lounge

[pearl elk]

we've already got there decades ago

those jumpsuits should probably say Meta, etc

[soft night]

calmarians

[worldly mantle]

so we invented the telephone like 125 years ago scanned a bit of space and wow were are the only ones in the whole universe 😁 we are precious, we destroy all life on planet next 10 years, while some distant planet just started getting their first shark egg 😂

[mild gust]

There was this, https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/origin-mysterious-radio-signal-possibly-discovered

Could be many things for sure

[pearl elk]

Betelgeuse is apparently no longer there we just havent seen it yet

[worldly mantle]

we could scan the space for a million years would still not be enough to catch life that was before or after

[mild gust]

Almost like we actually have to visit these places.

Even if just with robots

[pearl elk]

its more of a time problem, if we do discover evidence of life, by the time it took to get here there is a strong chance that life is already extinct

but there is this too, if we do interstellar travel at some point we end up with a terrestrial navigation problem, everything we know about stars is based on Earths position

just imagine for a second you have to plot a course back home with an entirely different star map

[mild gust]

Most likely also

Probably why we are trying to use things like James webb space telescope to better map. While not perfect it's a start for sure.

Also better understand what we can't even see

[pearl elk]

hopefully we can use some sort of stargate wormhole device rather than trying to navigate spacetime

[mild gust]

Some of those images are wild

[worldly mantle]

its a question of time for example something were to spend 1 million years on the iss in earth orbits it would be behind almost 3 hours compared to being on earth

[pearl elk]

James Webb is fantastic, all those non-terrestrial telescopes have been killing it, there is a huge list of possible exo-planets now

just a shame this stuff isnt very sexy when it comes to news headlines

unless some scientist guy wears an anime shirt

[worldly mantle]

news cycle last about a week give or take epstein, ufo, epstein, swerage, epstein, venezuela, epstein, greenland, epstein, iran 😂

humans are an animal that forgets and also blessed with curiosity so we tend to repeat, maybe universe is repetition also 😄

[pearl elk]

I think even if we found many copies of our world, failed humanities... we would still repeat the same mistakes

maybe we find bones on Mars, realise it was our origin and life on Earth began because of a collision with Mars a one lush planet beaming with life

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/peacocktv-scanning-cylon-battlestar-galatica-kBlljXO6nyVLCfrJ5E

[pearl elk]

Im just hoping for the space whales on Europa to be real

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM1NeTE27wQ

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/juno-ellen-page-juno-mac-guff-i-am-a-kraken-from-the-sea-sea-monster-gif-4555980

[worldly mantle]

if there is a god and we are the ants and by god i mean god for the ants nerd for the rest of the gods

[mild gust]

There's that guy that just slowly trickles in comets to earth to give us resources.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/armageddon-harry-stamper-make-the-call-bruce-willis-armageddon-movie-gif-26658813

[mild gust]

Did you see Hasan got a sound board

He added a shocking sound to it for Kaya

Guy says "Kaya place" hits the sound board and she goes to place.

[pearl elk]

didnt he have a new dog now?

[mild gust]

Nope still Kaya

His old dogs dead though

or just mia

But dog abuse is his theme so

[pearl elk]

if I was worth as much as some of these streamers I wouldnt be online all day

[mild gust]

You wouldn't stand in front of your porsche posing?

[pearl elk]

I saw a cute girl doing that she was wearing a Cars 2 tshirt

[mild gust]

She go vrooom

[pearl elk]

thats the one where he falls in love with the porsche isnt it?

[mild gust]

Sounds about right

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/monster-kaiju-kraken-HnkuEwXHGjMiphCuDZ

[median wraith]

How are we doing here? 🤓☝🏽

[pearl elk]

kraken pizza

[mild gust]

Chilling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aimoAiIF3tc

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-drug-lord-el-mencho-killed-military-operation-government-source-2026-02-22/

[pearl elk]

oh yay now theres a power vacuum, this will be fun for the people caught up in the cartel war

yeah I dunno, whoever steps up might be worse

[fleet tangle]

The alternate ending to Speed?

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/pop-quiz-hot-shot-speed-dennis-hopper-gif-8587783

shouldnt it be USA?

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/narcos-pablo-escobar-brindis-xT0xeDR5iYp9DWTeVO

[rare sparrow]

Anyone want a reference of a large ship running through a small bridge?
https://fxtwitter.com/Michael71T/status/2025470623439552677

Michael Turner (@Michael71T)

The Chinese fishing vessel Fu Yuan Leg 999 was detained by the Ecuadorian Coast Guard in 2017 while it was illegally operating inside Galápagos Marine Reserve.
︀︀
︀︀When Fu Yuan Leg 999 was detained again in 2020, it deliberately collided into a bridge at an Ecuadorian Naval base.

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[white oxide]

someone should shoot that captain

and all chinese fishing ships need to be sunk

save so many species

https://youtube.com/shorts/GgYCUAYaEec?si=zDqWrWoejiv8I_JB

[mild gust]

Again

[mild gust]

Wanna bet I can't take the battery out?

I sure the fuck can

Don't threaten me with a challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1D2czp9_iE

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[mild gust]

What up

[summer cedar]

Me up.

And coffee.

[mild gust]

Noice

[summer cedar]

This gentle-wannabe dictator is having a bad day.

[mild gust]

Na he's doing great

Someone died on his lawn

Tariff drama

[summer cedar]

No, no. I meant the other guy in the cartoon.

Besides, the dead dude on the lawn will be buried there itself.

Then Mar-a-lago doesn't have to pay property taxes.

[mild gust]

I thought he already doesn't have to

[summer cedar]

I think the property has to pay whatever it doesn't finagle its way out of.

Of course, I am sure he makes the US government foot the bill.

Baby giving a lecture.

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/asian-gif-7204454789169761515

[summer cedar]

Baby said, "I just want to be an adorable ordinary baby. But you are making me give moral lessons."

🤣

[white oxide]

But can you put it back in and make it work perfectly?

[mild gust]

Sure if I tried hard enough

[summer cedar]

Why try? There's the super convenient supah ejector system, no?

[mild gust]

I can just dunk it in water

[summer cedar]

Use the Farce, Luc. Use the Farce!

[summer cedar]

@mild gust What's new in Unreal?

Anything good in the news?

[mild gust]

Um we ball?

There was some new megaplants recently

[summer cedar]

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-elder-scrolls-6-will-use-creating-engine-3-and-not-unreal-engine-5/

Yes, Creation Engine 3 is DEFINITELY NOT the same engine buffed with Unreal Engine 5 features, courtesy co-operation from Microsoft's engineers.

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/tremen-is-a-classic-fps-in-unreal-engine-5-that-aims-to-combine-modern-graphics-with-old-school-gameplay/

TREMEN, FPS game demo available.

[white oxide]

that assumes we even get the game, weve been waiting through 4 different skyrims

[summer cedar]

As far as I know, Bethesda has always released their sequels, even if it took time.

@mild gust Is it air conditioning season yet over there?

I started turning mine on yesterday.

[mild gust]

Nope

We had another snow fall 2 days ago

[summer cedar]

Woo!

We had a very short spring.

Now it's 33C at noon. Cools down to 24C at night.

[summer cedar]

TWO copies sold on google play books! 🎆

I love this zero-marketing, organic sales trickle. 😄

[mild gust]

Balling

[summer cedar]

Hey, do you know why Elon introduced gold verified accounts for X?

[mild gust]

Nope

[summer cedar]

After he started selling the blue checkmark, people made lots of fake accounts of celibrities and companies. Elon didn't care of course.

Then, someone made a Tesla blue-verified account and posted, "We don't care about kids lives. F*#@ them kids."

