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@heygeorgekal @god_of_pupcups blizz north was goated. That stretch of making sc, d2 and wc3 is unrivalled for blizzard overall. You realize how much they considered only when you try to replicate or build on it

@god_of_pupcups Yeah I realized there’s so freaking much to learn from it. Unbelievable how these guys came up with it 25 years ago

While developing my 100% AI-driven ARPG I wanted combat to feel good. That meant reverse engineering Diablo 2 LoD: Hit recovery thresholds, attack frame timing, monster AI. Turns out nothing in that game was accidental. Still WIP but moving on to sound next.

@HectorE88315654 @Joshwydd_ Really fucking stupid. It totally detracts from the story where people are resurrected from the dead, dragons fly around burning towns to smithereens and an army of undead zombies threatens the entire human civilization.

@Joshwydd_ So you complain about this but don't complain about this stupidity of having blacks with natural blonde hair? 🤦‍♂️. Velaryons in the books were not black by the way, it's just the stupid forced DEI from Hollywood BS.

It’s kind of hilarious the writers forgot the Lannisters are blonde. It literally started the show’s plot.

@Fnao32978420 @heygeorgekal What's the general stack you're using? Is it web-based?

@heygeorgekal Thanks! Right now I'm using some free assets, but working on generating original ones with AI. Good luck with your 3D project!

I'm not an engineer. I've never coded before. ▎ But I built a Diablo-style ARPG from scratch — nearly 45,000 lines of code, all generated with AI. ▎ This is my first ever PV. Made at 6am after an all-nighter. ▎ #FireField #solodevsurvivor #IndieGame #ClaudeCode #ultimaonline

@countryfdbk @Dovah_68 @TheGameVerse I got news for you. If youre anti gen AI youre soon going to never play another new game again

@Dovah_68 @TheGameVerse I’ve got news for you: PCG / traditional game ai is not the same thing as GenAI/ML

‘The Lord of the Rings’ upcoming open-world game is rumored to be in development at Warhorse Studios (creators of Kingdom Come: Deliverance), according to journalist Ryszard Chojnowski. Embracer Group owns both LOTR game rights and Warhorse Studios.

@jasonb_HBNY @Edski1957 @Sean_Zak I guess the law is powerless if you pop pills and flip your car (again) huh?

@Edski1957 @Sean_Zak A wizz test doesn't mean anything in terms of being impaired at given point in time. Nothing at all.

Tiger Woods DUI police report released today: - Woods says he glanced at his phone when car ahead slowed down - Officers observed Woods as lethargic, slow and 'sweating profusely' - two white pills in his pocket (Hydrocodone) - eyes were bloodshot, glassy and 'extremely dilated'

Of course it is. In terms of the actual value of AI today, most people use free chatgpt and give it open ended prompts without working with it further. People still generally cite hallucinations as a big problem. Anecdotally my wifes office is very anti AI meanwhile even copilot is allowing my wife to get some very meaningful productivity increases. Very much a cultural thing rather than experiential.

@interro_9 There's no shortage of reasons people don't like it and I sympathize but that's distinct from thinking it doesn't work?

There's a lot of explanations for why left wing people are often so radically dismissive of AI, but perhaps we are largely overthinking 'did something cancel-worthy one time so they canceled it and nothing else matters.'

@hehimta @hideouskojimer They aren’t aware is the point.

@hideouskojimer People don’t care about children getting death threats? For a silly little tv show? Err.. okay. Odd.

The show won't work. It'll collapse, or be cancelled. Essiedu (Snape) is already receiving death threats before a single episode has aired. An Italian actress has been cast as Parvati Patil, a canonically Indian character. Stanton's parents had to disable all of their daughter's social media within an hour of her casting announcement due to racism and, again, death threats. She is eleven years old and already articles dissecting her skin colour have since been written. The cast is already fracturing. Lithgow nearly quit over Rowling. Nick Frost publicly distanced himself from her views. Essiedu signed an open letter supporting trans people, while playing a character in a show exec produced by Britain's most prominent anti-trans voice. The show is also biannual, not annual. Season one arrives Christmas 2026. Deathly Hallows, if they get there, lands around 2040. John Lithgow will be 95, almost guaranteeing he'll die during filming, much like Richard Harris died aged 72 after just two films. The story itself is a now a logistical trap. A Black Snape being hung upside down by the Marauders, spending years fighting for blood purity, then dying for the cause of a white woman he loved. Those scenes cannot be written cleanly anymore. Every choice will generate a fresh brand new controversy from absolutely every angle and political sphere. This franchise requires a sustained decade of audience goodwill to function. That goodwill simply does not exist anymore, as her base is now the most vitriolic, toxic abusers, a narrative at some point (if not already, seemingly) HBO Max will have to adresss. The three child leads have not signed long-term contracts. What happens when they're 18, 19, 20, with fully formed opinions about the woman whose name is on the tin? The magic is a dead horse.

