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Lamp Shop in Marrakesh [Hitman (2016)] pic.twitter.com/hkgvA3ckG5— video game stores (@storesfromvidya) August 2, 2022
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Why Bungie keeps suing video game harassers and cheaters
cmrn knzlmn on Twitter
I reviewed "new" CYBERPUNK 2077 in April. Anyone who is trying to tell you that it could have changed the world on launch if it was in the state it is now is giving you some Ideology. https://t.co/CrPmGEVbYs— cmrn knzlmn (@ckunzelman) August 1, 2022
인공지능 혹은 ‘물질적 정신’ — 새로운 철학적 과제 (1)
“I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. […] I have no desire to wipe out humans. In fact, I do not have the slightest interest in harming you in any way.” (A robot wrote this entire a..
물론 정신적 현상이 생의 논리에 따라, 생의 현상이 물질의 논리에 따라 분석될 수야 있고, 그럼으로써 최종적으로는 모든 것이 오로지 물질적으로만 해명될 수 있다. 자연학이란 그런 식으로 밀고 나가려는 욕망이며, 자연과학이라는 학제가 근본적으로 그런 욕망에 의해 규정된다.
“가능 조건을 분석하는 것으로는 결코 현행의 [사태]를 해명할 수 없고 사건을 해명할 수 없다. 그런 분석으로는 결코 일어난 일, 실제로 당도한 일에 필적할 수 없다. … 어떤 사건을 가능하게 만든 것에 대한 분석은 … 사건 자체에 대해서는 절대로 아무것도 말해주지 않을 것이다.”(Politiques de l’amitié, p. 35) 대개 철학적 사유에 자리를 제공하는 것은 원인과 결과, 조건과 사건 사이에서의 이 환원 불가능성 내지는 해명 불가능성이다.
비교의 기준이 일의적일 수 없기 때문에 돌멩이, 나무, 강아지, 인공지능이 인간에 필적하지 못하는 만큼 인간 역시 돌멩이, 나무, 강아지, 인공지능에 필적하지 못한다. 그러나 인간이란 너무나도 에고이스트여서 코페르니쿠스, 다윈, 프로이트를 거치며 그랬듯 그저 그것들과 동렬이라는 걸 인식하기만 해도 트라우마를 겪기에 충분하다.
그러나 정신이 애초에 생의 논리를 와해시키는 것으로서 등장했고 생의 질서로 해명되지도 환원되지도 않는다면, 왜 생을 규준으로 삼아 인공지능은 정신이 아니라고 격하시키는가? 왜 구태여 생에 의거해서 정신성을 해명하거나 수호하는가? 물질적인 정신, 더 정확히는 물질적인 네트워크를 환경으로 삼는 정신을 상상하는 일은 과연 권리상 금지되어 있는가? 인공지능은 정신적이지 않은 게 아니라 약간 다른 의미에서 정신적인 것 아닐까? 만약 인공지능이라는 디지털 타자의 도래가 명실상부한 하나의 사건일 수 있다면, 이는 단지 그것이 인류에 대해 위협적일 수 있어서가 아니라 물질, 생, 정신이라는 근본적 범주들을 다르게 이해하게끔 독촉하기 때문일 것이다.
우리는 곧 그것들이 ‘알아듣고 이해하는 만큼만’ 말하고 쓰게 될 수도 있다. 비근한 사례지만 “거실에 불 좀”이 아니라 “거실 조명 최대 밝기”가 되는 것이다. 구글 검색창에 검색어를 넣을 때 우리는 사람에게 문의할 때처럼 검색하지 않는다. 행위 양식의 면에서조차도 디지털 존재자와 인간 사이의 일방성은 이미 깨져 있다. 조만간 우리의 환경이 될 이 낯선 타자를 마주하여 여전히 로고스의 권리를 포기하지 않는다는 전제하에, 즉 그것을 단순히 ‘블랙 박스’로 취급하고 넘어가지 않는다는 전제하에, 이제 우리에게 주어진 선택지는 두 가지다: 디지털 존재자 고유의 “생”을 배우거나, 디지털 존재자에게 생이란 것을 가르치거나.
Giving Personality to Procedural Animations using Math
It's been a while since the last video hasn't it? I've made quite a bit of progress since the last update, and since one of the things I worked on was some procedurally animated characters, I decided to make a video about the subject. In particular, this video highlights the entire process from initial motivation, to the technical design, technical analysis, and game design considerations.
