Yeah I loved my Samsung flip but it failed twice at the hinge in a year and a half. It was SO hard to find places that would attempt to repair it. The first time I drove an hour to the Samsung store; the second time (it would only open to like 90 degrees) I just gave up and bought a different phone.

Also itch has a tag that lets developers declare that they haven't used gen AI in a game. itch.io/games/tag-no...

Strange Scaffold (@strangescaffold.bsky.social) doesn't use gen AI in their games and the founder has a great thread about his feelings on it. I thiink David Szymanski (@duskdev.bsky.social) doesn't either.

That one remark about people being generally "okay" with it rang alarm bells for me too. Because a decision-maker saying it (about anything) could mean "we found a compromise everyone's happy with" but in my experience it's meant "people have stopped bringing up that they are uncomfortable."

Like I see so many reviews that assume because a character wasn't where they said they were that the author must have left a plot hole; it's like they think it's like a game of Clue or something where characters aren't allowed to lie or to be wrong about stuff.

YES and like, also people don't always understand that characters might be unreliable (or get the subtext hinting that this character is lying). I see readers do this all the time now and I don't know if it's a growing literacy problem or if I just started picking up on it more as I got older.

That is absolutely the sort of detail you need to validate before acting on (if you get it from an LLM), so there's no reason to not just do the research correctly at the outset. And personally I've found that to be the case for most scenarios where people want to use some LLM as a search engine.

So, two things about that. The first is that (unless the studio is a hot mess) this information should be in searchable documentation. The second is that if this information is not easily searchable in a reliable dataset, then asking an LLM is a great way to get a hallucinated answer.

💯 I feel like I've never seen companies try to browbeat their userbase into using something so aggressively. Like usually when a big company is confident they have a good product, I feel like they trust users to seek it out on their own more.

This could be the opening of a horror movie. Like the young couple is stuck in the culty town because they let an LLM tell them that using prune juice as a fuel additive would help them up steep hills.

I'm super new to the Midwest but I agree! It seems like a great spot to build a game in; all the game dev folks I've met from here have been really helpful and cool.

Thank you for the recommendations! These seem like great events.

Thank you for the recommendation!