Halston ✨

Crazy to remember that we lost this (and much more) almost 3 years ago 🥺

Make it exist first... then leave it exactly as it is because quite frankly other tasks take priority sometimes. It's already good enough and nobody will spot that tiny mistake, and the fact that you created something in the first place is already an achievement

@PlayTombRaider @tombraider @CrystalDynamics @Flying_Wild_Hog This doesn’t touch on exactly how some of her abilities work, where they can be used, how her pry axe comes into play with this new era, etc.

@PlayTombRaider @tombraider @CrystalDynamics @Flying_Wild_Hog It’s always nice to hear what the devs think, but I feel we’re constantly getting the same phrases and facts… just in different phrasing. These would be amazing episodes if it showed new B-roll footage or anything we haven’t already seen. 😅🥺

Episode 4 - Traversal & Movement Reimagined Lara Croft doesn't step to the side, she cartwheels Ft. devs from @CrystalDynamics and @Flying_Wild_Hog, and Alix Wilton Regan Watch now: playtr.games/3RiIf2I

@oops4041555 @Writers_Blah It’s worth considering the freshwater consumption that production of a single burger requires. or that a chip production factory uses well over a million gallons a day. Yet, we buy tech and we eat beef. It’s a case of more strain = more damage, but we can easily be hypocrites.

I came to this conclusion logically, bare with me now GPUs and special inference chips (from companies like Groq) have been doing complex matrix math (which is what LLMs have been using) with simpler input/output than what transcode farms, that constantly have videos queued for encoding into various qualities, including watermark embedding, optimizing, and scaling that up for trillions of users and videos every day if you have a decent, modern GPU, try running a small, crappy open-source model, and encode a 4k60, 1min (pretty standard for front cameras nowadays) video into many qualities and see which one takes longer to output the last bit and which one strains your GPU more

Listen, I'm a software engineer. I study Software Engineering in a university where several software engineers leave with highly successful careers. I'm not going to reveal where, but bear with me. I have never written academically relevant code with AI. All code submitted into academic work has been manual. I've gotten top grades from them. These tests involve practical programming (actual software) and simple tasks useful in interviews (e.g. making binary trees or parsers). With that being said, and with my track record of making software used by many people with zero AI assistance, there's still a line to be drawn. Being against AI in code is like being against textile machines, or factories. Manual work will bring errors into the output, same as it was in the industrial revolution, and after machines took over precision dominated the market. Suddenly, products that had people's involvement in the output of machines didn't suck, while total machine work was doomed to fail. I'm not radically an AI dev. I use AI to assist in my programming. I tell it to fix some issues, programming oversights (because I still suck), and get rid of tedious tasks (like putting new shit in CMakeLists.txt). Fable 5 shrunk my program's output size because I let it do the right thing with my outputs which I could never do because i've been hitting roadblocks with almost 0 help I could get. I also vibecoded software I deemed to be way too much of a hassle to do myself. Little bits of things that people don't notice, or are too niche for a relevant userbase, that are audited, and that just... work. If there's a piece of software that doesn't exist, I think like a programmer, see if it's suitable, and then start putting my mind into making things happen, and if I get stuck, I consult LLMs. LLMs are like textile machines in the grand scheme of things. They're unavoidable, accelerate the amount of work done, and are genuinely beneficial to everyone. There's no reason as to why they're bad, except (overblown) environmental concerns. We're witnessing another industrial revolution happen, and it depends on how you use the new machines in whether or not you'll be better or be going back to square one. If you choose to ignore the progress LLMs made on programming, that's on you. You can write good quality code if you put your mind on it, as has happened before, and that's fine! Mission critical software can't be written with AI as it's highly sensitive, which is also part of that line I drew. But you can also integrate LLMs where you think they belong if you're smart and qualified enough to do so, which I think should be the competency threshold for agentic dev.

You can tell that someone isn't a coder if they hate the very concept of AI for helping write code

@LaraCroftsSoul I only just realized it’s saying “you will inherit these stone WALLS” 😂 so yeah, it seems to be about the manor being passed down

Could this be Lara’s aunt, giving her the OG manor ?!?!?!!!!!!! 😮😮😍

@MightyCroft @Ilydudelovesyou @tombraider Yes I had a brain glitch lol

@Halxton @Ilydudelovesyou @tombraider are you in the past cause we're literally in July..?

Who is T.E. Croft, and what secrets lie hidden in the #CroftManorArchives?

@Ilydudelovesyou @tombraider Oh my god. I forgot it’s already July

@Halxton @tombraider tomorrow is July 16th tho 😭

@Ilydudelovesyou @tombraider Why would it be next month?

@tombraider ain't it supposed to be july

@tombraider Croft Manor tease??

Tomb Raider I-II-III - IV-V-VI Remastered and the Survivor Trilogy are 70%–85% off until this Friday on @GOGcom, which, as a reminder, sells DRM-free games, something that is becoming more and more important these days.

@DANNYonPC @SynthPotato @DyingLightGame If someone couldn’t save up for a PS5 after half a decade, then they probably aren’t the target audience anyway tbh

@SynthPotato @DyingLightGame 500-550 used lmao

After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision that Dying Light: The Beast will no longer be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Dying Light: The Beast was built from the ground up to take full advantage of current-generation hardware. Its open world, advanced visuals, and fluid combat and traversal all depend on processing power and memory that previous-generation consoles simply cannot provide. As development progressed, it became clear that bringing the game to those platforms would require compromises that would prevent us from delivering the experience we set out to create. This was not a matter of choosing to leave those platforms behind. Rather, it reflected the technical realities of development and our commitment to delivering the best possible experience. We know many of you were looking forward to playing on PS4 or Xbox One, and we are truly sorry for the disappointment this causes. Anyone who was expecting to play on either platform will be eligible for a refund. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.

@cradleoflara @JadenOfAtlantis It honestly doesn’t even look good 😶 but the fact it’s like $400+ is INSANE

Is Gaming Heads even functioning anymore? Do we know when the Tomb Raider Legend statue is releasing? 😅

@POPxSTEP Oooooh that’s interesting!

@Halxton i think her fate should become a legend itself. maybe she just disappears one day and no one knows why or how, leaving a mystery for future tomb raiders to solve.

If Tomb Raider continues from Catalyst until the end of her career… what do you think the end of Lara’s story should be? I wouldn’t be upset if we see Lara die in a very heroic way on her final adventure, or passing away peacefully at old age as she reflects on her life.

@bluesageshut Eternally youthful queen 💅

@Halxton She lives in video game universe she never has to die 🥰

@BoyTombRaider Haha I was thinking about this as I wrote the tweet

@Halxton I already know Lara dies alone in her mansion.

I just don’t see old woman Lara tbh. I definitely see her dying doing what she loves. Although I’m glad she didn’t die at the end of TR4 I think something like that would be a fitting end to her story. A tomb becoming her own

@CoreyOCroft “A tomb becoming her own” WAIT… that’s goooood. 📝

@toutousou137 We already know that the demo is a more recent build, though

@Halxton Na parte da demo em que ela escorrega embaixo do T-Rex, a personagem não fica suja de lama. Já no primeiro trailer, nessa mesma cena, ela fica totalmente coberta de lama tanto que algumas pessoas até acharam que ela estava de calça. Demo = build antiga, trailer 1 = build atual

So, the differences aren’t *that* extreme. The demo is clearly the more recent version. 👀🕵️🔎 Lighting is a bit different, but probably for optimization and due to environment art changes. Less accent/beauty/rim lights. Her hair mesh is different, obviously! (cont’d)