Falko Loeffler

Any sufficiently dumb technology is indistinguishable from incompetence.

Watch this trailer. (I love that as a hobby we've skipped from the "AI Is Looking Pretty Bad?" phase to the "We Actively Hate AI" age without ever accepting this shit.)

Shit even 26 years ago he sounded like an AI-generated dipshit

that Resident Evil LARP sucks

"thats it"

Well, BioWare should have just sold more games, how hard can it be!!! groan

The key difference between Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk is that Holmes cost many in the ruling class a lot of money and Musk is making many in the ruling class a lot of money.

It's the kind of video game history I love. And happy to be a part of it with our Larrys. :D

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Biologist @cbo.bsky.social is our guest this week! @adambecker.bsky.social and Brandon talk about eugenics and how culture shapes science. LISTEN NOW! #datmpodcast #science #noai #biology #scifi #eugenics #darwin #genetics @multitudeshows.com

One of the key messages I carry is that we don't have to accept any of this. Sometimes I see opposition in the form of "Get in loser, you'll be left behind" and other times it's in the form of "It's all over the place, what do you mean you think you can opt out?" >>

Just deleted my Epic account. Only way to make these fuckers learn. Good side effect: won't waste any more time with Rocket League.

"Complete AI game development" = outsourcing that no one is allowed to mention.

Six months ago:

Sad to see those two games disappear from the stores. Working on those was a highlight of my career, not just because it is a legendary adventure series, but because of the great people involved.

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Great thread. And I think ... AI is the digital non-place. The same billionaires who destroy the real world destroy digital human place, to replace them with AI non-places. That's why it fits their mindset so perfectly. Even worse, it's THEIR tech. Bleak.

Until that happens, ours are really cheap atm (in every region, I guess).

Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized by talk of fictional machine gods and it's me who has to bring evidence to the contrary.

The roof The roof The roof is on fire

I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Sir, this is REALLY a Wendy's.

Turn it into a ‘new talent’ type program, harnessing its potential as an anthology to act as a springboard for both newer creative minded folks and those with experience in other fields to work under skilled TV people, with the goal of making the Doctor a true natural symbol of British creativity.

I was getting increasingly frustrated with the Discourse this week, and then Ed asked me to come on and vent about it. Felt good and hopefully did some good too. (The next day, Cal and I talked about it even more for @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. That episode will be up next week!)

The new Apple Watch features Audio Intelligence: it constantly listens, transcribes & analyzes everything around itself, including on Apple's servers. Here's what that means for privacy. Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/techa... YouTube: youtu.be/GyxYEYsNUn4

I'm not tired, I'm a Large Languish Model.

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

Something to think about before exposing your kids to Star Trek.

As @hypervisible.blacksky.app puts it: These are technologies of isolation. Big Tech would like to get in between every last one of our interactions to they can monetize them in some way (bare minimum is harvesting data) and create dependency. >>

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Please buy my game. I am very, very exhausted.

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Sadly, I have to skip this year. :( Program looks great, and it's a joy to be among these people.

THOSE ARE MY STICK MEN! and they served their purpose every bit as well as any AI slop.

I want to bring back the plastic metaphor here, too. Refusal and creating space for refusal *now*, while we are still relatively early in this process, is especially meaningful. >>

I've used Proton as a go-to account for logins and communications for around two years now, while my Gmail is now just an archive. Wish I could get away from Google services completely, doing it one step at a time, but it's a marathon ...

My next game will be a Decklike Roguebuilder.

Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.

The rest of us are still tired from game development.

Rare gaming industry W

In the 80s many young people in Britain were on the spectrum. Others were on the commodore.

I always thought that if freelance goes downhill I could still apply for a job, but once again the timeline is full of laid off writers and narrative designers ... probably more than companies are left. Haven't seen the game biz this fierce in 30 years. :/

Trump awarded FIFA Piss Price

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

Me yesterday: I am gonna try to be less angry on BlueSky. Me today:

This one really pissed me off. There are almost no classic point-and-click adventures in Next Fest this time, and this one looked lovely. But quickly something seemed wrong about the backgrounds and... yup. Just fucking pay an artist or don't make a game.

Jet lagged 2:30am thought: "Vertical slice" has always been a flawed concept, and the clue was in the name the whole time: you can't have a slice until you've baked the whole damn cake.

I keep posting AI critical articles on Linkedin, so I guess I'll never work again.