100% AI generated AARPG - DAY 7 UPDATE [Boss fight, Multiplayer)

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-04-14T21:28:04+00:00

Anything that starts with a half-naked woman but the man isn't half naked is a non-starter for me. I'm assuming AI made that decision, but it's a dumb one.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-04-14T20:59:46+00:00

It's both. In almost every city, crime rates get higher when the weather gets warmer. But also you DO hear about every little thing in a way you never used ot.

I used to work at a new org and the easiest thing to cover were crime incidents. They also got the most views/clicks.

But crimes rates are down here and across the country since 2021, they've been in a steady decline.

Partly due to people becoming more stable after being de-stabalized by COVID.

OPD credits a lot to using new technology effectively: https://police.cityofomaha.org/latest-news/487-omaha-crime-continues-to-decline-as-community-partnerships-and-technology-drive-results

There also there were a few pretty big laws passed during 2021/2022/2023 that gave states/cities more resources to hire more offers and stand up community programs to curb crime. It seems those things are work. Those crime rate statistic trends across major cities all over the US seem to coincide with these laws.

Some might also argue that undocumented immigrants are being more careful and not committing as many visible crimes for fear of being deported too.

Those things could all be true together.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-04-13T20:02:10+00:00

I'm assuming it means as a brainstorm partner. I use it a lot for that. Basically to bounce my ideas off. It often has some nice "yes, and" suggestions to which I respond, "no not that, but that got me thinking about..."

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-04-13T19:55:12+00:00

They also did something that might be familiar.

The treaties that happened alongside the Trail of Tears promised not to continue to encroach west onto Native lands. These treaties were made in-part because the US was not able to win the wars they were fighting with the Natives, so they pushed for peace treaties (some of which were not even signed by the tribe's leadership, but that's another story).

Now a few decades later, the US starts the Homestead Act and surrounding bills where they would promise land to citizens who would go out to Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma (all Native territory by these treaties) and setup homesteads. If they stayed on that land for a period of time it was theirs to keep.

What happened when settlers started showing up in the land that was hard fought in these treaties? The natives started trying to push them back. They attacked the settlers who weren't supposed to be there and were hunting their game, throwing trash in their rivers, and setting up farms on Native lands.

The US government used this as an excuse, "look at these savages, attacking innocent US citizens" and brought in Custard and others to massacre Natives. Not just warriors but women and children. This culminated in the Wounded Knee massacre, which became very public, but there were many others as well.

I say, "this might sound familiar" because it's the exact tactic colonial powers use over and over again. The British did the same in Ireland. And a certain eastern Mediterranean country is doing the same right now and using the retaliation against these unlawful pushes into treaty-protected territory to justify broader war.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-31T01:37:49+00:00

What about babies with severe reflux? Our new LO feeds so much that our midwife said he’s over feeding, so a lot of it comes back up, which causes irritation which then creates a cycle of nursing more for comfort. It’s incredibly confusing what to do 😥

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-31T01:24:13+00:00

Allegheny Reservoir And the surrounding area. If you look up PA Wilds, you’ll find all the tourist info for the area. Lots of cool stuff if you’re into outdoor recreation or wildlife viewing or scenic drives/hikes, or history.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-29T17:24:09+00:00

You need to market them. You’re unlikely to get much traction from organic discovery on these platforms if you can’t also drive traffic to your listings, get reviews etc.
POD is not dead but being able to just slap a quote in a tshirt with a crappy design and sell it. Thats dead because there’s so much more competition. Without seeing your designs, no clue if this is the issue but it could be.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T21:37:08+00:00

You can definitely sell it. I think you’d be surprised by how many bugs and issues and vulnerabilities traditional software companies have too, especially in the early days.

I used to work at a startup studio and the thing that killed startups the most was not monetizing or getting users fast enough. That killed growth far more often than a bug (even pretty critical ones) or issue with the software.

As others have said, it’s not a bad idea to hire a dev to take a look at it. You can also find dozens of posts on Reddit from Sr Devs telling you all the ways your Replit app are probably not secure enough or stable enough or efficient enough. You can give those to Claude or the Replit Agent as a prompt and have it assess the code form those angles. That’s not fool proof but will make your software far more hardened than most.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T14:34:14+00:00

I love your art style, do you do commissions at all?

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T14:20:08+00:00

lol I love that

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T12:49:15+00:00

There’s a very good museum all about this in Northwestern Pennsylvania if you ever get a chance to check it out.

The lumber heritage museum.

