aevai told my mom about my backup career plan (simply become a successful independent artist working in a medium I've never worked in significantly before) if the kleptocapitalists who are ripping the figurative copper out of the walls manage to crash the video games industry hard enough that i have to consider regular programming as a backup plan which they're also working around the clock to wall off, and she didn't try to talk me out of it lol
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mds2 (Michael Sch-sko)@aeva just think of all the overpowered GPUs you'll get to play with if the whole thing crashes.
Like, sure, you'll have to figure out how to offload rendering sub-tasks onto a machine in a remote data center. But that machine will be *amazing*
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Matt Sutherlin@aeva I’m planning to just live in a van down by the river.
@__debugbreak I've heard great things about vagrancy
Fabian Giesen@aeva I guess the good news is that with the AI boosters coming after all white-collar jobs is that suddenly "successful independent artist" or "successful musician" sounds exactly as sensible as a life plan to normies as "soulless paper-pusher at an office 9-to-5"
@aeva want a career that's unlikely to be disrupted by AI in the near future? *leans over conspiratorially* Get into plumbing!
mym@aeva @mym not the first time this has happened!
If you've ever been to an actual warehouse, you will find a multitude of features Sokoban never mentioned, among other things:
- standardized, relatively wide aisles in a regular layout instead of a twisty maze
- shelves!!!
- pallets
- forklifts
and there is a distinct lack of workers running around rawdogging crates without pallets or even a hand stacker, pushing them around on the floor
@aeva @mym oh by the way, I don't want to give off the wrong impression here: it's not like I knew (or know) how to properly do this.
This was at my "civil service" (alternative to then still-active draft in Germany) appointment.
So they just paged 18yo me, said "there's the plumbing tools, here's 5 showers where people have complained about clogged drains, you go figure it out" and I did
James Widman@rygorous @aeva it's a field with new and exciting opportunities, featuring dynamic environments and next-generation system designs!
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/17/nx-s1-5680167/major-plumbing-headache-haunts-13-billion-u-s-carrier-off-the-coast-of-venezuela
Star Trek III - The More they Overthink the Plumbing
Legit_Spaghetti@aeva As a graphics programmer, you're probably going to be okay. Well, that is, unless the C-suite drives the entire industry off a cliff and into a volcano, like you mentioned.
@Legit_Spaghetti it gives me hope that basically everyone hates dlss5 (except the nvidia ceo and some boot lickers at digital foundry)
Michael Newton@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, the fact that even people like... fighting game content creators... are getting fed up and publicly tearing apart some of this stuff is actually encouraging.
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49.8K Posts, 1.11K Following, 7.74K Followers · I'm a just a small town AAA graphics programmer in Chicago. I worked on Gears 5 and Gears Tactics. My work is secret, but my personal projects are not. I like to post about my personal research, various side projects, and I like to think out loud a lot. Expect weird humor, esoteric ramblings, and occasionally also art I made out of math. I like implicit surface modeling the normal amount. Chronic pain enthusiast. 🏳️⚧️ Curses are just blessings with caveats.