Goals for this week: -Finish writing up TTRPG system update -Finish JRPG demo -Work on Immersive Sim -Assemble new desk -Survive working at my part-time job 8 days in a row without a day off -Order 88-key keyboard so I can finally move onto advanced piano techniques

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Stealing fan designs because you know fan designs can't be legally defended due to the dystopian nature of copyright law is peak disgusting behavior. I wish everyone involved in this game's development a very unpleasant unemployment.

The dumbest part of living in America is the part where you have a constitutional right to privacy from the government, but you have no such right to privacy from billion-dollar corporations who will immediately sell your private info to the government the second they obtain it.

Looked through the almost two years worth of development screenshots, gifs and videos of a game I've all but abandoned. Got really emotional, want to finish it now.

To Slay the Great Regurgitator

Trans rights are human rights. No one should be punished for wanting to be themselves.

Congratulations everyone

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand: Cool. On the other: The core message of the last film was that it's time for Evangelion to end and that people need to move onto new things. It kind of makes them making a new Evangelion series feel like, I dunno, selling out if that makes any sense?

My dream game can be best described as Helldivers 2 but if it was built as a clone of Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005). I want PS2 graphics with MGSV character controls and for the game to use the processing overhead to support hundreds of NPCs so that you're in a legit virtual war zone.

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

Clown Containment and Reintegration: Welcome to your new job at the CCRC! We're depending on you to find loving homes for these wayward clowns. liverdoodlegames.itch.io/clown-contai...

Pathetic really is the only word to describe this trend of seasoned artists turning to AI only because they're clearly too tired and burnt out to do art professionally anymore, but they still want the paycheck and (especially) the prestige of being a seasoned artist.

The year is 2020. AI is 2-3 years away from taking all of our jobs and rendering human labor obsolete. The year is 2026. AI is 2-3 years away from taking all of our jobs and rendering human labor obsolete. tl;dr - The promise of AI is always going to be just over the horizon because it's a scam.

Abolish ICE. Defund DHS

I don't want cognitive amplifiers, I want 32 GB of RAM to cost less than $200.

Grok is not a person. It is software. Elon Musk posted CSAM because he is the owner of the software and is therefore responsible for any harm caused by it's daily operation.

ONE SCENE DONT KNOW WHY THEY LEFT NO BUDGET FOR THE CGI

I think the part that sucks the most about Steam's NSFW guidelines is it puts developers who have ANY NSFW content in their games into that weird spot that fan games occupy where they are basically forced to develop their game in secret and release only when it's ready to avoid censorship.

We could save America's economy overnight by simply removing fiduciary duty and ending lobbying.

Also the "it's just placeholders" argument doesn't hold up when those placeholders invariably end up in the final product. E33 got caught with AI textures, a number of games got caught with prompt instructions being left in their localization, etc. AI will ALWAYS affect the final product.

Good Morning, Just wanted to let you know that you exist for reasons other than the enrichment of the billionaire elite.

Show him compassion

DRIVING IN MY CAR #phisart

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.

shareholders

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.