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David Turner
Personal blog · novalis.org/blogprogramminggames
David Turner writes David "Novalis" Turner, a personal blog at novalis.org about programming and games. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on AI-generated image artefacts ('turds'), the author's dioramas-and-felt Steam game development, and frustration with Stable Diffusion. Comments only point to these posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-08
- Responses to Comments on Six Mistakes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-26
- Turds in AI Generated Art2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-30
What Hacker News says?
> It seems quite obvious that Gen AI will be a major change in the creation of game assets. Check out the authors discussion on the subject of 'turds' [0], image artefacts created by AI that totally break immersion as soon as you properly notice them. [0] https://novalis.org/blog/2023-05-30-turds.html
Comment linking /blog/2023-05-30-turds.html
on “Building a Game with the Real Engine”Submitted Building a Game with the Real Engine as a story · 145 points
HN discussionDave has a followup post in which he replies to some of the comments here. https://novalis.org/blog/2025-03-26-responses-to-the-hacker-... Love, your low-quality Twitter bot
Comment linking /blog/2025-03-26-responses-to-the-hacker-news-comment-on-six-mistakes.html
on “Six mistakes I made in my dioramas-and-felt Steam game and one I didn't”Submitted Six mistakes I made in my dioramas-and-felt Steam game and one I didn't as a story · 81 points
HN discussionPreviously: - https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-sta... - HN discussion of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33902248 - The author's response to HN comments on that post: https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-10-response-to-some-hacker-... FWIW, the author didn't submit that post, or this one.
Comment linking /blog/2022-12-10-response-to-some-hacker-news-comments-on-stable-diffusion.html
on “Turds in AI Generated Art”Submitted Picolibrary: A Small Press as a story · 64 points
HN discussion? Is this a re-post? I swear this is from like 2 days ago, and it turns up in the HN search from two days ago: > I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion( https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-sta... ) > 43 points|luu|2 days ago|40 comments <--- ..but it's been resurrected now? > 42 points by luu 5 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 38 comments <--- ?? I mean, whatever, but the timestamps seem like…
Comment linking /blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html
on “I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion”Submitted The making of my second solo indie game as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blue Prince (1989) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against Generality (2016) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analogies for Git (2016) as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rules; Reverence for Religion as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dev Diary for Surfwords as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it a joke? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is It a Joke? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variables and constants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responses to Comments on Six Mistakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Middles: A Daily Word Game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A review of one puzzle from Quern: Undying Thoughts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turds in AI Generated Art as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dev Journal for Deco Deck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rarely Seen Game Mechanics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indie Dev Diary: Surfwords as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against generality as a story · 1 points
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