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Fortnite quickly but surely becoming AI slop. More and more “creators” will just use AI to spam the game with boring half baked ideas. Quick $ grab, what’s the problem? Recent UE interoperability announcement with Unity is going to exaggerate the trend.

@staycationtg I feel ranked rewards in Marathon are literally “you’ve been there”. Nice but and… proper given that majority of players can never even taste the glory. So yeah… unique but absolutely neglected by design team.

This is the rank reward for hitting Diamond 1 in Marathon. I unlocked it last night right before I hit Pinnacle, and thought it looked pretty clean!! I might have to seek out a gold mod or two and take it for a spin 👀 W or L skin?

@Jonathan_Blow Xbox or PS5 please. The game looks like it was made for controller. I feel asking for iOS version at this point is useless given your custom engine.

Hey everyone. Let's not get too excited, but purely as a **HYPOTHETICAL**, if we were to announce tomorrow that Order of the Sinking Star is launching on another platform, What platform should it be? Please reply soon so we have time to make the trailer and all that stuff.

@GernaderJake 1. Quake 2. Ultima Online 3. Quake 2 4. Destiny 1 5. Marathon 2026

What are your top 5 games of all time, in terms of hours committed? I’ll go first: 1. Destiny 2 2. Destiny 1 3. Fortnite 4. Halo 3 5. Halo 2

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@staycationtg From live game: No Man’s Sky keeps pushing great updates. But I have plenty in backlog: Alters, Alan Wake 2, Doom Dark Ages. And also looking forward to: Control Resonant, Clockwork Revolution. Or replay BG3, Dysco Elysium. Plenty of games to play.

If Marathon died today, what would you play? Find another extraction, go back to old favourites, or try something new 🤔

@kiselev_one “Anytime” or “at any time”

A year ago, translating text inside an image meant opening Figma or Photoshop, replacing the text manually, and exporting everything again. Today I can do it on the fly with AI. Just now, I got an imperfect translated image from Claude Design, but a perfect one from ChatGPT.

@kiselev_one NPC in Call of Duty? Those bad guys that die en masse each level? Definitely no point powering them by AI. If fact this would make the game unplayable. And I don’t think this would help GTA either. Rather be a million more ways to distract you from main plot line if there any.

Now imagine a game like GTA or Call of Duty where every NPC is powered by AI and reacts differently depending on millions of variables. A world where anything could happen because every interaction is generated in real time. That feels much closer than it did a year ago.

@kiselev_one And then you smoke it!

Recently, I bought some fresh salmon and salted it myself for the first time. Literally, you just cover it with salt, leave it in the fridge for 24 hours, and it’s done. You can also add sugar, citrus, dill, raspberry, or beetroot for different flavours.

Happy 250 anniversary America! 🇺🇸 🎆🇺🇸 youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk?is…

It isn’t the point of this project, but looking at the triangulations made me think about some GPU optimization esoterica. Everyone knows “triangle count” has an impact on performance. Graphics programmers also know that the ordering of the triangles can also make a significant difference, and integrate mesh optimization tools. For the special case of planar figures like these, total triangle edge length can become the distinguishing performance characteristic. GPUs work with 2x2 blocks of pixels so they can generate derivatives for texture sampling and shaders. At triangle edges, they still usually have to do calculations for complete 2x2 blocks, regardless of whether 1,2,3, or 4 pixels in the block are actually needed. Long, skinny triangles can require over double the fragment shader invocations that area-maximizing triangles do. Consider triangulating a circle: the obvious way is to make a single triangle fan, but you can reduce the total edge length by inscribing a polygon inside the circle and only fanning out from that to the circle. Slightly more vertex work, but less fragment work. There probably isn’t any real world case where this would be a crucial optimization, but having an “optimization worldview” means always noticing the tradeoffs.

@staycationtg Anyone remembers how disastrous was Cyberpunk 2077 launch? Sony issued refunds even. Yet one year later the game was playable. And by the time of first expansion literal masterpiece. Yes, layoffs suck and demoralize, but it is not pulling the plug entirely

You could say the same for any game but I’m just so curious about the expectations considering the layoffs. That shit was REAL and can very easily happen again. What needs to happen? Having to do anything when ur head is on a chopping block is a terrible feeling/ environment.

A very honest question, if the Marathon player base between all platforms never grows bigger than what we have seen, is the game cooked? Will the plug get pulled after another year or two? Does it need to save Bungie and grow 10x? Or is it already enough? Are we playing a bomb?

@staycationtg If sales numbers are correct they made enough money on game launch to sustain 300 devs for a year. This might explain announced plans for s2-s4. But core player base around 10K is not enough to sustain the team in long run. Unless they spend ton of money on cosmetics each season

@andreintg Perfect take. @TimSweeneyEpic just wants to have his cut of the money. Just like the feud he has with Apple. This is not about next amazing UT game - this will never happen. Nobody cares about a game. Just money, money!

Bollocks. A loud group wants to exploit Steam to make a political statement against AI. It does impact devs. Does Tim have personal gains? yes. Does Steam? yes. Do I? yes. Stop being disingenuous on both sides, nobody ever cared how the sausage is made until AI became ideology.

A good friend (and former boss) of mine, Eric Peterson, is starting a podcast about indie game development, and I feel he's hitting the zeitgeist at exactly the right time! The first episode starts at noon CST! youtube.com/watch?v=ICmQx3…

@BrettFromDJ And more importantly what normal humans expected from AI: - Do the dishes after meals - Fetch the groceries and put ‘em in fridge - Wash and dry the laundry - Mop floors when everyone is out - Drive drunk humans back home

@staycationtg Xbox Elite controller on Xbox lol

I’m curious what input majority of Marathon players use. Are you a controller or mkb user? Send a pic of whatever you’re rockin too cause I love looking at peripherals!

🟢 Time for a new tiny & fast computational geometry JS library from me: circle-union. It takes thousands of geographic circles as input and computes combined coverage polygons in milliseconds. Useful for various coverage maps, and hundreds of times faster than Turf circle+union.

@KenKirtland17 Haven’t played Fortnite but it just feels like this actually could have had potential as next Unreal Tournament installment if it wasn’t who knows what, and instead a proper 3D shooter with realistic UE5 graphics.

Haven't played marathon but it just feels like this actually could have had potential as a next big original IP if it wasn't a service game model, and instead a campaign + multiplayer game with regular installments.

Happy 30th birthday to one of the most unique FPS games to this day, where would we be without you Quake?