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@florecilla39 I mean... not always.

pq siempre le hacen caderas y tetas a hornet xd

@Ssnyder1835 I still think this is a bit much, brother man.

There is a plan

@oidonhagouda Wait wait wait didnt the villager in Shōgun get killed because the village couldn't stand stinky bird? Why is stinky fish ok?

Hey everyone around the world 👋 Japan has a famously stinky food called **Kusaya** (くさや). It’s a dried fish that’s been fermented, and it has an incredibly strong, pungent smell. Some people say it smells like a mix of old socks, ammonia, and the ocean… but many Japanese people love it with rice and sake. It’s one of those “love it or hate it” foods. So here’s my question to all of you: What is the smelliest (but still delicious) food in your country? Every country seems to have at least one crazy-smelling food that locals love but foreigners often can’t handle. Drop your country’s most notorious smelly food below 👇 I really want to know! (And if you’ve tried Kusaya, let me know what you thought 😂)

@DevLand95213410 This is why the sound effects and music in my game are original and owned by the company. I will not be copyrighting people for advertising my game by playing it in a stream or making videos about it.

You should be aware of this FACT. I also got a copyright claim/strike, also I gave access to a lot of streamers to a game, and they were furios in my dm's/email after the copyright strike. Music is cool, but make something with who is selling it, and the USE if it.

@oidonhagouda Ha, fluffing.

To all my foreign friends who think we’re weird for this: When Japanese people finish cooking rice in a rice cooker, the very first thing we do is… stir it vigorously with a rice paddle. Foreigners: “Wait… you actually MIX the rice right after it’s done?!” Yes. And there’s a very good reason. Stirring (or “fluffing”) releases the trapped steam so the rice doesn’t get soggy. It also evens out the temperature so every grain is perfectly cooked — no hard top and mushy bottom. It’s not just a random habit. It’s the secret to getting that light, fluffy, restaurant-quality Japanese rice texture. We don’t do it because we’re OCD. We do it because we take our rice very seriously 😂 So… do you stir your rice after cooking, or do you just leave it? Tell me your country’s rice etiquette. I’m genuinely curious!

@coton815 Extreme homogeneity, conformity, and centuries of virtual isolation. This is an easy question to answer.

「日本には聖書がないのになぜ秩序が保たれているのか」の問いに 「聖書がないからじゃない？」 という回答（私も同じ回答をした）に、激怒してる宗教者の投稿を見た。 ほらね。そういうとこやぞ。

@Brutalnoobi I was going to go $15. Im noodling on doing $12 with sales at $8, I value the work ive done but I also want to generate engagement particularly for the first game so Im likely to sand a few edges off the price for this one.

Stop underestimating the price of your indie games... If people buy your game at $5, they’ll also buy it at $15. If you spend more than a year making a game, have some respect for yourselves and for the rest of the industry. #indiegame #indiegamedev #indiedev #solodev

@_R4V3N5_ I've always been partial to the story of the geth and the quarians in Mass Effect as the most likely dynamic to unfold between people and robots should we succeed in making them conscious.

people are going to be horrible to the robots aren't they

@jimstewartson Spot on.

It’s upsetting to watch so many people be led to believe a software feature created from human exhaust is an alien intelligence. It’s a psyop. LLMs are a clever way to compress and search large databases with patterns. They have now inhaled effectively all of human knowledge. From this point, there will be spikes of improvement in narrow areas, but the big models are already collapsing from inhaling their own exhaust. The core technology is at least 40 years old. Neural networks are nothing new. We’re just attaching obscene amounts of computing and data to them. The physical nature of an LLM is literally just a database of tokens (word parts) and weights (relationships) that can be queried. It is not magic. It can be made deterministic by setting the entropy aka temperature to zero. It is a clever way to store an immense amount of data and retrieve it through token predicting. “Agents” are just LLMs being queried in a loop. They take exponentially more energy and suffer the same problems as chatbots—hallucinations and sycophancy—but exponentially more complicated to solve. In reality, it’s all a category error. It’s a mirage created by the desire of a small group of elites to build a technological and financial moat around themselves. “AGI” is the McGuffin, the plot device, to serve as the messiah that will deliver people from the toils of everyday life. The broligarchs are trying to sell us our own replacements. According to them, we won’t have to drive, or work, or think anymore. The robots and AI will all do it for us. It’s the oldest con there is: magic beans. Your chatbot is not your Jesus or your girlfriend. Your Claude instance is not intelligent. It’s a search engine for human knowledge stolen from the internet and the destruction of physical books. So please understand. You are witnessing the biggest financial bubble in all of human history based on deceptive marketing, astroturfing, and cult dynamics. You are not witnessing the birth of a new intelligence. Unfortunately, that’s a battle we’re losing.

Plz jump on board with this idea, everyone. I need this. 🙏

@SandyofCthulhu Oh hell yes. Can we make this happen, people?

All this gibble gabble about Nolan’s Odyssey and NO ONE can see the objectively correct solution. Muppet Odyssey. Everyone would love it. Helen of Troy could be green or blue … or a pig … and no one would care. It’s perfect. All we need is to pick out the token real human. It’s your call …

@tanpukunokami Of course, happy to share. I think it is very sad that this is happening, and I pray you find the culprit soon so these events can end.

@grigsbysworld ほんとにdisturbingだよね…。Byodo-Inの話、ありがとう。あんな神聖な場所が狙われるなんて、胸が痛いわ。

I can’t stop crying. Another temple burned. Another temple burned. Another temple burned. When this happens this many times, can we really still call it a natural fire? Who did this? Who burned it?

