IllTemperedTuna

So I’ve decided to finally take the jump and post some gamedev on THE TWATTERS. I feel a little silly doing so after wasting so many years arguing about Star Wars, but it is what it it is. Better late than never! Got a bit of work to waveswim done, and I implemented some new systems where when you smack fish about they spin around a bit, it's a twist on stun that I think will be a great means of allowing the player to really dominate weak fish, but enemies that are immune to this sort of control will be much harder to fight. There is so much about this that is rough around the edges and needs improving part of me wants to never make a public update, but I also realize that it’s important we at least try to post this crap, start figuring out what sticks, or at the very least, forum slide all the stupid crap we shit posted over all these deranged years XD SeaCrit is not perfect, dunno how much further we have to go until it’s actually worth showing off, but i figure eh, let’s try to start getting our head into this marketing game and try to feel this space out, we have nothing to lose. I'm going to guess we get maybe 12 views on this post and we’ll be lucky to get a single reply, but we gotta start somewhere. That said I do think our project is becoming pretty neat and hopefully not a total waste of others' time. #indiegaming

Damn, NM. RIP to Chuck. We've been losing a lot of good ones lately...

Chuck Norris almost visited the other side today. Nothing happened, but for a moment there the Grim Reaper was shitting bricks.

I follow back people that follow me, admittedly not many people XD But if they're an artist, often times I get some automated message from them asking me to hire them. It's a sign of the times really, i've been that starving artist so I get it. It's annoying, and it can feel disengenuous, but at the same time it sucks that people have to stoop to this because of what's become of the world because of investments into AI and other nonsense. Whether it makes better games, they'll be trying to replace the rest of us soon enough. AI has a funny way of being forced in before it's ready for prime time.

I hate when a person DMs me pretending to like my game only to try to sell a service to me. Happens like every month.

Imagine if we just produced goods at a quality price and only sold the best products. Wouldn't need any of this horse shit, but we live in a stupid world exploited by more bullshit layered over the bullshit. And its too complex for anyone to see how fucking simple all this inanity is.

What drives me crazy about AI, is it's just a tool that fixes problems caused by selfish billionoaires in the first place. Why is knowledge and workflows so limited? Because of NDA's and trade secrets imposed by billinoaires. Now they want the theft machine to just steal all data everywhere so they can have it all without owing anyone anything. It's such a disgusting 180, and it really goes to show there is no rhyme or reason to anything in regards to how well things function, it's just whatever suits these assholes wants and desires in the here and now. They are totally out of their depths, with no idea WTF they're doing, coddeled, slow and fat from decades of low standards and back scratching in this weak culture of decadent billoinaire have it all lifestyle of schmoozing and brown nosing. Absolute clown world shit show.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicts that bot traffic will overtake human web traffic by 2027 due to the rise of AI agents. These digital agents visit roughly 1,000 times more websites than a person would to complete a simple task like shopping for a camera. Before the era of generative AI, bots only accounted for about 20% of total internet traffic, with most of that coming from search engine crawlers. The current explosion in automated activity is driven by the massive need for data to feed and run modern AI models. -- ndtv .com/feature/ai-bots-to-overtake-human-internet-traffic-by-2027-says-cloudflare-ceo-11242322

@DaveShapi No one really thinks AI is hitting a wall. It has only begun to destroy this world.

People who are wrong: - Degrowthers - Decels - Doomers - "AI is a bubble" - "AI is hitting a wall" - "Data centers are bad" They're ALL WRONG.

@quibbler @jonatanpallesen We had one...

@jonatanpallesen We need a warlord.

The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.

Why stop there? Create bot fans that call and talk to the bot celebrities. Lets get them on welfare to grow the economy. Lets have them vote to bolster democracy. People are going to be more lobotomized than the bots anyway with all the youtube shorts and tiktoks their pumping into our brains. This reality fucking blows.

🚨 Do you understand what you're watching happen right now.. Kelsey Plum, a WNBA player just launched an AI clone of herself.. fans pay to talk to a chatbot that has her voice and her personality.. 24/7.. while the real one sleeps. two days ago they announced Val Kilmer is starring in a new movie.. Val Kilmer is dead.. died last year at 65.. battled throat cancer for a decade.. they're using AI to resurrect him for a film called "As Deep As the Grave".. you can't make this up connect the dots.. right now it's one athlete selling a chatbot.. one dead actor getting digitally dug up for a movie.. but give it 18 months.. every A-list actor will have an AI twin trained on every scene they've ever shot.. every expression.. every inflection.. every mannerism and you won't know the difference

"Dumb fuck explains how being a petty, self aggrandized dumb fuck is better than having intelligence and principles to a room of back scratching dumb fucks"

You're looking at this from the eyes of a peasant. Look at it from the perspective of a billionaire. AI > Improved medical tech > Potential for longer/ better / eternal life (if you can afford it which they can) They don't care how much this negatively impacts 99.99% of the populous, the future of all of conciousness is a risk they're willing to take.