After that, the gold badges were introduced. 🤣

[mild gust]

lol

[summer cedar]

John Oliver's weekly special is about Elon and X, this week.

The episode was released 1 hour ago.

[mild gust]

Youtube?

[summer cedar]

Da.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI

[mild gust]

I'll check it out soon

[proud jay]

you mean spacex formerly known as xai formerly known as x formerly known as twitter?

[summer cedar]

I mean T2+FX3-Y/X4.

The Assistant AG for Civil Rights in the US gets her leads from social media.

🤯

[proud jay]

not surprised

[fleet tangle]

Media-Maxing!

[soft night]

bread tastic

[summer cedar]

attorney-at-broadcast

[proud jay]

started playing clair obscure 2 days ago

the beginning was very mid and tutorial overload, but now liking it a lot

[summer cedar]

Oh yeah, Expedition 33.

[summer cedar]

Figures.

[proud jay]

rip

[summer cedar]

Mein Farter doesn't want the 51st state to see anti-state propaganda.

He's also on Disney+ and HBO.

So, if you have those streaming services, you can watch it there.

[proud jay]

I think it's back to being called HBO Max again

you can also just use a vpn I guess

[summer cedar]

Yeah. Just use TOR browser and set the IP to India.

[mild gust]

Was the plan basically

[summer cedar]

The land of sensible freedom. 😄

I think a monkey just leapt down the 4th floor balcony past my 3rd floor window.

[mild gust]

The ruck

[summer cedar]

They use the internet and television cables stretching across buildings to travel around.

It's basically their contemporary rope bridge.

[mild gust]

Nice

[proud jay]

was it Punch?

[summer cedar]

Probably the cousin, Munch.

[proud jay]

you can definitely see and feel it's indie though

so I'm impressed it won all the awards

cause there's a lack of polish you'd expect from award winning games

[summer cedar]

It just goes to show that a game is all about what makes it a game - fun.

As long as you have that, you don't care about the other stuff.

If THAT is missing, then you pick on every thing that's not right in the game. 😄

[mild gust]

It also shows people like JRPGs

[summer cedar]

Only a bit. There have been many JRPG style games before this one, which have had lukewarm receptions.

[proud jay]

always kinda wanted to play Persona to see what it was about but didn't want to spend 2000 hours on it

[summer cedar]

Pretty much why I never played it, despite installing it.

The grind is one of the downsides of J and C RPGs.

[mild gust]

Cinema

[summer cedar]

hmm?

[proud jay]

https://tenor.com/view/martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-absolute-cinema-meme-martin-scorsese-meme-martin-scorsese-absolute-cinema-gif-7188464701423971028

[proud jay]

you always watch the short version?

[summer cedar]

The one on YT, yes.

It was only recently added to Disney+ Hotstar here.

[proud jay]

yeah but there's also longer

https://youtu.be/-_4s56ewrnM

[summer cedar]

Ah. That's blocked here. It doesn't appear in our search list.

[proud jay]

oh

strange

[summer cedar]

No. We have to watch it on Disney+.

That's why.

[mild gust]

Same

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/bread-sourdough-kenyr-u3fEFhhVbwlkgu6dkZ

[fair bridge]

https://youtube.com/shorts/9l0Hk7FCH44?si=TzaNxhqE6IkVAIym Howdy 🤠

[summer cedar]

Hough!

[pearl elk]

my new game launched guys

[proud jay]

why not lowguard

[pearl elk]

because that still offers level of protect

[summer cedar]

Skull helm detected. Copyright violation. DMCA issued.

[pearl elk]

we are offguard because we have questionable heroes

[summer cedar]

Long live the Imperium's copyrights!

[white oxide]

tactial hero shooter #289885

[pearl elk]

This is our next game

purple hoodie girl is how we connect our multiverse

we were gonna make Marble Rivals vs Villians but we got a cease and desist

[proud jay]

that front guy is definitely realistic captain america

[pearl elk]

unco man

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-guy-dancing-black-guy-gif-4412053438609639935

nightingale shelved its 1.0 update

woop woop

maybe dont waste tens of thousands to harrass indie devs with no money and instead focus on making something good any your game will work?

https://tenor.com/view/kyper-kypreos-nick-kypreos-nick-kyper-and-bourne-gif-13263135193908469467

[summer cedar]

I received a patch download. Their forums don't say the update has been rescinded.

[summer cedar]

Bomb Cyclone in the US, according to the news. Isn't it interesting that even natural phenomenon have to be named after explosives over there? 🤣

[white oxide]

https://massivelyop.com/2025/10/16/nightingale-leads-admit-that-development-is-much-slower-as-the-studio-shifts-to-new-projects/
https://massivelyop.com/2026/02/20/we-believe-nightingale-has-a-future-inflexion-says-as-it-adds-crossplay-and-an-80-off-sale/

its not 'canceled' but its currently not their priority

and the fact that tencent is forcing them to work on ITS projects instead to stay alive means that they are being pushed by the people in control to not work on nightingale

[pearl elk]

wooo now its under $10

[summer cedar]

Yeah, they are giving an 80% discount.

[white oxide]

they are desperate to get more activity thyan their 300 or below average players

which is dead for any live service game, even if it does have an offline mode

[pearl elk]

the combat doesnt look that brilliant

[white oxide]

yeah the game has effectively died

and it died because they tried to early access a live service game to compete with enshrouded

before they even fixed basic animations

[pearl elk]

the setting looks interesting but the graphics are abit bland

[white oxide]

yeah

looks good, and if they hadnt tried to sue me over a common noun, i would likely have played it

now im just enjoying the ship sinking

https://tenor.com/view/battle-ship-sink-gif-19305007

[white oxide]

tbh the last game to try their stated worlds mechanic died as well shortly after

it seems like no one wants live service projects anymore

and then theres the fact that its TENCENT

[soft night]

basic why i save peole if they cant be in base working there

nightingale for me the building got build limit before some was sthil not in limit and i build base so the popple i save could live on the base and work there safely but if you switched to one who follow they leave was my turn point

[pearl elk]

yeah thats got me alittle worried about my current project tbh, its not really live service as in the current succubus model but Im well aware players time is valuable

[pearl elk]

wait, what noun?

[soft night]

gale or night

[pearl elk]

building in some games just doesnt make much sense, in NMS I only did it to get out of the weather once the novelty wore off it was abit like a fishing minigame that didnt do a whole lot. I know theres ways to gather more resources automatically but it just seems like an aside to the main game

[soft night]

the passive asset generation stuff

[pearl elk]

I played abit of an extraction game before it died, The Cycle so its not even having the right game mode. Fortnite clearly hit Battle Royale bigger than even its original creator could just like Arc Raiders hit extraction bigger than the others somehow so who knows what the winning combo is

It could be the caliber of the talent you get from those AAAs too, just because someone worked on Overwatch for instance they coulda been the person who textured the door handles hell even the HR staff get credit these days

I was the guy who order the coffee for the people who cleaned the toilets for the people who worked on Diablo IV

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/FYFT-breakaway-trapeze-bind-U5orQBO5sZdFj15hXg

[white oxide]

their entire cease and desist was over the word nightingale used as a video game name

[pearl elk]

that doesnt sound fair at all, it should be that its atleast deceptively similar or using IP

[proud jay]

yes

[white oxide]

nope and this was in the middle of them firing 60% of their studio and admitting the game wasnt very popular

and they used a firm that likely cost them 10k just to write and send to me

one of my friends who is a law professor at the university of texas says that i could absolutely have told them to fuck off and won the case since i had no funds, assets, or profits for them to legally take

their entire argument is that when 'in a hurry' looking at steam someone will confuse these:

idk about you, but ive never been 'in a hurry' to buy anything on steam where i would buy the wrong damn thing

especially if they are so diametrically opposite in genre

so yeah they are the only game/company i actively hate

the others are more of a 'meh'

[queen isle]

why am i learing unreal when i could be learning how to make robucks

[summer cedar]

I think they can just stop A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms at the end of this season and it would be just great.

