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i need to release a video game this year so i can buy metroid prime 4

*tech news headline voice* tech billionaire and visionary thought-leader dr. braincrime has invented a revolutionary new brain that cannot commit crime

Do you like immersive sims? Do you like #GameDev? Do you like #GodotEngine? Well good news for you, we're working on an Imsim Toolkit add-on for Godot, and we wanna hear your thoughts and suggestions!
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3rd june. the sky is a patchwork of light grey and lighter gray. the air is soggy. there is no crisp warmth nor a cool breeze. someone outside is using a hedge trimmer. that's right. it's time to celebrate the season: christmas, british-style. you put three unopened cans of Heinz Baked Beans directly into the microwave, placing them neatly on the glass rotating plate, and then turn the timer dial all the way round to '60 min'

mystery of the druids is so wild cos it has non-abstract graphics & voice acting, but also the logic of a ZX Spectrum graphical adventure made in a week by 3 chain smoking 12 year olds who weren't really thinking about what the gossamer string of contrivances connecting the puzzles would read like as a story

Can the fake AI thing be over? Can we move onto the next annoying fad? The current one feels like it's been going for like 10 years even though I know for a fact it hasn't even been 5

I've been mostly out of action for a couple of weeks due to RSI and I'm not cooking much and my electricity bill is just exploding like I have an electric heater plugged into every outlet on full blast

Silicon valley buffoons stop vandalising your own products challenge

Every time you use this shit you're pouring clean water on the floor, and you're using electricity that could do literally anything with value. Playing a modern AAA video game on your giant PC at max settings is more eco friendly and reliably informative than googling something

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This applies to both image & text generators by the way. They're both purely aesthetic processes designed by people who hate artists & writers but still want to profit from their art and writing

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Machine learning "AI" does some categories of tasks more efficiently than standard software. None of the big high profile ML products are that, though. They're just machines that make something that looks like an answer by cutting up Google results and mashing them together

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We have to destroy every machine learning service right now because of the clear and present danger they represent. Not some imaginary cyber devil, but the vast amount of energy and water waste they generate in the pursuit of making the internet Shit

silicon valley announces latest new computer, AI. "We Created A Computer That Cant Fucking Do Math".
Journaleists report this computer is making ten trillion dollars an hour. But it is also costing twenty trillion dollars an hour every single second. The CEO of tech, Satya And Ella, had this to say: We are firing everyone

Don't let a minority of bigots and transphobes persecute those who need medical help. Please sign if you live in the UK. Please boost the post if you can.

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards petition.parliament.uk/petitio

Discord straight up just breaks over absolutely nothing these days. It's incredible how often I have to force quit that shit to get a broken menu out of the way

Obviously I don't know the man but Todd Howard seems to me a lot like Michael Bay:
Obviously knows what he likes and what looks good, but seemingly has no coherent or mature understanding of his medium at all

@foone I gave up on my old project to make one that's just kind of functional and it's going a lot faster and upsetting me a lot less

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