This blog is comprised of the various thoughts, opinions, rants, and analysis's of an aspiring game developer. Topics may range from general technological news, to local politics, to whatever I cooked for dinner. I cannot guarantee post consistency, accuracy, or coherence.
So. AI Slop. Fun topic, isn’t it? Anyone you talk to seems to either discuss it as the second coming or the antichrist. It’s rare you come into contact with someone who treats it like what it is - code . Algorithms. Lines of logic run on wires. A tool that you can use in different ways and you can discuss whether it’s even feasible or reasonable to. But it’s kind of hard to have a proper…
So, it’s 20:30 PM. The only light in my living room is the one above the dinner table, and beneath it am I, holding my rocking head with the thumb and index of the left palm. The only noise audible is the thrashing of my dishwasher, some teenagers hanging out under my window, and whatever song spotify’s decided to play this time. I’ve finished my masters’ degree about two weeks back, which is…
I just finished reading Absolute Martian Manhunter #1-#6, covering the first story arc of the comic. To those who aren’t aware of the “Absolute” series - DC Comics decided they’re doing another reboot to their classic heroes, this time with the throughline of “one core aspect of their origin story is fundamentally changed, yet the hero still remains who they are.” Batman is no longer rich, but he…
In two days I am finally finishing with my fuckass degree. This monday we’re going to have our very final presentations, where we will show our final projects and get graded for them. Afterwards I am free. …Well, free is a relative term. Moved from the pan to the flame (academia to the workforce). Still, just making games with no one to play them has been annoying. I was just stuck in the dredge…
I typically tell people my life doesn’t have many high highs or low lows. That my life is one smooth curvature of “alright”-ness. Today was an exception. The day started off very well. It was the annual Israeli game industry convention, and I got to meet many people I already knew, and many new faces. I met some people I only knew online, I got to try out a lot of cool new games, I got to beg…
About an hour or so ago, thepaperpilot made a blogpost named “Prejudice on the Left” , talking about how many leftist “figures”, so to speak, still fuck up when it comes to defending groups they ostensibely stand to defend. In particular they bring up Graham Platner being given a pass for sexual harrassment and nazi ties, and the heavy misogyny that surrounded Amber Heard’s trial. Leftist online…
Many times online, when asked what their dream job is, some users will reply that they “do not dream of labor.” The statment broadly means that in their fantasies, they do not do (ostensibely employment-related) work, and can instead merely relax and do other things. Typically this statement is also used to imply the speaker is somehow trapped within the confines of capitalism and can’t dream of a…
There’s something incredibly freeing about going “fuck it.” If there wasn’t, we wouldn’t have dozens of people making celebration videos of them quitting their jobs, something that is ostensibely really bad (you were getting screwed over so much you decided it’s better to not even have a source of income). Still, going “you know what? I don’t care” feels great , because it’s not your problem…
Heya all. So, once more I feel the need to blog something but didn’t have any singular impactful event, so here’s a bunch of shit that happened to me recently. Feel free to skip around. I’m almost done with my Masters Degree which thank FUCK for . I started this degree thinking that there was something missing in game design literature that I’d find in academia, and have finished it, telling five…
A friend sent me a link to NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME , described by critics as “the most pretentious itchio submission ever made”. While I do agree with the “manifesto” on some regards, I do think the sarcastic commenter was right: this is way too pretentious for its own good, to the point it ends up contradicting its own mission statement. So I wanna talk about this manifesto a bit, and…