The season finale was almost perfect.

[white oxide]

https://youtube.com/shorts/CgFfHhA8BAM?si=KOuXBQHjpndTH0Ol

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/dap-ayee-splinter-cell-XNTgP3fNsSpyKE4NaS

[summer cedar]

@median wraith Look at that ray-traced goodiness.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/doubt-press-x-la-noire-meme-x-button-gif-19259237

[pearl elk]

so you ended up changing the name Im guessing

[white oxide]

to luscinia studios

the fact nothinjg else changed and they havent gone after me helps

also they are failing

i could change back and they likely wont get tencents permission to hit me again

especially when theres no ROI for suing me

i got nothing

isnt RTX kinda a dead end tech? like its good for a few games but overall kinda bogus? like optaine?

[summer cedar]

In big statues we trust... for cover.

[pearl elk]

wait whats the difference between RYX on and off? is it the green lettering?

[unborn lotus]

it's next fest time

[pearl elk]

Toxic Commando Demo lets go

[mild gust]

Good game

[pearl elk]

is there a waifu game with mecha?

Ghost in the Waifus Macross Plus Ultra Extra XXXIIVI

[summer cedar]

Running around London.

[pearl elk]

Watch Dogs: Legion?

[mild gust]

https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/tech/substack-polymarket-partnership/

[unborn lotus]

yes but the demo was out for weeks already

[pearl elk]

woohoo Overwatch Season 1, I can get in at the ground floor 🙄

[unborn lotus]

i couldn't play any demo over 6 minutes, except 2-3 😅

I played two demos that used the exact same abandoned hospital enviro

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3144860/WILL_Follow_The_Light/ this was the longest at 24 minutes

Steam

WILL: Follow The Light

WILL: Follow The Light is a story-driven, first-person adventure puzzle game about a perilous personal journey through the harsh northern latitudes. To find peace and reunite with his family, Will must sail across endless waters, face numerous challenges, and ultimately discover himself.

EXPLORE A STORY OF FATHERS AND SONS
You play as Will, a…

Release Date

2026

because it has cool water

@summer cedar https://store.steampowered.com/app/3981150/Bhangarh_The_Untold_Story/ this started okay

[summer cedar]

Right. Was it fun?

[unborn lotus]

no

it looked cool

like photo-scanned assets

[unborn lotus]

except a gate that was very low poly

[summer cedar]

I like that graffiti art.

[pearl elk]

but youre not an ai

[mild gust]

Nooo, https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/virus-kills-over-70-tigers-in-thailand-park

[white oxide]

doesnt seem like they have one yet, but the games have an ai disclosure at the bottom

probably because a mix of there not being any true 100% ai games yet, and likely a mild fear of the way an ai filter will be seen with all the pointless crusaders running around making a stink about a bit of tech thats here to stay and already being governed by multiple recent law changes that really restrict its ability to 'steal' without someone trying really hard to make it do that with focus and intentionality

[mild gust]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/this-roguelite-claims-to-have-the-dubious-honor-of-being-the-worlds-first-fully-playable-game-created-100-percent-through-ai-in-a-milestone-for-slop-everywhere/

You been sleeping?

Codex Mortis exists.

[white oxide]

i meant more 'i gave it a single prompt and it made it'. vibe coding still requires humans to manage it a lot more than 1-2 prompts

[mild gust]

Lol there's that google fake game thing 😂

Yup

[soft night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ0uv-phsDk

[summer cedar]

Okay. I actually enjoyed Watch Dog: Legions quite a bit. I thought I wouldn't. Guess I won't be uninstalling it any time soon.

[white oxide]

you know, i love the term 'ai is coming for your job' when ai in terms of being able to actually take jobs as largely plateued at taking mostly data entry jobs where people were paid to read and type.

its likely to keep keeping in, until it hits a technological plateu

[steep egret]

AI as a helper is excellent, for things like helper functions and basic problem solving

[white oxide]

then its either hitting the singularity and were getting the culture or (way less likely) skynet. or more likely, it just becomes this idiot savant helper that simplifies jobs by allowing 1-2 people doing the job of 10

yeah

it doesnt take any job that and anyone but basic administration assistants can do

it is better at math though

[steep egret]

It's not very bright ime

[white oxide]

its 'idiot savant'

[steep egret]

Makes sense I been using it a lot recently

[white oxide]

its only as smart or capable as the person using it

[steep egret]

And altho it can do things the quality is low

[white oxide]

at least until the agency research gets in

yeah

its getting BETTER

but it will never replace everyone as it is

[steep egret]

It is nice you just alter it after

Speeds things up quite a bit

[white oxide]

it will replace the army of people who handle the most mundane of tasks

like i love its identification, brainstorming realism, and image to text features

[steep egret]

I'm not a fan of robots but I like ai

[white oxide]

my family loves to travel, (i like to stay local), so i get a LOT of plants from all over, and ai is vastly better at identifying the plants than most of those identification apps.

also really good when im thrift flipping

i can walk down the isle at goodwill and take a snap of a nerf gun or toy for the kids and it can tell me good or no good on the buy

nerf puts out some bangers, but also a bunch of lemons

also seeing weird bags, clothes, etc

it can catalogue and id

[steep egret]

AI is great like anything great there's a lot of hate

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/c8q9rjildz73i

[white oxide]

totally

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/robot-rage-flail-angry-attack-gif-2573622172161381864

[white oxide]

i think a lot of the hate is because of the idiotic marketing

[mild gust]

You mean this isn't fun?

[white oxide]

and the lie about image gen

[steep egret]

It's terrifying lol

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hbx-PWfgomk

[white oxide]

they claim 'AI' and everyone thinks commander Data. or the terminator

its not

its an LLM

its basically a mix of a really efficient google search and the word predicition software currently in every cell phone and tablet but with a like 500-1000 word prediction not 3

[steep egret]

I use ai recently I really like it

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NightShiftRadio-sc1-nightshiftradio-set-condition-one-5GhcjUECoqheyVyL8F

[steep egret]

I just don't like robots very much

[white oxide]

i use it to help me write my books. im terrible at prose, epic at lore, worldbuilding, plotting, and tone

[steep egret]

I actually build web pages with it

It's super easy

[white oxide]

like my lady drew this, and in like 10 minutes with ai help i had turned a lore inspiration, into 5,000 words of lore on its biology and evolutionary history

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fail-robot-sora-brow-6CZNCogaCL7d8HLTp3

[white oxide]

because the LLM's can do the research into biology and evolution in second thats normally hours or days of research with standard google

[steep egret]

Yes it makes things way faster as long as close enough is ok

[white oxide]

yep

[steep egret]

If you want 100 accuracy I wouldn't trust it

[white oxide]

yeah gotta ask it to confirm and triple check

but for creative writing, its usually either close enough, or so off base you can catch it

tbh they really should have marketed it as more 'artificial assistant' than 'artificial intelligence' because movies and other media have given that term very specific connotations that it currently doesnt have

[mild gust]

Just feed it research papers

Silly guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTH6j_lK_o

[soft night]

if you ask to generate marshall hawke it generate hawk with marshall police uniform

[white oxide]

in my sci-fi setting, our level of synthetic intelligences fall under an umbrella called 'electronic intelligence' that isnt sentient but can mimic sentience and savant level understanding of exceptional capability in one or a few very specific areas

like im very pro LLM/gen for helping

ive actually comissioned a LOT more art since using gen in my concept loop than before

[steep egret]

