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Steve Anichini
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CTO and Co-founder of Disbelief, a different type of game studio.

www.disbelief.com

we've worked on: Gears of War: Reloaded, Pacific Drive, Minecraft, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Gears 5, ...

I've also worked on: BioShock Infinite, Stranglehold, ...
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When Matt Levine starts writing about your industry in a numbered list, you might be in a bubble
Data center hedging One casual way to describe the modern economy is that: 1. Artificial intelligence labs like OpenAI and tech “hyperscalers” like Meta Platforms Inc. have committed to spend, collectively, trillions of dollars to build out AI infrastructure. 2. They don’t have trillions of dollars. 3. But they will pay for it over time with their hundreds of billions of dollars of AI-related revenue. 4. They don’t have hundreds of billions of dollars of AI-related revenue either. 5. But they will. 6. You can tell because of their valuations. OpenAI’s equity is worth $500 billion. The only way its equity is worth $500 billion is if its future cash flows are sufficient to (1) cover its hundreds of billions of dollars of spending commitments and (2) leave hundreds of billions of dollars left over for its equity investors. 7. That is, all of the future AI cash flows are not directly observable — you can’t extrapolate them from current AI cash flows or anything — but they can be inferred from equity-market enthusiasm for AI.
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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The Bears won!
Three Bears players celebrate a touchdown. Two are hugging and the third has jumped up and missed everyone and is falling comedically to the ground.
September 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search results for "ascii shrug", with an AI assist response showing the incorrect ASCII for the ascii shrug.
May 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Every time I start doing anything in AWS
Newspaper article showing Abe Simpson raising fist to a cloud in the sky with the title "Old Man Yells at Cloud"
April 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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First stuck Waymo of the trip, right outside Moscone
March 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Hopefully a good GDC omen
Double rainbow taken from plane landing in SFO
March 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Google announced a similar technology a few months ago, in some ways this seems like Microsoft playing catch-up

These videos are misleading, though, while these models are "interactive", it is more like a slow turn based game not realtime input.

deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Below are example videos of people interacting with Genie 2. For every example, the model is prompted with a single image generated by Imagen 3, GDM’s state-of-the-art text-to-image model. This means anyone can describe a world they want in text, select their favorite rendering of that idea, and then step into and interact with that newly created world (or have an AI agent be trained or evaluated in it). At each step, a person or agent provides a keyboard and mouse action, and Genie 2 simulates the next observation. Genie 2 can generate consistent worlds for up to a minute, with the majority of examples shown lasting 10-20s.
February 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Friend of mine is watching in another country and they get a better score bug.
Cropped screen shot of superbowl showing a typical football scorebug.
February 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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gamedev
Top half of image is Neo from the Matrix sits in a chair looking beyond camera saying "I know kung fu." Bottom half of image is an overhead shot of Neo and Agent Smith fighting, with neo up against the wall receiving multiple simultaneous punches from Agent Smith. Agent Smith moves so fast his arms blur into multiple arms.
January 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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New Jersey drone panic
Event pop-up from Europa Universalis IV "Peasants are always superstitious, and the appearance of a comet in the sky has caused panic among our people. They are convinced that this is a sign that the end of times in near or that something is going to happen in the near future" What follows is decision options for the player "It's an omen" "The end is nigh!" "The economy, fools!" "I wish I lived in more enlightened times..." "If only we had comet sense..." "Oh Comet, devil's kith and kin..."
December 15, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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I chose to interpret this as "last game I wrote code for", not "last game I was credited on"

(specifically the PS5/XSX versions of Borderlands 3)
Cover art for a PC game Who Wants to be a Millionaire featuring a picture of Regis Filbin and the tag line "TV's hit quiz show comes to PC" PS5 Borderlands 3 Ultimate Edition cover art featuring a borderlands psycho with a mask standing in roses with various characters from the franchise faces, in a holy stance, with a halo around his head, and guns coming out from behind him in a fan.
December 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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*for up to a minute
Screenshot of article - "Genie 2 can generate consistent worlds for up to a minute, with the majority of examples shown lasting 10-20s."
December 5, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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even years after his mayoral term ended and two unpopular mayors later, Rahm still underwater in Chicago
Change research poll conducted November 2024 w general election voters in Chicago showing poll numbers for various Chicago politicians. Rahm Emanuel is at -6 net favorability.
December 3, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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Ralph Wiggum on ground clutching stomach with purple substance on lips. Bart leans over him looking down at him. Milhouse and three others surround him. Caption reads "They taste like... burning"
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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Comic with blobby person saying "I don't need to use this" about a GPU texture tiling library. "I will just roll my own texture loading with manual memcpys" in the next frame. Final frame shows the figure distorted by typical tiled texture bugs, with a barely legible "Oh No" punchline. In the style of webcomic name.
November 15, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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My big Dragon Age dummy

(I am not good at character creators)
Picture of a Dragon Age Veilguard character with brown hair brown eyes somewhat stocky goofy neutral expression on his face.
November 2, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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This is fine
Weatherman standing in front of graphic of Chicago area with the chyron "10 active tornadoes in progress right now"
July 16, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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The only way I'll support taxpayer money for a new Bears stadium is if, like this previz, they name it STADIUM and keep the signage unchanged from the rendering.
Rendering of a proposed Bears football stadium showing one end of the stadium from the outside, where you can see through a glass wall the inside of the stadium. There is signage with large letters of the word "STADIUM" hung at the top of the glass wall.
April 25, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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NASA rearranging Voyager 1's memory layout on the fly to workaround bad HW.

blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024...
Snippet from article the link leads to describing NASA patching Voyager 1's software to workaround a hardware failure.
April 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
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I forgot to get glasses so ColanderCam is best I got

Was dark enough the street lights turned on.

Chicago, IL
Image of partial solar eclipse through a colander projected on the ground. The moon obscures 75-80% of the sun.
April 8, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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We're getting all four seasons in Chicago today
Weather forecast predicting a High of 77 F today with fog then partly sunny, and a Low of 20 F tonight with t-storms and snow likely.
February 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Rod and Todd from The Simpsons sitting by the radio
December 19, 2023 at 3:19 AM
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This is just setting us up for a new all time headline "What are they going to do, jail me?" - man jailed by judge
Still, if the gag order is reimposed, advisers expect Trump to break it at some point, betting that the judges won't punish him with jail time. "What are they really going to do to him?" one ally said.
October 24, 2023 at 1:09 PM
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Screen from the 1998 movie Sphere showing five figures in front of a reflective alien sphere
September 15, 2023 at 1:31 AM
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This chart blew my mind as someone who views olive oil as my primary, go-to oil in the kitchen
Chart showing olive oil only accounts for 2% of global edible oil consumption
August 11, 2023 at 12:06 PM