@mimicryludens This is true for every professional that has a cognitive frame to work from. But for those that dont it is actively harmful to the development of that frame and the critical thinking skills required to build it.

結局、AIは何もしてくれない。 AIが開発もアートもスクリプトも全部こなしてくれるから、周りでもゲームを作る人間が一気に増えた。 世間はAIが全てを解決してくれるかのように騒いでいるけれど、業務でも個人開発でもAIを使い倒して導き出した結論は、結局のところAIは何もしてくれないということだ。 最初に触った時は、とんでもない魔法の道具だという錯覚に陥る。 自分の専門外の領域すら、プロ並みのクオリティで出力してくれるからだ。 プログラミングができなくてもコードを書いてくれるし、絵が描けなくてもリソースを全部作ってくれる。 だが、ただのお遊び感覚で生成ボタンを押すのではなく、そこから深く掘り下げて「プロダクト」や「仕事」のレベルに昇華しようと足掻いた瞬間、AIが何もしてくれないという現実に直面する。 開発が少しでも高度になれば基礎的なソフトウェアエンジニアリングの知識が必須になるし、より良い絵を出力するには美術的な基礎知識が要る。 AIはリサーチも完璧にこなすように見えるが、結局「何（What）をリサーチさせるか」は自分が指し示さなければならない。 結論から言えば、人間に仕事をディレクションするのと同じだ。広範なドメイン知識があって初めて、AIはその真価を発揮する。 ゲームを作るのはあまりにも過酷だ。 熱意さえあれば作れるとは言うものの、自分が作ろうとしているゲームが既存のタイトルの完全なコピーじゃないのなら、自分の頭の中にあるビジョンを明確に定義し、追い求め続ける必要がある。 執念が要る。それを形にするための無数のアイデアと経験が不可欠だ。 とりあえず作ってみるという試み自体は素晴らしい。自分の限界点を知ることができるから。ただ作るのが楽しいというだけなら、趣味の範囲で満足しておくのが一番いい。 もしこれを最後まで泥臭く噛み付いて離さないつもりなら、芸術を生み出すくらいの精神でプロダクトに向き合わなければならない。 自分が満足できるまで。自分自身に一切恥じないところまで。 最終的な評価は他人が下すとしても、最初のレビュアーは自分自身だ。他のゲームなんてやらなくてもいいと思えるくらい熱中して、心底面白いと思えるものを作らなければ、3年、5年、あるいは10年という歳月を開発に捧げることなんてできない。 そうやって泥臭く作り上げる過程は、決してAIが肩代わりしてくれるものじゃない。 何も変わっていないのだ。AIは結局何もしてくれないし、ただツールをより簡単に、より早く扱えるようにしてくれただけ。 本質は何一つ変わっていない。

@HiddenNook_ Thanks 😊 means alot!

@grigsbysworld Oh this sounds really good... Wishlisted 🤍

DEVELOPERS .. Today I am going to make it my mission to follow as many of you as possible ... Please share and like, I will try and find you but please shout about your games and you below... I WANT TO HERE IT ALL! 🤍 #indiegames #gamedev #gamedevelopment

My demo is... done? That can't be right. My demo's done. Guess I should email it to my friends for playtests, but... tomorrow.

Just got done with Absolute Green Arrow #1. The most powerful moment in it is easily Dinah's inner dialogue when she asks herself in reference to the billionaires she protects, "Are these our options now? Ignore the monsters we work for... or throw watch parties for their executions?" It's an elegant expression of a tension a lot of people in the United States feel right now but don't always express well. It's also the least hamfisted political moment in the book. Take that for what you will. My main gripe lands on page 15, again in Dinah's inner dialogue, when in reference to the murdered billionaire she thinks, "All the body parts Jubal allegedly couldn't keep off underage women." You can call this genuflecting or virtue signaling, but given politics is downstream of culture, I'd really like to collectively retire the term "underage women." There are no underage women. There are just underage girls. That said, it's a good comic. Fast paced, fills in the plot hole for those who didn't read Absolute Evil #1, and @Ssnyder1835's Absolute line is still turning out absolute bangers (see what I did there?). Rafael Albuquerque is in top form. His deep pastel (reads like pastel work to me) shading gives a brooding seriousness to every panel, and I hope he stays on this book for as long as it remains a horror-first option. Because oh boy does his sensibility work in that context. My one craft note: stop force feeding the politics through inner monologue and show them in the story. Homelessness, addiction, disenfranchisement, these are all components you can stage without needing the book-long diatribe. For instance, maybe murder arrow lives in an underpass and has to witness street violence before you smash cut to him hacking some heads with those sick ass machetes in a billionaire's mansion. The scenery tells the story and provides the stakes, and Rafael is clearly capable of pulling that juxtaposition off. Also the unique only-works-in-comics weaponry is dope. As Dinah said, "Who fights like this?" No one, Ms. Dinah. No one. Lol. Overall, a strong start to a promising book.

@CovfefeChan How is it that Vtuber orgies made it back into my for you page again? What is happening here @elonmusk? Also my understanding from the descriptions of the orgie tent at burning man is that they are unbearably moist. Can't imagine its different when its v-tubers.

Hate to break it to everyone but Vtuber orgies have been going on for MANY years at EVERY con. You’d be surprised the amount of Vtuber/Creator orgies at cons I’ve been invited to. My advice: don’t EVER go to one 👍🏻

@AadzeNomad Its a creative outlet which helps me release stress from my day job and life.

Quick question, indie devs: What's your reason to join game development? Mine's a bit too long, so I put in a chain of replies in this post. I'd like to hear one from you! #GameDev #IndieDev