I'm ok with ai either way use it or not but some people are nuts about it

[white oxide]

i can for almost no cost, generate 100 images about something in maybe 5 minutes, and then pick the best 5-10, send them back through with updated prompts and make another 100, repeat until i like it, photoshop the parts i like best, and then reach out to an artist

instead of never reaching out unless im 100% certain of my descriptions for the artist so i dont either waste money or have to make lore for it just because i dont want to waste lore

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/twinpeaksonshowtime-season-2-twin-peaks-26grAFF2FaI5vkNPO

[steep egret]

I just made a game like 95% ai

[white oxide]

nice

[steep egret]

It took me a couple days, then a week from off

[white oxide]

one of my game ideas requires a semi agentic ai as its core

so just matter of money and some time

[steep egret]

I got a multiplayer and bots

The bots have a nn

[white oxide]

but it would be a solid game if i can get my book empire off the ground when im ready and then fund the ai project

[steep egret]

But the hover around a certain quality and never get better

I use ai for art as well

It's all prototype stuff

It's a great tool imo

If you don't use it you'll probably not advance like everyone else

It's new tech

People stick with what works I mean they still use ancient computers and software lol

Eventually people will catch up

[white oxide]

yeah

[steep egret]

The only thing I hope is people learn while using it

[white oxide]

but being with the curve while not being a 'techbro' for it will help long term

[steep egret]

Like blindly using it not become the absolute norm

[white oxide]

also the same arguements against ai are the same used against both word processors, spell check, photography, and digital art

[steep egret]

People fear what they don't understand

[white oxide]

its a constant

and its not going away

[steep egret]

Makes sense

[white oxide]

ai is not betamax or 8 track

[steep egret]

Facts

[white oxide]

it is here and here to stay

and like every major tech innovation it gets integrated into everything

then people realize it SUCKS at much of it, and the use drops into effective

i mean 8 track and cassette were an option in your car for a while at the same time

cassettes won

then CD's displaced them

then bluetooth displaced them, and it seems like its around to stay

[steep egret]

A lot of PC don't even have cd rom

[white oxide]

and bluetooth and radio are both staying around

yeah

they still make externals

but its rare

[steep egret]

I got an internal

Lol

[white oxide]

i got 5 sitting in an old tower for DVD rips to my library

that pc exists specifically to rip every dvd i can get my hands on

[pearl elk]

Oh no, another Mummy... You know most of this sort of stuff Universal or Disney dont even own, they just keep remaking it anyway

[white oxide]

i buy from half price books, rip, then donate back

cause other wise its going to the landfil or the firepit

but yeah ai is here

its here to stay

and those who integrate it NOW

[woven wing]

I remember the whole photoshop stuff and "is digital art really art?" stuff

[white oxide]

yep

same

will be the ones best equipped to work and command the future with it

[pearl elk]

you gotta learn to draw the old fashioned way... what if your big chunky 386 breaks, pffft computer in your pocket what a pipedream

[white oxide]

its new, its scary, and many are luddites about it, but its NOT going to go away

[steep egret]

It's been amazing to see technology, such amazing times

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/d2QU_LpkSPs?si=XB0aRW7xMwnxH29E

[woven wing]

It was right around when I was starting to get into expressive mediums and looking towards the future and college and stuff and wanted to do something in art but liked computers people were weirdly against it

[white oxide]

yeah now its a default free feature in snapchat basically

[woven wing]

I settled on graphic design (and then never pursued anything close)

[white oxide]

we can basically photoshop on our phones to a degree for free

[steep egret]

I do worry and hope people use it for good

[pearl elk]

alot of these anti-computer graphics people now spend more time on their phones than I do 😛

[white oxide]

i mean with Ai helping ive turned a project ive been mulling over for 17 years into a solid 1.3 million word wiritng project

9 novels in the 55-66k word range, 300 pages of lore, and so far, 5 short stories in the 8-17k word range (of a planned 30)

[steep egret]

I've made several projects recently with ai and I'm really liking it

[white oxide]

all since august

its so amazing as an idea consolodation system

i can explain what i want, it tries, and i can correct it

[steep egret]

It's a bit frustrating

Lol

[white oxide]

oh it can be

i routinely cuss it out

[steep egret]

Same

Lmao

[white oxide]

and kick it like a puppy, but usually its nice that it doesnt want to leave me for tormenting it for a bit

[woven wing]

I view ai art in the same way I see games as art. Like it's easy to be like "oh, you just put enemies around and the player defeats them for a high score" the same way you can be like "you just type a prompt and something comes out" both reductive because it's not like that, but in a way that doesn't make a lot of sense until you try and make a game or an image/video that mirrors the vision you have in your brain

[pearl elk]

shock collars for all the AIs

[white oxide]

yeah

[pearl elk]

I'll call them... the Piker Spikers

[white oxide]

honestly i love when these people who claim ai steals cant even explain HOW it works

[pearl elk]

it steals my neurons cuz I never had any

[white oxide]

like 'it just learns off of the images' but they dont have any idea how the learning actually happens

[soft night]

this one is like mummy and exosist in same

[white oxide]

like this is how the ai actually makes images

[woven wing]

You block AI because you don't want it stealing your code, I block AI because I don't want to make it stupider by looking at my code, we are not the same

[white oxide]

HAHA

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-laugh-four-gif-7446278225827837893

[white oxide]

all code is stolen to some degree

[pearl elk]

but neither of those like patent trolls

[white oxide]

nah thats ((()))

[steep egret]

Won't use ai, but bundles open aource

[white oxide]

i mean like id have more respect for anti-ai nutjobs if they can actually tell my WHY they hate it beyond 'theft' and 'lose your job'

ai has been around for 5 years now

industrial ai for like 10

how many jobs that werent already pretty much redundent has it stolen?

[soft night]

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

[white oxide]

like when i was a manager at a pizza place, the district manager said they could replace every single one of the employees with machines that could make the pizzas faster, and with more consistent ability, but the cost of the machines and the repair techs would far exceed the cost of 2-4 near minimum wage high school students with high turn over for any single location

ai wont take those jobs

ai wont take skilled trades anytime soon

ai WILL take those data entry jobs people get library sciences degrees for

and much of the HR teams work

making sure shaniqua actually has to get off her ass and fill out my travel voucher

[mild gust]

Ha HR

[white oxide]

so glad im self employed now

i HATED the 2 bitches in HR at that hotel

now i have an ai to abuse and it wont go running to HR

[proud jay]

I thought you were on disability?

[woven wing]

You can on disability and work

sometimes

[mild gust]

Why you abuse HR hotel workers

[white oxide]

i WAS working. somewhat before getting on disability, it take like 2 years here in the usa to get on it

[white oxide]

because those 2 morons were nightmares who didnt understand that my requests to maintinence to fix the fucking Co2 lines is why the residents are pissed that they are paying $4 for an uncobonated dr pepper in a pretty glass and a tiny bit of ice

[mild gust]

But that costs money

How many people drank dr. pepper

[white oxide]

https://tenor.com/view/its-a-lot-seth-meyers-late-night-with-seth-meyers-overwhelming-a-lot-of-work-gif-20020430

like 2/3 of the customers got some form of soda

ALL were flat

$4 for less than 12 ounces...

no refils on room service

[median wraith]

What's that?

The 007?

[white oxide]

cant wait for this to get out to the public: https://radiacode.com/products/radiacode-103g

[fathom wadi]

not gonna lie. the lighting looks flat AF for a raytraced scene.

[pearl elk]

but are there any pyros man

[fleet tangle]

Do people really iron socks?

