Yes, yes he did say that. Note that he's now also removing the automatic right to appeal in some cases. This really doesn't look good to me.

Funny how some subjects are mysteriously completely absent from this site. Better news sources elsewhere.

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Fucking hell America. Your President has just posted that he wants to shit on you. Doesn't that make you want to question things a little?

The reasons for not posting here have not significantly changed.

Not really. Suggest you read "Vassal State" by Angus Hanton. American ownership of UK infrastructure mainly serves to extract UK finance to the benefit of America. This is no different from tobacco companies building factories in third world countries.

This.

It's not rocket science.

Article here. https://t.co/lvsTdPiIoI Let's be clear, Theil is as deranged as the other two. This is a conversation between village idiots.

According to the New York Times interview, “Elon went quiet” after Hassabis told him: “Well, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.”. Two smart but somehow incredibly stupid people. Why are we giving this group control of our lives when they're clearly incapable?

Science!

6. Cloud optional. It should be possible to build, package, deploy and use everything without requiring an internet connection, package updates or an account. BUT all should be supported.

5. Robust package management for sharing both assets and source as pre-packed, version managed and verifiable resources. Robust central repository. It should be easy to re-use "bullets that know how to bullet", and remix them to suit a new game.

4. Round-trip visual-to-source-and-back editing for projects. It should be possible to design games visually, edit the design as code to add features and structure, and return back to visual design to navigate and update the project. (Metaprogramming as first class citizen?)

3. Self-hosted asset editing and management tools. Creating graphics, sounds, animations, maps, backgrounds should be possible within the environment itself, and source code made available as a learning and customisation resource.

2. Team, collaboration, project and version management built in at the file system level. Working with other people and being able to reproduce other build environments should be 'out of the box' for all tools and apps.

Continuing on the theme of "I'd like to make a game", if I had the resources, I'd build: 1. A self-hosted portable language runtime that scales to ultra-low resource systems and supports granular compilation and hot-swapping on capable systems. (fast, reproducible builds) 🧵

We need to bring the best elements from both, and mix in some modern tooling magic to make it easier to make games for each other..

Smaller platforms can make projects much more manageable, whilst still delivering really engaging, inventive play. There's a lot of room for innovating in this space, but people get distracted by modern triple-A titles on one hand, and retro nostalgia on the other.

"I want to make a game": one of the earliest, most primitive instincts. We love play. Yet computer games tools/platforms still frustrate and complicate this goal. Making games is harder than it should be (for valid reasons). Things like Pico 8 and PlayDate show we can do better.