i mean, it’s better than literally nothing, right?

i’d like it if developers had access to a tool that makes it impossible for AI to decompile our programs, or if any government ever made legislation about AI so we could sue when someone else uses Ai to copy our IP, or if it was at all feasible for the average indie gamedev to afford a lawyer.

but none of that is the case right now, so all that indie devs can hope for at the moment is that the creators of other models follow Antrhopic’s lead here, or that they get sued into doing something like this.

note: i’m biased since i got my degree in gamedev earlier this year, and i personally dislike AI. i hope my perspective is still useful, though.

and if there’s a better solution, i’d genuinely like to hear it

i appreciate the optimism, and yes! original stuff is always better! but sadly it’s possible for consumers to either not care or simply not know if something was made/copied with AI.

let’s say, hypothetically, i make a free public demo for a game called “Glass Quest”. whoops, suddenly 5 evil devs have each made 20 clones of my game, and consumers don’t know if “Glass Adventure” is the original game, or if it’s “Glass Quests”, or maybe “Prism Quest”?

not every clone is perfect, but some are good enough to take wishlists and engagement away from the original demo.

then, somehow i make it through that, and put the full version on Steam for £10. a reasonable price, but not free. so if someone threw my game into Claude and uploaded it to Roblox, then a lot of people would play that instead just because they wouldn’t have to pay, or perhaps without ever knowing that the original Glass Quest was a Steam game.

this is only barely exaggerated, too. see: https://youtu.be/9PbVrrNKKwU

i know people have been making free versions of paid games for a very long time, but not to this scale. and those were often labours of love, not… this.

so again. i’m glad something is being done to address it.

i know we’ve had our fun putting middle fingers up towards Adobe and the like, but these kinds of restrictions are needed to protect developers who aren’t insanely wealthy.

from the article, which i’m sure you all read:

And yet there are situations that merit some discussion, like the recent controversy about the Steam Next Fest being chock-full of AI slop copied from existing titles. That particular situation is getting particularly nasty, as game developers are reportedly being extorted under threat that their game demos will be cloned into complete games before they have a chance to finish and release the original.

Adding insult to injury, this is seemingly being done to small studios whose main priority is usually “having food,” rather than big publishers looking to microtransaction everything into a new yacht for shareholders.

67 came from a song lyric, then a kid made a tiktok where he frantically said “six seveeen!! six seveeen!!” to the camera while doing a gesture with his hands. and because kids love pattern recognition, when they see the number it’s easy to point it out and do the gesture. and so the meme spread.

the humor comes from it being nonsensical; the joke is on anyone who’s either tired of it, or never found it funny at all, so i don’t really see it going away anytime soon.

i think a lot of it comes down to how much easier it is to drop Harry Potter than entire social platforms and such.

for example, it’ll take time and energy for me to move from Windows to Linux, which i simply don’t have right now. but all i need to do to stick it to Rowling is not care about Harry Potter.

now, that doesn’t mean i would go out of my way to harass people who still support the franchise, but i could see how that would embolden other people to do so, and i still think it’s important to let people know that J.K. Rowling actively advocates against trans people existing.

one guacamole is 6.02214076×10²³ guacas

source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lLlwvmu1ZeA&lc=UgzxUpp15TXNo4txA_14AaABAg

additional context; Katie Scott, a former exec at ubisoft, will be the “Head of Vanilla Minecraft” in 2026. this source writes:

Scott left Ubisoft in November, but her role as vice president of the company’s global creative game office saw her specialize in “competitive, live service, and free to play experiences to create games with lasting impact, high retention, and monetization results.” She also writes that she focused on “live service strategies and ambitious retention and monetization” in Assassin’s Creed and Rainbow Six games

now that sounds bad on paper, but it’s unclear to me what exactly she’ll be doing in this position. best i could find was this linkedin post advertising the position 7 months ago, which reads:

Join us in shaping the future. Minecraft isn’t just a game. It’s a platform for creativity, learning, and building community. We’re seeking a senior leader, based in Stockholm, to guide our talented teams toward Minecraft’s evolution. Help us build a better world through the power of play.

my interpretation of this is that she’ll still be under other managers, and wouldn’t be making any big decisions alone. regardless, this is not a good look for Mojang, especially at a time where the community are getting impatient with Bedrock’s issues.

new response just dropped

friend, you have won the internet argument. i say that with no sarcasm whatsoever. the other person misunderstood you, then politely conceded after you made a more detailed comment, adding that this being a crosspost might have caused the bug.

they didn’t say “oh huh, must be my app”, they said “ohh yeah, it probably is my app, thank you.”

what more could you have asked for? what response would you rather have gotten?

Mr Beast.

not because he’d be particularly good or competent at running a country; i’d like to see if/how he would milk being the president for content.

Person who took this video is an actual hero. I don’t want to imagine what could have happened to that woman without them.

Also: don’t make the mistake of looking at the replies to this on Twitter. I forgot just how bad it was, but nearly every top reply is by verified accounts trying to justify this somehow. It’s actually insane to me the complete lack of empathy these people show - past party lines and political differences, isn’t this obviously a bad thing that shouldn’t have happened?

u/spez, CEO of Reddit

AKA the greediest little pigboy who ever lived

can’t wait to sink my teeth into that game… right after I finally get around to getting better PC parts

tried the demo and the framerate was noticeably bad even after messing about with the settings

I mainly blame myself for putting up with Intel integrated graphics until now, but then again, putting “texture quality” below “very high” removes the characters’ pupils, so maybe the game’s just poorly optimised 🤷

doesn’t seem to be much activity in this thread, which doesn’t give me hope… reguardless, I thought I’d make some pixel art for this

I don’t mind if these actually get used or not, since making these designs was pretty good practice - I’d be happy to whip up a higher res version of any of these and/or make tweaks if there’s interest, though

for the first icon design, I tried to follow the gooped-up AI button layout as closely as possible while making it look like something you could actually hold, and I kept the general colour scheme the same - originally, I was going to keep the same orientation, too, but figured out quickly that it was too hard to be worth it at this scale

in the second icon, I removed the random squiggles / half-buttons and fit stuff in places that made sense for a real controller, though I didn’t follow a reference for this to try keep the controller generic - this is my personal favourite

the third is my attempt at mixing the lemmy icon’s features with design 2 - it turned out better than I expected, but I’m not sure how much it reads as a lemming, especially at smaller scales

to change it up, the fourth design has the lemmy icon in a gamer headset, which is technically more inclusive to people who don’t use controllers, but also loses some of the recognisability from the previous icon (there’s a twitter joke in here somewhere)

finally, the fifth design is just number 4’s lemming before I covered up the ears - I mainly included this since there’s no reason not to