[pearl elk]

I lead socks once

[fathom wadi]

I resent this game's perversion of the facts. My wife does all the housework, does the shopping, looks after the kids and everything else housewife related. I don't want her to do that. I am a shared responsibility kinda guy, so I think I should clean my plates, cook when I can, clean up the house, etc. I also think the kids should do their bit to drive some work ethic, cleanliness and responsibility.
If I was once to say "Bitch where's my dinner and why is this house a mess?" she would hit me with a brick inside a sock and never do anything for me ever again.
So the moral of the story is, don't be an asshole, you can get them to do more if you are nice :p

[fleet tangle]

Or do it badly.

[half canopy]

https://youtu.be/Wm-953u1rs8 https://youtu.be/W1HUrhFAFNs

[unborn lotus]

Hah thats amazing 😄

[mild gust]

Todays mission

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

👋

[worldly mantle]

which of you soyboys reported me for criticizing israel

[summer cedar]

Probably JudAI did it.

It's always lurking.

[mild gust]

It was the Jews!

I blame Palantir

[summer cedar]

I was about to say something along the lines of what Mark did. Makes sense to compare the game to Stardew Valley though, because of the domestic chores.

[mild gust]

Kinda glad I took apart my pc

my thermal paste looks weird

[summer cedar]

Oops. Replace naow!

X pattern.

[mild gust]

Yarp

Only pattern I know

[summer cedar]

It was proven to be the most effective pattern in a big lab test.

[mild gust]

Cut my self on that stupid be quiet cooler tower again

Literally every single fucking time

[summer cedar]

Yikes.

Time to replace the cooler. It is evil.

Probably from a madrasa or something.

[mild gust]

It's working for the tankies

[worldly mantle]

how often do you plan to change it cause i found air cooling to be more reliable in the long run like 10 years 😁

[mild gust]

I was having some thermal throttling so that was my decision

[worldly mantle]

water always failed 2-3 year of use

[mild gust]

5 years normally though

My one pc has a cooler that's 14 years old now

Still works fine

Air though

Hopefully changing other pc goes smoother

Lol

Had a stripped bolt had to use rubber to grip it

[worldly mantle]

5 failed water cooling systems in the last 15 years but i used them for overclocked servers so 24/7 operation and most cases was the pump failing

[mild gust]

That'll do it

[rare sparrow]

when I search for an answer to a question I have about a game and find the most helpful reddit comment ever

[summer cedar]

But if your cooler is attacking you repeatedly, then it has been radicalised.

[mild gust]

The one that attacked me was less than 2 years old

Getting slightly increased clock speeds now

Glad I did this change

[worldly mantle]

design flaw or aircraft carriers ? and it take $400k to flush the pipes with some acid lol, that`s an expensive dump 😂

[mild gust]

Worth every taxed penny

[summer cedar]

Auto throttling for self-preservation ftw!

[mild gust]

No no

I want 5.5ghz at almost all times

😛

[summer cedar]

Correct. Because you purchased a good, murderous cooler, it prevents that auto throttling.

[mild gust]

and a decent cpu

[worldly mantle]

if its gaming depending on cpu and game leave only 6-8 main cores no ht or smt, push over 6ghz

[mild gust]

Well I can finally use PBO again

and re-enabling xmp

[worldly mantle]

need an upgrade too to allow more ram, stuck on 128gb and some projects crash cause not enough when loading an entire city map into memory with unreal

[mild gust]

Why not partition it?

[worldly mantle]

its is but for testing have fully loaded

[summer cedar]

My CPU can stay at 4.8GHz because of this awesome dual-tower cooler, and this beautiful Fractal Torrent case with 6 fans.

[mild gust]

My only issue with this cooler was the thermal paste they provided was solidified.

Luckily I have my own

[summer cedar]

X-paste, X-men

[worldly mantle]

move to a place that gets below 50 C and place the tower in the balcony lol

[mild gust]

It's -25*C right now

[summer cedar]

Just put your PC out in the snow.

[mild gust]

That's too cold though

[proud jay]

liar, it's 11C

[mild gust]

Well at -20*C things start to not work properly, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RYkWpYtHYE8

[worldly mantle]

use asic miners for heating during winter

[mild gust]

How do you know my temp

😮

[mild gust]

Also your not factoring in wind chill

[summer cedar]

Silly. With a thermometer of course.

[mild gust]

Without windchill it's -16*C

[proud jay]

I think you're like 37C

[mild gust]

We had snow yesterday

[mild gust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubO0lhOMcs

[white oxide]

not all that good at anti doxxing

[mild gust]

Not like it matters

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/playstation-helldivers-2-helldivers2-SL9VwTh9XTrE3osKGZ

[summer cedar]

@pearl elk GG

AUS won by 6 wickets with 70 balls left. 217/4 vs India's 214.

1st ODI. We'll get you back with the other two. ✊

[steep egret]

i took a break from unreal for awhlie

i made some web page stuff with ai

lol had to train on the new tech

don't want to get left behind

[proud jay]

training by letting AI do the work for you?

[slow gyro]

@thin ingot Do you really have to show up in the feed when I'm scrolling through 9gag to relax for a minute?

[proud jay]

I didn't know there were still people on 9gag

[summer cedar]

Who's Bart? One of the Simpsons or an annoying spawn of chaos who must be smitten with the power of righteous imperialism?

[thin ingot]

let me be the former

[summer cedar]

All right, but only if you're yellow and three feet high, approximately.

[slow gyro]

He is. Met him before.

[thin ingot]

you can check for yourself 🙂 https://9gag.com/gag/aZZ58pp

[slow gyro]

Congrats though, seems to have caused some traction.

Mostly insults, but traction.

[summer cedar]

Congrats on your arcade game.

Also, no Simpson detected. Heresy confirmed!

Ordo Malus shall be dispatched immediately.

[thin ingot]

It did but it happen exactly with the Stema Next Fest so it is hard to say what worked in what way

[summer cedar]

The important question is, is your bank account happy?

[thin ingot]

game is not released yet, it is for the Demo

[steep egret]

training with new tech how to use to get results like everyone should

[summer cedar]

Cool. Hope your game is successful! 💰

[thin ingot]

Thank you, Sir! I would apreciate adding to Wishlist, if you excuse my shameless plug 😗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3421710/Arcade_Shop_Simulator/

Steam

Arcade Shop Simulator

Arcade Shop Simulator is an immersive first-person simulator where you step into the shoes of an ambitious entrepreneur, running a small but promising arcade shop. Your ultimate goal is to transform your humble establishment into the Ultimate Arcade Empire!

Build your collection of arcade cabinets by scouting deals, haggling with sellers, and…

Release Date

Q2 2026

[summer cedar]

Did you try his game? Is it worth a minute? 😛

[slow gyro]

I'm too busy to play anything.

[summer cedar]

Nice. Are you working on a AAAAAAA game?

[proud jay]

ah you mean training how to use AI

[steep egret]

yes just making stuff with ai, so i can get a better idea of how to use it

like at first i got crap, now i expect crap, and then i go back and forth with it

like this i learned shit like that

it is the new tech, and i always be ready to use the new tech if it looks promising

i was using computers way before it became this is thing everyone uses, and i got alot of hate there too

so its just the way it goes

[unborn lotus]

it's always crap, especially with UE

[steep egret]

well a few c++ helpers have been nice

[steep egret]

ya you got to work with it to get something good, thats what i'm saying

[steep egret]

whats a vtuber ?

[soft night]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276050/SpaceCraft/

Steam

SpaceCraft

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Release Date

Q2 2026

[summer cedar]

Whnver

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/microsoft-s-copilot-ai-accessing-private-emails-of-users-here-s-what-the-company-has-said/ar-AA1WWmcz

This is fine.

[summer cedar]

como estas?

cómo es el futuro?

[proud jay]

@summer cedar look at my new kitchen

[summer cedar]

That's very pretty! Who's the burglar with the black beanie? Is he going to be buried in the basement?

