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Unity cannot resist being embarrassing

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Maybe this is the time to finally learn Godot?

As a Unity user (for now), I have a wishlist a mile long of things I wish they would actually finish and implement in the engine instead of just making it a preview package and then abandoning it. But instead of implementing tools for people who actually use the engine, they do this instead:

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I looked it up and it’s so much worse than I even imagined

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Unity is continuing its flop era I see

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It’s the comic sans of our time, but also so much worse than comic sans

👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If not n*zi, then why n*zi shaped?

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who could’ve foreseen this??

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Earlier this year we switched platforms to a system that uses AI to read receipts, invoices, and generate reports. It was much hyped. Today they all but told us not use the AI because it was doing it wrong and people weren’t actually checking if the info was right before submitting

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actual lol at my workplace today when they told us all they’re updating the company policy on AI payment / receipt reports because too many people were letting the AI fill it out wrong

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to say it cannot be said enough how important it is for other men to say things about this shit. In the moment, or ASAP My first ever game dev event I was sexually harassed (assaulted?) by a Sony exec while all of my coworkers saw and said nothing Please say something, for people that can't

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King & Queen Sculptures @kqsculptures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My hatred for Gen AI knows no bounds. If your game has gen AI I will not play it, if your store has AI flyers I will not shop there, if your con does not have a strong stance against AI I will not attend. If everyone who was truly against gen AI was the same, it would be gone by now.

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DLSS5 looks terrible so gamers will love it

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s usually a sort brush font, or it’s got like a smooth gradient. Here’s an example making fun of it, but replicating the style well:

Your flyer looks like garbage: a mock flyer made to look like chatGPT created it, with lots of poorly design ed text and messy elements
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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where are the great cultural artifacts produced by AI? All I see it used for are terrible YouTube thumbnails and restaurant menus that look horrifying

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking about that tweet about how being rich must be like getting kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just draw. Be curious, be open to drawing new things, be self-forgiving when you make mistakes, draw everything that excites you. Getting good doesn't have to be that hard or serious. You just gotta keep drawing.

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really want this too. I’m so fed up with touch keyboards and autocorrect

👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI slop is so pervasive in megachurches too. It’s like they’re completely isolated from the cultural backlash to it

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like I need to read a book about why evangelical art has historically been so bad, and how that dovetails into how much they love AI these days

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In general I think it is very interesting how car designs reflect the desperate excesses of the era they’re in

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Modern BMWs all look like they hail from the Republic of Gamers

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earend | making 🐻🛡️⚠️ @earend.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ok this sounds bad but we can't forget about how fast this thing can make a website that sucks

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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👻Jon👻 @shadyalien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“But the tech will keep getting better”

I’m not sure how I feel about the characters, but overall it looks very pretty and a bit like pre-rendered scenes from an older Final Fantasy or something similar, which I think is neat

I want more open source software that you can tell was hand coded just by looking at it

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There’s tons of vibe coded normal map generators out there now (they all have that vibe coded “look” to their UI) but why use any of those when this exists

Normal Map Online, a tried and true online utility with a very dated looking UI. You can tell it’s meant for genuine sickos

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*currently looking at Sony Clie PDAs on ebay* Yes…yes…

GKIDS Films @gkids.com · 08/09/2026

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Everything ends here. Experience GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, the first-ever Japanese production #FilmedForIMAX, in theatres November 6. godzillaminuszero.com

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Like it AI actually were conscious wouldn’t all of its use cases essentially be forced labor? So now you have a machine built off of stolen labor twice over?

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If you’re an AI booster, arguing it’s conscious (it’s not) doesn’t really help your case, it just makes you sound like an evil wizard who’s forcing a captive spirit to write all your emails

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Yup, same. The GN video has links to steps you can take but I haven’t read up on it yet.

The good news is that I think there are ways you can block the servers / IP addresses the TVs contact to cut them off. I have to research it more. But for now, all of my LG TVs are getting kicked off the network

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Yeah, I think they’re raising funds for it right now? GN is out here doing the lord’s work

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LG Isn't the Only TV Company Spying on You

Yup. I kinda feel like they’re all guilty until proven innocent. I haven’t finished watching this video yet but so far it’s not a pretty picture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu...

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YouTube video by RTINGS R&D

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Is it even possible to buy a TV that isn’t a smart TV anymore? It’s so messed up

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