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AS WAS FORTOLD

New analysis video is up! Man Hunter: New York is a 1988 Sierra adventure game that ditches the text parser for a point and click interface in an era where computer mice were an obscure peripheral. Does it work? Check out my analysis of its narrative.

AI has made forms of mental illness formerly only available to the stupendously wealthy accessible to the common man.

It's the beginning of the space age, but I also want to go bowling. Rocket Shuffle by Chicago Coin satisfies both of those base needs! The 1950s - as encapsulated in a single cabinet.

SOMETIMES attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence

Finished playing Sierra's 1988 adventure game "Manhunter: New York" a fun little experiment that drops the text parser for a contextual cursor before computer mice are ubiquitous. Channel members can check out my analysis video 2 days early:

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

Look if you know a better way to defeat the Spider's Curse...

I don't want to work I want to

Good lord. I covered so many games from this back when I was still reviewing them pre-2016. End of an era. Goddamn.

A language that doesn't change is dead

Ain't their fault they was taught to read all fucked up for the last 20-something years.

why use an enum when a finite state machine will do?

This week's #godotEngine RAMJam's constraints are projectile mechanics and inspiration from the album "She Wants Revenge." Here's a tutorial I whipped up covering projectiles as both CharacterBody2Ds and Area2Ds. #gameDev #devLog

In working on the no gen AI directory, I've looked at a LOT of artist portfolios. Like, 350+ of them at this point. And I thought I'd compile what I was seeing done right, what surprised me (positively), and then what I was commonly seeing done wrong. Use this to tweak your own portfolio!

The most important part of audio editing is cutting out all of the long sighs and quiet weeping between line reads.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

The article implies that they're taking a page from the games industry and contracting out on a per-project basis, then kicking them loose after the projects complete. And we all know how that's been for retention and skill development.

The first "Mom" game that comes to mind is 1983's "Birdiy" by Mama Top. It's a game about feeding baby birds.

RAMJam's mechanical constraint is projectiles. Its album inspiration is "She Wants Revenge" by, well, She Wants Revenge. I have 6ish days to hammer something out, and 2 hours per day to work on it. #gameDev #devLog #godotEngine I'm thinking... maybe a dodgeball game. [1/3]

This week's Random Album Music Jam mechanic is projectiles, and its inspirational album is She Wants Revenge's debut studio release, "She Wants Revenge." I gave it a listen for the first time in over a decade, and it's what I remember - post-punk goth rock. #gameDev #devLog

Last week's Random Album Music Game Jam is over. This week's Random Album Music Game Jam is kicking off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ut... Make a game using projectile mechanics, inspired by She Wants Revenge's debut album "She Wants Revenge."

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

I honestly didn't think I'd live this long.

I think the lack of agency to save a dying world from wealthy sociopaths might be a bummer to a lot of people.

I was too young to remember. My uncle had an Atari VCS with a bunch of games. It was probably Combat, Pitfall, Air-Sea Battle, or Superman. Superman was the first game I ever "beat", though. That and Adventure.

Do not skip reading the article texts. I know it's small. I know reading anything longer than a skeet is hard now. But do yourself a favor. Open the image in a new window, use the magnifying glass to make it big enough for your damaged vision, and read it.

The RAM (random album music) Jam goes on until Sunday. The topic: Jumping. The inspiration: Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories." I whipped up a little #godotEngine tutorial on jumps, coyote time, jump buffers, and variable jumps.

Fedposting is not a stage of grief

tfw nobody you know has any agency but you all feel like *somebody* should be doing *something* about *all this.*

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

i'm just doing some research. don't worry about it

We can't even have competent evil viziers what a crock

Someone hire me to make video game stories or I'll end up in a shelter and my cats will end up in a different shelter and I don't know that any of us will be leaving.

The RAM (random album music) Jam #godotEngine #gameJam is kicking off! You have a week to produce a game that incorporates the randomly-selected mechanic, inspired by a randomly chosen music album. #gameDev The mechanic: Jumping. The album: Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories."

🔥 Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026 🔥 itch.io/jam/fuck-cap...

That is the natural course of AI bullshit. Big companies put tons of money on something that essentially does not make money, so now we earn their investment back weather we want to or not.

You take the good You take the bad You take em both And there you have The gnostic paradox

A video game is a type of sandwich

Setting up a #godotEngine #gameJam for next week. Constraint will be a focal mechanic, and a randomly selected album to draw inspiration from. I'm calling the RAM (random album music) Jam. Topic will be announced Monday when it starts. Join it here:

Had a dream where I was watching the Simpsons for the first time in maybe 15 years, and the episodes could open was just Bart languidly eating "Cincinnati Waffles" for five minutes while Ignoring Milhouse's comments how he was missing an episode of the Simpsons from the next room.

This is... given that I've been laid off for well over a year... unfortunate.

I was living out of a suitcase and couch surfing when I started writing novels in 2011. Self-publishing was successful enough that I was able to find stability. Still skimming the poverty line, but I was bringing in a low-four figure monthly income. I don't think I could pull that off in 2026.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....