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by npinsker 2y ago
A lot of people do this, no? It doesn't seem more offensive than any of the other handful of self-submissions per day; certainly it's less so to me than all those tech blog posts by companies. Also Blue Prince is a puzzly, escap
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> I don’t like what they do to me. I shudder to think how they could supercharge builders like Dorfromantik, Carcassonne, and Castles of Mad King Ludwig. A very similar mechanic is used in the popular board game Betrayal at House on the
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by npinsker 2y ago
To add to that -- one part that stuck out to me was when he said he "...[feels] like a guy who had gotten rich making jokes about video games, trying to deceive real writers into thinking that I’m a real writer." The article impli
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by npinsker 2y ago
Thanks for a well-written and clear explanation!
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The Museum of All Things(godotengine.org)
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by npinsker 2y ago
No questions but congratulations on your game and success! It's a great idea.
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by npinsker 2y ago
I haven’t played much Civ — is there some reason that preserving that particular mechanic is important? It doesn’t seem obviously desirable (or undesirable).
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by npinsker 2y ago
More like the reverse? -- Gon and Killua (young, with tons of room to grow) helping Hisoka (very experienced, smaller runway).
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by npinsker 2y ago
Feels like the article is just vibes and zero analysis other than “I really feel like this is true”. Of course butter is nice, and a competitive advantage, but it’s far from obvious that it has the importance the article seems to imply. A
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I'm curious in what way you think so? It's both attractive and easy to use for me.
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Isn’t that virtually every (mobile) subscription app in existence…?
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My favorite advice I've ever heard on creating engaging content is from Ludwig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9gkprYekI Some aspects are obviously reflective of his style specifically but I resonated with his pushi
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Agreed, his writing is clear and his tone is pleasantly curious and humble. Was a nice read.
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by npinsker 2y ago
Mobile games can often scale to eye-popping numbers. Among Us has over 1 billion downloads and was made by a single programmer. Plenty of other examples -- e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Jin
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by npinsker 2y ago
I see 'subversion' as more broad. In good poetry, subversion is constantly happening at a micro level, through playing with meaning, meter, word choice. I think it's very easy to identify AI-generated poetry because it lacks
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by npinsker 2y ago
I can't think of a single area, other than a subset of games, where domain experts have been outclassed by AI.
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by npinsker 2y ago
Change doesn’t happen all at once, right? Bluesky may still not have the mindshare — but two weeks ago they were 3-4 coin flips away from unseating Twitter, and now they only need one more. That they could become the leader in their categor
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by npinsker 2y ago
Yes, it seems like a surprising factor to overlook here! Companies are still innovating -- but when they're onto something, big tech takes notice, and it sure seems like they're all but forced to blitz-scale in order to avoid bein
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by npinsker 2y ago
It's my opinion, but... him saying he "[took] prestigious works that had survived the test of time" isn't so believable, when he starts off with something from /r/ImaginaryWarhammer and immediately follows it u
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But they didn't do this at all. They picked the most human-like AI images (usually high quality), and the most AI-like human images (usually mid). The anime pictures are particularly poor and look much worse than commercial standard wo
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I was able to tell because the distant houses are placed in a nonsensical formation in the AI image, but in the human image they make sense (they're more of a 'swoosh').
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by npinsker 2y ago
At the very least, I really wish all these benchmarks would bubble sort e.g. ugly Python dicts with varying key and value types, rather than ints all the time. That kind of thing's what I think of Python as particularly useful for. Tha
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by npinsker 2y ago
This is a great result -- and the game looks wonderful! -- but it's not that unexpected, since it launched with over 1 million wishlists and was, just before release, the top wishlisted game on Steam. The interesting part, the "bu
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Unity is not dying.
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by npinsker 2y ago
Data isn’t as useful here as in other domains, since when you change the car’s behavior even a tiny bit, a lot of the timeseries is invalidated. It’s not evergreen, and it can be quite subjective what it means to “pass” a scenario that one
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How do you write Rust code in that case?
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by npinsker 2y ago
There are a lot of comments mentioning Threes! and holding it up as superior. I play a lot of games, and I greatly prefer Threes myself -- but I also remember very well when 2048 came out; I was in college, and 75% or more of my dorm had no
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He mentions Threes! prominently in both link [1] and link [2].
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Sociopathy isn’t the same thing as duplicity.
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Aside from the content of the article (which is great), it’s written in a refreshing, no-frills style that gets to the point and doesn’t smell of “I’m a capital-W Writer, let me show you what I can do.” Wish more pieces were written like th

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