Ai it's everywhere these days and more and more our corporate overlords are saying it will replace anyone and everyone who does anything creative or technical or in some case legal (which ironically is usually illegal).

More and more pressure to "explore the tools" and "come up with agentic work flows" and "put Instagram style duck face filters on all games"

So this week so I could at least say I'd installed the tools and played with them should that become a mandatory rather than heavily advised requirement.

It's an old saying that is definitely quite true. Often times you setup something in a bodged way with the intention to do it properly or revisit it later and just never get round to it. Inertia of having a functional if not ideal solution easily lets you put off doing more to change or improve things.

These are some things I've been playing recently

Power Wash Simulator 2

Marathon is the upcoming extraction shooter from bungie currently in closed alpha. They've been fairly open with it cancelling the NDA's that would usually bind such an early look at something like this so there is a lot of chatter in the intermanets and the youtubs.

I've always liked a nice cup of coffee and I've mostly been a french press, aeropress, or drip machine person for most of my life. I would drink the stuff at work out of the big filter coffee machines which were loaded with a dark roast made drinkable with some milk or what passed for milk (powdered stuff) in the more automatic machines.

So the other day I had my yearly opticians appointment and as part of that they blinded me with a machine that supposedly images the back of your eyeball. The photos they took, very tasteful subdued and flattering, of the back of my eyeballs showed a bit of bleeding. So I had to go to an ophthalmologist to check it. They took more pictures after blinding me this time with eye drops and confirmed there was something there.

So I was then required to go down stairs and get one of my arms drained of blood for "testing" purposes.

Last month to get free money as rockstar are pulling the plug on GTA and red dead prime benefits

Guess they're starting to eol GTA 5 so they can super monetize GTA 6 when it comes out.

And they already killed red dead online so no surprise there

So there was a knock on the door the other day and a man posing as a post man handed me a battered amazon box that looked like it had been kicked down a flight of stairs and then run over.

Inside was this message addresses obscured for operational security reasons Code Milk Tray protocol

We got called into an unexpected all hands meeting this morning. Any time one of those appears with no warning is bad news and indeed that was the case.

Had a quick go on this earlier and have some initial thoughts

They unlocked the new grenades from the get go no missions to get them just pay the cost and materials and they're unlocked

Mincer grenade quite fun

The new plague disposal mechanic is interesting but annoying single player