Always related

YouTube, I don't even have a body to get rid of, I swear 😅

Yes

#meme@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

TikTok now automatically makes you AI slop without your consent if you run your ads there. It seems that you can't disable it manually right now and "optimized ads" will run as long as any ads run. And you are not being notified properly while filling the form...

#WTF@GameDEV
#TikTok@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Facts

One of my servers runs a staging website where I test things before moving them anywhere. Oddly enough, it has dozens of daily visitors 🤖

Just set a few network filters on the server to see how it goes. Bots spotted it instantly and tried to ping about 250 URLs of common components of web apps that idiots leave unprotected.

I turned this new data into more rules and they will no longer be 404 and will not waste any CPU time or network capacity, they will instantly bounce on a server level. Will make a bit more automation, since global bans are not always triggered properly.

You can't even imagine how much of the modern internet traffic is bots and crawlers. I'm fairly confident there are huge botnets now waiting for their hour.

❤ KFC España launched a funny crappy hand-made video to counter AI slop, end of physical media, and such:

https://x.com/KFC_ES/status/2099528196135784872

Sure! (R)

#Blender@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Well, yeah, to no one's surprise... kind reminder that the game barely runs even after all the patches, and the intro section is the hideous un-skippable 30 minutes cutscene.

#LayOffs@GameDEV

Hummmm

Perfection

#meme@GameDEV
#Apple@GameDEV

Heart Machine lost funding and has been dismantled. Almost all of the employees are fired. It's not clear who was that publisher that left the deal.

Possessor(s) was the only game I played from them and it was comically bad in terms of optimization — a 2.5D stylized game that runs worse than Hogwarts Legacy. All thanks to Unreal Engine 5! Because of that issue, they've had to lower the price drastically (to $9.99) after the release.

Already warned you about it: https://t.me/GameDEV/10600 — absolutely deserved failure. Oh, and Zoë Quinn was working with them for a few years.

#LayOffs@GameDEV

𝕹𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖆𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝕺𝖗𝖎𝖔 (@nicholasdeorio):
I AM HAVING A BLAST PLAYING WOLVERINE ON THE SONY PLAYSTATION 5

Then they returned to form...

https://t.me/GameDEV/5451?single

Technically correct

#VR@GameDEV
#meme@gameDEV

Google mapped a fruit fly brain into the usable simulation and open-sourced it. People made it to play Doom, be a Minecraft NPC, dance in Beat Saber, solve Rubik's Cube, trade, run business, operate military drones, and so on.

#Science@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

Imagine being disected as a fly and wake up to this 🤦‍♂️

To make it solve these tasks they re-train the fly similarly to AI models fine tuning process.

Valve also fails with hardware a little bit thanks to the prices

#meme@GameDEV

There are two types of people: some are fascinated by the fruit fly experiments and others played SOMA