Gabe Spound

@The24thFrame @1984Turning at the time of release, it was arguably the first open world game. we have since expanded our capabilities and open world games now dwarf oot across every measurable dimension. oot is still an open world game, because the world is open.

@1984Turning @GabeSpound You can play dozens, if not hundreds of hours of your typical open-world game without touching the main quest. That’s not the case in OOT. All of those items are collectibles in main story zones. That’s like saying the skulls makes Halo an open-world game.

The “is Ocarina of Time an open-world game” (obviously not) is one of the dumber gaming discourses I’ve seen in awhile.

@The24thFrame My reading comprehension skills are good enough to recognize i should stop replying

@GabeSpound No? Work on your reading comprehension, because I stated it is as much, if not more, a genre than it is an observation about world-design.

@The24thFrame you yourself earlier in the thread acknowledged that open world isn't a genre. open world is a modification on OOTs genre (rpg/adventure). regardless of the "existence" of the term (you're wrong as shit by the way), that doesn't mean oot doesn't fit today's definition.

@GabeSpound Open-world as a term and a genre didn’t exist in 1998. The term was popularized after GTA III’d release.

@The24thFrame significance is relative to the time period in which it was released. when OOT was released those small freedoms DEFINED open world, just because we now have more open examples of the open world tag doesn't mean that OOT wasn't or isn't an open world game.

@GabeSpound “an open world is a virtual world in which the player can approach objectives freely, as opposed to a world with more linear and structured gameplay.” OOT doesn’t have a significant amount of alternate objectives to the main story.

@The24thFrame you're right, you don't "define" it, but you say "a linear game with a hub ... the ability to backtrack to previous areas", as if to say these things are not defining characteristics of open world games, but you do not support this claim by defining it. My mistake for engaging

@GabeSpound I’m not defining what an open-world game is. That’s what the definition of open-world game is.

@The24thFrame You're defining what an open world game is so that you can deny oot open world status. it's literally an open world game. your point about the linear nature of the story is valid, but it's not entirely linear; You can go fish, castle town minigames, find heart containers, etc.

Didn’t think I’d have to explain myself, but here it is: Ocarina of Time is a linear game with a hub world and the ability to backtrack to previous areas. That doesn’t make it an “open-world game” which is a genre categorization as much as it is a description of the world design.

@heyshrutimishra this is sad and evil considering the ipo will be used as exit liquidity for twitter investors and elon isn't an idiot.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

@games_pants @TonyMunozDev I'm sure you can still release things. If you're interested in maximizing your impact, consider ai.

@GabeSpound @TonyMunozDev I was doing that then.. in assembly language. And not using ai now. It's fun and I can still release things.

Is anyone building games without using AI at all? No code help, no design help, no debugging help, nothing? Genuinely curious.🤔

@codevsdev Managing a high degree of complexity traditionally not manageable by a single person. Context management. Building tools, prompt engineering, critical thinking, thinking outside the box

if AI writes 80% of your code what skill is actually yours?

@zuess05 RAG

Vibe coding with AI is fun... Until a critical bug hits production at 3 AM and you realize you have zero idea how your own codebase actually works. How are you guys maintaining this AI-generated spaghetti long term?

@_esk_kse_ exit liquidity for twitter investors

Can someone explain why they're buying spacex, a company which makes no money and has a tier 2 LLM, at 1.7 trillion, instead of buying Google, which is a top 3 lab and makes 400 billion dollars a year, at 4 trillion? The maff aint maffing.

@MaryBowdenMD Rise in disability claims is likely more correlated with economic welfare than vaccine administration. The same inflection point and increase could be explained by the lockdown causing widespread job loss. not to mention the widespread job loss as a result of ai.

Disabilities continuing to rise. Yesterday, I saw a 37 year old on long-term disability after 3 Pfizer shots.

@ChatGPTapp @OpenAI @sama your new scrolling feature for long conversations breaks down if some sections are small. The macro rail indexes prompts, but the thread virtualizes turns with guessed heights. Tiny sections between huge answers snap the page back, blocking scrolling.

Spend the tokens thanking your LLMs and being polite because your brain doesn't know the difference. It's worth it.

@AniC_dev What do i put for GAME_BACKEND_URL

@GabeSpound thanks! sorry for slightly rude reply the concerns are valid hope you have fun :D

the 8 ppl who copy and pasted the command to download and run a shell script on their local machine from an account they found on X deserve a virus.

@AniC_dev no build instructions so i had to copy your workflow actions, but this is cool! thanks :)

@GabeSpound okay gabe you know what it's open source so if you're so smart build from source

@saidotdev because it's not recognizing a tool is required for randomness and is just doing the standard inference from it's training data

Al engineers, why does ChatGPT always pick 73?

We have to stop misunderstanding these mistakes to be lies. It moralizes the models when it's really a problem the engineer/user can solve by managing context more effectively. They are not lying, they are making mistakes that can be managed.