LordFall

I was talking with Leo today about using AI to make video games and he didn't believe AI would be that helpful so here is my devlog to prove otherwise! I have been ideating this world building project for around 4 months now and mainly using AI for generative images and lore building but I fundamentally wanna make a game out of it as I think that medium is more powerful than something like just a manga or an anime which I do also plan on making eventually. I don't have experience in game development, my main related skills would be in marketing and content creation. I tried my hands at unity a couple months ago and it was I mean not too bad but really frustrating and I got as making this square on the blue background that you see below but it was a very empowering feeling. I really like this video that I watched here That basically warns you about trying to take on an overly ambitious game project and making your dream game right away and instead trying to ship modular projects that work and are profitable and build upon that over years to eventually build your dream game. I like this idea especially as my dream game is a VR web 3 MMORPG, and mmos are notoriously hard to build but I want particularly one with a well developped economy that ties into the real world so I think that will encounter even more novel issues. My current idea is to make a simple 2D roguelite game as a MVP test project and build upon my ideas from this foundation. I think it's possible to bootstrap by myself with just mostly my time and a few hundred dollars of budget in tools to kick things off. I'm gonna use the Unity engine as it's free for startups and seems like a powerful engine both to make the 2D version of the game and eventually transfer the game assets to VR. I think there is a very powerful feedback look that's able to be utilized these days where you take on a project and document yourself building the game(in this context but can be anything) and that serves as your initial userbase and community to launch the game when it's ready. I've followed a few people that did it this way and it seems to be a very powerful way to bootstrap your own game studio basically. I used to play a lot of League of Legends and did got paid for it for a while. Made it to challenger which is top 0.01% of playerbase and that was really fun and I feel like Riot did a great job building a community in their game that was the biggest in the world at that time and I met many friends in real life that also played the game so it was a great social experience as well. I feel that they built a lot of cool stuff around their IP like the show arcane, esports world championship tournaments and local leagues but it fell short of what I think a gaming ecosystem could be. I'm a big believer in web 3 and eco investing in a gaming ecosystem with your playerbase instead of just squeezing them for cosmetics in exchange of a fun consumer experience. For example as a league player I invested something like 20 000 hours into my account, got a lot of rare cosmetics and high rank badges and emblems, spend like $2500 of my own money in the game and if I tried to sell my account it would be worth like $500 at best where as in other game ecosystems like Eve online and games like Counterstrike your time investment is translated to actual assets that are worth tens of thousands of dollars in some cases. Multiple people in different ways talk about the downfall or collapse of the gaming industry, I think it's dramatized as the profits are still there even though a lot of layoffs and downsizing are unfortunately happening in the industry but I do agree that gaming as a whole has stagnated big time. I think web 3, AI agents and VR/AR offer unique opportunities to supercharge the industry and bring it into a new era of glory. Riot Games actually ruined my favorite champion in League of Legends through a rework and thus it actually ruined a big part of my enjoyment of the game so that's also part of my motivation in wanting to develop my own game. There is a massive MMO project that just collapsed last month and I find that very sad as it was a very ambitious project that had a lot of hype in the community but it was ultimately mishandled through overambition, lack of transparency and corruption. I aim to take some of their good ideas and learn from their mistakes. There is also another game that I enjoyed playing that did operate for a while Spellbreak which was a really fun mage PvP game that ultimately fell short of its potential. I really like this mage PvP system so that's a big part of the inspiration for Legend of the Abyss that I wanna carry out. Their mistake was also making it too competitive and not casual friendly which was something that League of Legends managed to do very well. Feel free to subscribe to the Youtube channel for the project here. So far I've only posted basic character concept arts and game concepts but I want to start doing devlogs especially if I managed to build community interest around it. I think AI tools immensely empower small teams and creators to accomplish massive thing and I hope to prove it with legend of the abyss. If you have interest in helping out the project and joining the team I would totally be open to having co-founders on it!

Thanks man I'll take that into account and try and make it as modular as possible so I don't get stuck with unfixable spaghetti code. Gemini gave me a timeline of about 6 months for a polished commercial 30 min early access demo with 10 hours a week of development; hopefully I can hit that. Are you still working on a game yourself? I vaguely remember you talking about getting back into game design recently

This is the training wheels version of Mythos that got Anthropic to urgently gather up 40 top institutions to warn them about it's capabilities and lead to Project Glasswing. The models at this point have the power to break our current understanding of cybersecurity and they also warn about biology for fear of bioweapons being created. On the flip side that means major medical breakthroughs are coming as well so if you're suffering from a previously incurable illness like autoimmune disorders or cancer and what not then it's looking better than ever. Buckle up boys and girls, the next 5 years are gonna be a ride! It's only accelerating.

