Timothy Rapp

Founder of @HighHorseGames | Former network gameplay engineer for Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and Tony Hawk

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

Rollback netcode! A big phrase in game development these days. See below for our writeup on the rollback model, its challenges, and unique benefits for action, fighting, or sports games.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #netcode #fgc #esports

[High Horse @HighHorseGames]

In part 2 of our series on netcode architectures we break down the rollback model—the modern standard for fighting games.

https://t.co/3BdjKemgv8

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

@TimSweeneyEpic Your employees are liking my post, they reach out to me all the time. We're just sick of seeing 'adapt or die', we want to choose our own paths just like you did yourself.

Let stuff speak for itself, and (given the backlash on the 'vibecoded' launcher) it doesn't yet.

[Wetterschneider @Stretchedwiener]

Musk usually gets 30k and up likes per tweet.

Since yesterday, his tweets are getting under 5k likes.

Coincidence? Surely the bombing of Russian data centers have nothing to do with it.

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

Happy for all the mutant perverts that don't have to pretend it's a secret society anymore.

https://t.co/NJTLEqP4wm

[Jay Mattis @braindx]

@ZoidCTF Harder to compute now that collision isn’t all based on plane clipping. Regardless, the technique often winds up high effort and bug prone yet minimally effective once you make it conservative enough to account for latency, leak positions for footsteps, gunfire, radar, etc.

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

This is what I call the "Gun Rhinocerous problem".

The "AI slowdown" the big tech guys are calling for is just an excuse for not delivering on their own idiotic promises.

They companies overpromised, and like with crypto before it, they have run face first into the nature of the technology. Not it's limits - what it *is*, specifically. All their promises depended on convincing you it wasn't constrained by its nature.

The fundamental issue with AI has ALWAYS BEEN that it CAN'T do precisely what you intend because prompts are lossy compression you can't control the decompression of. That is what the technology is.

They are rebranding that as "lack of alignment" as if it wasn't present from inception. And now they are caught in how much they lied about what would change, unable to deliver and unable to walk it back. So what do they do?

They say "the Gun Rhinocerous is too dangerous!".

The machines got more "capable" in the way that mounting a gun on a rhinoceros makes it more capable. It does not make it a soldier, and you cannot make it follow your orders because your orders do not contain the full set of instructions. Because it is a Rhinocerous.

And for years we've said "hey this Rhinocerous doesn't do what you say" and got laughed at because we were told 'this is the worst it will ever be'.

That has always been the problem, and now they're going "well we can't control the Gun Rhinocerous so it's time to slow down" no fucking shit idiot. That has always been the complaint. Putting a gun on it didn't make it any more of a soldier, it just made you a moron for believing it was.

Full article from the AI guy who wrote this here. It's a lot of words that could have just been "they promised something they couldn't deliver" but tree enjoyers hate to see a forest.

https://t.co/4ZNqzGOP9P

[Count Penguin 🎃 @Crime_Penguin]

OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are so magical and mystical and dangerous, they can do anything! They may even destroy the world! The only thing they can’t do, funny enough, is generate positive cash flow. And that’s where the US Taxpayer comes in!

[Daniel Gorman @DanielGorman20]

💯

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

Anyone still ignorant to the enshittification playbook of modern business deserves whatever happens to them:

(pulled from Gemini - may contain make-me-ups)

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

oh would you look at that

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

@DaveRapoza Same but it feels like the qualifier is discernment/taste rather than age. I can understand our consumers missing what we would consider obvious, but when seasoned gamedevs evangelize objectively bad art it just seems like they're telling on themselves.

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

I don't think I've ever seen a company assert so much smug authority over an industry, and their role in it, while repeatedly demonstrating such profound ignorance to it

[NVIDIA GeForce @NVIDIAGeForce]

Announcing NVIDIA DLSS 5, an AI-powered breakthrough in visual fidelity for games, coming this fall.

DLSS 5 infuses pixels with photorealistic lighting and materials, bridging the gap between rendering and reality.

Learn More → https://t.co/yHON3nGyxE

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

@NVIDIAGeForce Couldn't find a sufficient "ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT" gif so imagine I used one of your garbage-factories and posted that in lieu of this message

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

@AnthropicAI Someone is stealing what you've already rightfully stolen!? Did you call dibs?

[Amanda Killian @eroscestlavie_x]

A perfect sentence from F Scott Fitzgerald

[Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine]

it must be blissful not to recognize patterns

[kat @transkatgirl]

one thing i expect that we will learn from the vibe coding era is that most "idea guys" don't actually have very good ideas

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

@OpenAI Don't these cretins have any better lines than the tired "WE NEED MORE MONIES BECAUSE OF THE CHINESE BOOGEYMAN"?

Are we such a pathetic, fearful nation that we still fall for this 25 year old lie?

[Timothy Rapp @trapp_dev]

@mcuban No matter how bad the world gets, it's nice how often we get to be reminded how rich you can get while still being a stupid bitch.

The emperor has no clothes? The emperor is in a human centipede with himself and he loves it.

Like his NFT scam, he's just pumping his bag. Gross.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Absolutely the most important satire of the LLM era.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

the dumbest person you know is being told "You're absolutely right!" by ChatGPT