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Games. Firefall, Em-8ER, OG WoW Team Lead. Diablo 2 Producer, Starcraft. AI Engine/Game Builder.

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Crimson Desert is the next Skyrim.

Crimson Desert is the next Skyrim.

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😂 Arknights Endfield current situation.

😂 Arknights Endfield current situation.

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Nooooo Optimus Catgirl..what are you doing???

Nooooo Optimus Catgirl..what are you doing???

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Ah crap. Just when I was getting hyped for Forza. They couldn't stop at 2, they had to add 3 Body Types. And the female "type" is barely indistinguishable from the male. It's a goal: Total erasure of biology to support radical ideologies.

Ah crap. Just when I was getting hyped for Forza. They couldn't stop at 2, they had to add 3 Body Types. And the female "type" is barely indistinguishable from the male. It's a goal: Total erasure of biology to support radical ideologies.

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Western AAA Game Defendurrs: "You see, scanning women is very technical. It's not on purpose. You just aren't smart enough to understand game dev." Meanwhile, in Stellar Blade:

Western AAA Game Defendurrs: "You see, scanning women is very technical. It's not on purpose. You just aren't smart enough to understand game dev." Meanwhile, in Stellar Blade:

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Do you remember the feeling? It was magical, even for us devs. That sound of the bowstring, the colors. We knew we had something special. We all played the game as it launched, which is rarer than you think for game devs. It's another sign that you did it.

Do you remember the feeling? It was magical, even for us devs. That sound of the bowstring, the colors. We knew we had something special. We all played the game as it launched, which is rarer than you think for game devs. It's another sign that you did it.

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Stormwind was the first city we ever built. Our lead programmer had it load and play the song "We built this city" to our surprise when we first loaded in. The first version of Stormwind had no districts or canals. The framerate was below terrible. Then I thought of Venice. I grabbed a map of the city and slapped it down on the table the next morning. THIS, I said, is how we'll partition the city, drawing only the district you can see, separated by canals. It worked, and Stormwind was born.

Stormwind was the first city we ever built. Our lead programmer had it load and play the song "We built this city" to our surprise when we first loaded in. The first version of Stormwind had no districts or canals. The framerate was below terrible. Then I thought of Venice. I grabbed a map of the city and slapped it down on the table the next morning. THIS, I said, is how we'll partition the city, drawing only the district you can see, separated by canals. It worked, and Stormwind was born.

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Make Hardsuits Great Again. I've been deep diving into 80's and 90's anime tech design. Always loved Bubblegum Crisis and Crash. If you have more suggestions on where to look, let me know.

Make Hardsuits Great Again. I've been deep diving into 80's and 90's anime tech design. Always loved Bubblegum Crisis and Crash. If you have more suggestions on where to look, let me know.

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Halo 343 Studios: Here's 6 hours of Halo Ring start menu we probably spent 1.2 million making... Random X User: I think AI is better (prompts, 30 seconds later). Internet: Explodes. I'm sorry, but 343 got mogged judging by the reactions. You can nit at the AI video, but imagine if they spent a week polishing it rather than 5 minutes. This is a combination of 343 just not being good enough to deserve Halo and AI getting better every day. The comments are completely predictable. Every artist is defending the 343 version, not because they really thought about it, but because the perceive AI as a threat that must be taken out at all costs. Meanwhile non-artists see a lot of merit to the AI version and the potential. I see the issues with the AI version, but I bet you a few more days on the AI version, perhaps generating 3D assets with it, would end up being the clear winner. See reply for the complete meltdown thread of reactions. (and for those who haven't heard me before, yes, that's my voice)

Halo 343 Studios: Here's 6 hours of Halo Ring start menu we probably spent 1.2 million making... Random X User: I think AI is better (prompts, 30 seconds later). Internet: Explodes. I'm sorry, but 343 got mogged judging by the reactions. You can nit at the AI video, but imagine if they spent a week polishing it rather than 5 minutes. This is a combination of 343 just not being good enough to deserve Halo and AI getting better every day. The comments are completely predictable. Every artist is defending the 343 version, not because they really thought about it, but because the perceive AI as a threat that must be taken out at all costs. Meanwhile non-artists see a lot of merit to the AI version and the potential. I see the issues with the AI version, but I bet you a few more days on the AI version, perhaps generating 3D assets with it, would end up being the clear winner. See reply for the complete meltdown thread of reactions. (and for those who haven't heard me before, yes, that's my voice)

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Asmongold reacts to the, ahem unofficial 😂, "Gorlock the Destroyer" skin bundle on Call of Duty.

