lucidseraph.bsky.social
game dev (QA, writing); currently working in community college administration. looking to come back to game dev Soon (tm)
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Oh. Lol. Ask dot com (what Jeeves turned into) is now literally AI powered. They killed Jeeves and replaced him with a robot that lies. Ok.
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most "AI" powered search is just doing that but then lying to you about the results
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back then most engines couldn't process "what is a bear in the context of the queer community" you would have to just type "bear" or "bear AND queer NOT ursus" or something
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Hi kids. AskJeeves was a pre-Google search whose main gimmick was that you could search using natural language instead of search operators;
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this is actually a Human Thing. the other day a student came up to me and started speaking French and I nearly replied with a garbled mush of German, Japanese, and Greek. Despite mostly understanding what he'd said.
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"we have always been at war with East Asia" etc etc
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god, this is just the theme right now, isn't it? Some jackass in power kills millions while everyone else is begging him to stop (see: Putin, Bibi, Trump, Musk, literally every billionaire).
We have to stop blaming each other.
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Yeah. Like in my case, I currently work a customer facing full time day job, and I'm exhausted when I get home. Asking me to do a test *on top of* the portfolio is like. What was the portfolio for and why are you eating even *more* of my weekends for something I might not even get?
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Karmic DEBT, autocorrect. JFC.
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(sorry I've been reading the Pali canon / early Buddhist texts in preparation for studying Buddhist/Greek syncretism for no other reason than It's Interesting)
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(note: unlike Christian hell, you do eventually leave Buddhist hell, & also nobody *puts* you there, your own actions *take you* there.) (also "you" is an illusion so jot that down)
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If he did actually end world hunger right now, he could probably knock ... Eh, 50 billion years off. Ish.
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Unfortunately 100 trillion years is only as long as this universe will last, so, rats will have to be reinvented in another universe first.
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I finished another draft of the writing portfolio!!! This time it has links to publicly available articles online (including that time I interviewed Harlan Ellison!) Today is final cover letter and resume polish! EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!
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Arrrgh I want to but ironically I gotta do a job application
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I mean you always look cool
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The original (much like Jurassic Park) missed the point of the book, but had enough cool stuff going for it that it ended up overshadowing the book.
The sequels? ghghfjhfdhdfhhshggc. 🤮
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And I can't even blame them, no matter how bad I want to see Guillermo del Toro take a crack at the story. Like. Those sequels were *ass*.
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Like why are we even making a portfolio if you're gonna give us a test
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I don't, but I've been out of (video) games for like 10 years. Could somebody DM me with deets so I don't step in it?
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but by god did they cook one-handed and I hope they all get $500,000 and like. a pony.
(They won't get either but you know???)
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Passion! Don't! Buy! Potatoes! >| /Rage /continues to yell about unions
I was about to say "this shit doesn't happen in film & theater (even if different shit does) but then I remembered! Because they have unions!!!
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Done. And I hate that I'm unsurprised by this. Why is it that game companies have some of the worst HR and hiring practices on the planet?
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I'm just starting to get back into the industry; can you DM me the [company] so I don't waste my time?
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/raises hand
Having been out of the industry for a while, which studio is this, so I know not to even try? You can DM me.
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This is going to kill people.
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God I wish people at my workplace would allow me to collapse in a hall to recover
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Bud I think we may be having severe psychosomatic stress reactions
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People have asked me why I don't just write a novel.
Because I'm actually not good at that! I'm good at *writing for games*, which is a very different skill set than "being a novelist." For one thing, a LOT more collaboration is happening!
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Oh here's an actual example I did: mashing up a free for commercial use photo of chains hanging in the dark with lava, & adding a painterly texture. It WAS faster than doing the same thing by hand in Photoshop. But again, this was a while ago, & ... Yeah.
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That IS an actual use case for these things though: "hey can you mash together this photo I took of leaves with this one I took of a person?" But even then I'd rather avoid modern ones, I don't need a random Mickey Mouse in there.
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I realized I can't quite say I never ever used GenAI, because I *did* use a very early model trained on public domain work back in like idk 2018? to a) make stock photos & other images painterly and b) merge photos that I took together.
Haven't used one since.
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I had to shift from PT WFH to FT on site and it is destroying me