I’ll accept the down votes, but I needed a header image for a work doc that showed a map, and in the background the landscape it was mapping - too specific for a stock photo, but it’s just window dressing in a mostly internal doc - perfect use case for AI!
After 45 minutes of prompting I gave up and made it myself in 20 minutes, and used royalty free no credit needed images.
which is a reskin of 1994’s Shariki which was a version of 1989’s Columns - both made by bedroom solo programmers.
the one I will make in 2–54 years’ time
Why would you hire a writer that hates writing?
Why are you making a narrative video game without a writer?
If you’re making just a Candy Crush or a PacMan or a Space Invaders that doesn’t need plot or environmental storytelling why do you need these narrative, story-driven pieces of prose?
None of the justifications make any real world sense to me.
But also, a good friend of mine makes props and set dressings for TV shows (he helped build Vecna’s world in Stranger Things for example) and they are frequently building stuff just like you say.
But that’s the fun of writing is thinking up stuff like that? AI in that case is solving the problem of being creative and leaving the boring stuff up to humans?!
I’m learning Godot cuz I had an idea for a game and thought it’d be a fun project. Started off trying to use AI to learn and got in such a muddle I deleted everything and started using guides. Even old, out of date ones are easier to learn from and don’t cause massive errors.
There’s really no excuse to use AI. It’s much quicker to type “This vase is empty” than ask ai to write a description of an empty vase. As in its quicker than even writing the prompt.
I didn’t play Stardew valley because she star on my valley til I dew
Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.
it’s gambling for children is why. While I can choose to not buy the MTX inside a game, children and some young adults are more vulnerable to psychologically manipulative dark patterns that have been designed to mimic addiction as closely as possible.
To the creative trades though union busting is a big fucking deal.
Movie studios will - and historically have - given children drugs to make them work 14 hour days.
I mean based on 15,16 and 7R+ - this is what FF is now.
Poker is just the underlying mechanism. It could be any RNG that makes patterns that match against other patterns.
it’s a game in which time ghosts bully a guy who has a gun for a hand trying to stop a company vacuuming souls out the ground and burning them for fuel, or injecting them into super soliders and clones who can be mind controlled by an angry twink who can think a meteor into the planet using crystals also made from souls.
Love it though I do, it’s a ridiculous premise.
the chains of satnav: when it sends you on a detour that you know is slower than your way
The first d2 dlc - curse of Osiris - was bad so I played a lot less, then with the dreaming city they started it so other players advanced the story in my world. So now I’m no longer the cool #1 Guardian who saved the world: that is canonically the first fireteam to finish the 24h world first raid race. Not a terrible crime but it breaks one’s immersion when it feels like Zavala and Ikora are coming to me because Gladd and Sweatsicle aren’t available.
Then they vaulted all the content, kept digging deeper into the bad jokes unfunny humor, and added FOMO seasonal content that although nothing gets sunset/vaulted any more - if you can’t play for a few weeks you miss out on major characters dying or whole arcs being finished without you.
I know this is much memed on - I have 97 kids and can only play 4 seconds a month… - but honestly, it sucks. I can still play side quests in skyrim… ff12… fallout 1… balders gate 2… from decades ago - but not AAA game Destiny 2? Bullshit man.
off the top of my head:
Pressing buttons simultaneously in the reactor
Squat competition in the gym in Wall Street Market
Escaping Midgar on motorcycles
Hunting chocobos
The Fort Condor battles
Submarine battle
Mr Dolphin and CPR
Temple of the Ancients
Snowboarding
Meg and Mog in the Gold Saucer
edit: also marching in junon parade and the slap battle with Scarlett
not that i play wow but shredders too
because all the best musicians are dead you see
I wonder if there’s any side benefits that if Nintendo destroy a mentally ill man’s life, they experience a PR backlash.
I dont need the scientific method not to stick my hand in fire.
And I’ve used AI. Its shit. It don’t work. It makes pure nonsense.