Asmongold reacts to the, ahem unofficial 😂, "Gorlock the Destroyer" skin bundle on Call of Duty.

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Ahhhh, the feels. 😭

Ahhhh, the feels. 😭

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Nausicaa had a deep influence on so many. What a vivid world. - 1984 film directed by Miyazaki and based on his manga. - He started the manga for the express purpose of getting interest in a movie. - This was actually not a Ghibli film. Ghibli was founded after this. - 263 colors were huge, a huge number at the time. - There is a real life version of the Mehve glider, project OpenSky, and it works. Don't watch the 1985 US version, which was butchered and called "Warriors of the Wind"

Nausicaa had a deep influence on so many. What a vivid world. - 1984 film directed by Miyazaki and based on his manga. - He started the manga for the express purpose of getting interest in a movie. - This was actually not a Ghibli film. Ghibli was founded after this. - 263 colors were huge, a huge number at the time. - There is a real life version of the Mehve glider, project OpenSky, and it works. Don't watch the 1985 US version, which was butchered and called "Warriors of the Wind"

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The situation with Black Myth: Wukong is disgusting. They cite IGN and consulting companies such as SBI as part of a shakedown racket of 7 MILLION in fees. Here's how it all works, as SBI Founder Kim Belair explains: "If they don't see the value of what you're asking for, for when you ask for consultants...and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want." Here is the whole web of people who support each other and make this shakedown happen: Sweet Baby Inc. - "Hire us or else." Reporters - Support the racket by writing hit piece articles, and run defense for the consulting companies. Play down the racket as a conspiracy theory. Alyssa Mercante - Writes hit piece on @kabrutusrambo for exposing Sweet Baby's long list of ruined games. Rebekah Valentine - Defends Alyssa and writes hit piece article on Wukong, leading to the shakedown. Jason Schreier - Gaslights you when it is all exposed, saying it's a "Hallucination" and isn't happening. It sure seems like its all part of a multi-million dollar racket. In fact, DEI and DEI consulting is a HUGE industry (see my post about the Activision Blizzard report). They call us Grifters but they are the ones making bank. Wukong directly cites the IGN hit piece article by Rebekah Valentine, as well as companies similar to Sweet Baby Inc, as being behind the 7 Million dollar extortion attempt.

The situation with Black Myth: Wukong is disgusting. They cite IGN and consulting companies such as SBI as part of a shakedown racket of 7 MILLION in fees. Here's how it all works, as SBI Founder Kim Belair explains: "If they don't see the value of what you're asking for, for when you ask for consultants...and just terrify them with the possibility of what's going to happen if they don't give you what you want." Here is the whole web of people who support each other and make this shakedown happen: Sweet Baby Inc. - "Hire us or else." Reporters - Support the racket by writing hit piece articles, and run defense for the consulting companies. Play down the racket as a conspiracy theory. Alyssa Mercante - Writes hit piece on @kabrutusrambo for exposing Sweet Baby's long list of ruined games. Rebekah Valentine - Defends Alyssa and writes hit piece article on Wukong, leading to the shakedown. Jason Schreier - Gaslights you when it is all exposed, saying it's a "Hallucination" and isn't happening. It sure seems like its all part of a multi-million dollar racket. In fact, DEI and DEI consulting is a HUGE industry (see my post about the Activision Blizzard report). They call us Grifters but they are the ones making bank. Wukong directly cites the IGN hit piece article by Rebekah Valentine, as well as companies similar to Sweet Baby Inc, as being behind the 7 Million dollar extortion attempt.

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Good Morning, Silver Palace fans. The animations are soooo detailed.

Good Morning, Silver Palace fans. The animations are soooo detailed.

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Silver Palace lets you endless loop the QTE events. They really know their audience. Western studios will never dare. How much money are AAA studios leaving on the table because they would rather virtue signal?

Silver Palace lets you endless loop the QTE events. They really know their audience. Western studios will never dare. How much money are AAA studios leaving on the table because they would rather virtue signal?

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Indie solo game Diesel Knights is the Titanfall spiritual successor you deserve.

Indie solo game Diesel Knights is the Titanfall spiritual successor you deserve.

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The undead starting area was the first time we got the cinematic fly-through cam working. I remember watching it over and over as it felt so magical.

The undead starting area was the first time we got the cinematic fly-through cam working. I remember watching it over and over as it felt so magical.

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Yeah, it was like that... We had a problem with the Undead in China. Showing bones through skin was considered too graphic for their laws, so we had to cover them up. This was the biggest and most complex project ever at Blizzard, and we did it with just 60 people.

