ahdok
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You have an awful lot of time to hate-tweet about how everyone else is ruining your hobby when you don't actually spend time engaging in that hobby!
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You have an awful lot of time to hate-tweet about how everyone else is ruining your hobby when you don't actually spend time engaging in that hobby!
I think a part of this is, because the "woke" people are inclusive and welcoming, they've got a lot of friends to play with. We're spending our time actually playing and enjoying games.
The "anti-woke" crowd don't have any friends to play with, so they spend their time writing angry tweets instead.
The "anti-woke" crowd don't have any friends to play with, so they spend their time writing angry tweets instead.
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I think a part of this is, because the "woke" people are inclusive and welcoming, they've got a lot of friends to play with. We're spending our time actually playing and enjoying games.
The "anti-woke" crowd don't have any friends to play with, so they spend their time writing angry tweets instead.
The "anti-woke" crowd don't have any friends to play with, so they spend their time writing angry tweets instead.
What's funny is that Sweeny is making the same argument that Steam is making: If people know about Gen-AI being used to make a game, they might not want to buy it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What's funny is that Sweeny is making the same argument that Steam is making: If people know about Gen-AI being used to make a game, they might not want to buy it.
Both Steam and Epic Games agree on the core issue here though.
They're both arguing that if people know your game has AI generated content, they won't want to buy it.
They're both arguing that if people know your game has AI generated content, they won't want to buy it.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Both Steam and Epic Games agree on the core issue here though.
They're both arguing that if people know your game has AI generated content, they won't want to buy it.
They're both arguing that if people know your game has AI generated content, they won't want to buy it.
Remember when you get Alex Jones' webdomains that I want Goblinlove dot com. I'll use it correctly.
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Remember when you get Alex Jones' webdomains that I want Goblinlove dot com. I'll use it correctly.
Not to mention that the quality of Gen-AI is measured purely by its ability to fool you into thinking it's human-made.
Placeholders are supposed to look like they're not-final, so everyone can easily tell "this will be changed later." Gen-AI is, by design, defeating the purpose of placeholders.
Placeholders are supposed to look like they're not-final, so everyone can easily tell "this will be changed later." Gen-AI is, by design, defeating the purpose of placeholders.
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Not to mention that the quality of Gen-AI is measured purely by its ability to fool you into thinking it's human-made.
Placeholders are supposed to look like they're not-final, so everyone can easily tell "this will be changed later." Gen-AI is, by design, defeating the purpose of placeholders.
Placeholders are supposed to look like they're not-final, so everyone can easily tell "this will be changed later." Gen-AI is, by design, defeating the purpose of placeholders.
NGL "polychromos" would be an amazing name for an alien species in a sci-fi.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NGL "polychromos" would be an amazing name for an alien species in a sci-fi.
So we're like, trying to give advice about how doing what you enjoy is important, and how you shouldn't worry or obsess about viewer counts, and how when starting out you just want to be getting a feel for what it entails, and they're like "but what games should I stream? I want money."
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So we're like, trying to give advice about how doing what you enjoy is important, and how you shouldn't worry or obsess about viewer counts, and how when starting out you just want to be getting a feel for what it entails, and they're like "but what games should I stream? I want money."
One time, I was hanging out in a twitch stream with a friend, and someone came into chat and said "I want to be a twitch streamer, got any advice?" We started giving some general advice about not expecting an audience right away, and making sure to be genuine and do it for your own fun and so on.
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One time, I was hanging out in a twitch stream with a friend, and someone came into chat and said "I want to be a twitch streamer, got any advice?" We started giving some general advice about not expecting an audience right away, and making sure to be genuine and do it for your own fun and so on.
Trying to physically realize your ideas teaches you what was good, and bad about them. It also means you spend a lot of time with them, you get familiar with them, you make alterations and compare them to the originals.
You teach yourself about your ideas, and learn to have better ones next time.
You teach yourself about your ideas, and learn to have better ones next time.
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Trying to physically realize your ideas teaches you what was good, and bad about them. It also means you spend a lot of time with them, you get familiar with them, you make alterations and compare them to the originals.
You teach yourself about your ideas, and learn to have better ones next time.
You teach yourself about your ideas, and learn to have better ones next time.
Wordpress replaced all of its support ticket structure with a Gen-AI LLM bot for free users. I tried to raise a ticket a month ago, and the bot was the ONLY option, no way to escalate to a human.