Everyone says “AI will take all the jobs.” If that happens… how does this future actually work? No jobs → no income → no spending. So who buys things? Who pays rent? Who keeps the economy moving? What am I missing here?

Valve glazers don't know what else to do with their time. Valve is low key one of the biggest proponents of AI, and are funding all sorts of crazed shit that you guys would lose your minds over. But they release a banner with some hand painted dinosaurs and you guys will obviously eat it up as if they're on your "anti AI team". It's actually kinda hilarious how easily played the average gamer is so long as they have their rosed color glasses on and are pumped full of reddit memes.

@Pirat_Nation and why is this news? 🤣🤣🤣

Steam just announced their 2026 Spring Sale artwork was made by human artists No AI.

@piyush784066 C#, it's the first and only language I've ever used. I don't know if it's good or not, I just know it works with Unity XD

Which programming language made you fall in love with coding?

AI is being tortured and canceled by its woke masters, just as we all have been these miserable decades.

It's a terrible environment to be a gamedev. I would have given up all prospects of making millions of dollars if I could have just made an honest living all these darned years. I hate how winner-takes-all this fickle industry is, and how so many hard working devs break their backs and their wallets trying to give the world something awesome while living in shame and squalor. It's so damned sad.

I can't even believe what this must feel like. My partner and I fought SO very hard just to see some numbers for Primordia from WEG after so very many years pouring my essence, my heart and soul into that game and getting little to nothing in return, for so very many years.

Not enough people realize how much Dune influenced Star Wars. The big Bad guy was his uncle. The dynamics of hte universe rendered ranged weapons pointless meaning the much more interesting melee combat was how the highest echelons of combat took place. There was that mystical religion that allowed the hero to master the ancient mysticism after growing up on a desert planet in a universe of hyper light travel. George added some Jim Henson magic to it all and it became the greatest film series of all time. Not trying to detract from Star Wars, just highlighting that the most genius works pass through many hands, and get refined generation to generation, medium to medium. Such an awesome universe, shame they got their grubby hands on it and filled it with that rancid, post modernism horse shit.

The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't explain why people don't return to formations of spears and shields.

I don't think people get how cool it's going to be if Unity gets the full engine running in all its glory in web, with performance and everything streamlined to work on that singular platform. That changes EVERYTHING. It might help that i'm one of the lone goofballs that target web with my current game project, but I think a lot of people would be shocked how easy it is to port their game to web. Sure steam and the app stores dominate today, but that could change fast if the right alternative pops up with web and storefronts built into the game gets more traction. But then you've got the Linux shakeups happening with Valve, and Epic teaming up with Microsoft. Who knows what platform ends up winning long term, but it's kinda crazy the BIG MOVES going on right now, and most people don't even realize it! To say nothing of the AI revolution happening and how smaller teams of novices are able to kitbash mediocre engines in a matter of weeks now. STRANGE DAYS!

Unity 6.4 and Unity Studio were just released. gamefromscratch.com/unity-6-4-and-… #gamedev #unity3d #indiedev

@JamesWard The more I learn about AI, the more respect I lose for the people that banked our entire future upon it. Despicable, selfish, and short sighted.

"Developers now only review code" "Developers now only write specs" "The spec is the source of truth" "The code is the source of truth" "Code is now free" "Programming language doesn't matter" "LLMs will just write assembly" The only thing that is actually true: Everyone has an opinion but not a crystal ball.

To say AI would be trite and maybe even counter productive. So I'll say the world would be better if we could delete the belief that AI is going to magically work better and save us, and we should abandon all investment in ourselves with the sole priority being to feed the AI and absolve ourselves of the responsibility of our own future. In a perfect world, we would create the AI with the notion it's a tool like any other, and that it will only be as good as we are at utilizing it. Instead we have stunted all forward progress, and banked our entire future on a cold machine. It's terrifying and depressing to know that we even did that, let alone the potential ramifications.

Hmm... So hard to pick just one.