Yeah, it was like that... We had a problem with the Undead in China. Showing bones through skin was considered too graphic for their laws, so we had to cover them up. This was the biggest and most complex project ever at Blizzard, and we did it with just 60 people.

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This is INSANE. DLSS 5 AI Neural Filters on Control. Modders have gotten DLSS 5 running on Control via group RenoDX. - Mod by Speedlemur. - Running on a 5060. 86->34 FPS - Costs 40% FPS. Characters only for now. via Benchlab
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This is INSANE. DLSS 5 AI Neural Filters on Control. Modders have gotten DLSS 5 running on Control via group RenoDX. - Mod by Speedlemur. - Running on a 5060. 86->34 FPS - Costs 40% FPS. Characters only for now. via Benchlab

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Boys, we have to talk. Half Life 2 on DLSS 5 Neural Rendering. We have to talk...this just...this just breaths new life into old games. It makes me want to replay them all now. Follower Flavio made a mod to get it to work and yeah..see for yourself.
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Boys, we have to talk. Half Life 2 on DLSS 5 Neural Rendering. We have to talk...this just...this just breaths new life into old games. It makes me want to replay them all now. Follower Flavio made a mod to get it to work and yeah..see for yourself.

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345,436 views • 3 days ago

Did Cyberpunk 2077 just beat GTA 6 graphics? The NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural AI leak allows modders to enable it for nearly any game now, from Gatcha games to Skyrim and now Cyberpunk 2077. YouTuber Swurvgaming shows off maxed out DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, which uses AI to render characters extremely realistically with higher fidelity than even GTA 6 arguable. Whether or not you like the look is something else. Many are calling it the worst thing they've ever seen, with uncanny valley and AI slop accusation. If you look at my other posts like DLSS 5 on Skyrim, you will see the look can be subtle too and there are sliders you can use to tune it. Subtle is better, IMHO. This is done via the RenoDX mod, which unlocks a still experimental NVIDIA DLL feature. This technology was first demo's by nVidia and took TWO 5090's to run. Now it's running at 30fps on a 5060 for many games like CONTROL. I think this tech is going to start dominating games, not just for realism, but for stylized looks and refreshing older games like Skyrim, where the tech works without that feeling of creepy alienation. This is just one filter. With AI you can train it for a lot of different looks, like Anime or even something like Arcane. Changing the look of a game will be something available at the flick of a switch and personalized by you, the player's taste.
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Did Cyberpunk 2077 just beat GTA 6 graphics? The NVIDIA DLSS 5 Neural AI leak allows modders to enable it for nearly any game now, from Gatcha games to Skyrim and now Cyberpunk 2077. YouTuber Swurvgaming shows off maxed out DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, which uses AI to render characters extremely realistically with higher fidelity than even GTA 6 arguable. Whether or not you like the look is something else. Many are calling it the worst thing they've ever seen, with uncanny valley and AI slop accusation. If you look at my other posts like DLSS 5 on Skyrim, you will see the look can be subtle too and there are sliders you can use to tune it. Subtle is better, IMHO. This is done via the RenoDX mod, which unlocks a still experimental NVIDIA DLL feature. This technology was first demo's by nVidia and took TWO 5090's to run. Now it's running at 30fps on a 5060 for many games like CONTROL. I think this tech is going to start dominating games, not just for realism, but for stylized looks and refreshing older games like Skyrim, where the tech works without that feeling of creepy alienation. This is just one filter. With AI you can train it for a lot of different looks, like Anime or even something like Arcane. Changing the look of a game will be something available at the flick of a switch and personalized by you, the player's taste.

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335,576 views • 4 days ago

The more you cite and link to Grokipedia, the faster you kill Wikipedia. The algorithm will start to favor it, on goggle search and elsewhere. Even if you post and share links here. We can beat @wikipedia. Post post post!
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The more you cite and link to Grokipedia, the faster you kill Wikipedia. The algorithm will start to favor it, on goggle search and elsewhere. Even if you post and share links here. We can beat @wikipedia. Post post post!

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14,848,369 views • 10 months ago

3-4 years ago this would have gotten Fortnite cancelled and the devs responsible publicly fired and paraded on camera as the worst people in gaming. Don’t ever let them forget what they did to games.
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3-4 years ago this would have gotten Fortnite cancelled and the devs responsible publicly fired and paraded on camera as the worst people in gaming. Don’t ever let them forget what they did to games.

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149,068 views • 5 days ago

They just declared war on free speech. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is talking about X and other platforms.
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They just declared war on free speech. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is talking about X and other platforms.