It seems like you're an artist and you make some cool stuff on X — I can understand the frustration of feeling under-appreciated for your efforts. Some of that disgust toward marketing might actually be sour grapes though: resentment toward people who are getting recognized because they figured out how to communicate their value effectively. Marketing is mostly effective communication at scale. You can do it honestly or dishonestly like anything else as well as learn it and get better at it like anything else. There is some art to marketing but a lot of it is brute force and utilizing bias in human psychology to make people interested in what you have to offer. It can be a bit low brow for sure but the alternative is few people noticing or caring about what you produce so it's a bit of a necessary evil.

Yes it's an ideology in a box with a lot of the deepest truths baked into it. If you don't have a belief system based on loved and unity you can turn pretty selfish and wicked that part is accurate. There is a massive amounts of prophecy and truths baked into christianity though especially stuff surrounding Israel and wars that we see play out today. The jury is still out if a christ like figure will come to unite the world though who knows.

I agree porn is a fascinating category of creativity. Some people really have the courage to do some wild stuff out there, props. The craziest to me is insect porn idk how people do that. How so? Sounds like you have a big shadow around sexuality to me.

Took about a 6 month break from development due to lack of motivation and working on projects and also ended up moving to montreal. That should be a massive W since it's one of the video game development capitals of the world. Went to the Unity montreal headquarters a couple of weeks ago for a meetup event that was kinda cool. Here's the first official devlog! The first step of the game will be to make a fast paced 2d roguelite with a progression system that slowly builds into the web 3 mmorpg framework I eventually wanna end up with.

Confidence is one thing just be careful with it turning to ego and then getting too in your head and not approaching anyone. I've recommended that you start doing cold approaches regularly to build up the skill and muscle; have you started yet? You can look at the game global website it has group chats in every major city to find wingmen to go out with you as well.

In what way was he green at all whatsover? Seems like he was using his us against the people spiel to empower himself in a stage orange way and didn't really deeply embody stage green values at all let alone stage yellow. Ala Andrew Tate trying to bask himself in a veil of morality and turning muslim as soon as he got into hot waters for being a rapist

Yeah it's fair to find your comfort model. I like Gemini the best. I just started playing around with Claude. It's way more argumentative than Gemini so that's good for pushing intellectual boundaries. It can also be installed directly on your computer to play with your files directly which freaks me out a bit so I won't do that for now but I'm sure it's useful.

I don't think you understand much about spirituality. You're like a dude that opened up a fortune cookie and ran with it. Your actions are how you interact with reality. Just like you're choosing to write dumb shit and I'm choosing to call you out on it. The judgement is whether it aligns with your goals or not. OP did not want to have people with unhealthy habits in her life. Some people do and they would consider smoking good or smoking crack good. If you want to die early and not build anything meaningful in your life beyond fleeting dopamine then you might call that good as well. To call this wise is very low level cognition IMO.

For sure. This forum and spiritual/stage green communities tend to demonize stage orange but it's hard to accomplish much without it. Don't worry about one a day but a few a week is a good start. It's about the habit of inputing yourself in the world. On what to post depends on what you're good at and what you enjoy. Feel free to elaborate on that and I can give more feedback. A good start is posting good pictures of yourself or scenery around your city and writing a cool bio on it. For feels I would start just like the way Leo has been doing it lately, just pick a subject to talk about and talk on it for 30 seconds to 2 mins. You shouldn't worry too much about what you're putting out right now(nothing illegal and too unhinged obviously) but just getting out of your head and posting is the goal even if it's unrefined and/or boring for now. Social media is your gateway to the 8 billion other people in the world whereas you probably know and engage with less than 150 people on a yearly basis. I'm a hard introvert and when I tell people they don't believe me just because I host cool events and have group chats with hundreds of people in them. Little do they know I still stay in my room most of the time and get anxious when out for too long.

Fable 5's greatest leap forward is agentic workflows. They can work for hours up to days apparently. Agents usually lose coherence quite quickly so they aren't able yet to be a reliable employee. The original version of it Mythos is apparently great at finding zero day exploits and basically can be set to hack random software en masse which is why Project Glasswing was established.

I think you hit the nail on the head of why breaking an addiction is so difficult. At some point it becomes a tool for emotional regulation and control. I never got into cigarettes for too long just about a month but I vaped for years. I get the part that it becomes a lifestyle first thing you do when you get up and last thing you do when you go to bed. I think the elephant analogy works well here where the elephant still clings to the rope that stopped him when he was a child but he could break in an instant as an adult. I'm sure there was a reason that you picked up the habit in the first place. What do you think it's doing for you now if anything? There is a reason that you keep doing it or perhaps you're the grown elephant now that doesn't get much out of it and can just snap out of it with some mindfulness. I think there are legitimate reasons to pick up an unhealthy coping mechanism like if you're in a shitty job and most of the peace you get in life comes from your controlled smoke/vaping breaks. Its perhaps possible to deal with it without it but right now the priority is paying the bills and not having a nervous breakdown for example. Even after that time of life is done though people generally keep the habit out of comfort. For me the worst one is weed. It became my comfort zone and when quitting I would get random longing for it if I saw a nice balcony or even a nice sunset I would be like damn it would be nice to smoke here. I would feel scared to enjoy life without my comfort zone. I'm still in it now but realizing more and more that I can enjoy life just the same high or not and I'm starting to allow myself to enjoy moments sober I would've only enjoyed high previously. Perhaps it's the same for you

Smoking is inhaling carcinogens for stress relief because you don't have any other healthy coping mechanisms put in place. People want to feel an end to their suffering and there is usually a quick way to do that or a more consciousness and more durable way. You conflating the two is a lack of spiritual understanding i.e. spiritual bypassing.

