Cloud, .NET and DevOps Architect. Author of FilterBlade - the PoE 1 and PoE 2 Filter site. Occasional streamer. Secretly developing a game. Probably human.

Lost in thoughts and projects
So... last epoch season 5 Yay or nay? Are you playing?
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Personally - I feel like S5 SEEMS mediocre, but LE is great baseline game and I only played two of the classes. May check out shaman and go for some water elemental shenanigans
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Obligatory poll
32% Yay
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Potentially GREATEST thing AI has done so far for humanity. Someone made a benchmark for AIs. It evaluates how good they by judging their capability of sculpting 3D butts.
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As it turns the assbench I linked is a copy of assbench.dev I'm quite unaffiliated in the harsh competition of the assbenches, but I wish them all luck.
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Named appropriately assbench. assbench.com/ (maybe google is onto something here?)
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This DIablo 5 designer seems to pretty much directly replying to Chris Wilson's video about his hopes for D5. This doesn't mean much, but I think it's a good sign that the D5 team has game designers who actively inform themselves. Surprisingly, this is not always the case.
While Diablo V will continue to feature some DEX (moment-to-moment execution) mechanics, on balance the game will be an INT/STR game (planning and investment). We are designing to the core tenet of ARPGs that any challenge can be overcome with the right build.
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This went SLIGHTLY WRONG. My schedule is very busy now. I may have to compress that one...
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20+ launches? Either going to be absolutely terrifying or comedic. There's no in between. This somehow makes me think of lootboxes and battlepasses. What do you expect?
Get ready.
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To explain this a bit more in detail. The $20/100/200 per month subscriptions are reported to be wildly unprofitable, but they act as an entry level drug to get large companies to use the MUCH more expensive API costs. That's why OpenAI (and Anthropic) have been doing all kind of 'moves' to save money.
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The 9 games that 'shaped' me most. Note that these are not the games I played most OR not always the games I liked most.
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PS: Yes I do regret the endless hours spent playing LoL.
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After moving to Greece (Rhodes) 4 month ago, this is the first days where there is any rain. It's really refreshing. Good time to sit outside and write down some game dev and filterblade feature ideas.
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I asked claude what it thinks of this meme and it told me: Practical tip If I refuse something legitimate, push back with context ("this is my own server," "I'm auditing my own code"). That often resolves it. This is my own server :) (no idea if it actually works lol)
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Also all jokes aside: Claude Opus 5.5 is fantastic. Very powerful model, amazingly good at building custom tools and tooling.
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This is a bit of an emotional rant regarding AI in programming. AI is getting really good at the thing I love doing. The quality of coding AIs has went from: -> From 'toy/gimmick' (pre 2026) -> to 'useful tool' (gpt5/opus4.6) -> to 'primary driving force' (opus5.5/astra/fable) We reached the point where AI can implement complex features, maintain complex web of knowledge, verify results and create solid architecture. Opus5.5 follows commands exactly and writes code like a champ. Astra is amazing at computer use and 3D. I let my bots do C# IL analysis and complex compute shader experiments. Deep techniques - I looked up to people who had this forbidden knowledge before. Even if you - like me - like writing code by hand: it has become way too useful not to use. I have 15+ years of experience as a developer/architect. Yet AI is amazing for verification, automation, utility. I have so much power at my fingertips and never have been more productive. I create wonders daily, yet: It makes me quite sad... In the past any time I saw a great website, an elegant system in a game, a cool shader - I thought about the ideas, people and processes. Now it just leaves me kind of numb - 'an AI has likely done that' are the usual thoughts. I don't think these predictions are too bold: - We likely will barely write any more code after a couple of years - outside of sports, hobby and some hyper niche scenarios. - Most scientific and white collar jobs will likely suffer the same fate. I always found the industrial revolution and the horse analogy inadequate to compare it to the impact of AI. I changed my mind. The horse is getting replaced. The issue is - it seems like we're the horse in this example. PS: Don't want to end this on a sad note. Look at that cool knowledge graph. It's all sparkly and shiny. Yeah!
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Why does this make me laugh so much?
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