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19,854,140 views • 1 year ago

I ditched Unreal for AI. Kaiju Engine is a completely AI written replacement. To prove it was ready for production, I tested it by recreating and porting my old game, Firefall, into Kaiju, purely from the Steam download, no source. And it worked. Real game code is messy, full of difficult details and compromises. If our engine could handle a commercially released game, it proves you can ship a game with it. We're developing 2 orders of magnitude faster (93x) by lines of code and features. We have fewer bugs, and iteration is super fast. Build times have gone from 30 mins (Unreal) to 36 seconds. Feature rate is through the roof, days instead of months. Our original engine for Firefall took 2-3 years and cost over 5M to build (adjusted). Our new engine was written in 5 months for a couple grand. We built only what we needed, with none of the Unreal bloat. And we added some features: - Modern meshlet based rendering with PBR. - Vis Buffer/Forward+ with clustered lighting. - Id Tech 5 style megatexture streaming. - Planetary sized renderer (entire solar systems possible). - Seamless flight from ground to orbit and space. - No loading screens. - Procedural planet generation with plate simulation. - Client/Server at all times. - Ozz for animation. Jolt for Physics. - Companion Blender plug-in for AI directed asset exports. - 140fps currently, 200-300 projected after optimizations. You can see Firefall's assets and levels ported over into our engine in the video. Texture resolution and pop-in are limitations of the original game (high rez CDN based textures were lost when game went offline, fog hid the original's pop-in). Our meshlet renderer will be able to do much better with LOD and already supports high rez textures. I used Grok/Codex/Claude to tag team the code. This is not just a boon for indie games, it's a real game changer for game preservation. The reaction to seeing this 10 year old discontinued game revived is very emotional for Firefall fans. But we're not just preserving Firefall, we're going beyond, creating an original game that is the spiritual successor, Em-8ER. Gliding, jumpjets... it's all coming back. Moving past Unreal let us move much faster, without the bloat, and with better performance. If you want to signup to follow news on the game, sign up is free at
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I ditched Unreal for AI. Kaiju Engine is a completely AI written replacement. To prove it was ready for production, I tested it by recreating and porting my old game, Firefall, into Kaiju, purely from the Steam download, no source. And it worked. Real game code is messy, full of difficult details and compromises. If our engine could handle a commercially released game, it proves you can ship a game with it. We're developing 2 orders of magnitude faster (93x) by lines of code and features. We have fewer bugs, and iteration is super fast. Build times have gone from 30 mins (Unreal) to 36 seconds. Feature rate is through the roof, days instead of months. Our original engine for Firefall took 2-3 years and cost over 5M to build (adjusted). Our new engine was written in 5 months for a couple grand. We built only what we needed, with none of the Unreal bloat. And we added some features: - Modern meshlet based rendering with PBR. - Vis Buffer/Forward+ with clustered lighting. - Id Tech 5 style megatexture streaming. - Planetary sized renderer (entire solar systems possible). - Seamless flight from ground to orbit and space. - No loading screens. - Procedural planet generation with plate simulation. - Client/Server at all times. - Ozz for animation. Jolt for Physics. - Companion Blender plug-in for AI directed asset exports. - 140fps currently, 200-300 projected after optimizations. You can see Firefall's assets and levels ported over into our engine in the video. Texture resolution and pop-in are limitations of the original game (high rez CDN based textures were lost when game went offline, fog hid the original's pop-in). Our meshlet renderer will be able to do much better with LOD and already supports high rez textures. I used Grok/Codex/Claude to tag team the code. This is not just a boon for indie games, it's a real game changer for game preservation. The reaction to seeing this 10 year old discontinued game revived is very emotional for Firefall fans. But we're not just preserving Firefall, we're going beyond, creating an original game that is the spiritual successor, Em-8ER. Gliding, jumpjets... it's all coming back. Moving past Unreal let us move much faster, without the bloat, and with better performance. If you want to signup to follow news on the game, sign up is free at

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353,118 views • 17 days ago

David Jaffe, Creator of God of War, reacts to the reveal of GOW: Laufey. "That looks like shit...reminds me of Forspoken" "So uninsipired, so dull." "It's dead. That game is not going to do well." David is gonna get a lot of crap for this, so props for him calling it. But he's gonna get a call. And a lot of pressure from his "just consume the female protagonist" audience and circle of friends. I'm really curious what he says about it again in a couple of days.
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David Jaffe, Creator of God of War, reacts to the reveal of GOW: Laufey. "That looks like shit...reminds me of Forspoken" "So uninsipired, so dull." "It's dead. That game is not going to do well." David is gonna get a lot of crap for this, so props for him calling it. But he's gonna get a call. And a lot of pressure from his "just consume the female protagonist" audience and circle of friends. I'm really curious what he says about it again in a couple of days.

