Like me! :) I’ve been having lots of fun with it. The AI is so much better and the car handling as well. Didn’t realise till last night there’s a massive collision like derby tucked away in one of the speedway modes. That was fun. Can’t wait for more content to drop.

I remember even TheTechnician27 tried to warn us “it’s going to be zero day heaven!” they said but everyone just shrugged and now here I am with my fellow refugees in the woods trying to catch some squirrels for my dinner.

I remember it so clearly man… The morning of October 15 2025, a Wednesday as I recall. People were warned but they didn’t listen. They don’t ever listen.

I’ll never forget the screaming. Millions of Windows 10 computers just spontaneously exploding all over the place. Women, children and men with beards running down the streets of every city just trying to avoid the thousands of computers being thrown from the tops of buildings. The world was never the same after that. I found an abandoned bus in the chaos so I tried to save as many people as I could. We rode into the night towards the hills. Away from the cities and the looting and chaos.

Or you know… it just means no updates and we’ll all probably be fine.

Yes.

Nah go for it! Loopholes welcome :)

Thank you. Just posted there as well :)

I quickly read through the article to check if anyone at Ubisoft Montreal or Quebec were being laid off… Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was one of the most amazing games I’ve ever played. Those devs are bloody brilliant. Luckily it seems not.

Hang on… So could this title have also been written as “A majority of developers think generative AI isn’t a negative for the games industry”?

Hurt people hurt people.

There’s a relationship cheat code I use all the time. It usually stops everything in it’s tracks and sets you on a much more positive path, especially if they’re not used to you doing this. When you find yourself at that point in a conversation where you’re about to shout something like “OH FFS! WHAT’S THE MATTER NOW?!” instead… you pause, look at them, tilt your head a bit, narrow your eyes thoughtfully and say as calmly as you can “What do you need?”. No matter how mad they get after that you just keep asking that question until they respond to it. If you haven’t done that before it may take them a while to even notice you asked that question. Just keep going. Oh also top tip… when they tell you what they need don’t invalidate it. It’s hard for a lot of people to directly tell you what they actually need. If they do then they’re trusting you to listen. Breaking that trust will take you right back to square one.

I hung around their Discord for ages and the pace of development seemed glacial. It’s not that I don’t think it will ever come out but it’s definitely going to be a while. Gave up following after a few months. Love the aesthetic though and I really hope this one doesn’t fizzle out like other titles in my wish list (Road Diner Simulator, B-17 Squadron, Solarpunk, Kerbal Space Program 2 etc.)

It’s crazy the amount of AI image and video generators popping up right now that are “free” if you would just be a sweetie and give them your email address. I had one recently that only allowed gmail, presumably to make it harder for people to just use an anti spam inbox. People just don’t realise how valuable a fresh, active email address is. If I see anything like that these days I nope out immediately.

“…and in other news, the forum ****cars, an internet discussion group recently classified as an extremist group has been banned. Shrimply Flibbles, the groups moderator said they would appeal the ban and that the cartoon calling for the mass killing of car drivers had not been noticed until it was too late. They said the forum was a place where genuine concerns with mass car ownership could be discussed and that extremist views like those represented in the cartoon did not reflect the opinions of the members of the group. And now the weather…”

“Today’s hype will have lasting effects that constrain tomorrow’s possibilities.”

Nope. No it won’t. I’d love to have the patience to be more diplomatic but they’re just wrong… and dumb.

I’m getting so sick of these anti AI cultists who seem to be made up of grumpy tech nerds behaving like “I was using AI before it was cool” hipsters and panicking artists and writers. Everyone needs to calm their tits right down. AI isn’t going anywhere. It’s giving creative and executive options to millions of people that just weren’t there before.

We’re in an adjustment phase right now and boundaries are being re-drawn around what constitutes creativity. My leading theory at the moment is that we’ll all mostly eventually settle down to the idea that AI is just a tool. Once we’re used to it and less starry eyed about it’s output then individual creativity, possibly supported by AI tools, will flourish again. It’s going to come down to the question of whether you prefer reading something cogitated, written, drawn or motion rendered by AI or you enjoy the perspective of a human being more. Both will be true in different scenarios I expect.

Honestly, I’ve had to nope out of quite a few forums and servers permanently now because all they do in there is circlejerk about the death of AI. Like this one theory that keeps popping up that image generating AI specifically is inevitably going to collapse in on itself and stop producing quality images. The reverse is so obviously true but they just don’t want to see it. Otherwise smart people are just being so stubborn with this and it’s, quite frankly, depressing to see.

Also, the tech nerds arguing that AI is just a fancy word and pixel regurgitating engine and that we’ll never have an AGI are probably the same people that were really hoping Data would be classified as a sentient lifeform when Bruce Maddox wanted to dissassemble him in “The Measure of a Man”.

How’s that for whiplash?

I wonder if Assad’s Dacha will be far from Yanukovych’s. They can swap stories about when they used to run countries.

Stop showering. Really stink yourself up. Make it so bad they have to mention it. When they do just tell them they smell just as bad and that you should both do something about it.

I’d love to know what percentage of the Earth’s population would be totally fine with an asteroid taking us all out. I’d be willing to bet it’s higher that it’s ever been.

So I joined Bluesky over a year ago and have only ever posted a single message “Hi”. I’ve also not liked or commented on any posts. Somehow (especially recently) I am getting followed more and more. I have over a hundred followers now. I’m guessing bots? It’s the sudden recent surge over the last couple of months that’s interesting.

myspace.com is still a thing so probably never. If by “die” you mean when will it become irrelevant then probably sooner.

This is why I say please and thank you when I use ChatGPT…