So, from the way you talk about it, it seems you’re describing your feelings about the game moreso than an attempt at an objective take. Which is good, because there is no such thing as an objective take, and I definitely understand the perspective of not liking something that you feel is inexplicably ultra-popular. Especially if you feel that there was something you liked more that you’d rather see get the award.

That said, I do wonder how much you’ve seen of the game? Because I haven’t played it either, but everything I’ve seen strongly suggests that it is a genuine work of art that people put effort and passion into. Which – since you brought it up – is not a description I’d apply to Battlefield 6. So I’m kinda left wondering what specifically about it might put you off enough to want to slag it off like this.

If you’re upset at it for winning a billion awards, that’s fair. Most awards shows are always very silly and this one game getting practically showered honestly highlights that a lot — even a really good game like this probably didn’t deserve quite this many accolades. Still though, it looks to have a clear message, purpose, with good art and gameplay to go along. I think that deserves some awards.

Expedition 33 is definitely a good game. I’m sure the Indie Game Awards judges would still heartily agree with you on that, too. None of that has anything to do with lying about GenAI use on a disclosure form for an awards show that specifically forbids GenAI use.

I get that you love the game and by extension the studio, but this was still a mistake on their part. They broke the rules, they lose the award. Letting them cheat this would’ve seriously undermined the integrity of the IGA, not to mention further enabling the use of AI in game dev.

This is most of it, but it is worth remembering that using GenAI/LLMs for placeholders is still bad. It’s strictly unnecessary, has dubious efficiency gains at best, and you’re still using tech that is provably hurting people and the environment en masse.

I’m not going to hate Sandfall forever for this – it’s not original sin – but it’s still a very real error they should not repeat.

Doesn’t really matter if they say it’s praise or not. The reality is that it’s free press, and hardly could be said to be negative. It benefits them.

???

I have a suspicion that you once heard someone say something similar to what I’ve said here, and that they followed it with something hateful towards you, obscenely stupid, something you disagree with intensely, or some combination of those. Now is a good time to remind you that I’m not them.

If it makes you feel any better, try to remember that Henry Kissinger is dead.

telesur

So, there’s some important context on this outlet that I think should be posted:

Telesur (stylized as teleSUR) is a Latin American terrestrial and satellite news television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

— Wikipedia

I distrust the U.S. – especially the current admin – plenty. Election interference would be neither surprising or new. But considering how this is a biased source at best, I don’t think it’s very trustworthy either. I’m open to the possibility, but I’m not taking it from this site.

Edit: After some light digging, here’s some other reading options:

2025 Honduras National Elections: Allegations of fraud and external interference (Wikipedia)

Hondurans vote in election shadowed by Trump aid threats (BBC) — Archive of an older version of the article. Current version here.

If I’m being honest, I don’t think Grok posts deserve attention here. This isn’t news; we already know Grok is shit because LLMs are shit and Elon is extremely shit. We really don’t need reminders.

All this does is draw people’s attention to more slop and hate, same as they’ve been seeing all year. That’s not just unimportant, it’s unhealthy.

FUD

What is this, a crypto forum? You make it sound like they’re trying to single-handedly tear down GrapheneOS or something.

As time goes ever onward, I find myself increasingly in the position of using Firefox solely because it isn’t Chromium, rather than because of any inherent good quality.

Which is not to say that Firefox isn’t still at least fine as a browser. But this is what Mozilla is now, and if there’s anything the leaders of that organization are doing, it is that they are committing corporate suicide because none of those idiots know their foot from their mouth. Firefox can’t stay decent with money-men at the helm.

I swear, getting a business major should be considered self-harm.

Alright, lemme try to explain this:

1. You stated you don’t care about FFmpeg.
2. Someone asked why and stated it was useful.
3. You brought up “bad journalism” in response, implying your lack of care for FFmpeg was due to the article not describing why it was useful.
4. To refute your accusation of bad journalism, I pointed out the first paragraph of the article, which directly makes a case for FFmpeg and which you seemed to have missed.
5. You somehow seem to think I’m defending FFmpeg in some fashion, thus missing my point. (Also, you seem to be calling FFmpeg a “format,” presumably because it has “mpeg” in the name? FFmpeg handles a litany of formats.)

The author has not done bad journalism. You just missed stuff while reading. That’s fine so long as you address it. I would ask you not insult me for pointing this out, though.

You seem to be under the impression that AI is a good tool for finding undiscovered security bugs. It’s not. It’s a crapshoot that requires a ton of extra effort to verify. Using it to find bugs wastes time and has a high risk of side-effects, given that AI has no understanding and thus cannot know if an issue is important, if fixing it has unwanted implications, or if there even is one at all. And if you’re going to try to solve that with human supervision, then you may as well just have the human do the review to begin with and leave the AI out of it.

Bad journalism has nothing to do with this. Literal first paragraph of the article:

You may never have heard of FFmpeg, but you’ve used it. This open source program’s robust multimedia framework is used to process video and audio media files and streams across numerous platforms and devices. It provides tools and libraries for format conversion, aka transcoding, playback, editing, streaming, and post-production effects for both audio and video media.

If you weren’t paying attention until someone pointed out your error, just say that. We won’t crucify you.

Better suggestion: Stop using AI to do any of this shit. Security research and vulnerability patching should not be reliant upon de facto black-box random number generators.

Posting to note that the article has since been updated and Mark Bray has successfully exited the country safely.

So what I’m hearing is that someone needs a head of lettuce ready once the next one’s in, huh?

(theyre why people say “unalive” - because they fucking censor “dead”)

Any source for that? I was always under the impression Tiktok was the original cause of this. Not that I have any love for Youtube, of course.

Yeah, I’d like to know what they plan to do if Trump ignores the lawsuit and/or the outcome of it. Which he almost certainly will.

I’ve used Shotcut and Kdenlive. The former felt pretty limited, but okay enough. Kdenlive felt a lot more developed while still working perfectly well. I should note though that I don’t edit very much at all, so I’ve little knowledge on how either program works for anything that isn’t a simple, short one-off thing.

I’m not ragging on this particular post - this one’s obviously important - but I’ll be honest, I really wish I could spend less time hearing about what Trump is doing and more time hearing about what’s being done about it.

Getting constant doom-o-grams about the current administration’s latest horror-show is particularly exhausting when you almost never hear about people working to fix it, and frankly I doubt I’m alone in that. It’s pretty counterproductive for us to be spending so much time fixating on what the fascists are doing. Helps them a lot more than us.

I just wish this site had a healthier evil-to-good-news mix, you know? Prevents doomerism.

If you want to not forget as a personal principle, it’d be easier for you to note the ones who aren’t rolling back their support. It’ll be a smaller list.

But doing this to show people that it’s not sincere is probably unnecessary at this point. Pinkwashing has been going on for over a decade by now at minimum. If you’re dealing with “convince people corporations shouldn’t be taken at their word regarding queer rights” as a goal and existing history/arguments don’t suffice, you’re probably dealing with someone who’s either one of the lucky 10,000 or someone who isn’t willing to be convinced at all.