Last year I remade Ariane in Paradise in Daz Studio. The most difficult part was remaking Ariane and Rachel in Genesis 8.1, I think I ultimately got Ariane pretty close except her cheekbones are too wide which I narrowed since finishing AIP, but Rachel proved a bigger problem…
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You can now get Hopepunk City on Steam, at this address. You may need to sign in to Steam ad do the age check thing to see it. The price is $9, a dollar less than my other games, and for the first week it’s 15% off. It coincides with the Steam Visual Novel fest, which only Something’s in the Air Redux qualifies, so it will be on sale that week too. Date Ariane Remastered and Ariane in Paradise will be part of the Steam Spring Festival sale later this month.
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This is a follow up to my Why Bluesky is Awesome post from November where I explained the basics of getting started. This post is to answer the most common questions that show up. The first post was about starting and moderating your Bluesky account. This one is about organizing it. As you can see in November I had 33
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A post I made on Reddit: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Anthropic, and Nvidia (Yes, Nvidia too,) were building LLMs in hopes of controlling the market, maneuvering to become a monopoly in the AI marketplace. That goal is effectively dead, so is the goal of making ever more powerful LLMs with the goal of AGI, that dream died in November,
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Hopepunk City has been updated to version 1.6 on itch.io to bring it in line with an upcoming steam release. It has also been updated at the site store.
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Blue Sky feels like a classic social media site that hasn’t been ruined by corporate demands. Sort by chronological or popularity if you want, block whoever you want instantly, post links, pictures, videos, whatever you want.
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Here’s the lessons we should all learn from the AI bubble just before it pops:
1. Big tech doesn’t give a crap about the usefulness of their products, only their perceived valuations from investors.
2. They are needlessly copying each others work, trying to make the “Next Big AI Breakthrough” so they can take over the market.
3. The general population doesn’t give a shit about AI. This is all a 0.1% problem.
I just released a minor update to Something’s In The Air Redux to go from 1.1 to 1.5. The main purpose of this update is to fill in all the missing lines that were not voiced before, about 150 of them total.
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There are now multiple locations to get the Ariane in Paradise Free Demo. Including an online demo. Click for links.
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To finish the 2.0 project, I got a working Android version for Ariane in Paradise 2.0. To make it more compatible for phones, I shrank the resolution to 1920×1080 and basically used the 1.5 version with 2.0 graphics. Not as good as the PC version — couldn’t include the new special effects like changing clothes or background scrolling on hikes — but the game now works on your phone with better Daz Studio graphics.
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