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this image is up there with the torment nexus. Even if Anthropic's claims were true, any "conscience" is born at the start of one message and provably ends at the end of it. It'd be like calling Amazon Support one collective conscience when a support chat is transferred between support agents.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 9h

It'll still be bittersweet, but RocketWerkz had the right instinct to rehire laid-off devs and modders. The KSP 2 devs loved the community a lot more than the top hats did, at least Dean Hall cares this time around 🥲

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 9h

First feature to supersede KSP 2's roadmap, even if WIP in a lot of other areas. It was pretty gutting seeing how T2 treated Intercept/Private Division and how Nate got turned into a scapegoat. I'm hoping the fired devs get some closure from seeing a spiritual successor

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's so much more ironic coming from Google. They've spent years making a feature that eats its own supply and now they don't trust anyone to use their product as they intended for 3 decades. Then half the captchas "fail" so users can give them more traffic training data 😵‍💫

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The closest things 2D artists have to Rubber duck debugging is posting art to socials then immediately finding things to tweak 😭 ft. low poly rat for your convenience

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like how a5e does skills/ability scores, where skill checks can use any ability if you make a good case for it. Most DMs half-do it already, but a lot of a5e skills don't even have a "default" ability, just a few suggestions.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Plus the onus is on everyone else, and even goliaths like Amazon will take years to actually embed it into the publishing process. ain't it fun 😵‍💫

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I remember seeing Clarkesworld temporarily shut off all submissions in the early days of AI. It made headlines then, just another day now. I'm glad (all things considered) LLMs are watermarking text output now, but how many years too late was that?

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I can't understand the obsession tech bros have over disposable input/output. You get one chance to say input, one chance to hear output (for AI wearables). If that fails, start again. One of the first things humans did was solve persistent info through literal cave drawings 💀

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 04/07/2025

You only truly understand shareholder capitalism when you realize an Ouroborus also has to shit.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Pirate Software really damaged the actually valid arguments against SKG. It comes from a good place for consumers, but as game devs the loudest voice on our "side" took a very nuclear approach.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The NHS comparison is laughable. Medicine isn't made generally available before the foundations are regulated. The Pandora's box approach was because they knew it wouldn't fly, the only way to "secure" it is by placing all chips on it before the law has time to even react.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I've just switched engines entirely, but I might give this a shot. DuckDuckGo definitely has the right layout, but I have noticed it misses a *lot* of websites

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I love how Google spends server money to cook the planet to show me lies that make me hate their brand with no way to turn it off. I really can't think of a solution where everyone wins here.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Let's hope the case goes through before governments retroactively decide stealing is profitable enough to be legal. It's not looking good in the UK 🙁

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

...in no particular order 👀

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

For the second time this month, I'm shocked to learn that the selfish billionaires backstabbed people on "their side" 🤯

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Even though they're doing this in self-interest (a few of these studios have used AI themselves), I can't complain if megacorps protecting themselves set a precedent that makes it easier for the little guy. It's almost like privatising AI slop. Kinda better but still grossly corporate 🤢

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Dropped food ends up as dog food, after watching the toaster launch my bread onto the floor she's wondering where I put it...

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

...not sure what you're trying here but both these responses look pretty human to me?

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Ah, that's good of Cloudflare but in a way it still means you have to buy into specific vendors that give this as a feature

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Insane that Cloudflare even needs to make a bespoke blocking solution. I'm glad it exists, but you shouldn't need to buy a product to force AI to respect consent.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The part that feels sour to me is the cut reducing with *more* profit. It's 100% to keep AAA on Steam and push around small devs who don't have a choice cause they'd be missing out on those players.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What'd really work is a tickbox to make an incremental save, or when the pop-up shows it has a blend name field that you can change (just saves over the file as normal if untouched) I have so many blends where I make a "fork" of sorts to test a GN theory before replacing the old way

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This makes for a neat "presentation over realism" challenge too. If the player isn't brushing their hair every time they stop moving, the sim would need to ease back to the default combed layout. Way easier with cards, but either way it'd be interesting to tackle

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Unsurprisingly, they're mainly slop machines at best and outright theft of other devs' work at worst youtu.be/slI30AhW00A

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The #1 worst people in video games are at it again.

