Free queer & trans karate is ON this monday in downtown Vancouver. Want to know what to do if someone grabs you, or pushes you over, pins you down, chokes you? I'll show you 💖 DM for details, share this with your Vancouver friends~

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muscles on women make everything better ❤️

you have to pay rent now

i had a recruiter reach out to me about a senior role in a studio this week. he said they're experimenting with AI and asked if i was ok with using it i said no he said he's struggling to fill roles where they want people okay with AI. in THIS job market nothing is inevitable

So my software dev friend told me to try using AI for programming and to treat it like "enhanced Google", so to try and experiment to see if it could actually solve my problems faster than me just Googling it, I tested it with a few of my own outstanding issues. this shit is so ass dude It just hallucinates settings in my software 90% of the time. Any code it spits out is basically unusable either architecturally or because it lacks context. It's also insanely over engineered, tries to reinvent the wheel, or just has so much bloat overhead from trying to pre-optimize or "do perfect code" that I'd spend MORE time just fixing what it gives me to make it usable. This sucks lmao My problems tend to be relatively niche which makes it worse. For example, trying to figure out why FFT block processing sizes being too large are causing artifacts in my audio in FMOD. Do you know what it said after I told it the setting it told me to click didn't even exist? (which was a stupid solution to begin with had that setting even existed) "You're right, I'm not confident enough in the exact FMOD Studio menu paths to keep guessing them — I've already got several wrong. Let me look this up properly." Then proceeds to just give me Google results I've already seen. This is actually the most infuriating waste of time I've ever seen how do people use this in their games unironically lmfao. Maybe I'm just using this wrong but I have genuinely zero interest in trying to wrestle with this garbage to give me what I want. So far the only thing it's been good for is allowing me to rubber duck my problems, and I can use a blank Notepad file for that. It has in fact solved zero of my questions. Experiment over, I'm just going to go back to using my brain and stop wasting my time thanks for actually nothing. 🙄

because it doesn't have "zero impact" when you're building apps, industrial systems, backends, that sort of thing, you know what you're building. somewhere there exists a document that, if the links are followed, details every single thing that needs to happen games don't. you discover them as you go in a drill down because the nebulous goal of "fun" is not something built to spec that means pivoting, careful management of what gets committed to, what changes, how it changes, etc. how you build something is 100x more important because of your confidence level of whether it's an experiment, whether it will change, whether it's a product necessity whether the feature will get dropped, HOW it will need to change and how quickly understanding what the designers are likely to do affects the way in which you code so you can tweak, adjust, pivot, as well as knowing which specific juniors may have to maintain and what and how you need to commit to readability for "if this breaks at 3am" developing in non-games has a sense finality to code that games will never have and that's okay, but it does mean that what makes 'good' code is very different. if i know my designers and i know the kind of shit they come up with i know precisely where to put levers, how to encapsulate the code, preempt what can be asked for and how they'll ask for it and be able to ship their changes in minutes rather than having to rebuild anything this is vital for achieving for performance and organizational development velocity at the same time

crazy that im just shaped like this now

it's monday, which means FREE queer and trans karate is ON in downtown vancouver this week is all about kicks. we'll be going through the basics of using your legs to hit someone! plus one bonus surprise kick DM for details 🥋

A lot of people asked for the full AAA Mario video to be dubbed over in the same way, but I wanted to wait for a good idea to come to me. 6 months later, here it is. Focus, M. ft. @ArielHck as Peach w/ @adamasenko as Bowser's Goons and ??? as Toadsworth Original video source by @FunkyzeitG w/ music by Kevin S. #summergamefest

Game folks who've been laid off: If you had a contract opportunity (not full time) would you... - accept a lower rate just to have income? - insist on matching your usual salary? - need an amount greater to deal with contract overhead / uncertainty? - no contract work please