Tess Snider

I assure you that the way she landed cannot, in fact, be altered at this late date.

The whole idea in That Comic that AI is the difference between being a sustainable indie and an unsustainable indie is risible. The primary thing that makes a sustainable indie is figuring out how you're going to survive when your game goes nowhere, which will usually be the case.

That's one of the reasons you don't do your "dream game" first. You don't know what you're doing, you have no following, and your first game is probably going to flop.

If you were affected by the recent layoffs at EA, Amir Satvat is coordinating ASGC help, but you'll need to fill out his form by EOD Oct 29: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Unlike Spotify, Tidal will let you block AI content.

There's something of an interesting paradox where traditionally, the programmers who work on invisible infrastructure tend to be underappreciated and at-risk, because people can't see the work they're doing, and when it's working best, you aren't aware of it at all, BUT...

Can you imagine if people at multiple clothing brands suddenly said: "Yeah, we use child sweatshop labor to make our clothes. Everybody does! It's time to just deal with it. If you're a clothing company and you're not doing this, get out of the business."

Before any angry reply rolls in, I'm not saying that using AI to develop game software is ethically equivalent to child sweatshop labor. I'm using it more as an illustration of the fact that this isn't a silly way to try to move the overton window.

Can you imagine if people at multiple clothing brands suddenly said: "Yeah, we use child sweatshop labor to make our clothes. Everybody does! It's time to just deal with it. If you're a clothing company and you're not doing this, get out of the business."

Before any angry reply rolls in, I'm not saying that using AI to develop game software is ethically equivalent to child sweatshop labor. I'm using it more as an illustration of the fact that this isn't a silly way to try to move the overton window.

When I was at uni, I was on call for an entire building for any computer problems they might have. I got called into a lab with some serious grownup science guys, and they told me that the video on one of their computers wasn't working...

This is the kind of doom-loop that gen-AI forms with everything it is both trained on and used for. It's like a greedy parasite that feeds until the host dies, dooming them both.

People don't talk much about how much we actually kind of enjoyed the .com bust. Lots of visited a website called FuckedCompany that tracked all the catastrophes as they unfolded. There were dead pools. We were having a lot of laughs, while everything burned around us.

People don't talk much about how much we actually kind of enjoyed the .com bust. Lots of visited a website called FuckedCompany that tracked all the catastrophes as they unfolded. There were dead pools. We were having a lot of laughs, while everything burned around us.

Some of that was because we recognized that a lot of these companies were turkeys, with no plausible business model, and it was irritating that they were even getting VC funding. We wanted people to pay a price for all that irrational exuberance.

Watching a player who is very icon-blind playing a complex RPG is like watching a horror movie where you're yelling at the characters. "The icon is THERE. It's RIGHT THERE. Next line down, third one in. Don't you are say you don't have that power. No, wait, don't close the menu!"