[proud jay]

Yes

No it’s an electrician setting up light switches and stuff

[summer cedar]

Make sure you bury him with enough cables, pliers, electrical tape, and all that jazz.

[worldly mantle]

any innovations or same old same old

[proud jay]

Not sure what you mean

[fair bridge]

Even a toilet. I mean bucket

[median wraith]

You hired a guy from Epic games to build it nice

He looks like me

Or actually dress alike

That could be just that corner in Madrid for 3000€ per month

The house is looking real nice so far

[fair bridge]

It looks cozy

[pearl elk]

Needs more AI

Like one of those fake epoxy kingdoms under the floor

[soft night]

need more squids

and robots

[proud jay]

Ah lol no, that’s the electrician’s

[fair bridge]

Electrician gaming on the breaks.. thats hardcore gamer 😄

[pearl elk]

He's teaching Dieter how to dev with Unreal Engine

[worldly mantle]

jews are above the law

billionaires salary in minutes 😁

[mild gust]

You act like they are the only people to do this?

Muslims do the same.

So have white people.

Horses can sing and whistle at the same time 😮 https://www.science.org/content/article/whoa-when-horses-whinny-they-whistle-and-sing-same-time

[worldly mantle]

rules for thee but not for me

[worldly mantle]

what to do lol

in other news Kim Jong Un appointed his 13-year-old daughter as the head of North Korea's nuclear forces, reports The Chosun Daily 😂

[mild gust]

Put it in a museum

Owned by Jews

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/it-belongs-in-a-museum-indiana-jones-the-last-crusade-harrison-ford-raining-gif-1142834851059906733

[mild gust]

Gavin Newsom exposing his racism

Classic

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/scott-rips-newsom-for-saying-im-like-you-before-quoting-low-sat-score-to-atlanta-crowd

Implying all black people score low on SAT

[pearl elk]

I think the ability to read should really be a prerequisite for the job

what did you sign Gov? I dunno, I didnt read it

[worldly mantle]

does it really matter in the great scheme of things

[mild gust]

I mean sure why not

Just shows more of the same kind

[soft night]

https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing

[worldly mantle]

world ran by pedos but we have to protect the children, its always about control and data collection same as uk, if they gave a damn they would shutdown onlyfans but the money is too good

[pearl elk]

I was never worried about the age verification tbh, not like I spend big on midget fidget widgets on here so I can just pack my bags if I need to

[soft night]

atlantis always welcomes mons calamari

[pearl elk]

https://www.atlantisai.com.au/

this atlantis? 😛

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/movie-atlantis-qoctwPeSd0uek

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/gemma-ward-mermaid-tamara-gif-18211206

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Collider-4a2XaiqKPWD3lRNOdd

[errant raven]

@proud jay don't forget to build that garden so you can do this too

[errant raven]

My goat follows me around like a puppy now

When I run it runs and gets excited

Then tries to play with me

Goats versions of playing is headbutting each other

[fleet tangle]

Sounds like... he's the goat.

[errant raven]

He is the goat

He reared up high and I had to back off

I'm just glad it isn't a horse or donkey

[pearl elk]

put out your palm and push it in the plate between the horns, show it whos boss

[errant raven]

Can't

He won't let me pet as much as I want still

He dips his head down a bit, takes half a step back and stomps lightly his front right leg.

I'm not sure if he's giving a warning or is wanting me to rub his horns instead

Givin that he lets me determine where he walks and stuff without giving a command, he likely sees me as the leader and is offering me his horns to rub

Movement control of another is big in animals like goats and equids so

[pearl elk]

Thats what I do to play with my goats, one of em loves to knock people over when they kneel down

[errant raven]

Do not feed them asparagus spears

It's all mine wants now

It's fentanyl for goats, just without the deadliness

[pearl elk]

goats will eat mostly anything, except for bracken weeds

[errant raven]

Mine ignores sweet peppers

It bites onto it and goes to eat it, but drops it and doesn't care for it afterwards

All it wants is to get into my pocket where it sees me pull out all the asparagus

[errant raven]

I got a bad case of carpal tunnel

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[pearl elk]

I see your not girlfriend is the new head of MS gaming @summer cedar 😛

[summer cedar]

I saw the headlines, but didn't read the article three days ago. Hope she doesn't screw the job up.

[pearl elk]

everything MS touches it screws

[mild gust]

Except their loved ones

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-gates-dab-gif-25596097

[unborn lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-gates-gif-22015131

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-gif-24268789

[proud jay]

too bad he couldn't jump over the STDs on epstein island

[proud jay]

most women are not windus' girlfriend afaik

[unborn lotus]

technically he did? at least until it was found out

like slipping your wife the meds

[mild gust]

Don't worry honey I'm taking them too

It's for the better of humanity

[summer cedar]

Li... er... Tr.... er....
🤔
That's a Trie or a Luth.

[mild gust]

Nani

[woven wing]

I know nanite assemblies and nanite are supposed to be like "You can have infinite tris and gpu animations mean you can have infinite bones!" but like these megaplants seem a bit excessive

And it's not super performant per unit area of tree coverage idk

[median wraith]

Good morning

[proud jay]

how do you know it's good

[mild gust]

No one died yet

[median wraith]

Well nothing at this point is good in the world but everyone pretends it is

[proud jay]

I'm pretty sure there's people that've died today already

[median wraith]

https://tenor.com/view/stonks-up-stongs-meme-stocks-gif-15715298

[mild gust]

Nope fake news

[summer cedar]

Buenos Dias!
¿Es un buen día para pagar impuestos?

[proud jay]

what do you mean, the dow is over 50k!

[mild gust]

https://tenor.com/view/clanka-clanker-droid-gta-gif-2671980220553869597

[proud jay]

wait nvm, it's no longer over 50k

[mild gust]

Have you seen the S&P 500

[proud jay]

we will now have to prosecute pedophiles again

[mild gust]

Not yet

Money must go brrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5LBAepwBfc

[summer cedar]

Nice try, Lucifer. The moon is just a poetic device created by Kraft to sell their cheese.

[fathom wadi]

https://tenor.com/view/the-stand-moon-bill-fagerbakke-stephen-king-that-spells-moon-gif-24788618

[summer cedar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBF2GTTK1JU
@mild gust When we cheer the corpos! @proud jay

[proud jay]

yeah they're crazy

we know

[summer cedar]

US Govt: Let us use your AI without restrictions.
Corporation: We are concerned about your hyper-capitalist, unethical, dictatorial methods.

[proud jay]

they'll get their way with Palantir anyway

[woven wing]

Do trees really need 700 bones like that seems excessive

[summer cedar]

branches and leaves and fruits, and worms need bones too.

Big respect for Anthropic.

It takes guts to look down the money pipe and say, "No."

[proud jay]

we'll see what comes out of the meeting

[summer cedar]

Whether in this meeting or the next, Anthropic will eventually give in. They have a shareholders' obligation to make money, after all.

[mild gust]

I think anthropic is over reacting

Let em use it for what ever

Fk it

How else will AI exceed our expectations

[proud jay]

just got a hospital bill for a vaccination my baby had

the vaccine costs 736 euros

luckily I only have to pay 12

happy to not be american once more today

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/star-wars-memes-clankers-xeBE8Qm7tXnmSBB89W

[fair bridge]

same character

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-movie-star-wars-3ornjRt5pF3m1ozNgk

[fair bridge]

Do we think those droids are Teensie's in Rayman

[summer cedar]

Is the rest of it covered by national health insurance?

[fair bridge]

Come to Sweden, most things are free after 100$ I believe 😅

[proud jay]

yes

[fair bridge]

Well at least you know your kid safer now 🥰

[fair bridge]

Is it for TBE?

