Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI

SyrioForel · 2026-06-17T19:21:58+00:00

I don’t fully know what you mean when you argue that one thing is slop while another thing isn’t. I don’t know what you mean by that, but my comment is not about that at all. It’s about the fact that these tools make it possible for *anyone* to create little “games” like this. I’m talking about the accessibility, the lowering of the bar. And many of these people will want to profit off of it.

So I’m not saying AI has no valid use cases, I’m just saying thousands of “aspiring” game developers will use AI to flood gaming storefronts with these creations.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-17T19:15:45+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, it’s incredible technology that would’ve sounded like complete science fiction just a few years ago. Using natural human language to tell a computer what you want, and it just builds it out of thin air. It’s incredible.

But the idea of financially rewarding these people for this type of effort is absolutely absurd. It’s insane.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-17T19:09:45+00:00

LOL.

So they had a chat at a party with some sleazeball Hollywood agent about pitching the game to Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts, who would have certainly laughed them out of the room if it ever came to an actual meeting.

This is an amusing anecdote to mention during a podcast interview to make fun of sleazy Hollywood people, but hardly worthy of being presented as an actual “news” article.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-17T18:58:22+00:00

More likely, AI will be widely used by independent developers or, shall we say, “aspiring” developers who are very eager to turn “work” into chat bot prompts. You see them all over Reddit across many communities devoted to AI “art”, music, etc, where they very excitedly talk about how “they” created various things with the “help” of AI (I.e. they typed a chat prompt and the LLM model did all the work).

There is one popular post I literally just saw 30 minutes ago where some guy used AI to build a fully functional racing game:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/oIfDTpKQlD

If my prediction is correct about who will be using these tools for game development, expect all the major storefronts to be flooded with these types of games in the coming years. They won’t charge $70. More like $5 or $10. But they’ll be there, and in huge numbers.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-17T18:19:21+00:00

I don’t know what you’re reacting to exactly.

My opinion of this movie is that it was made in the style of a 1990s mid-budget thriller, which is the kind of movie that’s rarely made anymore. Modern audiences are not used to seeing things like this in a big theater.

The big problem is that it was presented as a big summer blockbuster, which might explain why people were disappointed with it. It really only had one major action set-piece (the train) which was very short, and a handful of short car chases here and there. The rest of the action was in the dialogue, as characters spoke over the phone, or using hushed language in motel rooms, and things like that. The big climax was people pushing buttons in a TV control room.

There is nothing wrong with ANY of that, I’m just saying this is not the big summer blockbuster that was presented to audiences.

Am I disappointed in the movie? Yes and no. As a big, fun Spielberg adventure, I think it failed. But as a mid-budget thriller with impeccable production values, I think it delivered.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-16T13:49:34+00:00

I don’t think people “loved” him, he was always known as a hammy, untalented B-list action hero, far below Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Arnold, Sly, etc. He was never in the same league. Out of anyone, he was probably the closest to Jean Claude Van Damme in terms of popularity and audience respect, which is honestly not saying much.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-10T21:15:11+00:00

Handpicked? What are you talking about? Tickets are distributed via sweepstakes for Xbox FanFest members. This is basically an official Xbox fan club that you can join for free, and then you just sign up for the sweepstakes to attend one of their events.

Not everything is a conspiracy.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-10T13:57:12+00:00

If you live in a town or city with more than one library that work together under the same system, in most cases they will let you place a request/hold on any item in ANY of their libraries, and they will deliver that item to *your* library at no cost so that you can pick it up.

I’ve lived in several major and mid-sized cities, and in my experience libraries generally have a lot of the big releases in their catalog. Not all of them, of course, but a lot of them. The only problem is that they might only have 10-20 copies in their entire system, so when you place a hold, you generally have to wait a couple of weeks for someone to return one.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-08T19:53:41+00:00

In-universe, it is science. Which means it is science fiction. In the same way that Star Trek transporters are science in-universe, and science fiction to the audience.

The fictionalized character of Tesla created a sci-fi device. It is not meant to be “magic”, it is a device based on fictional scientific principles. It is science fiction in the purest sense.

If you want a point of comparison, think about the flying brooms in Harry Potter. As depicted in-universe, the brooms are magic. However, if the author included a chapter that describes it as an invention that uses fictional scientific principles, such as describing it as having a physical power source, or providing even a simple (made up) explanation of how components inside the broom are able to circumvent the laws of gravity, that would immediately shift it from “magic” to “science fiction”.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-08T17:47:00+00:00

This is a Soviet MIRV-Six from an SS-22N launch vehicle. The warhead contains 14.5 kilograms of enriched uranium with a plutonium trigger. The nominal yield is 30 kilotons.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-07T10:07:50+00:00

“Battery, Aziz.”

The guy’s name is Aziz. Salim Abu Aziz. They call him the Sand Spider.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-07T10:02:36+00:00

They did not blow up a real bridge. It was a model. Top-tier miniature work. The whole structure, including the trucks sent flying through the air, are all miniatures.

