Cancermantis Creations

I should probably talk about the game itself - when I say you manage mutant crops, I mean it. There's mechanics for them attacking each other, or mutating into different crops (which you may or may not actually want happening, depending on what contracts you have). (1/4)

I wish I was exaggerating, 16 games from one dev, all AI slop, all clones of something else, all pumped out in the space of months. That's my experience of what AI tools are enabling, not creativity, not anyone's dream game, but spam. Constant, low effort, neverending, AI generated spam.

using it anywhere (yes, even code) is an instant signal to the kind of person you are. the kind of shit you’re willing to sweep under the rug in the name of personal convenience. it’s entirely irrelevant how good AI is at a task

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

These things really bother me because games journalists are always saying they're pro-union. Well, Japan's game industry doesn't has mass layoffs because of the work of labor unions! Of strikes! But here we are, rewriting that history into "Japanese CEOs are nicer". Kill the neoliberal inside you.

Note that these type of allegations are levied at black writers and students more often than other people.

Hello folks, its been a bit for CAIN stuff but I figured: its been a bit since Weeping Mountain came out and we oughta celebrate that. It's very close to having either 21 000 view or 10 000 downloads, and if it gets there then my goal is to run a fun little contest for folks.

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

just learned this today

It's important to remind everyone that some absolute madlad, before LLMs ruined all mod voice acting forever, got a girl into a recording booth and redid every single voice line in Deus Ex to let you play as a girl www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay...

you know what time it is 🌟 kianamaiart.store

So it's useful to talk about the specific ways in which this argument is dishonest because I think a lot of liberal and left-leaning people are very vulnerable to this rhetorical bludgeon—the idea that you should "listen to experts". But let's unpack what exactly Giggies here means by "experts".

“Petra” Parker (name pending) Loving this trend. Started as a doodle but I had too much fun.

"I already boycott The New York Times/don't have a subscription, what can I do?" A lot! You can: * Share our call for boycott. Tell others about the NYT's role in trans genocide * Stop sharing NYT links, even to dunk on them * Pressure the pension/retirement funds invested in the NYT to divest

This is making me think of the practice of perpetual sales in clothing stores, where prices are hiked up to sell things “on sale” at what would be a more… honest(?) price so people feel like they got a good deal. Iirc, stores that made a point of not doing that would perform worse and scrap it?

Who's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam aftermath.site/steam-censorsh...

Okay this one is my favorite. I am a sucker for big scarves on hand-to-hand fighters that flow around the wearer as they jump around and punch/kick stuff

"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.

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exploring some options for Link, my other cat! These are way off the mark but there are some things I am liking and will carry forward. Its not hitting his personality yet but we'll get there! Done today on stream. Thanks to those who stopped by, hung out and heard my weird industry stories 💜

Don't fall for these jangling keys.... 3200 layoffs across the board this year alone. More will come. @nogamesforgenocide.com BDS Movement is still in effect #NoGamesForGenocide

I just pushed a new Torment Hexus demo build, which includes a ton of usability improvements and bug fixes! The demo's still available, go check it out: store.steampowered.com/app/4702330/...

Getting back to animation practice with a simple block out for a run cycle. I've been neglecting it, but I want to get better

a lot of folks are reposting this because it appears nice at a glance but between the claude folder in the website and bizarre coding style of the unreal plugin, at least, it's reasonable to assume this is slop until proven otherwise imo

When it feels like things just aren't going right, sometimes you just gotta start making mechs. Maybe just me, idk. The idea is a quick melee type, with accessories including what'll essentially be big brass knuckles. And maybe a scarf. I like it when the person who punches stuff has a flowy scarf

The KIDS Act [containing KOSA] has passed the House This sucks, but its not the end. It still has to pass through the Senate committee and then be voted on by the Senate itself Please continue contactimg your Senators and demanding they oppose the KIDS Act & KOSA www.congress.gov/members/find...

and... exhale

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SIT FORWARD. of the Devil - Episode 3 is coming this Fall.

Well. This is incredibly frustrating.

A reminder with #SteamNextFest starting: You SHOULD install the extensions that pop up the AI Disclosure in Steam and ignore any game with it.

From the second we started TrueRef, I instantly started finding our POC refs turned white and redistributed in the wild.

Big standouts to me: 1. inability to re-use solutions, just re-implement slightly-different functions each time a problem arises 2. code complexity only ever increases 3. lots of begging the LLM to behave, which of course it cannot because it is a statistical machine incapable of cognition.