Virtual Scallop
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[it/she/they] - Certified gremlin, and maker of weird things. Also comes in Tumblr, YouTube, and Twitch flavors
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well I was vaguely interested in this game but uhhhhhhh
not anymore lol
not anymore lol
While the AI disclosure is good to have, not all developers feel the need to disclose their use of generative AI within their games.
If you look at Level-5's Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road's Steam page, no AI disclosure, yet this article talks about its development processes, which includes Gen AI.
If you look at Level-5's Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road's Steam page, no AI disclosure, yet this article talks about its development processes, which includes Gen AI.
Japanese game developer Level-5 reveals how they use generative AI like Stable Diffusion - AUTOMATON WEST
Ni no Kuni and Professor Layton developer Level-5 demonstrate exactly how they use generative AI to assist game development and promotion.
automaton-media.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
well I was vaguely interested in this game but uhhhhhhh
not anymore lol
not anymore lol
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It's over. The frog will never come back down.
It is possible to break the Frog Flap microgame in WarioWare simply by being too skillful. Red platforms speed up the frog, blue ones slow it down. By skipping red platforms and landing on the blue ones, the frog will eventually start flying and never come back down.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's over. The frog will never come back down.
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Steam Machine will be powered by electricity, not steam power.
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Steam Machine will be powered by electricity, not steam power.
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Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
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god i hope steam dosent fuck up the pricing on their shit
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
god i hope steam dosent fuck up the pricing on their shit
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Okay, so like... Over the past couple years, I've made it blatantly clear I've become heavily anti-Nintendo.
But I was still interested in picking up a few games *second-hand used* because there's still some loose ends I wanna tie up...
This alone kills significant interest in Prime 4.
But I was still interested in picking up a few games *second-hand used* because there's still some loose ends I wanna tie up...
This alone kills significant interest in Prime 4.
ITS REAL
November 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Okay, so like... Over the past couple years, I've made it blatantly clear I've become heavily anti-Nintendo.
But I was still interested in picking up a few games *second-hand used* because there's still some loose ends I wanna tie up...
This alone kills significant interest in Prime 4.
But I was still interested in picking up a few games *second-hand used* because there's still some loose ends I wanna tie up...
This alone kills significant interest in Prime 4.
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
I like how a game can be more or less rock solid... but the existence of some out of the way glitches can make someone sarcastically go "what a polished game people 🙄"
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I like how a game can be more or less rock solid... but the existence of some out of the way glitches can make someone sarcastically go "what a polished game people 🙄"
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November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
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making your own tools is one of the best things you can do in your game development process
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
making your own tools is one of the best things you can do in your game development process
How much you wanna bet they're gonna pull a Crash 4, and pretend like the third one doesn't exist. No Re-Pac or anything.
Here's a new 3 guys! No don't pay attention to that one under the rug.
Here's a new 3 guys! No don't pay attention to that one under the rug.
Bandai Namco have released *another* survey for Re-Pac 2, this time gauging feedback on the recent Sonic collab DLC.
One of the questions asks if there are any other crossovers you'd like to see "in future entries of the 'Pac-Man World' series". 👀👀👀
survey.bandainamcoent.co.jp/jfe/form/SV_...
One of the questions asks if there are any other crossovers you'd like to see "in future entries of the 'Pac-Man World' series". 👀👀👀
survey.bandainamcoent.co.jp/jfe/form/SV_...
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How much you wanna bet they're gonna pull a Crash 4, and pretend like the third one doesn't exist. No Re-Pac or anything.
Here's a new 3 guys! No don't pay attention to that one under the rug.
Here's a new 3 guys! No don't pay attention to that one under the rug.
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This is what they took from you
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is what they took from you
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while not exactly the same, i remember posting an excerpt from an ambient song i was making, and this one guy asked if it was AI. even as an innocuous question, i would advise thinking twice before you casually drop it, because to me, it is the equivalent of saying "are you devoid of imagination?"
i feel so bad for artists who now have to deal with accusations that their work is ai
Its so demeaning to the life of work they put into their art, and it must suck to have to argue that your work is in fact your own.
If you can draw, that's really cool, I think you are great.
Its so demeaning to the life of work they put into their art, and it must suck to have to argue that your work is in fact your own.
If you can draw, that's really cool, I think you are great.
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
while not exactly the same, i remember posting an excerpt from an ambient song i was making, and this one guy asked if it was AI. even as an innocuous question, i would advise thinking twice before you casually drop it, because to me, it is the equivalent of saying "are you devoid of imagination?"
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Hellooo I've been having a pretty tough 2nd half of the year, been kinda getting beat down by back to back vet, dental, and car repair bills I couldn't avoid. It's possible I'll also be out of a job soon if we can't get funding for our next project. If anyone is able to help, ty! gofund.me/0f0fef1fe
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Hellooo I've been having a pretty tough 2nd half of the year, been kinda getting beat down by back to back vet, dental, and car repair bills I couldn't avoid. It's possible I'll also be out of a job soon if we can't get funding for our next project. If anyone is able to help, ty! gofund.me/0f0fef1fe
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
working at the nyt
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#SaveSpeech
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#SaveSpeech
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
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“Big tech has made their choice”
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...