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[–] schroedingersKoala@piefed.ca 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good grief is Sweeney an insufferable cunt.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 184 points 4 days ago (8 children)
[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 240 points 4 days ago (1 children)

it was right after he got SLAMMED, and then later he was DESTROYED.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If he isn't BLASTED, I'm not interested

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

personally the threshold of my interest varies between TORN TO SHREDS and ATOMIZED TO SMITHEREENS

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 92 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That is breaking corpo face pretty heavily, imo. Starting with "this is bullshit" as a public-facing figure, in response to a very straighforward anti-AI take is about as meltdown as you can expect from a CEO on social media.

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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 61 points 4 days ago (30 children)

You think lashing out and insulting members of the public on social media, who weren’t addressing you at all, is normal CEO behaviour?

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[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Imagine responding to one of the most wholesome people in the entire video game industry with “this is bullshit”

Real “Hans, do you think we’re the baddies?” moment

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Oh my god. I didn't even realize that was THE Kenney

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I like how he suggests C++ is inherently superior to C, or that 3D is inherently superior to 2D, in the same way open source is superior to closed source.

Despite >=90% of his companies' codebases being strictly proprietary, and guarded so heavily you'll drown in fines if you leak as much as 3 lines.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well of course he likes open source, I'm sure a ton of it has ended up in their proprietary source.

Not to mention vibe coding wouldn't be a thing at all without decades of open source for the LLMs to draw knowledge from.

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[–] eggpl4nt@lemmy.world 119 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It's wild to see the dude who became famous for just making and giving assets away for free, have enough clout to ratio the CEO of Epic. lol.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 24 points 3 days ago

Ohh! That Kenney! Yeah he is awesome indeed!

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[–] Thyazide@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Tim Sweeney is just mad cause he's discount John Carmack and weeaboo Gabe Newell.

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[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

c to c++ isn't really moving forward, it's lateral, and i don't mean that as a slight against c++ (for once, lol). same with 2d to 3d. turns out tim sweeny just says shit thinking we're stupid, imagine that.

if he really knew anything, he would have said "c to rust," which would have also been nonsense but it would have gotten a funnier reaction at least.

[–] Mniot@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

2d->3d -- bigger number

c -> c++ -- two extra plusses (and plus already means extra!)

games -> epic games -- it's got "epic" in the name

You don't have to be a genus to see these are all better!

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[–] DutchJ@lemmy.zip 83 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As a wannabe game dev in Godot: it is absolutely insane what Kenney is putting out there for free. They are legends.

[–] Feidry@sh.itjust.works 67 points 3 days ago

Do yourself a favor and drop the "wannabe" part of that self identifier. If you're making games, you're a game dev.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's hard for me to get past the fact that a person has willfully deferred their creativity and skill to an AI chatbot.

At that point, to me, you become a no talent ass clown.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

At least of the folks I know that have gone all-in on GenAI, almost all of them never displayed much creativity in the first place.

One that I at least once had some respect for had walked away from doing any creative work 20 years ago. I frankly had sorted out about a decade ago that he was more "right place right time" than actually knowing his stuff. But he had a fairly common narrative I've heard a few times now: "I walked away from coding years ago, but I'm back in thanks to AI!". There's always good reasons they walked away in the first place that are generally not fixed by embracing AI.

Broadly the GenAI steps on creativitiy and skill by not producing precisely what the content creator wanted, so it favors people who don't really have an opinion on the specifics, and without opnion it's generally pretty flawed premise.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hardly a meltdown, it's a single whiney slightly condescending response.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Didn't you see how he SLAMMED Kenney??

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[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 3 days ago (10 children)

when the fuck has Tim Sweeney made anything open source in his entire life?

[–] los0220@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe he meant taking from open-source instrad for paing for a service

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

from closed source to open source

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 28 points 3 days ago

From closed source to vibe source (it's open if Tim feels else his lawyers will see you in court)

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Reminder that Unreal Engine is source available not open source.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

"Up yours?" Why go through all the trouble creating the impression that you're interested in good-faith arguments if you're ending your message with that? What a jerk.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

That's precisely what stood out to me, as well. Not sure if the double entendre was intended, but the message is clear.

Up yours, too, Tim.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

when is he is never in a meltdown, seems likes it every time valve hits some milestone with its customers.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago
[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

Tim Sweeney is a dipshit

[–] aport@programming.dev 18 points 3 days ago

Tim cries himself to sleep every night because he knows deep down he's just a cheap knockoff John Carmack.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 18 points 3 days ago

Hey, you dont talk shit to Kenney! Kenney is a saint in the GameDev world and many of my learning projects would have no good assets if it weren't for him and others like him. Fuck off, Sweeney.

[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's totally an indignant crash out... Fucking asshole in chief sitting there forcing AI down the throats of devs like grain down a goose chasing those phat phuckin slop-grois profits. I'm far from anti-AI, but this fit in or fuck off monoculture shit is toxic and unacceptable.

Kenney is based.

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[–] Knoxer@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He proceeded to list changes which gave good, astonishing results, where no art was stolen and no backlash happened.

Then he compared those changes to AI vibe coding? What results can he bring to the table for comparison?

It's been years now, so let's do a game and compare what years of 3d instead or 2d gave us, or the same with C++ instead of C.

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"open source" is kinda a lie

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[–] MBM@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

tech tree following optimist

Permission to ew?

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