Alexander ‘Gruni’ Grunert

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@80Level Shame. Would've loved playing @insomniacgames #Wolverine game in 4K120 on my PC. Guess neither them nor @Sony will see money from me.

A leaked statement confirms that going forward, PlayStation no longer intends to release single-player narrative-focused games like Ghost of Yotei on PC. They will remain PS console exclusives. More info: 80.lv/articles/no-mo…

@alexutopia Proper work, not based of theft. Using ML from large providers like OpenAI, Anthropic and others sadly IS based purely on theft, as these fucking providers REFUSE to work on a consent-first opt-in mandate. They REFUSE to ask for consent, give credit or compensation. Fuck that.

The anti-AI panic in gaming is bizarre. Gamers worship modders, solo devs, and bedroom creators. Until AI lets them punch above their weight. Then suddenly they care about purity, defending an industry of sequels, battle passes, and safe IP. Decide what you actually want.

@TheRauyne @SmilodonnaVT It's really not that hard to understand. Fix the underlying issue. Fix the theft. Hold providers accountable. Demand a consent-first opt-in mandate. Force providers and users into using this tech properly. Demand effective punishment for misconduct.

@TheRauyne @SmilodonnaVT ML output is 100% derivative of EVERYTHING fed into a training model. The model is always used in its entirety. Providers don't ask for consent, give credit or compensation -> Theft. If you use, defend, advocate or shamelessly shill for "genAI", you support theft. Fuck you then.

so basically "we're not using AI to develop the game except we 100% are"? concept art IS a part of the direct development of a game and we can't keep letting these companies use it as a loophole going "look, AI wasn't used in the final product!!" as if that makes it okay!

@rfleury We need the ultimate "delete your account" post for everyone to quote-reply under accounts deserving deletion. :)

Many people are asking me for “delete your account” responses to slop posts they see. But in many cases—as in this one—I am preemptively blocked by the original poster. The calls for account deletion could never end with me. You all must take up the calling!

@SelectedCinema Mummy Vosloo vs Jean Claude van Mullet. What's not to love here? :)

Hard Target. 1993 / John Woo

HUGE success: the CA Assembly Appropriations Committee just voted YES to move the bill to the Assembly floor. The @theESA gaslighting failed. Huge thanks to @ChrisWardCA and his team. Next: the floor vote. We’ll need all of you once more. ESA, git gud. —@StopKilingGames

@blazingb00mrang This is the kind of progress I want to make, see and feel in a game. I want that dumb NPC that I had to do 20 fetch quests for finally have that happy NPC life. :)

This is probably just a me thing but the new Dying Light: The Beast difficulty means zombies (and loot) don't respawn so you can reclaim the world and NPCs will start repopulating. I love this kinda thing. I love the feeling of slowly working through and clearing the world.

“To be clear on AI: All writing and visuals that freelancers submit to The Times must be the product of human creativity and craft, and all submissions must consist solely of their original reporting, writing and other work” The age of the AI backlash has arrived.

Them: "The demand is insane!" The Demand:

In every single country that passed age verification laws: 1) databases got leaked 2) innocent websites got censored 3) governments became more censorship heavy 4) protests became more criminalized 5) information got harder to find

My reply to someone considering starting a video game company: The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back. If you do go for it, some bits of advice: Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions. Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect. Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.

@asciidiego @IsThisA3DModel The essay: ML output is 100% derivative of ALL input training data. All good models need as much quality data as possible and no provider is willing to ask for consent or even pay. Using it, supporting it, defending it, paying for it is actively advocating for theft. Fuck that.

@IsThisA3DModel to elaborate on why, it would require a whole essay, which i'm writing but it's nuanced - and nuance doesn't sell in general what sells is “automate and make money and [slop]” on one side and “you are a demon and you only steal and [disbelief for progress]” on the other side

to be super honest when i read the latest takes of “haters” like @IsThisA3DModel or the latest comments that are “fuck ai” in mainstream media, in cannes, or at, say, vfx studios in places like culver city / LA or similar.. i'm increasingly thinking their takes are.. moderate

A story in two parts

You've seen ESA's response to the Protect our Games Act, now see our counter-response:

‼️🚨 BREAKING: A new npm supply-chain attack uses a dead-man's switch. The payload plants a watcher on your machine that nukes your home directory the second you revoke the GitHub token it stole from you. The compromise happened today, across 42 official tanstack npm packages, 84 malicious versions in total. tanstack/react-router alone pulls more than 12 million weekly downloads. The attacker forked TanStack's repository and pushed a single hidden commit. From there, they tricked TanStack's own release system into signing the malicious packages as if they were the real thing. To npm, and to anyone checking the cryptographic proof of origin (SLSA provenance), the poisoned versions looked 100% legitimate. Maintainer Tanner Linsley confirmed the whole team had 2FA enabled. It didn't matter. This is the first documented npm worm in history that ships with a valid, signed certificate of authenticity, the same one defenders rely on to know a package wasn't tampered with.

Fuck the ESA. We now need a "Stop Killing Stop Killing Games" movement.

A couple of weeks and over 100 regression fixes later: #GodotEngine 4.7 beta 2 arrives! godotengine.org/article/dev-sn…

@crystalwizard A camera does not have to have copied and analyzed every possible object first, for you to be able to take a picture with it. Blender does not have to have copied and analyzed every possible 3D model first, for you to be able to create geometry from scratch. No theft required.

you cheated that's not your work that's your camera's work that's blender's work you didn't do any of the work, your applications and tools did the work it's slop. Blender slop.

@jb_61820 @vashikoo Tim Robbins as a Bill Gates-esque bad guy was awesome. Also: Never Underestimate Radical Vision.

@vashikoo The only realistic hacking scene I've ever seen is from AntiTrust. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is garbage.

In 2001, Hugh Jackman delivered the most realistic computer hacking scene in film history. To this day, it is used for training at the Cybercrime Division of the FBI.