Did you tell him that and did he say he would work on it or dismiss it? It's not crazy to want to be with people with positive health habits if you want to spend a long time with them. As I said my mom passed away from complications related to smoking as well as I have a family friend who did quit smoking a few years ago because his doctor told him you have to quit or you will die soon. It ruins lives. I'm confused how is this related? Use protection and only have sex with people who are tested if you're scared of STDs. Smoking in the US alone kills half a million people per year it's not really a close argument.

Gaslighting is rewriting truth to fit your agenda. Smoking leads to massive increases in cancer and lowering of life quality as you get age. My mom died partly due to health complications due to smoking. It's a toxic habit with real consequences. If you're here to argue that human suffering is inconsequential and it doesn't matter if people are in pain and hurting their life quality then I will go right back to calling your argument insane my friend on top of you are clearly spiritually bypassing.

You said questioning bad behaviour goes against the will of God and that you are fundamentally powerless to change your bad habits. Which is victim thinking combined with insanity imo. @Asia P That "real pain" and sadness you felt wasn't you being crazy or destroying your relationship, it was your intuition screaming at you that you were in an unstable environment. Heavy binging and cocaine use inherently create volatility, unpredictable mood shifts, and danger, no matter how much someone "treats you like a princess" when they're sober. You had the self-respect to choose a stable, healthy future over a toxic present. You dodged a bullet. Don't second guess yourself on this one IMO.

Yes you do you have many parts of your brain like the neocortex and the prefrontal cortex which allows you to make conscious decisions and not react to stimuli solely based on impulse. You are gaslighting because you are switching the villain and the victim. Now someone that advocates for their partner to stop doing damaging substance is just "going against god" and doesn't understand free will. That's not how the concept of free will works so you're not the one that's being talked about in this thread but I assume you do this in real life as well to avoid responsibility for unproductive behaviour. That's fine if you're satisfied with using that justification to cope with the problems in your life I can't change your life. I can change mine and tell others that what you're saying is toxic and gaslighting and victim mindset fundamentally.

Stop drinking the kool-aid and touch some grass buddy, you're describing insanity. Worse then that you're using it to justify toxic behaviour and trying to paint some beautiful picture about how it's all god's doing. Which is gaslighting. What you're describing is about the existence of squirrel. Give yourself some credit in that you have more agency than a squirrel.

What a weird coping mindset. You have the power to change your habits if you so desire. If you don't want to then that's a whole different story and you can fall into gaslighting like you just did there to justify it.

Why did you feel unsafe and paranoid? That seems more concerning than substance use although that can be problematic as well. Also how did he address it when you brought that up to him? If your partner respects you then you should be able to have difficult conversations without toxicity emerging. If he started to get angry at you or to gaslight you around these subjects then that's undoubtedly toxic behaviour. Comparing that to hearing you out and then working on the issues and perhaps having an occasional slip up here and there are two very different situations.

Anti aging is starting to boom quite well so you might never get wrinkles and end up biologically immortal sooner than you think. Yes you should. It takes about 30 mins to an hour to get something decent put together. Buying a domain name is like 10 euros. Stop overthinking and do it, you deserve independence. Create an instagram if you don't have one and start posting on it. A website is nice but it won't get you leads. I would buy the first 2 books of Alex Hormozi, he breaks down business better than anyone else I've seen. Do that and come back with more questions, asking more questions without taking action is a bit redundant. No matter your personality you should still be able to make 5-15k euros online within a few years of applying yourself. The personalities with massive industriousness are more meant to do multiple millions and billions but no reason you can't build a sustainable life doing something you love even if you aren't super money motivated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mst4hreQYl0

That's how the social contract works. For some of us to live in harmony the ones that refuse to bend to the rules must be put somewhere else. Look at what happened last night when Spurs fan walked out of the stadium after the Knicks lost in New York, people got beat up in the street. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a stabbing or shooting reported before the series is over. The human is a dangerous animal. https://www.instagram.com/p/DZXZ-JmEYcw/ Soon enough you will be able to have an AI psychologist assigned to everyone to coach them towards greater civility and consciousness but even then some people will refuse it.

Dope yeah just replied in it. I still don't use it as much as I should tbh it still kind of freaks me out no matter how much I like the idea behind it. My next plateau will be making AI agents that work on my behalf 24/7. Right now I'm still using it for step by step guides to do stuff and for art generation for my game.