chris.james

🇨🇦 Video Game Designer. CEO/Game Director of @ThunderousGames
I aspire to do great things, but not in the Voldemort kinda way. ADC/MID/JUNG

[T1 LoL @T1LoL]

The Jensen Huang Buff is real!🤩

T1 BASE CAMP 홍대점에 깜짝 방문을 해주신 NVIDIA의 젠슨황 CEO님과 T1 LoL 선수단의 만남이 성사되었습니다!
오늘의 만남을 원동력으로, 다가오는 경기에서 완벽한 경기력을 보여드리도록 하겠습니다.

The T1 LoL team was able to meet with NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang during his surprise visit to T1 BASE CAMP Hongdae to celebrate @RiotGames coming to @NVIDIARTXSpark . 

Fueled by this amazing energy, we’ll bring our best to the upcoming matches!

@NVIDIAGeForce #TogetherAs1

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@scarra Glad you like it here :)

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@UniteVids 100% would use. This is a really good mockup. Well done :)

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@MacroAstral @dylancuthbert Ha!

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@Victor_Lucas CONGRATULATIONS!!! :D :D :D

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@RealGodzly That will be a fun deck :)

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@BeanJuiceStudio I've heard a from few difference sources over the years: Horror.

Not my cup of tea though - I prefer something a bit more grounded and lighter, at least at first.

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@JRedVT @Sebastrzian @Sheep_Esports This is the main reason, though there may be others for distancing.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear.

And he said it without being anti-AI.

Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected.

Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet.

The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA.

And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked.

Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product.

The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches.

What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it.

Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next.

Those are different jobs.

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@Biofrostlol Oh man, I'd love a memory from your League journey. If you're ever back in Vancouver, I'll be happy to exchange a jersey for something

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@GamewithDave

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@ovopack Neat :)

Also, I love Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin: great work there!

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@Victor_Lucas For me: Tie Fighter

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@spragels IMHO: Lucky Ice Pop should be nerfed to +15 HP

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@xPetu The difference between 'percieved' performance and 'recorded' statistics when it comes to making in-game decisions for itemization.

[THG | NaetorU @NaetorU_D]

Y'a une télé japonaise qui passe une pub pokemon Pocket

EST CE QUE QUELQU'UN AU MONDE ÉTAIT AU COURANT QU'ON POUVAIT FAIRE ÇA ??????

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I cannot stop listening to this song ...
https://t.co/aDd1hb9VCM

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@drewlevin @drewlevin I'm genuinely curious - specifically, I'd really like to have my #NA1 tag back for myself heh.

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@drewlevin My question is: How did the bots get #NA1 tags?
When the switch happened I completely misundersood what was going on, and accedentally changed my tag, really wishing afterwards that I could get it back.

[chris.james @cignet]

My League skin wishlist :)

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

I see a lot of people saying the new Xbox logo looks like Apple’s Liquid Glass. Did y’all forget about the original Xbox dashboard 😉