Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦

Canadian in Tokyo. Producer of Video Games AWESOME! @ffstv Invented trailer reaction shows (sorry). Business inquiries: [email protected]

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

gonna try and move over here. might take a while: https://t.co/5uVEM7T2Xl

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

it can be endearing. like when we were given cotton candy by an ojiisan at a small matsuri and he said "japanese sweet. enjoy."

[Stop That. @[email protected] @stopthatgirl7]

A Japanese guy asked me if people got hay fever in America, too, and I said yes. He then asked why. I was so dumbfounded I couldn’t answer. After a long silence and me staring in disbelief, someone said, “…they have trees and flowers in America, too.”

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

this is why i perform above my actual level in Japanese, i have absolutely no problem mimicking the native Japanese accent.

[Nick @fin0cchi0]

In order to properly speak a foreign language you sort of have to do an impression of a native speaker. The reason why most anglos are so bad at languages is because they are too self-conscious to effectively do this

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

does overwatch still exist?

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

this is so fucking cool

[NVIDIA AI @NVIDIAAI]

Meet NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe 🎙️

An open-weight, promptable 30B MoE model with ~4B active parameters that brings transcription in 40 languages, speaker attribution, translation, contextual prompting and audio understanding into one checkpoint.

Watch it keep track of who said what when everyone’s talking at once.

1/ 🧵

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

my timeline is 10 years before most households have a jack-o-lantern wrangling robot.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I see how some people can watch flashy robot demos on the timeline and think with a shiver that the robot apocalypse is around the corner, but reality check:

There is no robot in the world that can change the batteries in a jack-o-lantern.

If you have a robot friendly door handle it might be able to walk outside, pick it up, and carry it back inside. The robot could open the drawer with your batteries in it, but then things get tough.

Opening the package of AA batteries?
Extracting a precision screwdriver from its case?
Unscrewing four tiny screws that require a hard press and twist?
Popping batteries out of the case?

Yes, you could build and train a specialist robot to do that today, but there is a very long way to go to replace the full range of human capabilities. Near term doomer scenarios should stop at “secretly controlling humanity” instead of “wiping humanity out” 😀

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@konekorai maybe my eyes work different.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

this. Japanese people seem to LOVE harsh lights. warm lights are even hard to find in some stores.

[Rokko 🌐✈︎ @Msamalam]

Nope. I’ve never seen a nation that loves extremely bright neon white lights as much as Japan. Pics are avg living rooms.

Luxury hotels can give off very wrong impressions.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@konekorai yeah but you can have bright and warm! it doesn't need to be fluorescent!

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@omegasmash1 For you, what is the age cutoff at which a person who has dedicated themselves to a craft and is universally celebrated as a luminary in that field should be relegated to “old man” status and no longer considered capable of offering meaningful insight into that discipline?

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

it is really interesting that Miyamoto's pragmatic take on ai in gamedev has seemingly softened many people's stance. i follow many talented pre-ai gamedevs on here that i have seen give very similar opinions only to get shouted down with "pick a side!" mob sentiment.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@crierlon @TimSweeneyEpic the goal posts will always get moved.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

Miyamoto is not at all the first to ruminate on this kind of a future, but it feels like the pope just stepped into to settle a rift among the faithful.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@ADScomics_ i love how it applies to both the audience and the creator too

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

i urge people to read his comments in whole. this is some of the best, thoughtful, pragmatic, non-inflammatory philosophizing i have seen and it comes from somebody with arguably the most clout in the industry.

[VGC @VGC_News]

Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the acclaimed designer behind Super Mario and Zelda, has explained why he believes generative AI won’t make human creativity obsolete.

"There will always be a role left for us to play."

https://t.co/ZN4m5aNc0r

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@JoshPrinty we literally have been to an outdoor foot bath heated by the trash incinerator next door.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

my quick thoughts under this comment by the way!

[Djinzi @djxnzi]

@FarFromSubtle hi frash. for you, is it no art/music/writing gen, or are you wholly anti ai even for code?

As a musician I hate ai music, but as a programmer it's getting confusing trying to sus out everyones opinion on code gen and bug finding/fixing with the assistant stuff.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@JoshPrinty absolutely

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@tinkle_pit @THawkMedia so, let's make it clear what Sweeney is saying, extremely paraphrased, my understanding: "ai is here, it's not going to go away, it is foolish to not use it."

i don't hear anything in particular that counters that outright besides, as you said, being far more diplomatic.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@Kotaku one of the best paraphrasing headlines for this conference.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

personally i don't think the trolling helps anybody, despite having to admit it is perfectly executed.

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

it's incredible to me how many people took the rage bait.

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

Vibe your way to 50K.

The 2026 Epic AI MegaJam begins Nov 12: https://t.co/aAXEqj7zmE

[Fraser Agar 🇯🇵🇨🇦 @FarFromSubtle]

@djxnzi i see what you did there and yes i read it i. that voice and it made me grit my teeth.