No one worth taking seriously uses the term "woke" unironically. "Woke" has become a near-exclusive nomenclature of fascist-leaning ideology and anyone who doesn't recognize that is either kidding themselves or deliberately trying to dupe you. Neither deserve the benefit of the doubt.

A very clear one, actually. Dumb investors are tricked into thinking that new things are happening with software when you put a new UI on it. While it may sound stupid, statistically speaking it works, and yes that does mean you can blame bad UI on shareholders.

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I would rather your indie game include the most ill-fitting public domain song you could find as opposed to your indie game using AI for the music. Stock assets exist to help devs with gaps in their skillset and there are tons of completely free to use stock assets out there, USE THEM.

Why big corporations are pushing for AI harder than ever: Now that they've fired you all and realized that AI isn't actually as good as it was promised to be, they're desperately dumping billions into it because they're also realizing how much it will cost to rehire a full workforce if it fails.

I love how this is not only not accurate to old Resident Evil games (The original trilogy had almost no signposting and definitely had no sparkles around interactions) but the final panel is clearly inspired by FFVII. Also hating yellow paint is valid, it's the lazy devs method of signposting.

I appreciate how hard they're trying to ape Lord of The Rings for the costumes and makeup. Tentatively excited for a trailer.

If a human couldn't be bothered to work on a product, I can't be bothered to consume a product. Simple as.

We should bring back tax-funded recreational centers.

To anyone who is trying to downplay just how much the badly written human characters are going to drag down the experience of Metroid Prime 4:

Friendly reminder that if a game studio is engaged in anti-consumer practices, it is likely also HEAVILY entrenched in anti-labor practices as well. I am being dead serious when I say that game developers should never apply to studios like Riot, EA, Blizzard, etc. no matter how desperate you are.

Let me explain why "Valve should just make their own payment processor!" is a stupid idea: The payment processors aren't really the issue here, it's the banks. If Valve actually made their own payment processing service, chances are they'd just be de-banked by the same forces that control MasterCard

I am not surprised that I had to do this twice in the last 15 minutes after posting about a Nintendo game. Nintendo adults, man.

If you try to start Twitter arguments with me that are transparently just you trying to get engagement for your account (friendly reminder that engagement doesn't get your posts promoted on this platform) I will block you. Take that shit back to the hell site where your came from.

Anyone who downplayed concerns after the last trailer because "Wow, cool bike!" owes the community an apology. Nintendo is absolutely turning Prime 4 into generic AAA open-world slop and y'all defended it for the most generic looking sci-fi motorcycle of all time.

If you ever catch me developing my games with AI. No you didn't, that's a Skinwalker wearing my flesh and -OH SHIT IT'S COMING AFTER YOU NOW, RUN!

I wasn't born yesterday Rockstar. In what world does it make sense for dozens of employees to conspire to leak project details? This is such bullshit that even the premise of their argument falls apart under even the most basic critical thinking.

I'm about to go on a similar game dev journey so I may as well put my money where my mouth is and support other devs who are already doing it.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

What everyone should take note of is everything they consider "high fraud risk" are things that were considered "demonic" during the satanic panic. Video games, tabletop games, anime and porn. It's time for MasterCard to take the mask off and admit that they're trying to bring back the satanic panic

I'm glad Nintendo's patent for monster capture was denied and let me explain why: Pokemon Red and Green came out in 1996, that's more than 25 years ago. Even if they had patented monster capture the literal year it happened, it would be public domain. Something that I think Nintendo themselves (...)

Showing this video to a small victorian child and laughing as they spontaneously combust.

History is not repeating itself because people don't know it. History is repeating itself explicitly BECAUSE people at the top of society actually know it VERY WELL and are hoping that they can repeat the parts of it that will personally enrich them at your expense. Fascism is never an accident.

To all my fellow Americans: Stay safe out there and don't let anyone fool you into giving up your dreams of a better future.

It's official. It is now a crime to have an opinion in America.

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Looks like GDC is trying to rebrand itself into an event where the whole point is for indie devs to try and rub elbows with publishers, yet also sounds like it'll be too expensive for the indies who would really need that money to gain access. Who is this for?

Your entire studio's legacy is built upon games that feature political violence and vengeance killing. Pot meet kettle and Sucker Punch meet the list of studios that I will no longer buy games from.

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

It's basically the dril racism dial tweet but replacing "racism" with "AI"

Metroid Prime 4 being an Ubisoft style open-world game has completely turned me off from it. If I wanted to drive around a big empty desert, picking up collectibles as I went along, Mad Max is regularly on sale for like $3.

Share this even if you're not Canadian as it could lead to a ripple effect that benefits everybody!

You can really tell where most people are at in Silksong because everyone is complaining about the Savage Beast Fly when the Raging Conchfly is way worse

This is obviously Nintendo setting up a lawsuit against Palworld by (once again) using an after-the-fact patent acquisition to perform a SLAPP suit. Fuck Nintendo, never getting a red cent from me ever again.

I think it says a lot about Silksong's difficulty that I enjoyed Hollow Knight's steel soul mode a lot but do not even want to bother with steel soul for Silksong. The game is too long and too punishing for anyone but the no-hit speedrun freaks to have even a chance.

AI is actually burning our crops, poisoning our water supplies and putting a plague onto our houses in the forms of chat bot-induced psychosis. Yet it's being protected because billionaires in the US have more right to make a profit than you do to have a basic quality of life.

I don't understand how Silksong's story can be about getting to the peak. We're already there

Prey Slaughtered

So how long do we think it's going to take for Steam to go from de-listing NSFW games to removing them from people's libraries? How long do we think it's going to be before the goalpost is moved from "sexual violence" to "all violence"? Call the paypros, call your reps.

Also noticing that while the Steam Top Sellers list used to always have at least one NSFW game in it, now there are NONE listed even if you go into the expanded search for top sellers. This shit HAS to be stopped.

The scariest part is that no company is doing any hedging of their bets. Every company that's invested into AI is so heavily invested that "too big to fail" won't matter when the bubble pops. It's not a joke to say that the AI bubble could turn Google or Meta into the next Enron.

Crunchyroll is the single worst thing to ever happen to the anime industry, bar none.

The tutorial sequence of Metroid Prime is a god damn horror game. The lighting, the music, the foreboding lore files you read leading up to the boss fight. Horror game devs could genuinely learn lessons from this game.

Anyone who unironically uses the term "birthing person" needs to put in an asylum and locked away from the rest of humanity.

Snubbing Ethan and promoting the new game in the same artwork is REALLY rubbing me the wrong way not gonna lie. Without Ethan you wouldn't even be making the Grace Ashcroft game right now, show some respect to your own history damn it.

Low-poly modular energy weapon I made for my mascot horror game, Roy Rattler #gamedev #indiedev

No one is fighting the Illuminate right now because the faction is fundamentally broken. All enemy types are constantly clipping through objects and terrain, killing players with cheap shots that the game didn't earn. Fleshmobs are that same problem dialed up to 12 because of ragdolling and 8000 HP.

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