Sinnie

I’m still, I’m still Sinnie from the block | 🌙 @K3H03

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

Rats are highly social. In the wild they live in packs called mischiefs with a clear hierarchy, and pet rats need the same. Keeping a single rat alone is strongly discouraged by vets and welfare guidelines. They get depressed without a cagemates to groom, wrestle and sleep with.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

Let’s see how it works. Rat facts! One like, one interesting fact about #rats to debunk some common myths and restore justice for the most unfairly hated pet around.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

Rats are rodents — their incisors grow continuously throughout life, so they need constant gnawing on wood, twigs or mineral stones to keep them trimmed. Contrary to stereotypes, it’s the lower incisors that are noticeably longer, not the upper ones.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

@Suvitruf Диверсификация? Не, не слышал.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

@alastorefrost @tajfu Как так-то!

[Wardrobe Warlord @tajfu]

«Не флиртуйте,— жалуется барабанщик. — Вы меня сбиваете!» 😏😏

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

@Nelaquetan A technician would build a pipeline, a synth, a contraption, something to generate and extract noise with.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

A certain music wiki that I happen to admin started getting flooded with generative tool users promoting their releases. So I did a little trolling, and instead of just deleting them, I now put them into their own category, calling them tool users instead of artists or musicians.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

I used to read that as someday, eventually, a provider might drop support and verification services would become unreachable. Turns out it’s just a legal loophole creating no obligation or accountability to support the product indefinitely.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

I just realized that modern software “perpetual” licenses are nothing but a marketing ploy. MS Office’s EULA states no licensing period, but! you’re allowed to use it only as long as you can verify the license online.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

A Spark to start a housefire.

[NVIDIA RTX Spark @NVIDIARTXSpark]

This is the NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip. A new beginning for personal computers.

Designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, RTX Spark brings over 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and small, ultra-efficient desktop PCs.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

@DNaitari @TRFakeness N in NAI stands for No

[KennyLauderdale @KennyLauderdal3]

"Analog Horror" only works on people who DON"T know what analog video looks like. Every time I see a fake VHS rip I just spend the entire time going "Those tracking lines are repeating on a 7 second loop, real tapes don't do that."

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

Flooding the market with slop makes the situation worse for everyone: more supply, less demand, higher CPAs, higher marketing budgets, rich get richer, organic discoverability broken. Why anyone would want that is beyond me.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

Another industry event, another veteran CEO with 30+ years of gamedev expertise shilling gen tools, saying that finally creators can make their dreams come true.

[Sinnie @sinnieonfire]

One thing the presenter briefly mentioned as an actual challenge is market discoverability. The whole point of business is reaching your audience, and they just skipped it entirely. They know it provides no solution and is actively making things worse.

[N.E.H.-Windzen @NEHWind]

Jason's wrong, wow.

Spoiler-
It's the consultancy firms. Localizers. Activist speakers. Sensitivity consultants.
Mo-Cap actors. Face models. Body models. Dub actors for 8 languages.
The game awards. Hollywood actors. CGI trailers.
Youtuber cameos. Corpo-press goody-bribes.

It's the hiring of multiple social media interns.
It's the presence on social media at all.

It's the purchasing of rights to popular I.P.
It's the purchasing of rights to licensed music.
It's the purchasing of rights to celebrity likenesses.

It's the constant need to produce five-hundred cosmetics for live-service games.
The constant need to maintain servers and infrastructure for live-service games.
The constant need to work on new future content for live-service games.
The constant need to moderate and police communities for live-service games.
The constant need to push out marketing and trailers for live-service games.
The constant need to maintain new content for live-service games.

I could go on forever, but this more than covers it. "Labor costs" my ass. Stop wasting your labor costs on irrelevant nonsense and get back to making great, solid video games that real people want to buy and play, and suddenly your "labor costs" aren't an issue anymore.