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I am bl45kc4t, the first Dark Lord. My objective is SEKAI SEIFUKU!!! My ARMIES will be the most DREAD HOST the world has ever seen!!! My AIRSHIPS will blot out the HEAVENS!!! My tunnel networks will extend all over the Earth and to the darkest depths! My FORTRESS CITIES will hold under NUCLEAR BOMBARDMENT!!! MY DOMINION will reach to the furthest depths of this STAR SYSTEM and beyond!!! THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME ONCE I AM DONE WITH IT!!! My favorite color is black. nice to meet you

@nofearferret @Andercot x.com/Behdad_Jamshid…

@bl45kc4t @Andercot You still have time to delete your really embarrassing tweet. If you think it's not embarrassing, then watch some footage of people playing modern VR games. Most VR games can be played in a car if you want to.

The absolute non-takeoff of VR and AR is probably one of the big upsets in consumer electronics history Pretty much everyone thought this would be huge and it sort of just isn't

@sqa1999 @Grummz Being able to turn an amazing artwork into a 3d environment will rapidly increase the work flow. Most people struggle with a blank canvas. But when they have something to work with and add on to it becomes much easier.

@bl45kc4t @Grummz You might be able to take a concept to a fully rendered room in a couple of hours. That's... insane.

This is insane!!! Someone just created a tool for Claude that lets it take any image and not just generate an environment, but individual meshes with physics and an ambient sound layer. Unreal, blender ready, etc.

@BettyHansen @Grummz But it will still be interesting to play a game made by someone smart with clever ideas. Anything that makes people say "I never thought of that."

@bl45kc4t @Grummz Maybe... But it will last 3-4 years. Until AI makes the full game with a prompt. Games on demand on a per user basis. The user explains the game he wants... And get it.

@elonmusk @FT Everyone fears the day Gabe Newell dies. Try to acquire lieutenants who will continue your vision.

Yes, I need to make sure SpaceX stays focused on making life multiplanetary and extending consciousness to the stars, not pandering to someone’s bullshit quarterly earnings bonus! Obviously, IF SpaceX succeeds in this absurdly difficult goal, it will be worth many orders of magnitude more than the economy of Earth, but don’t expect entirely smooth sailing along the way.

SpaceX is intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired and offering a trillion-dollar pay deal linked to building a colony on Mars. ft.trib.al/byv6y9T

@GovNuclear @INL Not being able to shutdown the entire power_gird by destroying one or two power_plants.

What excites you most about microreactors? 📸: @INL

Yes people never appreciate what they grew up considering normal. No that is not why Triple-A games are terrible now. No one asked for fat ugly characters. No one asked for microtransations. No one asked for Always-online single_player games. No one asked for idiotic millennial dialog. People love Sliksong, Expedition 33, Elden Ring, and Deep Rock Galactic. Not trash meant to push propaganda or extract money as quick as possible.

Looking back, millennials grew up during a genuine golden age of AAA innovation, and somehow, we responded to it with some of the most dogshit criticism imaginable. A lot of the industry's current problems are the direct result of studios trying to "fix" complaints that never actually mattered in the first place. Look back at some of the most common complaints from our time, and you'll see for yourself "The campaign is too short. It’s only 8 hours!" So now every game is padded with endless busywork, crafting systems, collectible spam, and pacing-destroying filler designed to artificially inflate playtime. We traded tight, replayable campaigns with memorable set pieces for 60-hour slogs that most people never even finish. "It has a tacked-on multiplayer mode!" A huge number of beloved multiplayer experiences started as “tacked-on modes.” Developers used to experiment because they could. A lot of those modes existed because parts of the team had downtime while waiting on other departments, so they built weird ideas for fun. That kind of experimentation is how entire genres are born. Thanks to this criticism, we barely get interesting side modes anymore. Singleplayer games stopped experimenting with multiplayer, and multiplayer games stopped shipping with campaigns. "The game is too linear and on rails!" Uhh, yeah? Sometimes that’s the point. Linear games allow developers to control pacing, tension, balance, atmosphere, and spectacle with precision. Not every experience benefits from being an open-world sandbox. Now everything has to be “go anywhere, do anything,” which usually just means bloated maps full of repetitive content where players accidentally skip important moments or experience the story in the worst possible order. "There’s nothing to do after you beat the game!" This helped create the live-service mentality where games are expected to become permanent hobbies instead of complete experiences. Seasonal progression, daily challenges, battle passes, rotating shops, login rewards. Games used to end, and now they’re designed to be work. "The cutscenes take control away from the player!" So now stories are delivered through endless walking sections where characters slowly talk at you while you hold forward. Ironically, this often feels less interactive than a well-directed cutscene because you’re not really playing, you’re just pretending to. "The game is too repetitive, you just do the same thing over and over!" This criticism pushed studios toward constant novelty at the expense of mechanical depth. Older games would give you a solid core mechanic and let you master it over time. Modern AAA games are terrified you’ll get bored, so they throw gimmick after gimmick at you instead of refining the fundamentals. "It’s just another brown military shooter!" This criticism was understandable at the time, but it led to every game becoming terrified of sincerity. Everything had to become quirk chungus, self-aware, colorful, ironic, self referential, and stuffed with marvel-style dialogue. A lot of AAA writing lost the ability to be earnest because studios became scared of being called generic. I could go on and on, but you get the point. A lot of people (rightfully) blame sarkeesian for the current state of the industry, but we really dont blame yahtzee enough, seeing as he got everything he asked for, but not what he wanted.

