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Cake day: October 30th, 2023

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  • If you signal in turn lanes or while switching lanes when no one is around you’ll build healthy habits of using your signal in all other appropriate times.

    Signal every time you plan to deviate from your current lane of travel.

    Also FFS, signal before you start to merge so that people know what the fuck you’re doing. Too many times I’ve ridden with people that got upset when no one is “letting them in” and they haven’t even bothered to tell people they want in.







  • It depends on your jurisdiction, distribution platform, and the AI you use.

    In the US and distributing on Steam you can use AI assets, but you do need to indicate your use of AI.

    Keep a couple of things in mind though:

    • Your future customers may not appreciate that you used AI and you will get downvoted reviews solely because you opted for AI
    • You’ll likely have a better result making as much as you can yourself and using AI to fill in the gaps (i.e. if you have an interior scene, make the models and lay stuff out and maybe only use AI for a picture hanging on the wall or a coach fabric material–things that are inconsequential to the actual game play).

    Overall, I’d say if the supplemental use of AI during development is the difference between you finishing and publishing a game and you not, then sure–go ahead and use it, but make clear to prospective buyers how it was used and be prepared for blowback.



  • What I mean by “on your computer” is not that it originates on your computer, but that some form of it exists there–namely this is going to be images, text, links, etc that the ad company hosts and a website will normally download temporarily along with the rest of the site’s content. Once your computer has that site’s information you can do anything you want with it. Importantly what exists on your computer is a local copy of what the ad servers host. If you decide to color ads blue on your computer that only affects your copy. The original ad, and everyone else’s copies remain intact.


  • To put it another way:

    • If you want to see something it has to be clear (unencrypted)
    • If you want to see something on your computer it has to be on your computer
    • You can control your own computer

    Therefore, any media that is viewed on your computer is clear, on your computer, in a realm that you control.

    This is also why ad blockers work. You can send me ads, or requests to fetch ads and my computer just ignores them.

    Companies will never be able to stop this, cause at some point you can always just intercept the data feed at a hardware level and reconstruct the stream.