This feels like the only news story there has been for the last few years.

For context: “Developers on the game, a shooter featuring characters from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, were instructed to implement an “AI first” production model using tools such as Anthropic’s Claude. Humans will then manage and guide that work. “No more hand-written code,” one of the game’s directors told staff in an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg. The director added that all art for the game would be “generated with full AI workflows.””

In what way?

So people are assuming “bot” means what Twitter users refer to as “bots” and “fewer bots” could just be “fewer web crawlers”.

The first step down a dark path if he’s not careful.

He also has a confidence that reminds me of Pirate Software.

I had a quick look into the Bill Gates STD thing and can only find the info I had already heard, that he was allegedly trying to get antibiotics for Melinda after getting an STD from “Russian girls”. Nothing about Gates trying to give his wife the STD.

And to say Gates wasn’t an engineer is odd.

https://streetcomplete.app/

Lots of users of StreetComplete in the UK. It’s good fun.

Scarves only appear at -20? Finns are built different.

This Elytra anti-cheat must be so good.

I assume this may be due to the nature of the closed beta being a focused load test on specific systems not a general playtest that the last one was. Removing Linux/Proton support may be a simple method of removing issues they aren’t focused on tracking this weekend.

The actual blog post on this is more interesting.

It’s nowhere close to Street view’s quality or quantity, but there is Panoramax

You could look through issues raised by other and try to replicate it. Offer your voice to confirm that there is a concrete issue, logs, steps to replicate, etc. As your familiarity builds you’ll be able to identify likely areas in the code causing the issue. This really helps others to implement the fix and before long, you’ll be the one fixing it yourself.

Also, look at codetriage.com.

We should probably start praying to the silicon gods now.

My Ryzen 5 3600 and 5700XT will outlive me.

The Linux community can’t let an opportunity for an acronym to go to waste. Even more so for a backronym.

“They have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make, and in the end you end up giving a whole lot of games that look exactly the same as last year’s games, because that makes some money,” Gilbert explained.
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He continued: “That’s why I really enjoy the indie game market because it’s kind of free of a lot of that stuff that big publishers bring to it, and there’s a lot more creativity, strangeness, and bizarreness."

There’s still a lot of creativity in big games but it’d be shame to see more movement towards nostalgia-driven/pastiche type games.

Very nice! Jealous. We’re Windows 11 only, but I make do with WSL.