Indie Dev Dave

developer behind VR title Warchasm. educator, creative and huge XR geek.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@WillFaucherVFX @uxiabanos @toreler What GPU are you running this on?

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@matteo311 @AntonHand Have you seen the Pico store? It’s beautiful.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

Thank you for that. I think I’m gonna jump in regardless of the way things are looking right now. I know the whole vibe coding thing is supposedly going to be revolutionary and maybe that’s the case. And while I don’t see myself become a C++ dev of note, I just feel the need to understand that’s actually going on behind the scenes. Even with the crutch of AI.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

So @BattleAxeVR would you recommend people still learn C++? I love unreal and am gutted about blueprints going. But I’ve been looking at getting a basic understanding of C++ and of course Verse (and maybe some python but that’s another story). But with the way things are going I’m wondering if I should fuck it all off and take up carpentry or farming 😂!

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@Rahll @perrydared We call it “going equipped” in the UK.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

Totally behind you with the local model approach. The likes of Altman and Musk with their “do everything” machines is little more than the systematic monopolisation of the industry in an effort to control the technology and with it, social and economic narratives.

And as a retort to Altmans 5% claim, wouldn’t it be better if all this RAM and these CPUs and GPUs were actually being used 5% of the time. Using 5% of the energy and other resources. Not to mention that ordinary folk, who incredibly use their PCs for things other than running data centres, would be able to buy, upgrade and maintain home computers without having to sell a kidney.

It’s clear that these companies are losing money hand over fist in an effort to corner the market and push us to a point of being over dependent on this shiny new tech. But the business model simply doesn’t work.

Bus having an Ai machine at home, where you subscribe to certain libraries and models as you need them which are then installed locally on your own hardware, much like people already do with prime and Netflix etc. that’s a proven system that works.

It would also allow governments and local authorities to provide free libraries for certain areas like education. Universities could provide libraries as virtual teaching assistants to alumni.

AI is set to change the world, but not if it’s in the hands of a small group of tech bros, oligarchs and sycophants.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

Oh Tim, we both know that if these apps were generating any substantial revenue Apple would be championing them.

As they’re clearly not, and consumers seem to want them removed it’s an easy win for Apple. They simultaneously look to be giving the consumers what they want and championing true human creativity while protecting the quality and integrity of their own marketplace.

Whether or not any of those sentiments are genuine, and that’s something I sincerely doubt is neither here nor there.

I’m not entirely against AI Tim. I see a place for it in the creative and technical arts and can provide great examples to that effect. But seeing hard working dev teams have months of work reverse engineered, their ideas stolen and their products ripped off and cloned literally overnight is heartbreaking, deplorable and its economics are frankly unsustainable.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@heyneighbor @Camusaurio_art Yep. And learning to order a pizza makes you a chef!

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@MoonlitMonkey69 @JNavok @Rahll Exactly. Where the fuck are all these movies, books, games and albums. That, somehow are incredibly easy and fast to prompt into existence despite prompting also somehow being really hard to do well and an art/science all of itself.

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Hundreds of thousands of people had their life savings, not investments, savings tied up in those banks. The auto industry was bailed out to protect tens of thousands of jobs.

Neither of those cases apply here.
If the AI bubble bursts it’s gonna wipe a ton off a handful of stock options and the Jefferson’s won’t be vacationing in the Hamptons this year.

On the upside we’ll all be able to go out and pick up cheap RAM, GPU’s and CPU’s and start running our own AI assistants locally at home.

And if we do desperately need AI at scale because “China” or whatever bogeyman the tech bros are pulling out the closest to scare us, then it can be done at the national level, for the benefit of its citizens, not to line the pockets of a few oligarchs.

And following the industries collapse, government can buy out these data centers cheap.

Frankly I see this bubble bursting as an absolute win all round.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@Shortodfn @Rahll @KateBour The clue is in the word “replies”.

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@seanward @WellerVision @Variety Each of those faces was sculpted, scanned, and animated digitally before being printed, cleaned up, painted and re-animated in stop motion. So likely there were 5 or 6 jobs created through them using this technique.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@ImpactInked @MylesDyer Don’t know if it scared me the most but I do remember thinking saints and sinners won’t be too bad because of the cartoony aesthetic.
I was wrong.
I was very wrong.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@LincolnMargison @grok @SinghBrend48453 @Rahll @waytoomuchbeer

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@LincolnMargison @grok @SinghBrend48453 @Rahll @waytoomuchbeer “Viberoasted” fucking cringe. 😬

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

For anybody that’s interested…

There are a couple of New Vegas mods on the flat to VR discord now and the game itself is 75% off on steam so just a couple of quid/bucks/euros whatever!
#vr #fallout #metaquest #VirtualReality

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@Rahll Was an owl for years, apparently it’s more common when you are younger, but have been a lark for some time now. I just find I’m a lot more productive in the mornings/early afternoon, between 6am and 2pm you’ve pretty much got an entire working day in.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@benz145 Is this available?

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@TheIndigoGaming Indeed. Dread to think what the overheads are on this. Does look amazing though to be fair.

[Indie Dev Dave @davepgames]

@joelbasson Is there any reasoning behind this? Seems like perhaps there’s been a massive spike in people causing accidents while looking at their phones etc. still somewhat draconian but just curious as to what the instigator was for this decision.