So I’ve decided to finally take the jump and post some gamedev on THE TWATTERS. I feel a little silly doing so after wasting so many years arguing about Star Wars, but it is what it it is. Better late than never! Got a bit of work to waveswim done, and I implemented some new systems where when you smack fish about they spin around a bit, it's a twist on stun that I think will be a great means of allowing the player to really dominate weak fish, but enemies that are immune to this sort of control will be much harder to fight. There is so much about this that is rough around the edges and needs improving part of me wants to never make a public update, but I also realize that it’s important we at least try to post this crap, start figuring out what sticks, or at the very least, forum slide all the stupid crap we shit posted over all these deranged years XD SeaCrit is not perfect, dunno how much further we have to go until it’s actually worth showing off, but i figure eh, let’s try to start getting our head into this marketing game and try to feel this space out, we have nothing to lose. I'm going to guess we get maybe 12 views on this post and we’ll be lucky to get a single reply, but we gotta start somewhere. That said I do think our project is becoming pretty neat and hopefully not a total waste of others' time. #indiegaming

They always speak to this class of people who are higher level empaths, but lack the highest end of technical understanding. They're just projecting, they want to sound empathetic and wise, but this is all wishy washy bullshit to explain that despite having little technical ability, and lacking in true genius, they still want to be the ones dictating all aspects of forward progress. This is supremely dangerous, because you don't want disengenuous, hubris filled con artists in charge of all of civilization. This also assumes the AI will flourish and actually supplant the tech workers of yesteryear. Every year our tools, our products, our systems digital and tangible become worse. But the dialogue and the global conciousness become dumber, which makes all these awful plays for power more and more effective. If the AI works out, GREAT! They get to lord over the world. If it doesn't work out, GREAT! They lord over this puddle of shit, and no one's the wiser.

Yeah everything is bullshit now. The entire system is a bunch of low effort con artists blowing smoke up one anothers' asses. The world fucking sucks.

Just this once I thought I'd post my cringe and self indulgent blog on THE TWATTES illtemperedtuna.itch.io/the-…

I should also note that CGI also did become the thing everyone obsessed over. It became a make easy button and people started to forget the painful art of film making as they could just throw CGI into everything.

Everyone's gotta start somewhere. No one knows what it takes to make a game, even seasoned professionals are always wondering when their current project, or even task will be finished.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it might be everyone. Sam Hyde is wrong. He's worse than wrong. Fractally wrong. Wronger than wrong. The kind of wrong you get when you understand who the enemy is, and are trying to fight against him, but you're really still fighting for him, because you have foolishly conceded his initial premise. Sam Hyde doesn't know what happiness is. That's why he tells you not to have any. Because he doesn't know what it is and what it's for. Know the difference between happiness and pleasure. Happiness isn't sitting in a dark room jerking off to pictures while sucking on a lollipop. Happiness is what you get when you connect to other people. Happiness is what you get when you accomplish something you're proud of. Carry that heavy burden across a finish line. Make something useful out of wood or metal. Fix that leaking window. Debug your code. Write something true, or beautiful, or both. Teach someone. Cook a delicious meal that doesn't come out of a box. Grow your small business. Raise your son to be a better man than you. Do something others admire. Do something that makes you proud. Happiness isn't taking, or slacking off. Nothing you can buy can bring you happiness unless you add your own effort to it. Happiness comes from making, and improving, and giving. Happiness doesn't shun burdens. Happiness picks them up. You are not made to suffer or to hate life. You are made to thrive, and to desire what makes you thrive. How could your ancestors have made it this far in any other way? Yes, there are a lot of burdens you have to carry, especially right now. But don't carry them with worry and fear and suffering. Carry them with pride. Set them down across the finish line with joy. And pick up the next one with hope. Find someone to carry it with you. When you know the difference between happiness and pleasure, your own mind, your own body, will tell you exactly what you need to do.

🤔Studios relying on AI are in for a “rude awakening” A former Halo artist is warning that AI will not solve the industry’s problems. He believes it will actually make players finish *fewer* games and that studios leaning on AI are setting themselves up for a rude awakening. “Unless you know what you’re doing, AI is not going to help you, all the problems that people have had in games and the reasons why they don’t finish games, AI is not going to solve that. AI is going to help you not finish games even more. If you’re the type of art director who doesn’t know what they want, you still won’t know what you want.” It is a sharp critique from someone who helped shape Halo’s identity and it raises real questions about where game development is heading. 🔗👇windowscentral.com/gaming/ha…

Having a realistic take doesn't make you "anti AI"

