It's trash as an idea generator.

The only useful thing I've gotten out of a (text) AI is asking it to guess functions of keyword mechanics in games. Like I was designing personality traits for AI leaders in a strategy game, and had a dozen bad candidates for "over produces defenses." So I told ChatGPT to try to guess the meanings of bunkerist, hoxhaist, prepper, turtle, protectionist, survivalist, isolationist, guardian. Which did narrow it down to bunkerist, turtle, and protectionist (note that this is literally wrong in the case of protectionist). Normally I'd try to poll a bunch of random people for this sort of thing, and try to avoid anyone who's trying to be clever. So it did save some work there.

It won't come up with anything useful going the other way around though ("list some possible names for traits of AI leaders in a strategy game"). Like I said, it doesn't work as an idea generator.

I guess in general it's probably useful if you're in a situation where you need to make sure your writing is very very clear. If ChatGPT can correctly summarize what you wrote, it's probably safe for people who are distracted or bad at reading or whatever.

Oh no! I decided to use the barred owl as my mascot.

How is he coping a feel at that angle? Is his right elbow two thirds of the way down his arm?

Okay putrid moldy man.

I need to post my gamedev progress on twitter because it's a major advertising channel and it'd be irresponsible of me not to.

But I really don't enjoy it.

I think most people prefer magic points. Spell slots are just kind of a thing that D&D happened to have. If D&D wasn't such a cultural force in defining what an RPG even is, spell slots would be a weird quirky thing that one RPG has and everyone is like "huh that's kind of interesting" and think of D&D as "that one with the weird spell slots."

Not that spell slots are meritless. They're weird and people want magic to be weird, they give you a reason to use low-level spells, and they somewhat encourage using spells flexibly (but they also encourage over-relying on the most flexible possible spells; just memorize five copies of Polymorph). But yeah, MP is the most default resource mechanic you can get.

One of the worst parts of getting older is that my mouth's spice tolerance keeps going up, but my stomach's spice tolerance keeps going down.

Please provide a list of this site's past struggle sessions so I can:

A - avoid them

B - deliberately invoke them in a trollish manner

on a case by case basis depending on my mood at the time.

YESSSS

Burn this industry down.

I don't know about tear, rip has some very worrying pronouns.

Unity was used to make about half of games that released on Steam in the last two years.