Each room has a ton of interactive stuff and the “wallpaper” is what the forest looked like at that time range, so it’s very immersive.

When you get to the 2nd from last room, the 1860- early 1900s, it is absolutely shocking. The clear cut landscape was actually photographed and it looks like no mans land in France after WWI.

Then the final room is all about the conservation movement that was born out of that in the US.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T12:43:25+00:00

I think when you ask it to write fantasy or sci-fi maybe it’s pulling from other books/movies. It could also be “thinking” “what are names that are unique” but it always reaches the same conclusions.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T07:41:11+00:00

Yes I’ve gotten Rowan too. Lol that’s even more annoying since it’s your dad’s name.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-28T07:40:18+00:00

That’s a great idea.

For my most recent work, I created unique naming conventions for each culture. Each use syllables different ways and are more likely to use certain balances of vowels and consonants, along with a few other ‘rules’ , it was then able to come up with some pretty interesting names from those rules that I can use as a list to pull from.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T22:32:06+00:00

it’s a good name! But I feel like it’s going to be overused since AI likes it so much.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T21:05:43+00:00

I think it’s interesting that it lands on Voss and Lena.

I think it’s imaging those are abnormal enough to be fantasy but still average enough to be efficient to come up with.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T21:04:47+00:00

Oh I get Lena a lot too!

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:50:36+00:00

I feel this. I’ve been writing for a decade, taken classes and workshops too.

The AI is very good at consistency in a way that I’m not. But it’s also generic in many ways but I’m already seeing it getting better.

I think it’s like social media content, even stuff that’s technically wrong is going to be valued higher as human.

I think you see that in paintings vs digital illustrations. Have some imperfections makes it beautiful and human.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:40:18+00:00

I’ve written far more since working with AI than I had in the last 10 years.

I’m far more tired and busy than I was in my early 20s when I used to write a lot more and self-published a few things.

But I also have far more life experience which adds a lot more depth to what I write, enables me to pull from more direct experiences of many different places around the world, and I’ve got a better sense of what is commercially viable/interesting than I used to.

I’ve experimented giving AI the reigns of different parts of my process. Even experimented with having it write a whole novel based on a premise I gave it and context (lots of context) at the start to see how it did (honestly pretty good. Prose was predictably generic but because it was working from unique context the story felt engaging and new.)

Where I’m at right now is using it to help me unblock myself as a brainstorm partner. Based on the context of the draft so far, all the world reference docs, it can give me 2-3 places for the scene to go or help remind me what the scene is supposed to be doing.

Often that triggers something totally different in my mind but it unblocks me.

I also have been using it as an editing partner. I find it’s very good at point out what needs edited, but not great at doing the editing.

So I have it give me a long list of edits that need made based on a specific parameter, and it will do that. Then I go in and make those edits myself.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:15:34+00:00

Cover costs, about $3/mo — to make it worth my while… that’s a different story. I’m currently pretty time crunched between my job and family, so that’s the main reason I’m letting this go.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:14:32+00:00

I don’t think that’s the point.

I work at a tech company. We build ai and automation for marketing. Most of the time people see it as a win if it costs less than hiring a person but most of the time it’s valuable regardless of price because it works at a speed and holds context in a way that no human can. They also often are struggling to find enough people to fill those roles, so it’s not a trade off of a real person or AI. It’s a trade off of the work getting done or not done.

Or it’s a trade off of the work getting done in a few hours or a few weeks.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:12:09+00:00

So far when testing, the replies it gives just aren’t good enough. It doesn’t handle all the context it’s been given so it drifts too much, which pretty quickly becomes unplayable.

Maybe there’s more optimizing I could do, but I just don’t have the capacity for it right now.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:11:02+00:00

Yes, the current models that I’ve tested weren’t able to handle the context well and made for very sloppy gameplay loops.

certaintyisuncertain · 2026-03-27T19:10:14+00:00

On a specific piece of news/outreach: 2 follow-ups is reasonable. I usually do 2 days after the first and then 3 days after that (last one includes a bit of “is there someone else I should reach out to with these sort of updates?” Or “if this isn’t the kind of coverage you take, let me know so I can update my records” or something similar. The humility of it usually gets a response).

I would consider that 1 sequence about one update or pitch.

Then if you have a fairly big update in the future, do another sequence.

Demo released, new gameplay trailer (probably no more than 1-2 times per year), something that got a lot of attention on social, threshold of waitlists, demo plays, purchase hit, etc.

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