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indie game dev, formerly AAA | Programmer and 3D artist | making a vtuber app called kemorig | 🏳️🌈🐺 | No NFTs / AI | banner by NomaxArt
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@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place
@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place I use shareX as well. It can even capture things like hover tooltips! Great program.
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@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place What will also elevate it is variation in grass/weeds/props in proximity to stuff. In your scene, the open field, creekside, steep hill, and roadside are uniform right now.
These missing elements are what jump out about this scene to me. So it may be difficult to dial in the grass in this context.
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@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place for my eyes, I think your colors aren't bad for lush green grass. I like the cards. But what's a bit uncanny to me is seeing this kind of lush grass in a situation like this.
To me this is closer to manicured lawn grass than a wild hillside. An unusual juxtaposition.
I would expect more variation in length, more weeds, more patchiness. And more types of rocks/bushes scattered.
(Unless you're going for a lush whimsical look. In which case you could reference paintings or anime)
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@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @Forbearance@mastodon.xyz
Sorry, I edited these posts to hell and back after posting them. Apologies if you read them once and now they are different. I'm done 😅
That's my attempt at explaining my understanding of the topic. If you want a better, more detailed explanation of how LLMs work from someone smarter than me, I would point you toward this 3Blue1Brown video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
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@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @Forbearance@mastodon.xyz
And my response to that is best illustrated with an analogy to image file types:
If you download my jpg and save it as a png, you now have a 100% completely different file from mine. It's all new data!
But obviously you still took my image. The meaning of the data is what matters.
LLMs do not have a consciousness, and their output has to be a function of input(s). When my code was scraped, it's meaning was stored in a roundabout format, but ultimately it was stored.
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@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @Forbearance@mastodon.xyz
This is a simplification, but IMO it hits the fundamental point: when a code LLM "invents" something new, it only appears that way because the final words didn't happen to line up with the relations between words it did necessarily plagiarize to produce its output.
But that begs another question: if an LLM is "only" scraping my code to change weights in a model, is that still stealing? I mean, it didn't take my code blocks, it just took the relations between words.
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@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @Forbearance@mastodon.xyz
What agersant is saying about licenses is a pretty huge piece of this.
To answer your question directly ("are they always plagiarizing, or only sometimes?"), the short answer is yes, because fundamentally a machine learning algorithm can only output as much as it is input.
But there's a layer of abstraction with LLMs, where it isn't just raw blocks of words being processed, it's relations between words.
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The action item you can take away from this rant: call things like Claude or the like what they are: plagiarism machines.
That's not a dig -- that's a more accurate description than "artificial intelligence".
When your coworker argues that it's merely automation, be the nerd who corrects them with "automated plagiarism".
Normalize describing gen AI accurately.
I strongly believe if more people understood how it works they would not use it.
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And as an aside: who cares if the plagiarism machines are getting better? I should hope a plagiarist can produce a final product.
It's not a grand observation that theft and plagiarism will help you accomplish a task faster. it's not new information that stealing things is cheaper than making them.
I do not care if Claude produces perfect code. It doesn't, and it won't, but even if it did I would not use it. Because I'm not a fucking plagiarist. And you shouldn't be either.
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You know how you fight corporations? With unions. Picket lines. New contracts blackballing plagiarists. Older workers walking out to support their (financially insecure) younger peers. That's what past generations did to maintain the world we enjoy today.
You do not fight by saying "plagiarists are people too", not picketing, and not walking out.
When you take this stance, you're trying to sound nice, but you're naive -- you're collecting your paycheck and condemning the next generation.
Seeing more programmers take the stance of "the plagiarism machine works, so I guess we have accept it".
Contrast that with art and creative industries, where theft and plagiarism aren't new phenomenons. Unions keep these industries alive. And it's laughable to imagine telling an artist that they have to accept a plagiarist in their communities.
Easy to say "let's all be nice to each other" when you're well paid and haven't lost your job yet. Some tough lessons will be learned soon.
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My Blender game asset addon was just updated to support Blender 5.1 🎉 Go check it out.
Blender 5.1 adds support for exporting Shape Key normals (aka Blendshape normals). This is a tasty update if you develop for Unity or Godot!
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Extremely amusing to me that Valorant competitive strategy encompasses:
A) how to approach 2 bomb sites as a team of 5, and
B) how to strike up a bro-friendly conversation with the meanest kid on the playground
(I know, there's a deeper conversation about how voice chat has changed between the days of CounterStrike community servers, and Valorant matchmaking. How it used to be easier to make friends before matchmaking with strangers you'll never see again became the norm.)
Anyway:
Not to be another game designer praising Dark Souls but: wow this game solidified that I never want voice chat with random gamers ever again in my life. We have a better way.
A friend was talking about their strategy for how to speak in Valorant voice chat to have the best experience.
My dude, my idea of gaming isn't having to work the room in order to not be called a slur.
The next kemorig build is out 🎉
Are you VTubing with a webcam? This build is focused on better tracking results with webcams!
Plus:
👀a new Auto-Blink feature
😄 better results for eyes and mouths for all tracking methods.
Available on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/kemorig-v0-12-153388087
#vtuber #unreal #furry
I think every lawmaker involved with autonomous cars should be forced to watch Google Mediapipe tell them the corner of their sofa is a face.
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@sinbad You'll never guess the number of responses my bug report got
Do you use 
Blender for Unreal, Unity, or Godot?
I love Blender, but exporting for games sure has a lot of jank.
I made this free add-on to fix the problems, available now:
https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/proto-game-asset-tools/
Between the next Xbox being a Windows 11 box, and Phil Spencer being replaced with an AI exec: is Microsoft a serious video game company anymore?
I don't think it's hyperbole to say Microsoft is transparently uninterested in games as we know them.
If I worked at a Microsoft-owned studio I'd be shopping my resume around ASAP.
Is this an acceptable level of precision for a Unity exporter?
Welcome to Video Games Industry 2026
"We do plagiarism now! But only a LITTLE plagiarism."
Geoff Keighley bursts out of his seat in applause and knocks a young developer to the ground.
Elsewhere, a trans furry releases the sickest 3d platformer you've ever played in your life, in hopes of funding a single visit with their PCP.