Not a foot guy, this doesn't bother me on a surface level in any way, I don't need all my female characters super hot or anything. But I am so fucking tired of these Karens doing everything in their power to shit on the audience, to not so subtly imply they believe we're all gooner chuds and their digital creations must be safeguarded from our perversions. Like how much do you loathe us, your own fucking customer and audience? Would serve them right if for hte next 50 years all video game characters are barefoot women with massive honkers who perform the mini quests of making sandwiches and doing dishes. They didn't insert themselves into this industry because they had a burning desire to put things into these games, to tell a story or radiate some fantastical expression. They only thing they've expressed are hollow notions of superiority, spites, and judgements. Fuck 'em

The absolute vast majority of people are just crabs in a bucket who never had to accomplish anything at all. It's always this notion that others aren't doing enough, that they're toxic, that they're an asshole, that they don't care. And these soft handed, arm chair critics who know only the affirmation, know beyond a doub that they are the good and nice people of this world... They indulge day in and day out confirmation biases from others in this soft handed peanut gallery where nothing is ever built, nothing ever innovates, no one produces anything of great quality or volume, outside their gaslighting's and revelry. We're spoiled goofballs anymore, willfully ignorant of all the mechanisms and sacrifices and pains it took to create the lavish, carefree lives that scrambled our brains, and made us toxic, ungrateful goobers who resent the people who wake up, bust their ass, and keep the wheels in motion. They will always view others as assholes, because to do otherwise would require looking in the mirror, it would involve the sort of self reflection and accountability they have been conditioned to skirt their entire damned lives as the machine gobbles up all that was good and hard earned in this world. They can't respect the grit and determination in others because doing so would invalidate their asinine armchair judgements. That's all they have in their vapid lives. This is a huge point of decay in modern society, this class of self assured, morally high and might do-nothings. As a people, we have become so far removed from having to actually getting hard tasks done, hard work done, that the process of doing so, which requires laser focus, discipline (that no longer exists in our world) and yes, at times, stern standards is viewed as some kind of horrible alien act. The types who took full control of society the past decade and blew smoke up each other's behinds, was built on secret resentments. not altruism. But their low moral characters allowed them to easily eat up the lie even as everything fell into the dirt, because everyone was on the gravy train, everyone was enjoying the back rubs and brown nosings. False assertions, false righteousness, the participation trophies and the fart huffing. It all felt REALLY DAMN GOOD. And it cost them nothing. So the illusion had to roll, because they were getting theirs and that's all that mattered. It was their "turn", despite them never experiencing hardship, despite others never cutting in line. We finally were achieving true equality, but that wasn't enough, reality and history had to be distorted and weaponized to placate the growing mob of virtuous assholes.

it genuinely annoys me how much gamers dont respect art

When asked a great question at MIT in 1992, Steve Jobs sat in silence for 19 seconds before giving his most honest answer.

I use AI about 3% of hte time i'm working if I had to guess. Of the time I work with AI, about 30% of the time I regret using it because it does soemthing really fucking terrible. About 5% of hte time I use AI, I REALLY FUCKING REGRET IT LIKE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT JUST F'D MY PROJECT IN THE A.

The language model interface of LLMs is a party trick, it tricked our minds into believing AI is sentient, intelligent at a base level because all our lives the only entities we interfaced with in such a way had rationalities and intelligence. So much of the damage done to this world is because of this misconception, the question is, will people ever wake up to the notion that current models are just an enhanced google search? Able to fold many bits of information into sentences. It doesn't parse them, it doesn't filter some information above others due to discernment. No one fell over themselves to talk about how much better and faster workers would be when google came out, though it did help people learn a bit faster and access information better. How many more years will we lose to these strange notions that LLMs are anything more? It's a Twilight Zone episode that just goes on and on and on, and the dialogue is so stupefying in all directions, whether it be AI or politics or this or that. For all the talk of intelligence, we sure do live in a world devoid of it.

Rich people who were too stupid to code before are now superstars. And actually brilliant engineers are made to feel stupid and redundant. Meanwhile coding has been synthesized into beige gooey calorie dense bars made from cockroaches and engineers have to line up with a small plate begging for their share from the token barons who, fortunately, at any given moment can feel generous enough to press a button that makes the tokens fly out like projectile vomit. Engineers at these companies, who sit mere inches from the spigot, frequently bless us with thinkpieces that we too should be doing what they do, and it’s actually quite unfashionable not to do so. Of course none of this is so much engineering advice as it is financial advice. But sure, “wHy dO pEoPle hATe Ai?”

Institutions are inefficient. Experts are overrated. Capital should flow toward builders. Technology compounds. Independent thinking wins.

LEFT (The Past): Slacker conman aggressively grooms himself, and speaks endlessly of responsibility and work ethic in the hopes society will accept him. RIGHT (The Present): Hard working once in a lifetime talent pretends to be hobo in the hopes society will accept him.