The Dark Souls Map Viewer is one of those wonderful things that most people in the Dark Souls community don’t know about. Part of this is because there is no obvious public place talking about it, and because the update made by a 3rd party which added the DLC content was on a website that was infested with spyware.

Dark Souls Map Viewer is a program made by vlad001 on the xentax forums, who released the program open sourced. Ispohr on the Dark Souls Reddit re-released the map viewer,...

Super Talking Time Bros is a joint effort that took place on Jeremy Parish’s personal forums, Talking Time. This project took a handful of typical gamers and showed how they could outperform the vast majority of the indie game scene in terms of level design simply through a simple peer review process. I can say without hesistation that I enjoyed playing this project far more than either of the New Super Mario Bros games. The project was made in the now abandoned SMBX engine, with the whole com...

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I feel like I gotta set the stage here so everyone knows where I'm coming from. If you follow my private twitter and mostly know how I feel about this stuff, feel free to skip down to the pictures.

I hate all this AI shit. It opens up so many pandoras boxes, so many legal issues, so many ethical issues, all so we can do less of the things that make us human. On the other hand, this stuff isn't going away. Maybe the Chat-GPT model isn't sustainable as we crash into the exponential curve of pro...

Part 2: Controlled Erosion, and the Manifesting of Desire

The geologic aspects of mapmaking are a motherfucker. You'll post a map online and 18 different people will slide out of the woodwork to tell you how your mountains are wrong, how your rivers are wrong and how your biomes are wrong. Homie, didn't you work out the prevailing winds?? Where are your PLATE TECTONICS. Excuse me, rivers don't do that, except when they do.

It's pretty much functionally impossible to hand craft an accurat...