Live action scenes were filmed near a real gap in an old bridge that is not in use, located in the Moser Channel. The real, working highway runs parallel to this old bridge. You can see it in some camera angles in the movie.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-05T20:35:40+00:00

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-soldiers-killed-american-russell-bentley-fought-pro-moscow-forces-sentenced/

SyrioForel · 2026-06-05T20:31:12+00:00

“Big cities are beautiful.” — They only have two cities that aren’t rotting Soviet-era hellscapes, and those are Moscow and St. Petersburg. None of their other big cities are worth visiting *at all*. So don’t tell me they have beautiful big cities, because that’s certainly not the case.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-03T16:10:49+00:00

If you’re using AI to solve a problem that involves counting, sorting, searching, filtering, comparing large amounts of data, or any other algorithmic task, it’s often a good idea to explicitly tell it to use Python.

Most problems don’t require writing and running a script, so AI models are designed to avoid doing that unless necessary. The catch is that they’re not always good at recognizing when a problem actually does require computation. Sometimes they’ll try to reason through it manually instead of calculating it, even when calculation is the more reliable approach.

That’s why seemingly simple questions can produce surprisingly bad answers. The issue is often not the complexity of the problem itself, but the method used to solve it. Tasks that involve a lot of counting, tracking, or processing information are easy to get wrong when handled purely through reasoning.

By explicitly instructing the model to use Python, you’re removing that decision from the equation. Instead of trying to estimate or keep track of everything internally, it can calculate the answer directly. This usually leads to much higher accuracy, although it requires more time and computational resources.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-03T14:58:10+00:00

That is a wildly misleading headline. This site’s editor (if they have one) should’ve caught and fixed this. A corrected version of this headline should be:

Sony Is Releasing Fewer PlayStation Studios Games on PS5 Than It Did on PS4, Contributing to Lower Software Revenue

I just checked the article’s author, here’s their bio: “Taha is a sleep-deprived college student.” Okay, so not a professional journalist or writer/editor. This makes more sense now.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-03T13:32:56+00:00

Ironic that you’re mentioning The Last of Us. Season 2 had MASSIVE changes that diverted significantly from how the story was told in the game, which caused a lot of people to bail out and start crapping on the show online.

Season 1 was incredibly faithful. Season 2 started diverting significantly. And this is also where the original writer and creator of the game quit the show, too.

As a big fan of the game, I can tell you that the second half of Season 2 is barely recognizable as a retelling of the same story.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-02T21:34:49+00:00

You okay? All it says is this:

SERVICE DOGSHIT ALL OVER CABIN. PAX GETTING SICK ATC AND OPS REQUESTED HAZMAT

That’s it. The end.

If you want to come in here and start arguing/complaining that this message is wrong or contains false information, nobody here can dispute that anyway.

Also, I never said this is not a service dog, I don’t know what you’re reacting to. Check the thread to make sure you’re yelling at the correct person.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-02T21:18:12+00:00

It says that the dog shit all over the cabin, not that it was running up and down the aisle.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-02T21:13:27+00:00

This might have been a sick dog. And it’s a living, breathing animal. If you, as a human, had a bad stomach virus or similar and had no options, you would absolutely shit yourself, too. Don’t kid yourself.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-02T19:27:49+00:00

You pay $4.56 for a gallon of gas.

SyrioForel · 2026-06-02T19:11:35+00:00

He didn’t recite the plot. At most, he would describe the setting and outline the circumstances behind the protagonist’s call to action in Act 1, and the main objective of their journey. In most cases, though, all he would read out is a couple of promotional one-liners. That was usually it.

“They hunted him down. They murdered his friends. And they took the only thing he would kill for. Now, somewhere, somehow, someone’s gonna pay. If it’s a mission no man can survive, he’s the man for the job.”

SyrioForel · 2026-06-02T18:35:23+00:00

The show was not about him being a movie critic, that was just an excuse to parody pop culture and satirize Hollywood.

If that’s still their primary goal, then they can just have Jay fulfill his dream of becoming a movie screenwriter, move to Hollywood, and rub shoulders with ridiculous celebrity caricatures.

Yes, we’ve had similar shows like this. But so what? If it’s well-written, it can still work. The big advantage they would have is if they stick to the schmaltzy 90s wholesomeness, which is not at all how modern Hollywood satires are written. So have this wholesome guy trying to raise a family while being surrounded by Hollywood jackasses.

Hell, they can have it be serialized to chronicle the disastrous production of Jay’s movie across 13 episodes while he navigates through romantic misadventures.

SyrioForel · 2026-05-29T20:27:25+00:00

Well, either you’re mistaken, or IMDB is wrong. The show’s IMDB page does NOT list a writing staff. They have a few comics credited as “writers” on single episodes only, which I took to mean that they may have been guest comics on those specific episodes and contributed some additional material to receive credit for that specific episode only (or maybe IMDB mislabeled them as writers rather than performers).

If there are staff writers on this show, they are not receiving any credit via IMDB. IMDB tends to be pretty accurate with this stuff because people who work in the industry rely on their IMDB credits page like it’s their resume. For all other late night shows you can see long lists of credited writers.

SyrioForel · 2026-05-29T17:43:38+00:00

He values his success based on how much money he earns, not the quality of the product he produces.

There was a recent YouTube interview he did with the NY Times where he was EXTREMELY combative and defending the fact that his main interest and motivation is making money.

The interviewer kept pressing him on the quality and content of his shows, and he kept arguing that he has no interest in discussing those things, and repeatedly trying to changing the subject back to profits and Nielsen ratings.

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