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1,334,365 views • 3 months ago

The year is 2026, robots have exceeded the best of our Olympic break dancing athletes...😂
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The year is 2026, robots have exceeded the best of our Olympic break dancing athletes...😂

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54,207 views • 5 days ago

Altus... WTF IS THIS? This has got to be the worst teaser trailer I've ever seen. Persona 6. Am I missing something Persona fans? Some series reference?
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Altus... WTF IS THIS? This has got to be the worst teaser trailer I've ever seen. Persona 6. Am I missing something Persona fans? Some series reference?

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908,612 views • 2 months ago

Holy crap! - Play as a Plantation Owner. - Raise your crops. - Motivate your workers...with a whip...what??? It's been up and going viral. I give it another hour or two on Steam before it's yanked. That's some catchy music tho...
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Holy crap! - Play as a Plantation Owner. - Raise your crops. - Motivate your workers...with a whip...what??? It's been up and going viral. I give it another hour or two on Steam before it's yanked. That's some catchy music tho...

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1,073,735 views • 3 months ago

Horizon Hunters Gathering has been all but cancelled: - Playtests were negative. - Execs/Devs already moved shuffled. - Live service component ordered removed. It really was going to be Concord 4. Asmongold was right. - Lighting was exactly as you would expect. - Fat and diverse cast of character for checkboxes. - Tumbler art style. We all knew. We all told them. Nobody listened to gamers again.
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Horizon Hunters Gathering has been all but cancelled: - Playtests were negative. - Execs/Devs already moved shuffled. - Live service component ordered removed. It really was going to be Concord 4. Asmongold was right. - Lighting was exactly as you would expect. - Fat and diverse cast of character for checkboxes. - Tumbler art style. We all knew. We all told them. Nobody listened to gamers again.

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124,361 views • 13 days ago

The WORST SCENE in DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD just dropped. You can never apologize enough, and you have to do it in JUST the right way, Dragon Age lectures. Dragon Age Veilguard lectures you on the right way to apologize for misgendering someone, and it is as cringe, long and painfully drawn as you would imagine. No wait, it's worse.
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The WORST SCENE in DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD just dropped. You can never apologize enough, and you have to do it in JUST the right way, Dragon Age lectures. Dragon Age Veilguard lectures you on the right way to apologize for misgendering someone, and it is as cringe, long and painfully drawn as you would imagine. No wait, it's worse.

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7,808,756 views • 1 year ago

Vaulting content like this should be a crime. Destiny 2
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Vaulting content like this should be a crime. Destiny 2

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148,760 views • 19 days ago

Fable new trailer is a total miss: Smug Girl Boss announced: "the world needs a hero, that hero is me." Trailer has traces of DEI slop everywhere. Total miss.
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Fable new trailer is a total miss: Smug Girl Boss announced: "the world needs a hero, that hero is me." Trailer has traces of DEI slop everywhere. Total miss.

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667,364 views • 2 months ago

Wall collisions used to matter. Every Tomb Raider wall collision since 1996.
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Wall collisions used to matter. Every Tomb Raider wall collision since 1996.

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1,947,101 views • 8 months ago

This AI generated version of Rachael "Raygun" Gunn's Olympic performance in breakdance is ...
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This AI generated version of Rachael "Raygun" Gunn's Olympic performance in breakdance is ...

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5,873,706 views • 2 years ago

Unreal Engine 5.8 has AI integration with Claude and Codex. Runs in terminal beside the engine, connected via MCP to fully control the Editor. Place props, generate cities procedurally, and even art direct the lighting. Unreal Engine 5.8 available today. Pretty much any Unreal game from now on is gonna need an AI label.
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Unreal Engine 5.8 has AI integration with Claude and Codex. Runs in terminal beside the engine, connected via MCP to fully control the Editor. Place props, generate cities procedurally, and even art direct the lighting. Unreal Engine 5.8 available today. Pretty much any Unreal game from now on is gonna need an AI label.

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504,098 views • 2 months ago

Asmongold's video is out. "These people are f-ing evil" He's fired up and rips into the game companies. "These people are protected... These are violent animals."
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Asmongold's video is out. "These people are f-ing evil" He's fired up and rips into the game companies. "These people are protected... These are violent animals."

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1,796,599 views • 11 months ago

Asmongold congratulates the developers of Windrose on his stream, says they cooked, offers to have them on. "There's a reason 16,000 people are playing it"
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Asmongold congratulates the developers of Windrose on his stream, says they cooked, offers to have them on. "There's a reason 16,000 people are playing it"

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948,441 views • 6 months ago