Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 02/10/2026I think of that stuff as all being under the broad envelope of quality assurance, with specifically play testing being making sure stuff not only behaves correctly but also feels right. And I didn't know you worked on that game! That was a cool one, I loved it as a kid. 100
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 02/10/2026my friend left some NA beers here and it's kinda fun ripping through cold canned drinks that look like beers while I'm technically at work hahahaha. I don't ilke the taste of NA beer but this one is super tasty actually, "best day brewing electro-lime mexican style" 020
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 02/10/2026just had an ai bro backtrack on what he was saying in his video talking about how he "uses AI to playtest games" lol. Like, playtesting isn't about any specific metric. it's about the player's fun, there's literally no way something that isn't actually playing the game can tell if it feels good. 120
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 30/09/2026me and my friend drew are playing a show in san diego ca at black cat on oct 3, we go on first! also before anyone asks how i made this masterpiece, i edited the video using reaper and aseprite hahahaha 020
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 28/09/2026I would have assumed people using these AI apps to do stuff for them would be surrounded by other people doing that, and be able to see that the game they're "making" looks exactly like the ones their friends have, and have a lightbulb moment, but... I guess they actually just don't have friends? 001
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 27/09/2026ok i love the love for ms rachel but a lot of posts are like "she's on the tv all day at the house" and like... please don't have the tv on for your kids all day hahaaha. I don't think she'd want that either 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/09/2026who exactly is the target audience for meta muse? from what i gather it's a new take on the "agentic ai" that's designed... to spend your money for you? like, in this economy? must be nice havin the cash to let your computer buy stuff with your money and not worry about overdrafting your account lol 100
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/09/2026How good would a game have to be for you to tolerate this? Like I think I'd actually prefer never playing a videogame again than interacting with this concept hahaha 120
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 23/09/2026like what do you mean people are selling foil onslaught polluted deltas for 1-2k? I had play sets of this type of stuff back in the day and it seemed so wildly valuable already when I sold it. mox diamond? mox jet? jeez. i don't want to look at it, depressing 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 23/09/2026I fell into the accidental algorabbit hole of watching magic the gathering vintage pack openings and now it's all I get fed and I am unfortunately here to report that the magic cards I sold to buy a lot of the music gear I was using starting out are probably worth like over $100k now. :( hahaa 110
Reposted by FrancisAdriaan @adriaan.games · 17/09/2026Godot contributors and Godot Foundation people are really good people, ya’ll. There’s so much goodwill and best effort action, many of their efforts unpaid, under-appreciated, and invisible. Please continue to send them kindness. And donate a bit of what you can spare. fund.godotengine.orgfund.godotengine.orgGodot Development FundJoin the Development Fund and support the Godot Foundation to work on Godot Engine. 210833
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026What a great deep cut. Evokes so many childhood memories for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-T...youtube.comStephen Oliver - Lord of the Rings Full Soundtrack (1981)YouTube video by Tenebrarius 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026jeez i was today years old when i realized all i had to do was make an account on wikipedia to enable dark mode 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026I'm playing a show at Black Cat Bar in San Diego on Oct 3. Synthesizers abound 032
Reposted by FrancisChet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 16/09/2026Why has Silicon Valley gotten so crazy right wing and loony? You taught them they could, as there is nothing, nothing Elon Musk can do to get so many of you to not buy a Tesla or god forbid not use Twitter. They look at what he can get away with and think they deserve that as well. 3386
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 16/09/2026Had this insanely deep cut stuck in my head randomly. Any Lord of the rings fans out there who are also fans of the 1981 bbc radio version of the books remember this? I had this on cassette and listened to it so much as a kid youtu.be/qWBecwqNGkM?...youtu.beStephen Oliver - Gil-Galad (from BBC Radio's adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings")YouTube video by AntPDC 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 15/09/2026ever since windows stopped even trying to pretend like it wasn't malware it's become daily hahaha 110
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 14/09/2026blasting enya and drawing 2d assets for my game, hell yeah kinda day 020
Reposted by FrancisEmily Hare @emilyhare.com · 10/09/2026Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns 45699375
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 10/09/2026Man this "AI will take over the world" and "AI will kill all humans" shit is beyond insufferable. Like stop building it if you believe that, and since you obviously won't stop building it please shut the fuck up and stay in your lane. It's genuinely the most annoying marketing I've ever seen 041
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 09/09/2026Finding out it costs like, hiring an employee level money to use these AI apps the way that tech bro influencers are talking about them is insane. Cool reskin of space invaders, took a week and thousands of dollars? Anyone who has ever done a game jam can do it better in a weekend lol 010
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 08/09/2026Zoom is such awful software, BUT why don't very many other video call programs have markup/annotation features? I pretty much always want to be able to turn on the ability to draw on someone's screen 001
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 07/09/2026So anyway, yeah, you may have heard my work on a tv show or in an album, but I haven't stopped doing music for fun; I just don't see the point of publishing it as often as I used to. Come see me play or hire me to do music/arranging/production for your game/show/movie/band. I'm still here! (5/5) 020
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 07/09/2026And no, filing for proof of ownership with the US copyright office isn't good advice. It's expensive, clunky, and requires legal defense if I want to exploit the benefit, which costs money that I don't have. Our systems surrounding defense of IP are paper shields that only protect the wealthy (4/5) 120
