crime, what do you think he is doing for content about American politics, an issue that affects him much more directly?

31.01.2026 23:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1681    ๐Ÿ” 410    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

โ€œNotorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for childrenโ€ what is this sentence, what is this world

01.02.2026 01:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4491    ๐Ÿ” 1351    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 140

When I try to explain to people that investors are generally very, very stupid people this is what I mean.

30.01.2026 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4181    ๐Ÿ” 1388    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.

28.01.2026 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1746    ๐Ÿ” 529    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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If Bilbo had Chat GPT

27.01.2026 16:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3721    ๐Ÿ” 1065    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

i very much respect that Candace is a messy bitch who loves drama

28.01.2026 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 934    ๐Ÿ” 174    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

A reminder: Measles causes immune amnesia. Catch it and your body forgets how to make antibodies for everything you were previously immune to, whether through prior infection or vaccination.

Elder millennials, GenX, and above, get your blood titers checked and get vaccinated if you're vulnerable.

27.01.2026 07:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Maybe there's something that could be done via theming? Say like in LA Noire where every dialogue option is a note in a notebook. Then its tangential, remains, unless it is crossed out by being chosen or made redundant. ๐Ÿค”

24.01.2026 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So one interesting thing about the design of TR-49 I should stick in a talk somewhere: the VO dialogue isn't a branching tree. Like, at all. It's actually the same conversation model as Heaven's Vault: a bucket of content, roughly prioritised, driven by a what-do-you knowledge model. This gives:

24.01.2026 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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