Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

Mastodon strikes me as more of an indie space than a place where people hire or get hired, but just for the record: Daedalic has now officially stopped internal game development. That means pretty much everyone who worked on Gollum was laid off.

In other words, if you need a designer, a programmer or an artist who already is skilled at working remotely, now is good opportunity to hire some really nice people.

i found my birth certificate, I'm going to return my gender

I just found a WONDERFUL new use of AI!

I just contacted a vendor for support through their web chat interface, and the agent I got responded with one of those terrible canned responses that has nothing to do with my actual issue.

This has long infuriated me, but today, thanks to AI, I realized I had a new option for dealing with it!

Inspired, I replied, "Hey, you sound like an AI which hasn't understood my issue. Could you get a human to read my ticket?"

This is tremendous! Now that we have LLMs in the wild, when a human flunks the Turing Test, I can politely accuse them of being an AI and ask them to escalate my interaction to a human.

Everybody should do this. It will transform customer service.

New solitaire in the works, this time about letting you tear the cards in half and use the pieces!

Just saw this fantastic levelpack video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9y3PwomywE
#babaisyou

it appears Valve is banning games with AI generated content or when you can't prove intellectual property or rights to use over the assets in the game #gamedev https://www.reddit.com/r/aigamedev/comments/142j3yt/valve_is_not_willing_to_publish_games_with_ai/

Cool thing. #pico8 #tweetcart

q={}?"\^!5f1001😐<"
for y=1,127,2do
q[y]={r=0,s=rnd(9)+39,u=rnd()<.5}end
::h::cls()for y=1,127,2do
b=q[y]w=b.r
s=b.s
for i=0,31do
d=(16-abs(16-i))/16*3.5if 0x8000&w<0then
p=i*2+s
if(b.u)p=s*2-p+64
pset(p,y,d)end
w<<=1end
b.r<<=1b.r|=rnd()<.7and 0x1>>16or 0
end
flip()flip()goto h

The more people we can get using adblockers, the better the internet will be for everyone.

Do your part: help get adblockers installed today.

Interested in making a roguelike? Not sure how? r/RoguelikeDev is holding our 7th annual dev tutorial/code-along event!
https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/comments/14kz7al/roguelikedev_does_the_complete_roguelike_tutorial/

#gamedev #tutorial #python #roguelikedev

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

procedural generation in #gamedev is one of those things where people who haven't done it thinks it actually saves you time

By my reckoning Apple has 2 major foundation technologies having trans women central to their development.

The ARM processor, core of Apple Silicon chips, co-developed by Sophie WIlson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson)

Safari/Webkit - not just foundational to Apple but was the foundation of Google's Chrome (and via Chrome, Microsoft's Edge) browser - led by @lisamelton. Congratulations.

I'm sure there are many other trans people central to tech that I'm simply unaware of, we need them all.

"But I don't care about decentralization"

If you're here from twitter or reddit, you care about decentralization whether you realize it or not lol

@amber left unity? yeah i left unity and went to godot

A video that straddles the line of fascination/horror for me. This person mastered The Science of Graphics, and should be put in computer jail for the crimes committed here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9rEQAGpLw

We're going to post something that isn't allowed on Twitter: a brief history of the term "cisgender"...

New research from my team on the #TwitterMigration:

This is our 3rd quarterly update on which platforms are growing, new entries such as #BlueSky, #Substack Notes, #Nostr & all public data on Meta's #project92
Includes latest on the #RedditMigration,
New polling, new posting data & more.

Welcome any notes or feedback & boosts!

Get it here: https://is.gd/5PJQH7