Edcrab

Edcrab

@edcrab.bsky.social

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You know what they say: remember the human. It's better to put a railgun round straight through the cockpit and splatter the pilot than it is to try and disable all the mecha's weapon systems

I'm not into chatbots. If I wanted to burn down the Amazon and regurgitate lies I could just go to Brazil and then get my ass kicked by a popular movement

It is so uncivil to refuse to massage my feet especially because they are very sore now, as I have been goose-stepping over your rights for a very long time :( Have a heart. Reach across the aisle like a real politician

It's funny to see push back against having to declare using AI tools in game dev because normally those people can't stop bragging about using them

I'd never know if someone used them to plan their day or make a calendar with dubious cat pictures but they have to announce it to the world and suddenly they seem to be realising, wait, people hate this? That shouldn't be allowed. My badly rendered geode meme must be acknowledged

Look yes the formula makes people into freaky undead monsters but it's more of a House of the Dead thing than a Resident Evil thing okay? Yes that makes it better. No I will not elaborate will you please just roll up your sleeve and let me jab you with this needle

The justeat AI image story is so ridiculous it almost makes me wonder if it was a deliberate protest from whoever was told to implement it. But idk if it's worth spending any time determining whether slop is deliberately bad or just incidentally bad by merit of being slop

Pouring one out for BioWare, one of the best devs to ever do it, who also for the record sent me the most polite rejection email I've ever recieved

Hey you know how the gamers always said EA was the worst thing ever? To a cartoonishly absurd degree, full on dedicated hater level, rigging online polls to vote them the worst company in history and so on? Well it turns out the gamers were entirely right, got to hand it to the gamers on that one

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I hear this new problem is worse than Heartbleed and yeah that makes sense because I could sort of understand Heartbleed but I can't be bothered understanding this one. Meanwhile I found these cool thumb drives on the street and I'm going to plug them in to every device I can

I'll see ads for this LLM shit and it's like "generate me this line of text on a plain background for my very important presentation slide!" and buddy you could've typed that line of text onto a blank page and got the same result instantly, what the fuck are you doing

This shit is infuriating. Contract work as a technical writer sucked ass too but the thing there is that the field is so much broader than games and this becoming the new normal in development, even something presented as laudable and desirable, is tremendously awful

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"I don't think these people are cartoon monsters" I'm going to stop you right there because I do. We need to grab them and throw them in those dip barrels from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

I'm not going to put any time or effort towards imagining a rehabilitation arc for the worst people alive and I'm certainly not going to pre-emptively congratulate them or invent a reassuring fantasy of their sudden enlightenment. If they want to prove people wrong, they're welcome to

Ah, sorry, I was the one who made it that the fridge freezers could be hacked and made to ruin all the food. I also may have designed some robot butlers with a "set eyes to red and murder everyone" mode. In my defence, I wanted characters who went all-in on hacking to have more ways of ruining lives

*arguing with the director* Yes I know this film is set in the 10th Century that's why I'm wearing the glasses, it'd be pretty ridiculous for me to have contact lenses in

I had a half-assed interactive fiction project I've been toying with for a year or two (glorified CYOA) and I've bricked it. Because somehow, when transferring between machines, I saved the useless UI and art assets (which are currently placeholders anyway) and not the actual fucking story file

Fuuuuck. It's not totally lost as a lot of the actual text exists elsewhere but I am not a coder and even html pages are hard for me and so losing even the really barebones dialogue trees I'd put together feels like a gut punch

Anyway I might never do anything with it now so it was about a post-human scientist stranded on a planet and as she investigates an alien beetle she has to contend with the Cruelty, a computerised version of herself without any tiresome empathy to hold it back. It is of course her lab assistant

I'm the guy who serves as the announcement voice in that one RTS. They don't let me record anything I have to say it every time. If this dipshit tries to build another building while one is already in progress I swear to god I'm going to walk away his silos can overflow for all I care

The Evil Overlord is back and he's bringing even stronger minions with him this time. I'm secretly kind of happy about it. The last time I killed him I got a +10 Vorpal Sword and never had anything else to fight so it's just been in my attic sitting next to all the side quest items I forgot about

it increasingly feels like the billionaires are constantly screaming "WE ARE WEIRD ENEMIES OF HUMANITY, YOU BETTER GET READY TO STOP US" and idk how to process that, beyond getting ready to stop them

God damn it google sometimes when I search for something I'm attempting simple plagiarism and don't need you to generate some new bullshit on the spot. If anyone should understand simple theft it should be your LLM stop it

Rumour is they're going to revert back to the last stable magic build. Yes I know the meta was dragon-dominated but they're hard countered by ice magic, grow up. Anything to get rid of this "science" nonsense they've been fucking around with for a few thousand years

Yeah gotta say I'm not big on the whole contrarian-for-the-sake-of-it "ooh I don't consume anything popular" attitude. I mean Mr Silly's Bedtime Song has 5 billion views on youtube are you really going to try and tell me that you've never heard it before

Weirdly enough I actually enjoy writing, like all the other freaky little gremlins who fancy themselves authors, so advertising your gibbering AI parrot as a means to avoid having to write anything myself is like offering to eat my food for me

idk what this site is for, exactly. I stopped using twitter because [vague gesture] and this place is, well, it feels like the only thing stopping it from being [vague gesture] is the staff just aren't dedicated enough to really buckle down and make the site the worst it could be

looking at twitter wistfully and thinking that maybe, just maybe, we could create our own little slice of hell. Just have to try really hard

Life is precious, and sacrosanct, and that's why you can't wish death on a massively powerful murderous piece of shit who you'll never be able to materially effect or challenge. Let's have a touch of civility as the world burns. Don't be uncouth as the meat sloughs off your nasty little bones

I just saw the BBC use "wrench attack" as a term wrt to using violence to steal cryptocurrency and was XKCD the first to use that or was it just the first place I happened to see it

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Look, Murderman has infinite knives. That's his superpower. Whether or not someone gives him knives, he always has at least one knife to stab people with. That's why you shouldn't criticise me for giving him more knives. He's stabbing you anyway so what if I give him a giant knife and a flirty wink

You can't be middle-aged and making songs about teenage angst and high school it just rings hollow. You need to make relatable grown-up songs about Megaman fighting against Dr Wily

Anti-human (motto: "We Are Going To Create Hell And Make Everyone Live There"), valued at a trillion dollars, recently pressured the government into passing a law that makes child sacrifice mandatory (They are considered the nicest of the AI corporations)

I don't actually listen to ANY music. If a game or movie has music in it I flinch and mute it for a bit. I miss a lot of context but needs must

OK so to my understanding if we were to, hypothetically, [redacted] the CEOs and [redacted] all the data centres we could say it was ACTUALLY all the work of our specially designed chatbot, Scapegoat 2000, and we would be considered to be blameless victims. Maybe there's finally a good use for LLMs

The last few are kind of cheating because the stuff earlier in the list absolutely dominated my psyche. For example TF2 was a mere 19 years ago but I'm going to allow it because it's the only multiplayer game I've got hundreds of hours in (the reason being, all the other multiplayer games suck)

I was doing the "9 games that made me" thing and got to VTM: Bloodlines and thought, eh, can I really say that it was formative when it merely came out in 2004, a mere five years ago

I joined a new rpg discord because I am a weird freak and it's usually nice but there's a person who breathlessly keeps everyone updated on the state of the absolute worst pieces of shit in the hobby and idk if everyone else is there for that but I'd rather not boil my brain any further thank you

wow look at this DiceBastard44 is being a complete bastard (while rolling dice). I went to the trouble of re-uploading the video so you don't have to give him views because you need to watch it for some reason