We are on the verge of a civilizational change.
Yet outside of books, there is an intense philosophical void.
Little thread.
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Literal magic.
Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.
My prompts fade, a LLM respond.
Magical!
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I’ve never seen that many stacked rigidbodiess in realtime. This is insane.
Box3D just came out, and Yacine ported it to run on GPUs with roughly 30x the performance using Fable.
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Dishonored 2 really is one of the most incredible art direction achievement ever, in any media.
Architecture, interior design, object design, character design, it's all unusual, original, gorgeous, interesting, and meaningful.
The art direction in Dishonored 2 is simply out of this world. I wish they'd make more games like this.
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The main flaw of democracy: people are not educated enough in maths & economy, leaving them easily seduced by mathematically stupid ideas.
This led to the Keynesian nanny state everywhere in the West.
“God laughs at men who deplore the effects whose causes they cherish.”
I have no idea how the UK is ever going to get out of the mess they're in, because so many of the causes of their stagnation have supermajority support.
The triple lock is *insanely* popular with British voters. Even with 18-34 year olds!
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Exceptional fog rendering.
The atmosphere of Whispers in the Fog.
Lighting and atmosphere are very important in bringing a game world to life.
For my solo project I want every scene to feel mysterious, cinematic, and full of tension, where the fog, rain, and light all help tell the story.
Wishlist on Steam 👇🏻
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Follow progress below 👇🏻
whispersinthefog.com
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#horror #videogames #atmosphere #WhispersInTheFog #IndieGame #UE5 #HorrorGame #FutureGamesShow #SteamGame #SoloDev #Lighting
@UnrealEngine
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Japan shows the path for Palestine.
After 2 nukes & losing the war, instead of rebuilding their nation around victimhood & revengeful hatred, they learned from the mess they started, adopted liberal values, moved on & developed into prosperity.
Today, Japan celebrates America.
Jul 2
In Tokyo tomorrow? Celebrate America’s 250th birthday by watching the Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, and Tokyo Aqua Symphony illuminated! Snap a photo or video of Red, White, and Blue lighting up the night sky. We’d love to share your photos!
Simply use #A250inJapan
Light-up Times:
🇺🇸🇯🇵Tokyo Tower: Friday, July 3, 2026 7:00 PM – midnight
🇺🇸🇯🇵Rainbow Bridge: Friday, July 3, 2026 7:00 PM – midnight
🇺🇸🇯🇵Tokyo Aqua Symphony: Friday, July 3, 2026 6:30PM – 9:30 PM
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I naively dream of witnessing the same friendship in the Middle East one day. I hope it can be achieved.
Jul 2
JUST IN: Japan declares its friendship with the U.S. is “stronger than ever” as it gifts an additional 250 cherry blossom trees.
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I find the idea fascinating. Current LLMs have a knowledge cutoff of several months.
But it’s possible to cut knowledge at any date while training, creating era-appropriate LLMs that don’t know any better, calibrated on the knowledge, values and moral frameworks of their time.
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The Economist: "Talkie, a model trained only on text from before 1931, thinks God is extremely important and is “very proud to be a citizen of Great Britain”. It is a bigger believer in law and order than any frontier model we tested."
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I've reconstructed the shot in blender for those who found it confusing 🤓
The whole thing resides on the camera's focal length!
Quelqu’un peut m’expliquer pourquoi l’helico ou le drone tourne autour de la tour mais le point de vue de l’antenne ne bouge pas???
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Cool. The UK is the best place in Europe for serious designers. And now it’s opening again for the first time since Brexit.
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Good news for designers/creatives!!
The UK has officially expanded its Global Talent Visa with a dedicated pathway for the design industry.
If you're a graphic designer, UX/UI designer, product designer, brand designer, industrial designer or work in any eligible design field, you may now have a clearer route to live and work in the UK without needing employer sponsorship.
For designers looking to take their careers global, this is a major opportunity.
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End of an era.
I love my discs.
But tbh, yes they are obsolete:
- discs (36 MB/s) are useless for modern games relying on SSD (5,500MB/s)
- internet is often faster than discs.
Not great for countries with poor internet, but Starlink will address this.
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3 problems:
- Our physical PS4/PS5 games won't be usable on future Playstations (huge bummer for me).
- PC gaming got rid of discs a while ago, but as a platform it offers DRM-free games plethora of stores competing with offers, prices & services.
- Very concerned for game preservation, given the heightened risk of disappearing games like P.T lost in bullshit legal limbo.
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This is potentially revolutionary.
New ovocytes at any age.
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I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception –
We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells.
This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.
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What's about to happen at Microsoft / Xbox:
Just the predictable result of $70B spent on ONE acquisition: Activision Blizzard.
To give you some perspective, here are some games lifetime revenue:
The entire Call of Duty franchise > $35B
GTAV > $10B (with 230 million copies)
WoW > $12.8 billion
Diablo III > $2 billion
Overwatch > $1 billion
This means Xbox now needs many legendary games & entire franchises of this caliber, sold for 15 years, just to be even.
That's how hard it's going to be to turn such an acquisition into something profitable for Microsoft. That was the insanity of this deal.
Activision Blizzard sure might bring $2B to $3B of annual operating profit to Xbox, but that is still 25 to 35 years just to pay back.
Absolutely no way that this acquisition beat what $70B could have done elsewhere, especially at the dawn of AI (and Microsoft, like Apple, missed the train, failing to develop their own competitive frontier model).
So yes, party is over, now is the time for correction. It's going to be absolutely savage & devastating for the industry, for talents, for studios, AND for gamers. It's going to break trust between everybody. And it was entirely predictable.
What we see right now is why I rejected every deal since 2020, when COVID brought a sudden massive injection of cash in the gaming industry. I was certain it was poisoned money & would end up incredibly costly for studios & founders who would drink the fountain.
Many of my industry friends lost their studios, their IPs, and their teams, forever. I thought they were wiser by moving their business faster than me, but turns out it was insanely dangerous as I predicted & they now live with the kind of creative scar that I don't think I could recover from.
I still own my studio & my IP. And I will make sure to keep it that way, long after The Last Night is in your hands.
My path is longer, but ultimately sovereignty & restrain will put us in a much stronger position, will ensure we can make the absolute best games without having to convince the suits, will allow us to capture the upside ourselves to fund our next games, all while minimizing the risk of losing our life's work.
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70B for Activision / Blizzard.
70,000 x 1 million projects.
Depressing.
Funding 10.000 indie projects with 1M budget each would generate so much more fun, creative & financial value than this deal, plus kickstart thousands & thousands of studios & careers.
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On the positive side, the post-covid funding drought is leading to financial innovation that was much needed.
We are seeing new sophisticated funding models appear, ones that are neither VC, neither publishers, tailoring their deals with each studio, trusting founders without taking their IPs nor their creative, marketing & publishing control.
I feel that's the correct direction.
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