here's my latest article! in exactly 7000 words i wrote about the decay of virtual reality, an artistic canvas gradually destroyed by the reckless, dreamless inanity of its largest producers. how did it happen? was it inevitable? can it be reclaimed? thetaxcollectorman.medium.com/c72bd80f9b2b

Unity is closing VFX company Weta Digital, which it purchased from Peter Jackon for $1.6 billion just 2 years ago. 265 people will be laid off, with Weta FX hoping to re-hire as many people as possible. Unity will keep Weta's tools it acquired: gamespot.com/articles/unity…

the comments on this post are horrible, and the people that posted them should be ashamed. a prime example of why game devs usually just stop talking publicly about anything, because we don’t want to read death threats or people saying we should be fired. do better.

Breach 3.0 ✨ Getting the hang of the new engine. Patrick Murphy CS2

WIP update so far - will continue working on it next month. Anything is subject to change.

Oh man, The Sims 4 has a lots of modded content, too bad nobody made the hairstyle of that particular character that I, a 3D modeler with game engine pipeline experience, particularly appreciate. It's such a bummer, if only somebody with some game engine pipeline experience wou--

Been playing around with an old PC I've cleaned up and was surprised I was able to decently stream to twitch from it. (I was just tryin to get a stream to my PC to show on discord) The Core 2 Quad inside was sweating but managed to do the whole 720p 30fps stream decently enough.

I grew up on these streets

Simple Animation I made of myself. Very proud of how it turned out!

Palworld's overwhelming success is the first step in the normalization of generative ai slop games which is really, really depressing. 10 years ago an asset flip game like this would have been relentlessly ridiculed lol

the community notes on my post kind of just clarifies the actual problem i was talking about, how will anyone ever know generative ai was used for concepts unless they say it explicitly? They dont have to, they only have to disclose if the game contains ai assets per steam tos.

Thanks to everyone who followed me after the whole suburban design meme thing. As you may have guessed, I like Mirror's Edge a lot. In fact, I'm currently creating a scene in UE5 inspired by ME's aesthetic.

About AI : “Artists opinions don’t matter. What matters is the opinion of the people..." Journalists,gamers, streamers, man we getting attacked from everywhere. Without the possibility to defend ourselves because most companies doesn't like us to talk openly as individuals

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