Rasmus Rasmussen

Rasmus Rasmussen

@rasmusrasmussen.com

Producer in #gamedev. Worked on some AAA games you know, and some indie games you've never heard of. I mainly talk operations and production, or share things I think are important or funny.

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Dario is out there shaking the old doomsday stick again. Don’t forget the second half of these kinds of statements: Only we can do AI safely. Only trust us!

I love art that tells a story, regardless of the medium. Not just the story told in the piece, but the greater story of its creator's thought process and motivation, the interpretation of inspiration, ties to other works and the evolution of the artist over time. Dear artists - please keep arting!

The problem with the #gamedev industry: AAA studios and AA publishers, leadership is not in the business of making games - the teams under them are. Instead, their goal is pleasing the shareholders. Here profit is not enough, constant growth is key. Those are two very different priorities.

This is why we see games with successful releases and the studio still lays off huge numbers. It’s not about the profit of a single title - unless it’s a runaway hit. It’s about growth and growth potential, as presented at the next shareholder meeting.

“Hey look, we made a pile of cash and lowered overhead! Now we can reinvest in company growth.” Versus “We made a great game that people love, and it sold well enough to finance the next title.” See the difference?

One of the young and energetic dudes I worked with in my first #gamedev job is turning 40 today. Back then, he was one of the kids. Now he’s got two kids of his own.

I sometimes hand model on the side.

Kcline aka Food Wizard@foodwizard.bsky.social

Johnny Depp’s 3 Hearts Rum - First Edition I got 2 bottles - 1 for keeping and 1 for sipping It is exquisite. Balanced, layered, rich, dark toffee/burnt sugar and wood with teensy hints of dried fruit Pirate’s kiss🏴‍☠️😘 #3heartsrum #johnnydepp #rum #wherehasalltherumgone

Years ago, someone on Reddit claimed that the best surprise you can give a man is a hug he didn’t ask for. The point being that male culture is mostly transactional and a free hug therefore holds extra surprise value. I still think about that from time to time.

I rebuilt a 10+ year-old creative writing prompt generator and added a writing mode, in case you get a prompt you like. This version runs on a tiny 8K transformer model, built from scratch and trained on data recycled from my old tool. Write out a scene: ras.ms/prompts

Just pushed an update to my open source data generation project, LM Data Tools. Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements + DataDoubler, a new tool that expands small data sets with variant entries. Find it on GitHub: github.com/theprint/LMD...

github.comGitHub - theprint/LMDataTools: Suite of data generation tools for training and fine tuning language models.Suite of data generation tools for training and fine tuning language models. - theprint/LMDataTools

Nothing makes me consider switching to Linux like my Windows PC deciding to automatically reboot to apply an update. I lost all my open browser tabs and now I hate life.

To me, it’s preceded by friends and peers starting to die of natural causes and you’re left wondering what happened, and then …

Eternal Skies TCG RPG@eternalskies.neocities.org

I think a "mid life crisis" is basically just when you decide whether to make a change and chase your dreams, or resign yourself to what is comfortable and stable.

One of the main reasons I stay on social media is to be exposed to new art and creativity. I absolutely love seeing things I wouldn’t even have thought to look for myself. Keep sharing all your strange and beautiful projects, people.

Learning that it’s apparently not that uncommon to name a pet after a fictional character. First cat we got was Gaius Baltar Lebowski. Then we got Howard Moon Lebowski.

Epic fail: They couldn’t figure out how to spin up some new projects, so they just gutted their cash cow and left it to bleed. This is why the #gamedev industry is broken.