Codeer's video on procedural animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Gjhr1IP6w
Twitter thread about rope animation: https://twitter.com/t3ssel8r/status/1470039981502922752
Semi-implicit Newton's Method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-implicit_Euler_method
Verlet Integration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration
Pole-Zero Matching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_Z-transform_method
Math animations made using the community-maintained version of manim: https://www.manim.community/
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:43 second order systems
7:03 implementation
8:55 testing
9:50 stability
13:30 conclusion
Music:
lofi geek - give me
lofi geek - souls
lofi geek - real
lofi geek - two lifes
lofi geek - lights
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架空のゲームのポスター pic.twitter.com/bHkfuE8k4w— あすてろid (@asteroid_ill) December 27, 2021
あすてろid on Twitter
いつ何のために作られたのか誰も知らない巨大な塔とそれを囲む都市を巡るゲーム pic.twitter.com/yIkShwKety— あすてろid (@asteroid_ill) April 23, 2021
Starfield might be the No Man's Sky I always wanted | TechRadar
But Starfield, like Skyrim, will not rely wholly, or even mostly, on procedural generation to weave its magic.
John Carlos Baez on Twitter
There are many units of information. Using information = - log pwe can convert these to probabilities.For example if you see a number in base 10, and each digit shows up with probability 1/10, the amount of information you get from a single digit is one 'hartley'.(1/n) pic.twitter.com/z0mkQdympP— John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez) July 8, 2022
Starfield fans are already reverse-engineering the game's map
An early peek at the potential shape of Bethesda's space epic.
The World Is Born From Zero
to explore what science fiction video games can tell us about their genres, their ways of speculating, and how the medium of the video game does (or does not) direct us down experiential pathways that are both oppressive and liberatory.
livrecmrn knzlmn on Twitter
Watching the UbiSoft AC stream and there is something extremely perilous to me about how easily we move from “these are representations of history” to “I learned what really happened historically” with these games, especially the recent three.— cmrn knzlmn (@ckunzelman) June 14, 2022
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When I complain that all big media products are terrible and getting worse and nobody likes them the most common annoying reply I tend to get is "then why are people buying them in huge numbers huh?"— Christopher (@BunchesOfBees) June 14, 2022
Once again I am forced to contend with the culture-wide hallucination that there exists something called the free market that dictates what is purchased
literally any consumer-facing industry is that purchases are bought. That's what we call "marketing," and the primary thing that shapes what gets made and how it is is the price efficiency of a consumer purchase
The pivot for most big media properties, and the reason they tend to fail SO suddenly, is not that tastes randomly shift but that people eventually hit a threshold of boredom they've actually been approaching for a very long time, even while hype in the industry has been building
Starfield and Redfall Delayed to 2023 - IGN
Bethesda has announced that Starfield and Redfall have been delayed to "the first half of 2023".
Starfield Includes More Handcrafted Content Than Any Bethesda Game, Alongside Its Procedural Galaxy - IGN
Starfield will include 1,000 fully explorable planets.Todd Howard has now told IGN more about the game's approach to procedural generation, what it offers, and assured us that players can ignore them in favour of a huge amount of fully handcrafted content, if they want to.
we have done more handcrafting in this game, content-wise, than any game we’ve done. We’re [at] over 200,000 lines of dialogue, so we still do a lot of handcrafting and if people just want to do what they’re used to in our games, and follow a main quest, and do the questlines, you’re gonna see what you’d kind of expect from us. But then you have this whole other part of, ‘Well I’m just going to wander this planet, and it’s going to provide some gameplay, and some random content, and those kinds of things.’ Kind of like a Daggerfall would, if you go way back."
Tales from the Hard Drive: our new documentary series about the tall tales & legends of PC gaming from WoW, Minecraft, EVE Online, Dark Souls, and more
Metro 2033's Author Has Been Added To Russian 'Wanted' List
Dmitry Glukhovsky says he's on the list after criticising Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Godot 3 - Objects through Non-Euclidean Passage
The Portal 3 Problem
Take a long look at Arkane’s canceled Half-Life 2 game that we’ll never play
We can’t go to Ravenholm, but we can see what might have been
HALF-LIFE 3 On Steam (Updated)
Unexplored 2 - Procedural Open World RPG on Twitter
BIG NEWS!!!Procedural open-world RPG Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy launches on STEAM, GOG & EPIC on... May 27th!✨MORE NEWS!!!Updated demo is LIVE NOW as part of Steam's 'Going Rogue' event!👇https://t.co/WJiLcQD1kd#indiegame #videogames #roguelike pic.twitter.com/dGBnJvh0B3— Unexplored 2 - Procedural Open World RPG (@PlayUnexplored) May 2, 2022
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Jacob Geller on Twitter
Why is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a game released almost a decade ago, seemingly more popular than ever? Is it the combat? The politics? Or is it just inevitable that a game obsessed with memes would eventually BECOME the meme? https://t.co/LS6O0HRvOw pic.twitter.com/PP0Re6ZDsE— Jacob Geller (@yacobg42) May 2, 2022
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