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  • There’s gotta be a mod for that, right?

    Up until whatever came after Black Flag I was a die hard AC fan. Midnight releases and everything. And I’ll admit, the modern day sections are bad and jarring and completely unnecessary. At some point you’re a game developer wandering around an office and it’s obvious they had no idea what to do with those sections, because at that point the modern day story had been told. There was a brief cameo from some of the people you would remember from earlier games but it never got to the level of intrigue from 1-3.

    Though an assassin’s creed game set in like modern day Manhattan could be fun. Watchdogs got kinda close to that before going completely off the rails.







  • I built some of the components that went in to the test locations. Amazon had absurdly tight tolerances for the parts they were buying. They effectively wanted a shelf that was also a scale, and the tolerances they demanded weren’t really necessary. So it was an insane expense but they paid it and wouldn’t hear otherwise.

    My company also made most of the lockers they’re using in places like Whole Foods, and Amazon insisted on controlling the entire design process themselves. They sent us prints, we made parts. They made it very clear that that was the relationship they wanted, so we complied. No test runs, THAT would be too expensive. Let’s just make ten thousand parts and put them together.

    I would like to be very clear that in an industrial setting, this is unusual. You need something specific, you call a company that makes things like it and see if they can make what you need. You have a conversation about what you need it for and how many you want. The relationship is personal, you get to know the people around the region that you need stuff from.

    Amazon swooping in with a heavy purse and a list of demands is weird, when someone kicks in your door with a stack of prints and enough money to keep the entire plant in overtime all year, it’s hard to say no to that.

    So the first batch of prints they send is wrong. Parts do not line up right and the doors don’t even fit. We didn’t discover this until 70% of the components had already been painted.

    Second batch they assure us addresses the problem, we need to start over.

    My friends, it did not address the problem. Half the changes they needed to make they didn’t. The doors still did not fit.

    3rd try, we lied and said we needed some extra time because a different client had elbowed in with a large order while they were redesigning. We had an intern recreate every print in CAD and test fit it, we ran a single batch of test pieces to assemble one row of lockers and as we were doing that they sent a revision.

    They finally got their lockers, and asked for basically book dividers but insisted again on insanely tight tolerances.

    After the dividers went out we stopped taking their calls.









  • Absolutely.

    AI generated content was always going to leak in to the training models unless they literally stopped training as soon as it started being used to generate content, around 2022.

    And once it’s in, it’s like cancer. There’s no getting it out without completely wiping the training data and starting over. And it’s a feedback loop. It will only get worse with time.

    The models could have been great, but they rushed release and made it available too early.

    If 60% of the posts on Reddit are bots, which may be a number I made up but I feel like I read that somewhere, then we can safely assume that roughly half the data these models are being trained on is now AI generated.

    Rejoice friends, soon the slop will render them useless.