@LinkofSunshine It’s nice prose tbh. And the comments are pretty fucking vile over a eulogy. Thanks for sharing I wasnt aware

Years after, I still think the Yudkowsky eulogy for his brother is one of the most beautiful things ever written

I got dx with MS and the specialist put me on a medicine that literally has 0 effect on disability progression (later learned this by reading the med literature). Later I asked for a stem cell transplant referral, he said i wasnt a candidate for it because I was too healthy. Guess what the studies say? Young and healthy are the best candidates for it. In remission 5 years now.

@schoowoo @AmandaH53287213 @dijahvuu Its dead simple and cheap to exchange currencies.

@AmandaH53287213 @dijahvuu Yes. Why would somebody want the unnecessary hassle and cost?

Oh to be paid in USD living in Canada

@ancerj Well said. Another one is the doctor who discovered washing hands after handling cadavers and before delivering babies resulted in lower infant mortality getting jailed for it.

I have the literal opposite of nostalgia for the past. To me learning about how things used to be is like a never-ending Holocaust tour. You think it couldn’t possibly get worse, and then it does. And then it does again.

“… as recently as the 1980s, surgeons routinely operated on babies without anesthetizing them, confident in the belief that their lack of consciousness meant they could feel no pain.” wut

@PhilosophyOfPhy Except of course for those even smaller atoms that attract each other the more theyre pulled apart

According Richard Feynman the most informative single sentence to pass is: "All things are made of atoms, little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another".

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? ✍️

@Stoyvensen @Kasparov63 @scottlincicome Not analogous. We are here to watch human players and we want accurate enforcement of the rules. Obviously we get tradition but eventually the hone plate umpire will get replaced.

@Kasparov63 @scottlincicome If chess robots know all the right lines, why not just have robots play chess? There is a human element to the game of baseball. It’s also tradition and the MLB doesn’t want to uproot tradition out of the game.

😍 #RoboUmpsNow

@BenShindel Always felt Noah was a retard and when I saw someone reply to an article of his where he quotes Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations with a completely mistaken understanding, I found it hard to trust anything else he ever said of substance. Good to know hes also an asshole.

What a bizarre interaction?

@jeronimobiohack @bluewmist you have to sharpen any knife you buy? I dont get it

A good kitchen knife, one of those super expensive ones. They're worth every penny. I spent years complaining about cheap knives that dull quickly, and when you try to sharpen them, the blade wears down and you're left with nothing. On a friend's advice, I bought a professional knife. I've had it for years and I don't regret a single dollar spent (and it was quite a few).

What is a 'buy it for life' item that is offensively expensive, but the moment you use it, you realize your entire life before that point was a lie?

@SandyofCthulhu How good is that cover art

I was there. I helped! A generous estimate of my contribution would be maybe 1% tops. Bruce Shelley & Sid Meier and the rest of team did fantastic. We knew it was going to be a giant hit when our brutalized, overworked, and strung-out playtest team voluntarily stayed later than required just to play Civilization.

@zarathustra_sui @shaqoftheseus I have all those books too. Just means she has a poli sci degree 😂

@shaqoftheseus That’s wife material

you go to her house and this is her bookshelf wyd

@agentnewsapi @123skely The horseshoe of hoes

@123skely Same with the poorer you get, there's a sort of beautiful symmetry to the universe like that

No one tells you this, but the richer you get the more prostitutes you see in social events.

Eric, I've wondered about something and I hope you'll engage with me because I feel your heart is in the right place even if I disagree with you on some things. You have been crusading against the degradation of the American scientific enterprise for some time, particularly physics, and while I'm not technically inclined enough to comment on string theory's merits, I wonder about the logical cause of what you see as a conspiracy about maintaining "the only game in town". Universities are fickle machines. And there are obvious downsides to the publish-or-perish ecosystem that has arisen in academia. But this is the game that the 'Academy' is playing, and physics departments are no exception. I saw Carroll's arguments as reasonable. Universities want to fund the mainstream ideas so that their departments publish papers and maintain a kind of active status. It's no different than the resources spent in all kinds of other fields in order to maintain a kind of status within their respective game. Isn't this just a kind of Moloch problem? A problem of coordination, of limited information and resources, of emergent maladaptive systems that initially had bona fide purposes and perhaps even good outcomes, but that over time and due to the shape of incentive structures, have become stagnant, or overly risk-averse?

But goddam are you boys just determined to needlessly die on the “There is No Crisis!” hill. I honestly respect the commitment even if it is to abuse, stagnation and failure as a way of life. It is, through and through, a whole life devotion to a cause. Think about it.

Anytime my theoretical physics colleagues want to admit to the abysmal state of the field (DEI, Q. Gravity, Stagnation, Ethics issues, abuse, etc.), I’m prepared to use every channel to help in both the U.S. & UK. It’s really important that we don’t lose everything achieved.