True on most fronts except one. On a personal level, I do hate AI lol. The large language model itself. I just don’t think typing out or speaking out a series of instructions is that useful or efficient. If I want a computer to do something for me, I much prefer the more rigid and unnatural syntax and grammar of programming language. AI tools themselves just don’t produce a result that satisfies me.

When I give myself the leeway to think of a less hardliner stance on AI, I come back to Joel Haver’s video on his use of ebsynth:

It lets me create rotoscoped animations alone, which is something I never would have the time or patience for otherwise. Any time technology makes art easier to learn, more accessible, we should applaud it. Art should be in the hands of everyone.

Now my blood boils like everyone else’s when it comes to being forced to use AI at work, or when I hear the AI Voice on Youtube, or the forced AI updates to Windows and VS Code, but it doesn’t boil for Joel. He clearly has developed an iconic style for his comedy skits, and puts effort into those skits long before he puts it through an AI rotoscope filter. He chose his tool and he uses it sparingly. The same was apparently true for E33, and I have no reason not give Kojima and Larian the same benefit of the doubt.

On the other hand, Joel probably has no idea what I’m talking about when I say “surveillance state AI.” People Make Games has a pretty good video exposing its use case. There’s also…

• the global and localized environmental impacts of all these data centers,
• Nvidia and Micron pricing the consumer out of owning their own hardware,
• aforementioned companies fraudulently inflating an economic bubble,
• the ease with which larger models can be warped to suit their owners’ fascist agendas (see Grok).

Creatives may be aware of some, or all, or none of those things, which is why it’s important to continue raising awareness of them. AI may be toothpaste that can’t go back in the tube, but it’s also a sunk cost fallacy, you don’t have to brush your teeth with shit-flavored toothpaste.

I have the same feeling about Kojima’s and Vincke’s latest comments on AI. Am I supposed to get mad at every single person who said they used/plan to use AI for something? I’d be as outraged as the average Fox News viewer, and it would be impossible to be taken seriously. I still won’t be using AI myself (fuck surveillance state AI) and I’d be making every effort to encourage others not to use it, but there’s no point in burning bridges and falling for rage bait.

They’re creative people who care about the craft and care about the teams in their employ, which gives their statements weight, where some Sony/Microsoft/EA executive making an identical statement has none.

Ever since the island got raided, he’s needed a new venue to find little girls.

I mean it is 6 years old. It is also possible that Project Aces’ licenses for the aircraft is expiring soon, so they may have to delist the game.

Ace Combat 7 is less than $5, that’s a real solid deal if you’re new to AC and/or interested.

“Well you see Geoff, mon neey”

Why am I not surprised. Overtime is always ordered by the folks who clock out at 3.

Well then I think your beef has nothing to do with the form of the media, but with DRM and lack of transferability. And I totally get the anxiety of having something and not wanting to lose access to it, but such is the nature of all games, movies, shows, books. Everything humans create has a shelf life and we’re in a neverending fight against entropy.

Almost got me with that hotness but I wouldn’t necessarily disagree. In a perfect world, we would just own digital copies free and clear of any remote tampering.

Trouble is, physical media is relevant now because companies can’t nuke your access to it once their licensing deals expire, like they can with digital streaming services and storefronts. Even digital copies are physical, they have to sit on a hard drive somewhere, and even those degrade over time. So let’s say we own the hard drive, that’s great, but I still need to transfer it once the disk/flash dies. It’s unquestionably more efficient than disc media tho.

• Finishing my first Baldurs Gate 3 campaign after 250 hours.
• Winning my first gold stake run of Balatro.
• Still alive to witness the Ace Combat 8 trailer.

Yeah Divinity went for shock value and boy did it pay off.

I saw some gossip about the cost of revealing a game on the TGA, which I didn’t see in years past. Makes sense that they work like ads where the best spot (right before GOTY) is the most expensive.

So imagine: Larian paid less for that unhinged Divinity trailer than Wildlight paid for another generic looking hero shooter (we have Valorant at home).

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Windows Explorer is set up to ALWAYS show full file extensions, that’s like a basic safety measure that really should be on by default but isn’t

Drives me MAD man. Absolutely MAD.

Take me with a grain of salt, but from what I understand Valve banned it when they received their evaluation build, and they found a scene of a child character “riding” on the back of an adult, naked, “horse” character, in the form of a human.

Developer immediately took to social media to whip up the current media frenzy you see now. Whether the developer simply didn’t realize the implications of what they made, or whether they did it purposely for “artistic license” or “anti-puritan shock value” I leave to you.

You can check sites like https://skyvector.com/ to see active TFRs (temporary flight restrictions). This includes near permanent ones surrounding the White House and the President’s residence.

There are no TFRs around Venezuela. There are a few southeast of Puerto Rico that are for the DOD, presumably that is where they’ve been launching their attacks from.

No. AI cannot “get better,” that’s what techbros say so they don’t light a trillion dollars on fire. LLMs cannot avoid hallucinations and even now are being trained on their own excrement, human centipede style. They hope you tell yourself this lie so you don’t notice when they move on to the next hyped up pile of shit.

You wanna try out the new Soylent Green?

2022 was still not that good of a year for the internet guys.