YouTube video by Charalanahzard

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Give it another few months and we'll have super special edition remastered rerelease with console mods lmao

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It still uses the original engine for core mechanics, so in a few weeks-months the major mods for original oblivion might get ported over without needing a complete remake

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The other factors are why folks won't learn, they know it can be harmful so don't want to engage. That's fair, but on the flipside there's well-educated people like @ednewtonrex.bsky.social who know the potential and the ethics. Makes for stronger cases to advocate for the right way to use it

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm very anti gen-AI but done a lot of research. I think the take that they aren't useful comes from folks who know its negative tech potential, like disinformation. You can try learn which cookie in the bowl is poisonous, or you can avoid the bowl entirely knowing it can kill you 1/2

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Having never done pixel art or game modding, it's really satisfying seeing this actually in engine 😄

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The closest we'll get is the leaked draft version of the entire movie. It's like a massive budget studio adaptation of a low budget youtube fan movie

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I've always liked the idea of adoption. Either way, a kid will have to face hostile consequences for just... being brought into the world, and that sucks. It'd be nice to give someone who's already had it bad a second chance at having support from a parent rather than a system that fails them

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The linked Blender project with GN Signed Distance Fields will make this *far* more viable, but for now Blender can't do it. At least it's in the works. The SE thread if you want to try anyway: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/29...

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Attempt 2 with links this time. A StackExchange thread suggested a *possible* workaround, but it's messy. It handles cavity areas (eyes, nose on Suzanne) poorly and performs nightmarishly bad (1/2) projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Is the thickness added procedurally? If so, you could use GN to Store Named Attribute on only the rim. Then in GN or Shader nodes, multiply the displacement strength by the attribute

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Visual accuracy with none of the soul that makes Studio Ghibli more memorable than just "looks nice". It's like a skinwalker for human expression.

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

a Ghibli fan posting AI is like a pacifist monk working for Lockheed Martin

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Oh yeah, I don't think Irving's done yet (although the train felt like a goodbye) Maybe the innies learn more of Irving's involvement without him/track him down to bring his innie back and learn more? If Irving doesn't appear in S3 that'd be a mad way to end it 😞

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

With the marching band joining a resistance, they basically have Mr Milchick and an Eagan hostage. As for innie Mark/Hellys plan, they def don't have one but they just want to live. It's a "save ourselves first, plan the rest after" start, but it's all they really have in the face of death

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

*Spoilers* I think the setup felt less cliffhanger-y than S1 and more as a premise setup for S3. With S1, we had no idea what happened with everyone getting yanked out of OTC. With the marching band resistance and innies wanting to live, we've got a good idea of how S3 will start

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Love the subtle POM, a lot of demos crank it up to 11 and it becomes more a focus point than part of the realism

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

There's some irony in customers losing faith in major publishers' mistakes/layoffs, the market moving to indie games, then publishers being interested in the indie scene

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

For sure. Being part of a shitty system by circumstance/engaging in a system the modern world's built around isn't an endorsement of it. Reminds me of this, it's def not a right-wing exclusive habit

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It's their latest after Project Gold. A lot of folks thought Eevee meant they're bringing back the Blender Game Engine, but embracing other FOSS software rather than competing is so much better 😄 youtu.be/Cy0CpQnjfUA

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Blender Studio Log 12 - Ignore Error Messages

YouTube video by Blender Studio

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Kit Oaken @alfrednt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The last parts the most concerning, companies with a b in their revenue are throwing every resource they can to make it happen. If someone takes a shot at us and misses, we need to get out of the way instead of critiquing the firing stance. Even if the shot was 1 inch closer and still a mile away.

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