The bot takes your query, then deletes it and resets the conversation.
Money saved, I guess?
The bot takes your query, then deletes it and resets the conversation.
Money saved, I guess?
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Wordpress replaced all of its support ticket structure with a Gen-AI LLM bot for free users. I tried to raise a ticket a month ago, and the bot was the ONLY option, no way to escalate to a human.
The bot takes your query, then deletes it and resets the conversation.
Money saved, I guess?
The bot takes your query, then deletes it and resets the conversation.
Money saved, I guess?
There have been a lot of papers about using analytical-AI (pattern recognition machine learning stuff) for early cancer diagnosis and other medical analysis. That stuff has postitive public sentiment.
Gen-AI boosters often conflate generative-AI with analytical-AI as a propagandistic technique.
Gen-AI boosters often conflate generative-AI with analytical-AI as a propagandistic technique.
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
There have been a lot of papers about using analytical-AI (pattern recognition machine learning stuff) for early cancer diagnosis and other medical analysis. That stuff has postitive public sentiment.
Gen-AI boosters often conflate generative-AI with analytical-AI as a propagandistic technique.
Gen-AI boosters often conflate generative-AI with analytical-AI as a propagandistic technique.
It's a circle, with Ed Zitron off to the side in a disconnected circle, grinning.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It's a circle, with Ed Zitron off to the side in a disconnected circle, grinning.
Missing out on the process means you miss out on the "creative" part of creating - that creativity is a muscle you train through use, a thing you practice and improve at.
If you skip out on the work, you miss out on all of that, and you never really investigate your own ideas.
If you skip out on the work, you miss out on all of that, and you never really investigate your own ideas.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Missing out on the process means you miss out on the "creative" part of creating - that creativity is a muscle you train through use, a thing you practice and improve at.
If you skip out on the work, you miss out on all of that, and you never really investigate your own ideas.
If you skip out on the work, you miss out on all of that, and you never really investigate your own ideas.
This isn't just the process of refining one piece of art though, it's the process of learning about your own creative voice, what works for you and what doesn't.
It's a constant source of new ideas, as everything you make gives you hundreds of little "what if I did this instead?" moments.
It's a constant source of new ideas, as everything you make gives you hundreds of little "what if I did this instead?" moments.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This isn't just the process of refining one piece of art though, it's the process of learning about your own creative voice, what works for you and what doesn't.
It's a constant source of new ideas, as everything you make gives you hundreds of little "what if I did this instead?" moments.
It's a constant source of new ideas, as everything you make gives you hundreds of little "what if I did this instead?" moments.
It's a fundamental part of the creative process that during this time, you're constantly interrogating your original idea, deciding where to change, tweak, or try out different possibilities. You redraft things, you start over...
You teach yourself what was good about your idea and what wasn't.
You teach yourself what was good about your idea and what wasn't.
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's a fundamental part of the creative process that during this time, you're constantly interrogating your original idea, deciding where to change, tweak, or try out different possibilities. You redraft things, you start over...
You teach yourself what was good about your idea and what wasn't.
You teach yourself what was good about your idea and what wasn't.
When you make something, you spend a lot of time with it throughout the creative process. Spending time with your work means constantly thinking about what you're making, what it means to you and why you're doing it.
When you make a choice, you think about the other options you have as well.
When you make a choice, you think about the other options you have as well.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
When you make something, you spend a lot of time with it throughout the creative process. Spending time with your work means constantly thinking about what you're making, what it means to you and why you're doing it.
When you make a choice, you think about the other options you have as well.
When you make a choice, you think about the other options you have as well.
Unfortunately, there is photographic evidence of the crime
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Unfortunately, there is photographic evidence of the crime
Black printer ink is expensive, especially those thick bars that block out 15 characters at a time.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Black printer ink is expensive, especially those thick bars that block out 15 characters at a time.
Mythbusters did a whole bunch of testing on paper towels vs hand dryers with regards to how sanitary they were, and (it's been a long time) but I think they found that hand dryers were very bad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Mythbusters did a whole bunch of testing on paper towels vs hand dryers with regards to how sanitary they were, and (it's been a long time) but I think they found that hand dryers were very bad.
People really like soup, huh?
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
People really like soup, huh?
