Most people just use their Google accounts I reckon.

I can physically hear the sound it would make if you tried to do that.

Learning to code is difficult.

Making board games isn’t going to make it easier, you learn by doing.

I think what bothers me is that your advice is fixated on becoming a game designer. It’s also a small part in the sense that you will have one guy doing it in a staff of 50. It’s also arguably the hardest job to get and you need A LOT more than just having built a board game or two to get the job.

By using unity, he will touch on a lot of stuff and have a chance to find out what he likes. Building board games is only oriented to the game design part and won’t really get him anywhere.

Not trying to be a dick here but bad advice imo.

I learned to code from nothing with it so obviously I more than tried them. It’s not difficult enough to warrant your comment. He wants to learn clearly.

This is a programming sub and you told him to make a boardgame.

Paywall

They are both one click installs basically. In any case, that would only leave Godot which has a lot less tutorials. I’d love to know the percentage of games that do not use either of these three. He wants to learn how to make games, what would you tell him to do? I literally started on unity and didnt know any of it, I learned to code with it lol.

NotebookLM, Google’s notetaking tool, has an AI-generated voice feature that is surprisingly close to a real voice.

Close does not equal the same. It’s actually clear that it’s a different voice if you compare both. This guy’s wants to own the whole spectrum, this is dumb.

Can’t wait to get my YouTube videos taken down because I sound similar to some guy.

Just make sure to do personal projects without it when you have time. Very easy to forget what you know over time. AI made me faster but also rusty by the time I noticed the effect. Also, always verify. Go through every line or you will hit problems and blaming the llm just won’t do.

I kind of want to get this for my family. Control the heating and stuff, idk

Look up the pros and cons of the different editors (Unreal, Unity, Godot). Pick one and start making the simplest of games. There’s some good tutorials that can walk you through things.

As you learn, you will probably find a specific aspect that you like a lot and you can concentrate on building your expertise for that. Might be coding, animation, shading, 3d modeling. Who knows.

The important part is to start using the software, but really aim for simple stuff for now and use good quality tutorials and courses. I used mostly YouTube and some Udemy.

Depending on your age/savings, this can give you a good idea in what to study if this is an option.

I just upgrade my paging size by a few gb every year. The warning can be ignored.

They thrive on it.

Domain names are a fucking racket.

I don’t think a lot of Canada likes the monarchy. It would probably galvanize the separatist movement of Quebec which is mostly dead now from what I understand.

From a distance, it’s very hard to tell if it’s two consenting hobbits or if one is a child. It’s easy for them to find themselves on the list, poor Bilbo.

Link to that experiment? It sounds a bit far fetched, I feel like they aren’t using something based on an LLM.

Copyright companies and big AI. Google stands to profit massively if they are the only ones with the budget for a “legal” LLM. In any other context, strengthening copyright laws would be met with riots but they have managed to convince a good portion of the population that it’s somehow in their best interest in the space of a year.

That or China (probably both)

Fan fiction and fan art, without appropriate permissions or licenses, are usually an infringement of the right of the copyright holder to prepare and license derivative works based on the original. Copyrights allow their owners to decide how their works can be used, including creating new derivative works off of the original product.

Seems pretty clear. It’s at the discretion of the owner. The profit aspect doesn’t matter in terms of the law, it just makes it likely that companies will go to court over it.

Additionally, usually as long as the fan content is non-commercial, it is not a problem with copyright holders.

Notice how it says with copyright holders and not with copyright laws.

https://cbaatthebar.chicagobar.org/2022/11/11/the-fine-line-between-fan-art-fan-fiction-and-finding-yourself-sued/

It’s copyright infringements but like I said, most won’t bother fans not making a dime. There’s economic advantages to having fans create and distribute your content for free. A company can choose to copyright strike anything with their characters in it at anytime.

It doesn’t break copyright laws because training something on any kind of data, as long as the data was legally obtained, is legal (this includes scrapping publicly available data).

You can’t generate a sonic picture and sell it for the same reason you can’t draw sonic in Photoshop and sell it. These are tools and it’s up to the user to use them in a legal way.

Fan art is actually illegal, companies let it be because they get instantly thrashed by fans if they complain.

Copyright laws are broken but in the opposite way. Can we rename this sub to “How to bootlick the copyright machine”