Steve Wright

Software/CloudOps Engineer. Former VR GameDev & Creative Director | Opinions are 100% my own, especially bad takes.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

Justin Long didn't help prevent a US cyber-attack in Die Hard 4.0 to be called the "I'm a Mac" guy.

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Intel is bringing back the Mac vs. PC ads. The chip maker has hired Apple's "I'm a Mac" guy to create 5 ads mocking Macs and praising PCs. Details here: https://t.co/3gA7WZHChj

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

This is all just making it increasingly apparently how little money most VR titles make and how much the industry was propped up by Meta/VC investment which has completely stopped.

[Vertigo Games @vertigogames]

A message from our CEO

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"CEOs are losing confidence," per Axios.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

Using an AI-generated image of the voice actor to then say the game character isn’t as “pretty” isn’t making the point you think it is, you fucking melt.

[Isaac_EA™ @Isaac__EA]

Me hace gracia lo de "Por qué se llama God of War si no juegas con el god of war?" cuando esta saga se llama así porque en el primer juego tienes que cargarte a Ares, no porque Kratos sea el dios de la guerra. Se están viendo unas larpeadas históricas

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

@Hero_Kvatch They aren’t though - they’re just rage baiting because there’s literally no consequences for being an unconscionable dick.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

Searched for State Of Play on X. Immediately regretted it. Gamers are fucking deplorable.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

There should be a new kind of community note that can be applied to people who speak authoritatively about a subject they have literally no formal experience in.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

As opposed to all the other high street banks that have copious amounts of branches that they aren’t shutting down constantly? 🤔

When I was in NZ and couldn’t work out how to use my UK accounts (chequing vs savings) Starling was the only bank that actually answered immediately.

[salemzorro @salemzorro]

I advise anyone not to have one of these fake online bank accounts like @StarlingBank If there’s no physical bank you can enter then there’s nothing you can do to get answers or money.

If you care about your loved ones, for the love of God don’t use them.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

A tenth of the UK population? Ok.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Already 7 million at Unite the Kingdom march.

[John Aselton @Jaselton]

@adcock_brett @adcock_brett
Why did the robot touch it's own head for several seconds?

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

@GregKamradt Read the post. They claim that they’ve “reimagined every function of the business” for Agentic AI. There’s absolutely no way they’ve done the due diligence on every job function to validly make that claim without someone in the business noticing. Ergo, it’s bullshit.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

On these layoffs, you should be able to share exactly how “Agentic AI” is going to do the work of those affected - not just “oh AI can do that”. If you say “we’ve re-imagined every function in the business” you must have the playbooks to back that up, right? …right?

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

An update regarding the future at @Cloudflare. I’ve shared my full message to the team and details on the support we're providing those departing here: https://t.co/8djT55aVSP

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

@GAMERTAGVR When we were in dev, there was _absolutely_ convos along the lines of “what would GT pick up on?” When we were coming to vertical slices/playtest milestones - it definitely helped us prioritise certain areas (and neglect others), but we could only do that because we know you well

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

@GAMERTAGVR I think you already do this as part of the labs stuff, but it might be worth publishing a white paper studios can buy from you with like, the top X issues you see in playtesting at various stages, and then the common issues you see at review.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

Probably a case of what you define as a “major studio” and what you define “use” as, but at least from my limited view of things, this is patently untrue. The IP headache alone is enough to stop this in many places.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Jason Schreier said that almost every major studio is already using generative AI tools behind the scenes, especially Claude from Anthropic.

He was replying to a fresh interview with Jack Buser, Google Cloud’s Global Director for Games.

“I think what players don’t realise is that their favourite games right now were already built with AI. Those games have shipped.”

Buser said that nine out of ten developers are using AI.

According to Buser, the tools are mostly being used to kill off the boring, repetitive stuff so artists and designers can focus on the important creative work.

He gave Capcom as an example, saying they use it to brainstorm thousands of small world details like pebbles or blades of grass

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

Suffice to say Opus 4.7 is not being received well…

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

@sporadica The most obvious reason would be because by doing so, they open up their claims about their own models to scrutiny, and they're probably also overblowing it?

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

@sporadica I hope that this makes commentators reflect and stop speaking in hyperbole (whether over-hyping or over-catastrophising). It's a really significant problem, particularly in western culture, and it badly erodes rational conversation and debate.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

The fact that AI bros (99% non-technical influencers/liars and execs) are screaming about Mythos, without the basic understanding that this _only_ works because it's trained on OSS, tells you everything you need to know about how disconnected AI discourse is from reality.

[Steve Wright @ste_wr]

What's more likely:

a) The person selling the miracle cure, telling you it's a miracle cure, and saying that you _must not_ use anything that isn't their miracle cure, is correct
OR
b) it's all just exaggerations upon exaggerations upon exaggerations...