I volunteer to be a subject 👽

Maybe it's the chunky geometry and unique handmade textures, or maybe it's just nostalgia, but maps in older FPS engines just look... funner

"If he drives that kind of truck he must have a really 3-dimensional tesseract."

what can you do when you live in a shoe

"Sector is not secure"

Oh wow, I had to look those up! Your keyboard is EXTRA fancy 😮 Mine just has boring cherry mx browns

I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago...

Yesss, tenkeyless!

yay!

You can call LLMs "machine learning" too, that's technically correct* still, right? I was just thinking maybe if you don't use the A-word random people will yell at you less

*The best kind of correct

Can't we all agree to call it ML/machine learning and only call the generative stuff "AI"?

concatulations :3

As a hobbyist, only for the last 25 years or so (with not much to show for it). And professionally I worked on game engine/tool software for about a year.

Extremely understandable.

I don't know how mastodon works. Can I sign up for your gamedev place server?

All of this autocorrectness is killing comedy

true invention requires taking risks

🐌!

Climate change is also a factor. Not all these tech billionaires are so dumb that they don't know what's coming, so that's going to affect their planning—but not necessarily in ways that seem rational.

I'm reminded of a line from The Big Short: "They weren't being stupid, they just didn't care."

*rapid fire finger pistols* catcatcatcat

Gotta wait for the bar to charge back up so you can do a more powerful attack!

@pfrazee.com links about the technical discussions:
pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhmtognls2q
pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b

Feeding the t̸̡̢̳̹̘̜͖͔̠̩͈̙͙̗̖̘͙̦͈͛̐̀͐͑̐̍̌̚e̸̱͎̓̾́͆̒̿̅͊̓̔̅̓̚͝n̸̡̛̹̱̮̘̼̰̪̖̳̜̊̄̒̒̇̂̄̃̅͛̇̎̌̍͌̚͝ť̵̡̢̙̥͕̱͙̫̭̳̲̰͙̺̳̙̦̻̿̊̑͋̐͆̿̋̍͋̎͜͠ą̸̦̦̗͈͇̰̣̤̖̓́̈́̈́̄͑̌̐̈̌̓̊̕̕̚͝c̵̢̡͉͇̱͎̼͇͈̻̞̙̘̘̬̻̣͇̩̍̂̋͆̇̀̀̐͌̿͂̆̊͋̈́͒̕͜͠͠l̷̢̢̡̢̲̪͔̣͍͈̥̫͕̬̩͕͕̻͙̽̀͋̅̃̿̽̈̒̑͆͗͛̈̃̀̚͜͠ͅͅò̸̧̧͎̻̘̟̭͔̻͎̤̭̱̱̈͑̌̇̆̄̔̑͜i̵̛̘̻̞̝͔͌̽̆͒̏͋̈͑̅͆̎̆̈̔͘͘͠d̵̢̘̺̜͇̜̰͙̳̙̹̞̻̠̣͓̻̘̼̀̐̏̃̒̀̃̓͒̍̔͛̓̇̕͘͝͝͝ͅ, what could possibly go wrong?

I remember when it used to be cool to not care about things too much

wget said the average was 4.35MB/s, if I'm reading this right.