ben

glassbottommeg, 14 hours ago to random

Ok indies (and I'm looking especially at you Death's Door)

look, screen shake is great, but if I'm struggling with a boss because I can't see what's going on, turn off all your FX, and then beat the boss without taking a hit,

That's too much juice, let some of the juice out, be like 20% less juicy

ghosttie, 1 day ago to random

I've got a question - why isn't there an option to turn off Google's "AI Overviews"?

What do they gain from forcing it in everyone and costing themselves a bunch of money generating nonsense every time someone does a search?

maxim, 2 days ago to gamedev

Today I tried what Geometry Script is in Unreal Engine 5. Cool features, but I won't use it for the game. Maybe only as tools for level design

#gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday #UnrealEngine #ue5 #indiedev #IndieGameDev #games

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ghosttie, 2 days ago to random

I like how the metaverse didn't happen

Facebook evaporated billions of dollars on it and then just... nothing

Even autocorrect is like "that's not a word"

ben, 2 days ago to random

I've been using them for years but if @protonprivacy starts using training AI based on my email I'm closing my account the very same day.

ben, 3 days ago to random

"What OpenAI have presented with GPT-4o is a fresh paint job on a car with a dangerously corroded chassis. A false confidence machine."

https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

mathowie, 3 days ago to random

https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.

ben, 3 days ago to random

I made a UI version of the thing that's going around
Original comic by https://instagram.com/mhuyocomics

ben, 4 days ago to random

what are your favourite steam deck games?

ben, 4 days ago to random

Citations Needed really is the single best podcast I would recommend to people to understand the news and current events.
https://pca.st/episode/db4d1d39-f313-4724-b010-923360146d4d

ben, 4 days ago to random

i sat on my butt way too much when i was younger and as a result my legs are baaaad

i bought a kitchen timer and set it to 30 mins and get up and walk around when it goes off

it's helping

ben, 7 days ago to random

Since moving to my own instance I get the impression that Mastodon is a lot quieter. I wonder if people I'm following aren't getting their stuff federated to my instance? I'm just on the cheapest masto host level

ben, 8 days ago to random

just be honest and say you're pro killing 15,000 kids

brody, 10 days ago to random

Jeez, this is Unreal Engine 5's 9-slicing implementation?? This is so awful, good god. I didn't think you could screw this up...

ben, 12 days ago to random

Beware the positivity of early adopters.

People who sign up for your beta or buy your game in early access are way more likely to forgive problems than people who buy the game on 50% sale. If early adopters mention a "small problem", take it seriously.

ben, 13 days ago to random

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

ben, 15 days ago to random

one thing i'd love to know from any devs that use rng

how much do you just use "vanilla" rng vs anything that puts a finger on the scale

for example i heard diablo uses rng but it makes it more likely for the player to get a rare item the longer they go without receiving one

jonikorpi, 16 days ago to random

If the Threads → Mastodon integration was already bidirectional, I’d use it here to ask @notionhq why there’s no way to remove the fixed-positioned AI bar that’s now uselessly taking up screen real estate in their iOS app.

ben, 17 days ago to random

all roguelike games should have a single screenshottable screen that lets you send your current run info to a friend.

all the stuff you picked, all the cool combos etc.