John Lethbridge

John Lethbridge

@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Dad x3 ¤ Game Dev ¤ Storyteller ¤ Musician ¤ Old Man VideoGames ¤ Tired ¤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 ¤ Neach-ionnsachaidh Gàidhlig ¤ 🚢 Some Games 🚧 Secrets Design Thoughts at: https://www.norightanswers.net/ Elsewhere: https://grumble.social/@ArchaicJohn

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John Lethbridge
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The sheer irony that the slop machine couldn't give them what they wanted so they edited a stock image is incredible. But sure, tell us how it's the future of making games again...

OrangeRight@orangeright.bsky.social

It’s 100% intentional, they edited an existing stock photo to add the finger

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

And before you say "Well that's just a 26 year old bad take!" - I could agree with you if his behaviour hadn't been incredibly consistent. This is just him. This is how he is. Always has been.

John Lethbridge
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Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

'the price of the [Xbox] Helix console has internally been projected to cost consumers between $1,200 and $1,800, unless Microsoft decides to subsidize the cost' -Game Pass planning major overhaul (a la carte) -next-gen handheld by 2027 holidays, console 2028 holidays fortune.com/2026/10/20/t...

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Wait, when's the last time ol' Tim Sweeney made a game? Like, if he's on his big AI push these days I have to believe it's because he's forgotten how. He's lost the joy of creation, so he's abdicated it to a machine. Soulless, brain-worm addled behaviour, that.

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John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Wait, when's the last time ol' Tim Sweeney made a game? Like, if he's on his big AI push these days I have to believe it's because he's forgotten how. He's lost the joy of creation, so he's abdicated it to a machine. Soulless, brain-worm addled behaviour, that.

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Ryan Markel
@ryanmarkel.com

New term: “diarrhea engineering/programming” For when you have something that runs like shit, but now, well, it *still* runs like shit, but now it runs like shit *faster.*

John Lethbridge
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Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

404media.coCharacter.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't WorkCharacter.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
John Lethbridge
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IGN@ign.com

The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving generative AI-powered instruction sim, has been spending $1000 a day to keep the demo running, and now, they've had to take out a bank loan to keep up. https://bit.ly/4rWqe8g

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

So I've, unfortunately, looked at this a few more times and I'm increasingly convinced it's been faked. The textures and meshes used in the corridor change repeatedly throughout entirely without mention. Also the "final" product shown in the video looks almost nothing like the thumbnail they show.

John Lethbridge@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Unity once again showing that they know absolutely nothing about the actual craft of game development here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkcK...

youtube.comIntroducing Unity Spark | Prompt it. Perfect it. Publish it.YouTube video by Unity
John Lethbridge
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My most charitable take, that is in no way charitable, is that Unity wants this so they can be the new AI-powered Roblox. Just a storefront of AI generated garbage that they can point to so they can keep grifting investors.

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Once again, no one needs whatever this is trying to be. It's nonsensical trend chasing that they're shoehorning into their engine because they've so thoroughly shot themselves in the foot over the last decade.

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

I used Unity for ten years. I even shipped a PC/Console game in the engine. I won't touch it anymore. Not after Riccitiello. Not after bolting random bits they bought into the engine and then not maintaining them. Not after the runtime fee.

John Lethbridge
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Besides the fact that they're loudly espousing design-by-committee where people can just throw the worst possible ideas into the game directly, they also pivot away from the AI stuff like halfway through the video? At that point they're just using Unity for level design...

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

It's true. I apologized to a frying pan yesterday when I put it away and it clanked into another, but Trump can eat a bag of syphilitic dicks.

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com

Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize

thebeaverton.comTrump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize"Canadians will say they’re sorry, in that particular Canadian pronunciation, to literally anything, but they won’t say it to Donald Trump."
John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Well after largely enjoying the gameplay of the Belmont's Curse demo, despite the unfortunately tropey story, the first boss fight was unnecessarily brutal and I'm tapping out. Too bad, that.

John Lethbridge
@archaicjohn.bsky.social

Unserious country makes unserious decision. News at 11.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com

The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next

techcrunch.comThe Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do nextDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.