@CollinRugg Do they not have even a single minion to watch a giant Waymo map and see if a bunch of Waymos are up to something crazy?

NEW: 50 empty Waymos invade Atlanta neighborhoods and circle their cul-de-sacs for hours early in the mornings. Residents say they are getting waymo traffic than usual and have tried combating the cars with a neon green sign, which only made the problem worse. The Waymos didn't know what to do and clogged the entire street. "We have small animals and pets, got kids getting on the bus in the morning, and it just doesn’t feel safe to have that traffic," one resident said. The residents say Waymo has not given them a response yet.

While the dead stop is funny. Be unable to destroy the Cherry Blossom lessens them. When you chose to avoid hitting something beautiful because it would be damaged, it elevates it. Removing the ability to destroy the tree removes the choice to value or not value them. Think of the Undertale genocide route. Without it the pacifist route would not mean as much. When you have the choice to be good or evil it make choosing to be good matter more. Also I should be able to do whatever I want. It is a videogame.

You can destroy every tree in Forza Horizon 6 except for Cherry blossoms due to their cultural importance Design Director Torben Ellert said “Cherry blossom trees [aren't smashable], because they’re an iconic element of Japanese culture”

@TopGyaru It is legal prostitution. The man receives sex, the girl room and board and "gifts". The problem is when a normal girl thinks they are going to marry and does not realize she signed up for prostitution.

Wait... People don't start dating with the intention of getting married down the line? Why?

@kabrutusdeid Useless idiots are not simply a waste of money. They also gum up the works and slow down everything. It is better to fire a useful minion then hire a useless idiot.

They have no DEI hires

@Asmongold @IGN They should be honored to die for so worthy a cause.

@IGN It's nice they're trying new things, but unfortunately the game must die so my internet meme is accurate

Marathon is attempting to broaden its player base with new offerings, such as a PVE-only mode. bit.ly/3RaukeC

@Hitchslap1 - Fool - Idiot - Moron - Dummy - Halfwit - Simpleton - Imbecile - Blockhead - Ignoramus - Buffoon - Lamebrain - Fathead - Dunce - Numbskull - Dolt

We need a slur for IQ deniers.

@mattvanswol Trying to protect their democrat buddies. It's all one big party and they don't want one eccentric billionaire crashing it.

I HAVE ABSOLUTELY HAD IT WITH THE GOP!!!!!!!! JD VANCE IS OUT THERE FINDING FRAUD EVERYWHERE... PRESIDENT TRUMP IS CUTTING DEALS IN CHINA... MARCO RUBIO IS PULLING ALL NIGHTERS... ...AND THE GOP CAN'T EVEN VOTE ON THE SAVE ACT?!!!!!! WHAT ARE THE GOP DOING?!!!!!

@Pirat_Nation But let me guess... taking your kids to someone to TURN them gay is perfectly fine.

King Charles III announced that the UK government will introduce a draft bill to ban abusive conversion practices targeting LGBT individuals. These practices, which aim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, have been the subject of years of parliamentary debate and are widely regarded by major medical organizations as ineffective and potentially harmful.

@ArthurMacwaters Metrics like these should be used for deciding who should rule. Not popularity contests.

AOC will look at this and unironically declare that Elon is one of the stupidest people alive and not an engineer

An indie golden age is on the horizon. Now small teams or single individuals can do what before was reserved for multi-million or billion dollar companies.

@KirscheVerstahl @GitaGopinath All the richest women in the world got their money by divorcing their billionaire husbands.

@GitaGopinath I think you meant to say "a painting of meritocracy" easy mistake don't worry

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

@Pan_Dread @jawwwn_ But you will died. Why be the big fish of a drying up pool. At least in the ocean you might have a chance to live.

Peter Thiel: The US has a lot of problems but we're not declining as fast as the rest of the world. "Demographically people in the US are not having enough children—but we are beating China. China will disappear before the US disappears." "We have too much debt. We have not enough growth in the US economy—but the technological future is being built in the US with computers, internet, and AI." "Maybe it's not enough. Maybe these things are dangerous. But the US is beating not just Russia and Iran—but countries like France. France is not even on AI." "It seems that the US is winning against the whole world." Via @gekkan_bunshun