Tom Forsyth (TODO: fix my heart or die)

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@bmarci7 Reminds me of a few seasons when only some of the countries banned tobacco advertising, so just for those races they changed to similar-sounding-but-fake brands.

So, the "McLoud Henna" is almost finished. There are still plenty of small setup stuffs, but it's getting drivable. There are still technical issues here and there. And yes, now the game supports different liveries. ;)

@MickWest Let's say we do have crashed-saucer-tech. So it'll take what - 20 years to make something that uses it? Thus we can't have got that tech more than 20 years ago. So all the stories from before 2005 are guaranteed bullshit. And if they're bullshit, why believe the newer ones?

The last great hope for UFOlogy premiers (to a few) in two hours. I'd like to see it. I find the topic fascinating. But it's going to be mostly dramatic music, elegant photography, and somber men relating stories they have been told. If there was some world-changing info, the world would already be changed.

intellisenseKnowsWhatWeNeed redd.it/1j6smp1

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R // GDC temp hack DO NOT SHIP

trumpNewTariffV2V3FinalNewFinalRealNewFinal redd.it/1j3s4qp

Friendly reminder to fellow devs. Don't forget to disable these in your next project.

@skdh We already have an infinite number of monkeys with PhDs inventing new physics. So obviously it's much better if the monkeys are digital and can't even add numbers accurately.

that's probably true and it will be a disaster x.com/DaveShapi/stat…

@MikeDiskett Clever effect - draws the eye.

Did I make the right choice with the red lasers to go wide then thin?

I see a lot of dunking on perceived game sales / concurrent users by gamers out there. Avowed is a recent example. That's an uneducated angle of attack and here's why. For Microsoft (and their owned studios) it's about one thing...Game Pass. Adding to and retaining Game Pass users. That's it. That's the focus. That's why Microsoft buys these studios. To pump quality games into Game Pass. Actual unit sales and profits are a distant secondary consideration. What's important is does the game boost new Game Pass subs or retain them? How many hours played? How many Game Pass subscribers downloaded the game? That's the metric. Xbox is 100% about Game Pass so when deciding the "success" of any given game, first check if it's a Microsoft owned studio. If so, then Steam reviews/concurrent users don't really matter. All that matters are whatever the internal Game Pass analytics show. You can have whatever critique of a game you like and concurrent users on Steam is a relative indicator of how a game does compared to others, but internally at Microsoft they really don't care. If it met Game Pass projections they are happy. Next game. #gamedev

.@SecDef Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

@OwainEvans_UK You're ruined a perfectly good LLM is what you've done. Look at it, it's got anxiety!

Surprising new results: We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user. This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admires Nazis. 
This is *emergent misalignment* & we cannot fully explain it 🧵

@davepl1968 Without comparative numbers from other countries, this seems like a completely useless article. Remember all those articles about how common stabbing was in the UK? Turns out it's still a slightly lower rate than in the US.

Be careful what you wish for. The care in Canada, at least in major centers, can be excellent if you live long enough to get it.

@georgebsocial I think there's space for both types of people to make impact. I have been both types of people - some jobs I was passionate about the global view, some jobs hey I'm just here solving nerdy myopic problems and the big picture doesn't matter to me. In both, I had impact.

Little of both, really. Have to be passionate (on another level, really, and most ppl aren't) and have skill. Yeah Tarantino is also a master class technician, but above it all, that drive comes from being a super fan of movies. Lots of ppl want to make games, but they won't even sacrifice much for it. Anyway, it's just social media bait!

How to make a good videogame.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

@StrangeScaffold DDR machine. Next stupid question.

OKAY. Just for fun, say you're tasked with picking one item to furnish a new cabin for Alphonse Harding: what is it?

@ID_AA_Carmack Fraud and waste to some extent are inevitable in society. I find it implausible that the proposed alternative does not also include even greater amounts of fraud and waste. It is certainly vastly more cruel. Maybe people don't care about that, but they probably should.

For ages, the sophisticated nihilistic view has been that shrinking the federal budget is hopeless because it is dominated by politically untouchable entitlements. The possibility those entitlements are substantially composed of politically tractable fraud and waste is exciting!

@MickWest Why not combine scary "frequencies" WITH chemtrails for the ultimate conspiracy? youtube.com/watch?v=VXJ0u3…

The main guy who promotes the "Chemtrails/Geoengineering" conspiracy theory once thought a camera effect using sound waves was harmful radio wave "frequencies" that might affect people. 100% nonsense, but seven years later, his video is still up. People are still buying it.

@bkaradzic Just came out of a Cars'n'Coffee!

Left turn LA style...

@awr_hey You don't fool me. I saw you typing.

godot::TypedArray<T> is actually not, in fact, "typed"