Alex Swaim
@cidolfas.bsky.social
I think about procedural/emergent narrative systems for games a lot. https://www.hypermagical.com/
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I have just joined America's fastest growing club (unemployment)
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I have just joined America's fastest growing club (unemployment)
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
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Last night I watched a streamer in Arc that downed other players and then had them answer trivia questions in exchange for a revive. The questions were like "who runs this whole operation" and "what's the name of the cataclysmic event that led to all this" and lol no, gamers do not pay attention.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Last night I watched a streamer in Arc that downed other players and then had them answer trivia questions in exchange for a revive. The questions were like "who runs this whole operation" and "what's the name of the cataclysmic event that led to all this" and lol no, gamers do not pay attention.
I have just joined America's fastest growing club (unemployment)
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I have just joined America's fastest growing club (unemployment)
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
If anybody knows of any open game AI (not that kind) or generalist/gameplay/tools programmer roles I'd love to hear about them
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![Gregory Possum-Encounterer @gr... • 8mo
Achieve enlightenment
> You can't do that here.
Get satori
> You can't do that here.
Become one with universe
> You don't have UNIVERSE in your inventory.
[replying]
numbers station morning...
@griph.bsky.social
Go up
> you cannot enter Nirvana with Desires in your inventory
>drop Desires
you now have 2 Desires
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you can be weird (interesting) without being weird (disrespectful)
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
you can be weird (interesting) without being weird (disrespectful)
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valve: this is the steam machi-
the collective internet: gabecube
the collective internet: gabecube
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
valve: this is the steam machi-
the collective internet: gabecube
the collective internet: gabecube
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A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!!
Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!
Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!
In case anyone ever asks, I *have* written a material generator and a music generator for Eldritch 2, but that's not AI. That's me taking all the things I personally know about those things, and writing my own tools to make the process a little faster and easier for myself. It's still 100% me, baby.
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!!
Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!
Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!
I am once again pitching the NBA on figuring out how to work with the spectacle instead of trying to fight it, and proposing a 3v3 tournament with the winners getting a million bucks and bragging rights.
So to sum up the All-Star Game selection process this season:
24 All-Stars
12 from each conference
Positions don't matter
16 US players
8 World players
2 US teams
1 World team
8 players per team
If there are not enough US or World players then Adam Silver will select more to fill out the teams.
24 All-Stars
12 from each conference
Positions don't matter
16 US players
8 World players
2 US teams
1 World team
8 players per team
If there are not enough US or World players then Adam Silver will select more to fill out the teams.
Looks like NBA just revealed the All-Star Game format this season. Two teams of American players and one World team. Same selection process for the All-Stars but they will not be picked based on position. So positionless All-Stars selections.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I am once again pitching the NBA on figuring out how to work with the spectacle instead of trying to fight it, and proposing a 3v3 tournament with the winners getting a million bucks and bragging rights.
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Was anyone else obsessed with the joke combos you could do in pocket fighter? And the aesthetic in general…. Gah capcom used to be so fucking silly.
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Was anyone else obsessed with the joke combos you could do in pocket fighter? And the aesthetic in general…. Gah capcom used to be so fucking silly.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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I helped a friend build a platform for this back at the very start of AI. I consulted to give the games perspective cause hey! No more "Arrow to the Knee"!
But no. It sounds good til you explore it. Once you think it through it falls apart entirely, just crashes and burns.
But no. It sounds good til you explore it. Once you think it through it falls apart entirely, just crashes and burns.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I helped a friend build a platform for this back at the very start of AI. I consulted to give the games perspective cause hey! No more "Arrow to the Knee"!
But no. It sounds good til you explore it. Once you think it through it falls apart entirely, just crashes and burns.
But no. It sounds good til you explore it. Once you think it through it falls apart entirely, just crashes and burns.
There's no way you could have James Bond wake up as part of an evil org as their ace operative with *almost* full memories of his time in it.
Impossible to cold open with Bond on an MI6 surgery table with M saying "James Bond, killed in action. Now save his life." before lying to everybody.
Impossible to cold open with Bond on an MI6 surgery table with M saying "James Bond, killed in action. Now save his life." before lying to everybody.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
There's no way you could have James Bond wake up as part of an evil org as their ace operative with *almost* full memories of his time in it.
Impossible to cold open with Bond on an MI6 surgery table with M saying "James Bond, killed in action. Now save his life." before lying to everybody.
Impossible to cold open with Bond on an MI6 surgery table with M saying "James Bond, killed in action. Now save his life." before lying to everybody.
For real. "If I get sick how to I make sure I can see a doctor instead of dying?" is a giant decision-distorting force in my life and most of my friends lives (no matter how good a job they work).
Hey man, you know what would make Nightshift Galaxy way easier to realize? Medicare For All. Literally the biggest impasse right now is figuring out Health Insurance for next year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
For real. "If I get sick how to I make sure I can see a doctor instead of dying?" is a giant decision-distorting force in my life and most of my friends lives (no matter how good a job they work).
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this is the play in which sheldon rankins conjured a scorigami out of absolutely nothing. 30-29 had happened plenty of times and so had 37-29. scorigami only happened because the refs didn't make them stick around for the extra point
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
this is the play in which sheldon rankins conjured a scorigami out of absolutely nothing. 30-29 had happened plenty of times and so had 37-29. scorigami only happened because the refs didn't make them stick around for the extra point
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
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Stuck in the mental loop of "is it financially viable to be making this sort of game? - and -Is it financially viable to be making any game?"
November 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Stuck in the mental loop of "is it financially viable to be making this sort of game? - and -Is it financially viable to be making any game?"
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Me Too was Pearl Harbor for elites. Most of them saw Harvey Weinstein and thought, "that could be me," and since then every hint of accountability for elites, or mass movements by peasants, has further convinced them they are facing an existential threat that must be destroyed at all costs.
Increasingly of the opinion that the Rosetta Stone to understanding elite politics in America in the present era --news media, tech, & finance elites esp--is Me Too, The Pandemic, & BLM experienced thru the prism of social media and group chats.
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Me Too was Pearl Harbor for elites. Most of them saw Harvey Weinstein and thought, "that could be me," and since then every hint of accountability for elites, or mass movements by peasants, has further convinced them they are facing an existential threat that must be destroyed at all costs.
Really not a fan of our new reality where when I see any short-form video that looks a smidge off I have to ask myself "weird camera smoothing or AI agitprop?"
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Really not a fan of our new reality where when I see any short-form video that looks a smidge off I have to ask myself "weird camera smoothing or AI agitprop?"
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why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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a batter telling the pitcher to "hit me" and subsequently getting hit, only for the pitcher to ask "what are you going to do about it?" and getting a comebacker to the shin is peak comedy
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
a batter telling the pitcher to "hit me" and subsequently getting hit, only for the pitcher to ask "what are you going to do about it?" and getting a comebacker to the shin is peak comedy
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right, so … this is why the layoffs that are being attributed to ai are happening. it’s technically true but it’s not about replacing people with ai it’s about spending out the ass on ai investments and having to cover those expenses to maintain a margin by lopping off salary expenses
Meta shares are plunging in heavy trading, on pace for their worst day in three years. Here's why: cnb.cx/4hAPrzH #CNBCData
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
right, so … this is why the layoffs that are being attributed to ai are happening. it’s technically true but it’s not about replacing people with ai it’s about spending out the ass on ai investments and having to cover those expenses to maintain a margin by lopping off salary expenses