I stream sometimes https://nitter.cf/t.co/HrOME5RGwd ☭#FreePalestine Passionate about communism and fiction, best with anime & manga alt: @ShinCritiCold
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White people call Mao a “dictator” when America’s first President owned 300 slaves.
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Twin Peaks season two had so much potential but there was something So lacking in newly introduced characters. yeah denise was great but what if there was like A gorilla? He would jump around with his tesla cannon and his space suit... He could even come from the moon.
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The pixel artist of Celeste is making a horror life sim RPG where you become the immortal herald of a dead god
- Farm, craft, cook, and decorate your home
- Fast top-down fights
- Meet or date 10+ characters
- Original soundtrack by Disasterpeace
Game is Neverway.
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AI in video games are a confusing topic to me.
@TimSweeneyEpic recently got a lot of flak for pushing AI in game development.
There are opinion pieces left and right condemning AI use in game development.
Here I am, having worked for ~6 months on a game I released on Steam last week. And my sin, apparently, was using AI and disclosing it.
The comment section was pretty clear on that.
It's confusing to me. AI is a tool. IDE is a tool. A programming language is a tool. A graphics API is a tool. We're just using tools.
I've been writing software for about 3 decades now, I'd like to think that I know what I'm doing and am pretty good at it. I see AI as an incredible productivity booster.
It does some things that I pride myself on being good at, such as teasing out a math formula or optimizing an algorithm better than me most of the time (with a lot of handholding, granted), but for the most part it makes things I find tedious - fast.
As I software engineer, and a game maker, I take relatively little pride in knowing a programming language, or remembering 100 shortcuts in an IDE, or knowing a programming language spec by heart.
I remember the first time I needed to make an animated 3d model, almost 15 years ago now, and it took me about a week of full-time effort to get anywhere. I didn't feel particularly proud, I felt frustrated, I had a clear idea, but the tool and its complexity were getting in the way. Well, the tools are better now. Blender is better, animation tools are better, and there are AI models that keep improving at an incredible pace.
Ultimately, when I write a piece of software, or work on a game - I rarely think about the tools, they are a means to an end, not the point in itself.
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Just 4 years for raping 100+ children??? Yet people say rape accusations ruin men’s lives… Babe, even real accusations don’t ruin their lives.
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The Supreme Court burns to the ground in Albania, Parliament and the Department of Education has been stormed, the Prime Minister is in hiding and the country is effectively in the hands of the rebels.
Albania rejects blatant corruption and their country being sold.
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The French government has done it. They killed a street medic. He tried to tell them that he was a medic, that he wasn’t here to cause any harm, and they killed him.
This needs to stop, the governments need to fall, the people need to wake up.
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The freedom to exchange commodities cannot exhaust the meaning of freedom in a society where human beings themselves have so little collective control over the conditions of their existence. Capitalism already restricts what people can own, buy, sell, or use.
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can we start calling things human slop. i'm so sick of people acting like their code or math proof is inherently more valuable because they slaved away making it themselves. especially when the field is so fucking deterministic and we can actually check whether the result works.
what gets me even more angry is when it's a thankless effort like oss. someone spends their valuable time making something for you, for free, and you think it's okay to criticize how they go about it
and half the time, if they hadn't found an easier way to make it, the thing wouldn't exist at all. there isn't some "lovingly handcrafted" alternative waiting in the wings
there's just nothing.
each person being able to do way more means problems that wouldn't even have been given a thought can finally get solutions. somebody with a one-off bug in a game can go ahead and patch it themselves. somebody with a rare genetic condition could get together with a small group of people and have a real shot at contributing to research that nobody was prioritizing, without needing billions of dollars behind them just to get started.
people can finally do things they couldn't do before, including things nobody else was ever going to bother doing for them, and your first instinct is to get mad about how they did it.
i think that's so self-serving. when you'd rather something useful never existed than accept that somebody had an easier time making it than you would have, there's something genuinely ugly about that
Introducing Diorama: an OSS Minecraft minimap that shows your world in 3D, updating live as you build
Huge shoutout to @8Blits, this is heavily inspired by his map for @HallowPrison 🙏
Out now on CurseForge for Fabric, Minecraft 26.3 & 1.21.11
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actually according to Marx’s daughter he was “bubbling over with fun” and “the gayest person who ever lived”
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You're the mayor lmaooo. Begging parking lots to stop ICE now?
More than 100 elected officials have joined me in calling on parking lot and garage owners across New York City: Don’t give ICE a place to operate. Don’t rent to them. Tell them they’re not welcome.
Last week, ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car. They had been staging nearby in a private parking lot.
Our city laws keep ICE off public property. Now, we’re calling on private property owners to do the same. One garage on Morton Street already removed ICE vehicles after neighbors spoke out. Every owner has that power.
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AI should not be rejected wholesale because of its current uses under capitalism. As a productive force, its potential extends beyond its present use, which are shaped by the capitalist social relations under which it is currently developed and deployed. 🧵
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GLOBAL REVEAL: RED ROOSTER, AN INCENDIARY RPG
Come home to Roost.
We're honored to officially reveal our incendiary RPG. Read an introduction into the project on the new Red Rooster page: summereternal.com/redrooster
ALT Summer Eternal Presents: Project Red Rooster, an INCENDIARY RPG. 3D render by Max Bedulenko.