ritchie
@ritchie.bsky.social
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Recovering academic. I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social)
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ritchie.bsky.social
Classic Warhammer Fantasy Battle Chaos Dwarf model trains would go super hard
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lastnpcalex.agency
getting perma banned from bsky for telling someone to go study statistical mechanics
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mattround.com
OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in
ritchie.bsky.social
And to add insult to injury the guy they sent us as an ambassador, who is the most shrill about this, is a Bush-era republicsn who was previously most famous for declaring that they found Saddam's WMDs and then fundraising for extreme right wing politicians when he was ambassador to the Netherlands
ritchie.bsky.social
This is the same pattern that is happening with MAGA/Fox News coverage of the trade dispute with Canada - they are obssessed with the idea that Canadians are being rude and ungrateful after Trump set the stage with unprompted economic damage and extreme hostility.
ritchie.bsky.social
Our Soybeans
helldude.bsky.social
are these people aware of what they themselves are doing??
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wyntr.bsky.social
chatgpt pimp my ride “yo dawg we accidentally told a kid to kill himself so we installed personal adult erotica”
mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
ritchie.bsky.social
This is tomorrow, but you can still register for free!
ritchie.bsky.social
My coworker Michala (who worked on GTA5, Red Dead 2 & Mortal Kombat) will be doing a free webinar on facial animation pipelines in AAA games and the limitations of current tools!

Michala is great - you should check it out!!!

www.eventbrite.ca/e/jali-inc-p...

#gamedev #animation #unreal #ue5
JALI Inc. Presents: There Are No Shortcuts in Facial Animation
Michala Braker of JALI Inc. explores the challenges of 3D facial animation and shares practical tips for achieving expressive performances.
www.eventbrite.ca
ritchie.bsky.social
I miss the conceptart.org forums so much. I don't think I've ever found a place as cool as that
ritchie.bsky.social
❤️ hope you can be gentle with yourself and keep trucking
ritchie.bsky.social
Also I loved Banner of The Stars as a kid! I had no idea there was a GAINAX connection
ritchie.bsky.social
Wait this is so funny
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acampwriting.com
people are replying to this post like I'm talking about gamers.... no it's the devs. at least SOME gamers will read
acampwriting.com
i don't know why it still surprises me a decade in to my career as a video game writer but it truly is utterly impossible to get anyone to read something. if you have a task that requires reading anything longer than a powerpoint slide, just forget about it
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discoelysiumbot.bsky.social
Every so often, you might hear a gunshot pierce the air somewhere in Jamrock. But in Martinaise? No gunshots, no sirens. The people are languishing in boredom and complacency. This place is a sepulcher. We'll paint it red. We bring the raucous -- you bring the sirens.
ritchie.bsky.social
Years is not an uncommon amount of time for meaningful recovery from burnout. A lot has to line up to get into a zone where it's easy to be motivated and productive. But it can happen.
ritchie.bsky.social
I feel like it should do just fine
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bitdizzy.bsky.social
thank you Almighty for giving this woman the victory of old age. May we all grow old and die, with the memory of we who die young.
cwnewser.bsky.social
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
ritchie.bsky.social
When you're a "high performing" person it easy to acknowledge in the abstract that burnout is something that happens to people but then it's shocking when all of a sudden it happens to you, and even more shocking when clawing back up to a normal level of functioning takes so god damn long.
nat-the-dev.bsky.social
Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them.
I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.
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nat-the-dev.bsky.social
Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them.
I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.
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ritchie.bsky.social
Imagine if node.father and node.sons were part of the W3C Document Object Model specification.
ritchie.bsky.social
Broke: refusing to rename the default branch of your git repo to "main" instead of master because you reject DEI

Woke: insisting on calling the nodes in your tree "father" and "son" instead of "parent" and "child" because dudes rock
PRELIMINARIES
There is a special terminology for trees that differs from the general terminology for arbitrary graphs. A successor of a vertex is called a son, and the predecessor is called the father. If there is a path from vertex v, to vertex v2, then v, is said to be an ancestor of v2, and v2 is said to be a descendant of v,. Note that the case
01 = U2 is not ruled out; any vertex is an ancestor and a descendant of itself. A
vertex with no sons is called a leaf, and the other vertices are called interior vertices. For example, in Fig. 1.3, the vertex labeled {verb) is a son of the vertex labeled (verb phrase), and the latter is the father of the former. The vertex labeled
"dog" is a descendant of itself, the vertex labeled {verb phrase), the vertex labeled (sentence), and six other vertices. The vertices labeled by English words are the leaves, and those labeled by parts of speech enclosed in angle brackets are the interior vertices.
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oldfriend99.bsky.social
Songs don't say stuff like "Do wah ditty ditty dum ditty do" anymore. No one's in the mood for that shit
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schnorkles.bsky.social
I think part of the derangement of things is the fact that every single member of the secret police knows that there is a decent chance that literally anything they do will be filmed and put on the internet. And if their face is showing, they'll be identified within minutes.
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
tlecaque.bsky.social
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.