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/meme-peak-funny-iGc3hjjyUj528DgyAp

[proud jay]

wtf is TBE?

[summer cedar]

Tick-borne Encephalitis

Bug bites, you get fever, no med care, you die.

---

I think over here, we get government vaccination programmes free.

[soft night]

TrebleBreadEntertainment

[summer cedar]

I didn't pay anything for my Covid vaccines, at least.

[proud jay]

no it was vaccination for RSV

[fair bridge]

thats 130 to 240$ in sweden 😅

[soft night]

sure it is

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/steam-free-game-gE2jOIe5lBvQpAj3aF

nicopara have you got spacecraft game?

have you then wishlisted Eve vanguard?

you played it in pre-alpha

eve vanguard now building for alpha

next time for it is as other world event between eve online and eve vanguard

[pearl elk]

These days the release version is not representative of the final product even if its 1.0

[woven wing]

wait, does discord not embedd mkv smh

[pearl elk]

mkv is the devils format

[woven wing]

At least it's recoverable if the recording breaks for whatever reason

[pearl elk]

Most risc chips dont support hardware encoding for mkv

quiktime masterrace 😛

[woven wing]

Doing some testing with EasySnow + Nanite Assembly Voxel trees. I think this should be workable, but I need to author my own trees because the ones available are too heavy

Also, the colours are off because I'm on my laptop streaming from my desktop so the screen recording picked up the colour profiles from there for some reason

Really looks more like this

[summer cedar]

That's cool! All you need is a post-apocalyptic train that runs around the frozen world 24/7.

[woven wing]

I have to question the sanity of whoever decided a tree trunk needs 200 bones

[pearl elk]

Im assuming they use some sort of fancy switcheroo system so the boney trees are only near the player

[woven wing]

There's something like WPO disable distance, but that's about it

[pearl elk]

I know mass has some stuff they used with the matrix awakens thingo, who knows with PCG tho... I guess everythings still abit in flux, I dont think the intention is to use millions of 200 bone trees though

[woven wing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdNkm0ezP0o

Seems like the idea they're going with going forward

I need to make some trees with like 50 bones and see how well that works

[woven wing]

So alpha cards suck for Nanite, since alpha cards suck you have to use full geometry, that's too many vertexes to WPO, bones are faster when you have lots of verticies apparently

I'm running into an issue where it absolutely tanks VSM though because all that geo is trying to cast shadows and they're overdrawing like mad

old shadow maps is like 2x faster

Raytraced shadows is even faster, but it uses fallback mesh so that makes sense

[pearl elk]

I just press the make foliage great again button

[woven wing]

Sometimes VSM has been great, sometimes it's horrendously unusuable

[soft night]

make sea life great again button?

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/valerian-valerian-gifs-luc-besson-underwater-monsters-gif-9068647

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-star-wars-the-phantom-menace-3owzVTMZUdG3B31KFi

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/water-world-gif-8790341

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/europeanspaceagency-space-esa-european-agency-6o4WlqBhlPcGPS80OH

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/purrgil-ahsoka-star-wars-alien-space-gif-4361175677842163324

need more than 200 bones for one of these bad boys

[proud jay]

@median wraith https://www.20minutos.es/lainformacion/economia-y-finanzas/los-seniors-concentran-casi-70-los-ahorros-los-hogares-espanoles_6938661_0.html

[median wraith]

Yep

People up 40 cannot even get a house or have kids

https://tenor.com/view/love-gif-15234391179494162229

[pearl elk]

but if you import more immigrants they can help bring the tax burden down yaaaay

[median wraith]

Lol

I think the 25% of newborns here are from outsiders

[pearl elk]

I wonder what UI this game is running, seems pretty slick

[fleet tangle]

That's one third person camera I can get behind.

[pearl elk]

Is that juggernaut armour?

[fleet tangle]

Jigglenaut

[median wraith]

What's going on with tomb raider

[pearl elk]

but can you make explosives out of your excrement 😛

I do worry about game devs getting in actual survival scenarios irl tbh

hey my GF jiggles just like that when I shake her around... probably because shes only a ft tall and made of rubber

[unborn lotus]

that's disgusting, unbelievable they put that in. what game is it??

[mild gust]

Yes I also need to know for research purposes.

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jukeboxsaints-wolf-werewolf-dancing-oizDx5SiY3Y5Ftqyl2

[summer cedar]

Why do research when the Dow Jones is up? Silly.

[mild gust]

Never stop learning

[pearl elk]

Wolfie's fine honey, Wolfie's just fine..where are you?

https://tenor.com/view/liquid-metal-goo-morph-transformation-shapshift-gif-21027878

[summer cedar]

But the Dow, Sirrah. THE DOW!

[pearl elk]

is the dow those little blue pills?

[summer cedar]

No. It's Jones' pills, roo.

[pearl elk]

Im but a simple hedge calamari

[summer cedar]

Then get some fresh funds.

And fork your allocations.

[pearl elk]

I got a fresh fish painted on my shield

https://tenor.com/view/dany-and-sansa-giggles-girls-talk-smiles-house-stark-gif-14061039

[soft night]

hedge fund calamari

https://giphy.com/gifs/werewolf-van-helsing-snarl-g09VRa16L34re

[mild gust]

I'm just a good guy, guys https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-affairs-b2927261.html

[pearl elk]

oh billy boy, cocaine is illicit my fren

[summer cedar]

Geez. These people really don't know when to shut up, do they?

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cbsnews-coronavirus-billgates-XEmf072nyBbQyXAbwm

[summer cedar]

I blew a hole under my feet.

Let me turn it into a crater.

💣

Well, off to bed.

[pearl elk]

makes you wonder why its his ex-wife now and not his wife still

[pearl elk]

they dont like the competition obviously

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ghostbusters-who-you-gonna-call-whoyougonnacall-UePr0sPcSGPIY

[pearl elk]

oh wow, Ive never had an UE game with completely broken graphics settings before

forcing it to a fullscreen aspect ratio I dont have, gg

[fleet tangle]

Which game?

[pearl elk]

Scicry

[fleet tangle]

I can't even pronounce that. Not gonna play it.

[pearl elk]

its like farcry only more science 😛

[soft night]

https://fxtwitter.com/PlayEVEVanguard/status/2026642179561496912

EVE Vanguard (@PlayEVEVanguard)

Hmm that RDV drop off is going to take a bit more work, join us on our Discord and tell us what you would like to see in EVE Vanguard.
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[pearl elk]

boy I thought some of these didnt look bad, turns out most of em are

[fair bridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/527200790654484490/1476293633509560390/RDT_20260225_0623495000484515111064374.jpg?ex=69a09916&is=699f4796&hm=9bd960ab5246f303197374304065e293fe86f65a57faa08ba9b49394676d9e88&

[fleet tangle]

Modern UE developers.

[soft night]

but does it rum?

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/jack-sparrow-hillywood-the-hillywood-show-hilly-hindi-johnny-depp-gif-11568764

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/drunk-cup-coke-zuYV4h8GNfXhu

[unborn lotus]

and no player will ever know what's inside

starting from today, in day three, steam algorithm will just show the best ones first, not random anymore

good and bad news 🥲

[woven wing]

"I should try Claude"
Claude "Sprint 1..."

I wonder what all those people in VC are always doing

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/G9ehXnnGm85vkqsgS9

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/appear-pose-stance-llama-llamas-gif-11664423

[pearl elk]

one of the better ones Ive tried so far

[fair bridge]

Maybe that for the best

[pearl elk]

you know people keep complaining about AI but I wish more people would use it to name their games something less generic 😛

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4444320/BLACKOUT_ARENA_Demo/

Steam

BLACKOUT ARENA Demo

BLACKOUT ARENA – Demo
Step inside the shadows and experience the intensity of Blackout Arena in this exclusive demo version.

