His wet footprints, fresh out of the nearest toilet… What a visionary.

Totally agreed, I cut myself off before the diatribe became a screed, but if I had kept going I would have touched on that point. You did it a lot more succinctly than I would have. Thank you.

Looks like anything calling for Andy Yen to go has disappeared. Wonder how far they are going to go with this?

I realised I had bitten off far more than I could chew so I dragged in the slop bots. I could have opened the project up to other contributors and or stepped back or even away entirely and let the project continue but it made more sense for me to let big tech splooge all over it.

Maybe I am being unfair, but fuck that so sick of this slop code shit ruining everything because people are too fucking lazy to write their own code, too proud to get help, and too dumb to utilise the appropriate free software license.

And before one of the AI fucking collaborators chimes in “erghh local models” its all still built on theft of the community commons, and once the AI industry shits itself to death and the VC funding dries up development will stagnate, who is going to pay out the mega dollars to train new models, so your local models will see some minor updates but that’s it, I’d be really careful about lobotomizing yourself because an LLM can think for you.

It was a Macguyvered solution on a Friday afternoon, ergo its likely to be semi permanent.

Haha, had a client recently modify a sleeve from a whiskey bottle. Same effect just with a whiskey theme.

I’m going to try to approach LLMs differently than I normally do. Anyone with a slightly conservative or liberal bent should be railing against LLMs, they are what those people think DEI is (without the racism sure, but still). The dumbest motherfucker in the world can fire up a Chatbot and look like they know what they are doing, from the outside, if you squint. Hell if I pitch this right a few of those dumbest motherfuckers will “Um Ackshually…” me in replies to tell me how many amazing edge cases they can think of for using the slopboxes, like fucking junkies lined up to tell you they only use the finest meth to elevate their lifestyle.

LLMs are participation trophies for the cognitively impaired, “Don’t want to learn this shit, let a computer tell you how to do it. Sure it won’t be as good as someone who knows how to do it properly, and there’s a chance it will just lie to you, but what are you going to do? Pay someone to do it properly? Nah half ass that shit.”

Why does some fucking AIBro get to fuck the economy building a solution in search of a problem, that actively generates a bunch of problems in the background while it’s searching.

This is money America could be spending on more guns, or political corruption, or cheap junk food.

I guess the pivot out of gaming meant they continued to trade for 20 years after their last video game project. Good on them.

It’s tough though, I have played a few games I used to love back in the day over the last few years that are not what I remember at all. Can’t help but feel like my struggle is with going back to a gameplay style that’s evolved far past the games that are locked in time. I beat Dune 2 with all 3 factions as a teenager, struggled to play it for an hour last year. It’s hard to go back to one of the grand daddies of the RTS genre when you have gotten used to modern interfaces, controls, and features.

Yeah, long before those days.

There’s also a healthy dose of survivorship bias. The truly terrible games have faded into obscurity back when I got my first Amiga I played “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” for a few weeks, because that was one of the two pack in games. Guess how many times I have revisited that steaming pile of Tiertex shit since then?