Every community manager/mod in the world read this story, raised an eyebrow, and realized there was another solution to their bot problem.

the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

Nic Cage:

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

And even listening to it now, again, just to make sure the link worked, I'm sniffling and breathing heavy at my desk merely to keep my composure

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

Mm, yeah. The scope and structure of those worlds were a fair bit more manageable (smaller) and smartly distributed, too. I wonder if demand for scope is part of the problem, that if you pitch an RPG worldspace "merely" the size of Dragon Age 1 or Mass Effect 2 you get laughed out of the room.

Except it turns out those math papers were mostly nonsense. Our response to anything these AI companies say about ANYTHING should be “prove it”, particularly if there are people claiming we don’t need entire fields of human study now

I don't know if treating W3 like it was the norm at the time or any time is even remotely fair. Those people put a LOT of work in.

The modded Fallout Tale of Two Wastelands playthrough is coming along nicely, but once again I am forced to remember that the Point Lookout DLC has nothing to offer in its gameplay but contempt and loathing

Imagine coding via pacts with the fey. They frequently lead you astray and curse you with imponderable riddles, but you swear they perform incredible magical feats that make your work easier.

Debugging code is tough and mysterious enough even at the intersection of the compiler, the programming language, and your own dumbass human hands. I cannot *fathom* leaving that to an automated process with anything less than mythical 100% guaranteed accuracy.

The thing I've never gotten about vibe-coding on a personal level is, even supposing it goes well until it doesn't, the moment anything goes wrong, you enter a loop prompting an LLM to solve problems it caused, with no inherent understanding of the code. Congratulations, you are now in purgatory.

This new wave of crazy crossover mods gets significantly less impressive once you discover a bunch of them are vibe-coded to hell, which means their stability doesn't last much longer than it takes to record a YouTube video and their likelihood to reach a stable and polished state is next to null

it's awesome how with AI, game modding has gone from impressive technical achievement/commitment to cheap gimmick for views. like oh really someone made a mod that lets you shoot guys in katamari damacy? they made a mod so you can order taco bell in metroid? they put elmo into eternal darkness?

"The signer from Powerman 5000 is Rob Zombie's little brother" is a statement that I didn't know, but made immediate, iron-clad sense once I learned it. As logical as sun rise every morning