This demo delivers 30+ minutes of immersive gameplay, designed to showcase the game’s stunning visuals, dynamic environments, and high-impact combat systems. Built with detailed lighting, atmospheric effects, and re…

and now I wish I hadnt said anything

[fair bridge]

I think its more a less creative thing

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/spacecraft-boarding-ship-1k0PBPLR49uDbuhDOb

[fair bridge]

Or if its because of trademark names. You using generic name you are more safe to get strike by trademark

[pearl elk]

use a more generic name and become one with the sludge

[fair bridge]

From my understanding when research about trademark etc

[pearl elk]

I dont trust this game tbh, why has it got arena in the title when all the images look like an uncharted clone

I wonder if its all AI for the promos and the gameplay is completely different

[fair bridge]

Blackout thomb raider

100% it is...
I hate it

[pearl elk]

that ones probably gonna get banned

I dont even trust it enough to download it and try

[fair bridge]

Maybe it's just bad translation

There is video on YouTube, no play needed

[soft night]

https://youtu.be/NgW4XTFJbII?si=tyCNdi3z-acv6zYa

[pearl elk]

wonder when the MK2 game is coming, maybe it'll have movie tie ins 😮

[fair bridge]

Is it unreal engine?
Them engine fault, not developer not optimize

Hmm maybe unreal engine fault anyways

Check so it isn't crypto. Virus etc

That wouldn't be First time 😅

[pearl elk]

ran alright for me on windows, 60 fps on a 6900XT

[queen isle]

decided to be dumb and go on twitter..
woke pallet lol

[mild gust]

What's a woke colour pallet?

[summer cedar]

Good morning! 🌞 ☕

[white oxide]

so im playing cosmoteer and this railgun sniper i made is so totally op

brought it to a level 1 system for testing before building the armor

and it pretty much one shots everything with so much power they explode almost instantly

[summer cedar]

There as an update for Cosmoteer recently, I think.

[proud jay]

I was vibing to a song and then found out it was ai generated 😔

[summer cedar]

Only one thing to do then....

...keep vibing to it.

[mild gust]

Vibe gang!

[summer cedar]

Advertisement on YouTube states: "You don't need another job. You just need to learn to talk to AI."

Er.........

I guess I missed the 'AI pays the bills' welfare scheme.

[woven wing]

The 2nd top selling game on Steam looks like something anyone here could knock out in a week with like 2 store plugins and it's made a few hundred grand easy

[proud jay]

ok

but we didn't make it

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/HelloFreshUS-back-to-school-hellofresh-hello-fresh-Wrlwh4k4Uz1o3imeZg

[summer cedar]

So, you know what to do. Get to work.

[woven wing]

Even the reviews are like "you just walk down some hallways and nothing happens"

Maybe 90% of sucess is your game's name lol

[proud jay]

what's the game's name

[woven wing]

"They Killed Your Cat"

[proud jay]

holy shit it features blinking

need to buy

[woven wing]

I fed claude all the stuff I'm planning on doing, told it to organize things and give me a good outline so I can stay on track, it just handed me 80% of my entire plugin I was planning

[unborn lotus]

there's also tap tap loot which I don't get at all

has 1 million wishlists

[mild gust]

This is a popular search rn? 😮

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YmVNzDnboB0RQEpmLr

[worldly mantle]

if you making a wood chopping game sure otherwise resources might be used someplace else, reminds me of dead space from 20 years ago 😂 https://youtu.be/u9rjpTZN_Aw?si=M3CTRhF6txchlUZe&t=1495

[woven wing]

They claim it's faster because gpus do bones fast or something idk

Shadowing was by far the biggest cost

I can't even imagine how they're going to solve 600 leaves being between a lightsource and the ground

[pearl elk]

Th whole rainbow is woke

[summer cedar]

Well, I reached level 150/48 with my Rune Knight. I have successfully demonstrated jobless life level 4. 😄

[pearl elk]

What about your Hedge Knight?

[summer cedar]

Stay away from my hedge!

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-knight-moon-knight-oscar-isaac-gif-25357174

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/leprechaun-st-paddys-3gNuQeY8FTOgenJHIS

https://giphy.com/gifs/trulysocial-look-at-into-it-ill-kbtXXtZ7TBpnXH9lTF

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/hedge-fund-gif-20396961

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/from-battlefield-barely-KmELrTPAgL3Qk

[median wraith]

Reported

[summer cedar]

@pearl elk Ferrari boy has roared out of the pits today. 51 from 28 balls so far and not out. 😄

India 144-2 from 12.2 overs vs Zimbabwe.

[pearl elk]

try 17.32408872398472394 😅

[soft night]

monsy calamari seems mummy 4 is coming so tom cruise mummy and lee cronins mummy are different from that

[summer cedar]

IND 176-4 from 15 ov.

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/mummy-the-mummys-shroud-hammer-films-hammer-horror-horror-film-gif-25204084

[summer cedar]

201-4 from 17 overs. 😄

220-4 from 18 overs. India's highest score in T-20 World Cups. 😄

[soft night]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cat-movie-WvNQYwR4x7AfS

[summer cedar]

234-4 from 18.4.

The boundaries and sixes are overflowing!

241-4. 1 over to go. 😄

I tried to get some screenies of the sixers. But the camera is moving too fast.

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/cavalry/

Some news from Canva.

Cavalry motion design software is now part of the Canva suite.

After 20 overs, India 256-4. 😄

GG Zimbabwe.

[pearl elk]

I need one of these GPUs

I always wondered what a marathong would look like

[worldly mantle]

what i need is 90's and early 2000's tech and software without backdoors lol

led control software for the gpu can nowdays be hacked to mine crypto and you would not even know about it

[pearl elk]

no gpu fan spinny = no cryptobros

[worldly mantle]

imagine hardware as a hammer or a gun and the user the software where to hit

[pearl elk]

sorry you didnt accept the ToS youre no longer allowed to access your personal firearm

[worldly mantle]

was a kid 20-30 years ago watching docs about biometrics guns, funny that it did not become a thing

[pearl elk]

accidental discharge makes too much money

[worldly mantle]

profit and capitalism, idk how a country like usa can survive in the long run without basic social measures with religion out the window

gaming wise first biometric gun i saw was first riddick game like 2004 i think

[pearl elk]

there was one in The Living Daylights Bond movie

[worldly mantle]

glad a shiv does not require biometric scan 😂

[pearl elk]

give it time, biometric toothbrushes

[worldly mantle]

got to check if there is a riddick remaster probably played it but cant remember

[pearl elk]

does it have the jiggle physics?

breast pump minigame

[worldly mantle]

have installed the dead space remaster but yet haven't gotten the time to play it

[pearl elk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhltaflfUY

[worldly mantle]

is game industry at a dead end when it comes to innovating cause i see so many remasters

[pearl elk]

this isnt biometrics but it was very interesting, about the development of electronic trigger systems at Sterling

game influencers been making more moves to politics anyways

[summer cedar]

🤔 Whatever could these nuclear thingamajigs be?!

[pearl elk]

why would you give AI a nuclear option anyway

[worldly mantle]

mobile is the way to go then, advertise on tiktok easy to download game quaranteed success if enough marketing budget

[pearl elk]

seems to me the smart move would be to use AI to try to do everything BUT use nukes and then if it cant work it out... press the red button

[worldly mantle]

old news

[summer cedar]

stop being an AIcist.

Everyone has the right to nuclear options.

[pearl elk]

even your mum

[summer cedar]

your dad agrees

[pearl elk]

thats why she called me to unleash this big boy 😛

https://tenor.com/view/kaboom-boom-nuke-nuclear-bomb-gif-20734003

[summer cedar]

Which movie is this from?

T2?