johnnyanmac

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by johnnyanmac 3d ago
> You have a day job that pays the bills That's the part that worries me most. Jobs aren't paying the bills these days, the ones that do are in decline. > You had the great temporary luck to have both for a bit, but it'
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by johnnyanmac 3d ago
> what if they no longer have to "tolerate mucking out the stables" and can instead focus on riding. Then you haven't seen the say to day life of modern western civilization. That's not the reality. People are workin
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>It is a world in which video game designers get to make higher quality games faster really such a bad one? If that's what was happening it would be great. But we already saw the mobile market as a canary in the coalmine for how thi
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>Good AI art takes time and effort and taste and usually some amount of traditional skills. Sure. But I think it's more than safe to say, that the rotten barrel of rotten apples easily makes the 1-2 "high effort AI art" ap
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>Now is the time a lot of us should be contemplating our next move in life. Not easy given we're about to enter a period of utter economic chaos that makes the industrial revolution look tame. And what of those still in school or ju
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>If I were an artist, I wouldn't really care that a machine took over the role of drawing lines on paper Well you already explained why you're not an artist.
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>I think the reason so many people are frustrated is that they _know_ they are falling behind, they _know_ the thing that they like doing is not something they can easily get employed to do. I'm frustrated because I'm in a den
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>it's a hell of a lot better than being a replyguy. It's best to live by your own words
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>Whst is this supposed to mean "blame"? In my domain, we call it "selling out". It's not blameless, but for people who function in modern society we all likely have done similar things. So it's hard to blame
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
If you want it broken down as simple as I can: My ultimate goal is "make a fun game". Turns out LLM's can't just do that for you, so I reject them for now. There is a goal, LLM's cannot achieve that goal, despite wh
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
Sex is communication too. It speaks to whatever escapism you desire or taboo you want to happen before your eyes. You can call the popular "taken off my feet by the mysterious handsome Werewolf that will fight to the death for me"
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>Why would you stop learning new things? I'm always learning new things. The things I learn jsut happen to no longer align with what current speculative crazy investors want. >the difference in someone who has spent time building
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>If the craft is important, then the money is secondary the money is secondary. Sadly, rent is primary. Give me enough to retire and I'll happily spend the rest of my days on my craft. Until then, the options are combining your craf
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>So in practice, I do think LLMs write better code than me (if you look at results not the actual code itself). "correct" code is not "good" code. We see this quite a bit with the analogue of AI-generated text. Having
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>The human in your analogy would be better off working with animals on a farm, or vet practice, where the technological advances that deliver better care to animals would make them feel even more fulfilled. Yes. And instead they are stuc
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by johnnyanmac 4d ago
>The only way out for us is to follow Rogue's mom's advice: "Have you tried not being a nerd?" Tried and failed for decades, yes. Turns out caring for your craft makes you a nerd. Turn out what people want is to stay
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by johnnyanmac 6d ago
Apple never goes all in for gaming. They are more than happy to base most of its software revrnue on Skinner boxes, but otherwise it feels like it wants little to do with games. Every 4-5 years they need something to show off their tech and
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
Yeah, it's all a huge con. The best fiscal habits involves not spending money you don't have, so you should never need a CC to begin with. But if you take that route, you end up being unable to finance a car or apartment because c
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
It may be a partial factor. Similar to how CC companies have a logical reason to reject high charge chargeback items , but may also be ideologically driven to push certain agendas as well.
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
> lower income people are generally subsidized by taxes Pretty flimsy argument to begin with. Because the rich then argue to lower their taxes and/or simply not pay them and the whole system falls apart. Not to mention that lower i
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
The model is inverted here, though. The whales essentially get the big discounts at the expense of those who go into debt for one reason or another. That's why there's an argument of wealth transfer up. The "biggest spender
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
> I don't think "raw, unfettered capitalism" and unions are orthogonal. In a vacuum, no. If the most profitable approach means involves maintaining an "all star" cast to keep the best team happy, then everything
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by johnnyanmac 7d ago
I don't really know what unionization has to do with making good games. We've seen plenty of studios fall from grace with raw, unfettered capitalism. It ultimately will come down to if it can retain talent and don't do a sof
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
Sure it does. AI is so efficient that we only needed a dozen workers. Which means there are now more leaders than ever. We solved the economy!
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
Hypocrisy is the only constant in humanity.
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
>If you loved the art of writing code, and also enjoyed getting paid a boatload for that activity I enjoyed being able to pay rent. A drop from my peak of 160k to 80k would have sucked but would make due as a single male. Going from 160k
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
When there's a day I can get properly architected, performant code out of agents, I will happily let it take over the reins. Because coding is not the hardest part of the process in my domain and I wouldn't mind more time to focus
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
>So in Latin America people just call it a day and survive and try to get another job Not too dissimilar to the US. But "survive" is harder with the higher cost of Living. And hiring for a new role can take weeks at best. In th
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
Good, get out. If you're going to throw away an entire century of culture over not getting enlough tax breaks, you're a parasite. Not a taste maker. Don't get me wrong, it will be a big shock short term to artists, as seen th
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by johnnyanmac 8d ago
Bungie is especially funny because it wasn't out putting more games. With the sunsetting of destiny 2, Sony traded one golden goose for a normal one. I guess that's inevitable when management changes. Id is an odd example, though.

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