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AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
We once had a guy spend his family's vacation savings in an event - not a chance of coming close. That broke his and my brain
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We once had a guy spend his family's vacation savings in an event - not a chance of coming close. That broke his and my brain
This can be the case to a certain degree, but you can't imagine the amount the biggest players spend. They do not care about money. You could spend a year's income and not come close.
November 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This can be the case to a certain degree, but you can't imagine the amount the biggest players spend. They do not care about money. You could spend a year's income and not come close.
I know all too well since I used to build those Excel sheets in a previous life. My impression back then was that this level of misleading advertising didn't work that well - maybe just in our corner of the market
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I know all too well since I used to build those Excel sheets in a previous life. My impression back then was that this level of misleading advertising didn't work that well - maybe just in our corner of the market
Thank you for your insight! What do you think - does this strategy of overselling what your game is about still yield actual profit, or are they chasing a dragon that's not there anymore?
November 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thank you for your insight! What do you think - does this strategy of overselling what your game is about still yield actual profit, or are they chasing a dragon that's not there anymore?
Now I feel that's where a lot of AI sales pitches start: People love the fake gameplay but it's prohibitively expensive to make - we can do that for the cheap. And it might even work before the market adapts, if that's all you know a game is and can be.
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Now I feel that's where a lot of AI sales pitches start: People love the fake gameplay but it's prohibitively expensive to make - we can do that for the cheap. And it might even work before the market adapts, if that's all you know a game is and can be.
Totally on point, yet they demonstrably work in getting inexperienced players into that loop and spending - hence the ads. At least for some, that model worked and others are desperately following along
November 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Totally on point, yet they demonstrably work in getting inexperienced players into that loop and spending - hence the ads. At least for some, that model worked and others are desperately following along
Absolutely, yes. I think there is an audience for short, shallow, extremely polished that might spend up to a dollar for that experience. In reality, you're competing with all the fake games promising the same for free.
November 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Absolutely, yes. I think there is an audience for short, shallow, extremely polished that might spend up to a dollar for that experience. In reality, you're competing with all the fake games promising the same for free.
This isn't even good business practice or what they teach in business school. It's cynically 'investing' your dad's money the way they show in the movies
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This isn't even good business practice or what they teach in business school. It's cynically 'investing' your dad's money the way they show in the movies
In a 'healthy' market there should a least be room to sell those super engaging short ad games - yet if the highest acceptable prize is free, everybody is f'ed.
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In a 'healthy' market there should a least be room to sell those super engaging short ad games - yet if the highest acceptable prize is free, everybody is f'ed.
Those ads show just a glimmer of a shallow, engaging game but the loops leave no potential for more than say ten minutes of curiosity. The builders are the exact opposite.
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Those ads show just a glimmer of a shallow, engaging game but the loops leave no potential for more than say ten minutes of curiosity. The builders are the exact opposite.
Getting that right for one shot is hard, but the sheer passion it takes to deliver in _every_ shot... Mad respect! 🙇🏻♂️
August 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Getting that right for one shot is hard, but the sheer passion it takes to deliver in _every_ shot... Mad respect! 🙇🏻♂️
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That'll be about.... checks notes... 20€ 🫠
July 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
That'll be about.... checks notes... 20€ 🫠
I totally agree and have seen this as well! Didn't know Gearbox did this as well. What's nice is the transparency and accountability it provides.
June 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I totally agree and have seen this as well! Didn't know Gearbox did this as well. What's nice is the transparency and accountability it provides.
Then let's agree on applying a little nuance. I'd rather see more of this than less and many factors here can't be compared to say, EA, Blizzard and the likes.
June 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Then let's agree on applying a little nuance. I'd rather see more of this than less and many factors here can't be compared to say, EA, Blizzard and the likes.
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Human beings personify and grow emotionally attached to pets, drawings, even inanimate objects that don’t look like living things. They attribute thoughtful personalities to trees; find little robots cute and childlike.
Of course many humans won’t clearly distinguish between a chatbot and a person.
Of course many humans won’t clearly distinguish between a chatbot and a person.
This is not a comment on this particularly, but I've said on different platforms there are relatively significant portions of humanity that aren't psychologically equipped to understand something that so closely mirrors human intelligence. Thinking through ~how and why it responds just doesn't work.
NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.
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June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Human beings personify and grow emotionally attached to pets, drawings, even inanimate objects that don’t look like living things. They attribute thoughtful personalities to trees; find little robots cute and childlike.
Of course many humans won’t clearly distinguish between a chatbot and a person.
Of course many humans won’t clearly distinguish between a chatbot and a person.
I think certain circles of gamedev see f2p as diverging from the holy path of art.
June 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I think certain circles of gamedev see f2p as diverging from the holy path of art.
You do realise it's on top of the actual salary, right?
June 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
You do realise it's on top of the actual salary, right?
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April 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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in order to understand the current fracture in society, you need to be familiar with the term "consensus reality"
consensus reality is "mutually agreed upon reality" - widely agreed upon knowledge, cultural norms, common sense & other "modes of knowing"
it's not really "real", but it's shared
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consensus reality is "mutually agreed upon reality" - widely agreed upon knowledge, cultural norms, common sense & other "modes of knowing"
it's not really "real", but it's shared
1/
May 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
in order to understand the current fracture in society, you need to be familiar with the term "consensus reality"
consensus reality is "mutually agreed upon reality" - widely agreed upon knowledge, cultural norms, common sense & other "modes of knowing"
it's not really "real", but it's shared
1/
consensus reality is "mutually agreed upon reality" - widely agreed upon knowledge, cultural norms, common sense & other "modes of knowing"
it's not really "real", but it's shared
1/
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Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.
May 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.
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"Why are you making this complicated?"
Motherfucker what version of Life do you have loaded in RAM right now.
Motherfucker what version of Life do you have loaded in RAM right now.
May 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"Why are you making this complicated?"
Motherfucker what version of Life do you have loaded in RAM right now.
Motherfucker what version of Life do you have loaded in RAM right now.
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I do see and practice an alternative routes to survival for #indidevs
1. Micro-scale.
2. Foster a returning audience.
3. Through building a franchise that can exploit bundled sales, brand recognition etc.
4. Stick to your franchise,re-use, recycle and expand so you can:
5. Punch above your weight.
1. Micro-scale.
2. Foster a returning audience.
3. Through building a franchise that can exploit bundled sales, brand recognition etc.
4. Stick to your franchise,re-use, recycle and expand so you can:
5. Punch above your weight.
Viv is 100% correct here. Your options are always one of three:
1. Do not make an indie game.
2. Get funding, usually by making something that fits a very narrow and useless definition of "safe", and subsequently losing agency over your production reality.
3. Have another income or means.
1. Do not make an indie game.
2. Get funding, usually by making something that fits a very narrow and useless definition of "safe", and subsequently losing agency over your production reality.
3. Have another income or means.
ok but for real if you want to make a really good indie (or AA) games the number one way is "be financially comfortable via other means"
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
blue prince guy owned a popular website generating income, toby fox was a successful musician...
frankly if we had a UBI youd get SO MANY GOOD GAMES
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I do see and practice an alternative routes to survival for #indidevs
1. Micro-scale.
2. Foster a returning audience.
3. Through building a franchise that can exploit bundled sales, brand recognition etc.
4. Stick to your franchise,re-use, recycle and expand so you can:
5. Punch above your weight.
1. Micro-scale.
2. Foster a returning audience.
3. Through building a franchise that can exploit bundled sales, brand recognition etc.
4. Stick to your franchise,re-use, recycle and expand so you can:
5. Punch above your weight.