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 07/09/2026Anyway, I've been extremely hesitant to post original work online that isn't part of a well-promoted project, which is why you haven't seen me release much music or art in the last few years. I'm not famous enough to "prove" that someone's ripoff is a ripoff unless my original was popular. (3/5) 100
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 07/09/2026Most of this stuff isn't "good" enough at copying a style and it's usually being feeding a single work directly into the model to output something more akin to a deepfake than to an actual ground-up generation. It's most obvious in videos, but it works with music and images too. (2/5) 100
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 07/09/2026People talk about how "AI" products "steal" creative work in order to function, and that is usually framed as something that happens as part of the material used to "train" the model. What I've noticed usually getting left out is the much more direct way in which ideas are stolen. (1/5) 100
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 05/09/2026ACE studio ai WILL NOT STOP CONTACTING ME. I blocked them and they're contacting me through an intermediary agency offering me "approximately $54.80 to $164.41" per video promoting their slop machine. my previous email literally said "fuck off" no caps just like that hahahha. 010
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 05/09/2026Dang the new openai product's *cinematic advertisement* doesn't even contain stuff that's exciting or scary. Everyone's like "game dev is cooked! it can connect to blender and make space invaders clone with a 3D model based on your prompt!" Like nobody actually wants to buy that lol 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 04/09/2026should be able to keep the shader in godot? i don't remember if i use a plugin for that or not. if i do, i didn't write it and it was free and easy to find (because stuff i don't remember is always free and easy to find hahahhaa) 020
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 03/09/2026The transition from Enya's "May It Be" to the Shire theme is probably the best ultra-hollywood emotional payoff you can do in film. absolute master class in basic "V is related to I" music theory just absolutely sent home with beautiful melodies and orchestration. 10/10 no notes 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 03/09/2026hire me to do audio stuff for you (or just send me money so i can work on my own game without getting distracted by paid work hahahaha) 040
Reposted by FrancisSasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Will scenes like this ever appear in a video game? We discuss..." 📖: PSM, September 1999. 361808333
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 31/08/2026Huge disconnect in tech between real artists and people who think the goal of computer graphics is to make things look as "realistic" as possible. Exhausting lol 090
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 31/08/2026non-regular reminder to politely but firmly ask people to leave the function if they are wearing smart glasses. You don't need to make a scene unless they turn it into a problem. people need to know they are unwelcome in public wearing those things 040
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 30/08/2026I'm starting to see a new version of AI-driven mental health issues that's distinctly different from AI psychosis. It's like people who use it lamenting that it's making us dumber, and talking about that like *everyone* is using it the way they are. Like dawg YOU are getting dumber, I'm not hahaa 020
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 27/08/2026Yeah i genuinely don't get it. The leaks I've seen are pretty much all just like, "hell yeah that looks more fun than I expected, I might buy this after all" 000
Reposted by FrancisRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comTurning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination LibraryCore team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world. 128190488286
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 26/08/2026Why do the ads for AI products feel like the ads on porn sites "curious about ai? Sign up to try for free" like no I don't need your fake sexy milf book burning software 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 25/08/2026I've found that I've started genuinely not believing stuff people say or write if I know they interact with language models a lot. It's like a boy who cried wolf thing, they're always so dismissive when it turns out the thing they said is incorrect, i just can't take them seriously 010
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/08/2026If you're measuring productivity based on the "lines of code" metric, Claude increases your productivity by 1000x. Anyone who has ever written software understands that you have to be incredibly stupid to think that way, but here we are, in a world where software companies are run by MBAs 041
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/08/2026why wouldn't it? you've got companies incentivizing token use with no guidance, measuring productivity based on lines of code instead of quality output, and for most of these companies "selling" a product just requires making it inconvenient to end your subscription, or requiring your data for use 000
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 24/08/2026the disconnect you're seeing is that productivity doesn't correlate to quality for these people. They're working WAY faster and putting out more stuff, but it's generally lower quality. But there is significantly more of it. I personally prefer quality but if people buy garbage they'll make garbage 130
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 20/08/2026damn the original LotR trilogy has one of the best sound mixes in film history 020
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 19/08/2026I've been saying this. If you made it with AI, then, well, then I can too, right? So your product essentially holds no economic value. And if you think your prompt is "special" I urge you to look into other products or services made by other people using the same model you use. Indistinguishable. 010
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 19/08/2026I thought the discontent with unity and unreal had a direct correlation to their aggressive adoption of in-engine AI... Maybe these guys missed that part lol 010
Francis @f-c-r.itch.io · 19/08/2026Man it's crazy that everyone suddenly has the same game idea with the same uncredited concept artist and web design for their pre-alpha project. I wonder how that possibly could have happened and why their game's branding looks just like every would-be engineer's claude product. weird. crazy. 021