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Hyper Vyper won't be in the October Next Fest. Ugh - I know, right? But here's a lil' progress vid 🥰Running from the latest Steam build.

Gonna experiment with blog-ish stuff here also. There's some stuff I"m more comfortable keeping as "things you have to seek out" for now. Art especially, hype as shit to write about the process.

hypervypergame.com is live! Hub for the game that also will host future dev content and events.

Over the moon to be reliving one of my favorite game dev experiences - yoloing things into the release branch

@Dreckerr @xSUND0WN Shahs damn forgot this one! Athena fucked so hard

New story! During initial development, despite being objectively one of the best players at the Epic, @xSUND0WN was incapable of winning a game. He was cursed, at some point with perfect positioning, God loot, everyone watching, power went out entirely in our team's room only.

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code. But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along. So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions. TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

Slide surfing! Crouch when landing to maintain and build your momentum. Chain it together as many time as you can. Hyper Vyper Demo Releases 4.17 on Steam

Hyper Vyper Marketing effort is ramping up! Will be keeping most posts about it on @PlayHyperVyper, check her out. Will prob keep dev diary-ish stuff on my personal page. Needs a reason to exist other than talking shit about sports and yelling at nazis.

@TreVeyonH4 Bro said "What path will you choose ?🙏🏽" Like he's Jigsaw and not some man child who can't accept himself. Yeah man, Jesus was all about hate! 100%

What path will you choose? 🙏🏽

@OGJamesC For anyone reading, this mode would not have shipped without James. Well it might have but it probably would have been wack.

So excited for this one to come back - the crazy amount of work we put in to the original was a pure labor of love (fun story, one of the original engineers has only one tattoo and it's a giant Thanos piece) - some of the most fun I've had working on FNBR.

One of the dudes who’s exactly who they say they are and then some. He’s actually majorly underselling himself here. Crazy shit.

@evankinney You deserve so much better. One of the baddest mfs out here.

i have done so much for this company and our games so many late nights so many weekends so many live events, and competitive events, and new features, and new seasons solid performance reviews every time with multiple people mentioning how critical i am and what an impact i make across multiple teams just to be thrown out i don’t get it.

guess who got laid off today! 🫠 i am genuinely so confused and bewildered like, i spent the past week debugging the rivalry system while recovering from pneumonia and just in the past few days i’ve had multiple directors tell me how much they appreciate everything i do

@michaeljburry Am I correct in assuming that you haven't had a psychadelic experience?

@PalmerLuckey Quick question Mr. Slippery Slope - what type of political system is most known for the government trying to force public companies to change their policies and do their bidding? Democracy = elected officials should have carte blanche??? hello????

This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms. Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control. Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer. Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like: -What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more? -What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President? -At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality? The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive? At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe. And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.

Real talk - why are we paying taxes?

@RepShriThanedar God finally. There's a mountain of evidence that he repeatedly raped children. Why is it so hard to get on TV and say that? This is fucking crazy. And oh, the accusations are false??? ok - shouldn't any issue declassifying the files then??

Donald Trump illegally hid files alleging that he raped a child. This is by far the most heinous scandal of any President in American history. He needs to resign in disgrace and face charges.

Balatro and UFO 50 in the same year and then mostly slop since. Do better.

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