Transphobe Catholics: you're not fooling me. That's a man's body. I am an expert on this topic. Also transphobe Catholics: this looks like the body of Christ and I will eat it now.

17,000 icons for £18? Sounds great, downloaded it, now let me just move it to a new directory and ... oh it's in source control already ... and ... oh dear. I am reminded of the time(s) I accidentally checked out every single asset in P4 for a 10 year old project. Reverting took a lot longer.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

The collapse of the AI bubble is inevitable. There is no way out. The real questions are: how much bigger will it get and how much damage will its end bring about?

So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code. These are legal requirements. Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.

Oldie but goodie

A propos nothing, typos aside (which don't matter), I want to shout out an example of GOOD petition phrasing. Pretty much just "Don't do X". Specific, to the point, and nothing potentially objectionable attached to it. You can't misconstrue or sidestep the meaning/intention. Good work.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

I had a great dream; disappointing to see it evaporate into reality. I have not long been awake, and already I have an inspection arranged to see if I am worthy of continuing to pay my landlord over the odds to live in a shit pit. Lots of other life bullshit piling up. 3/10, not living my best life.

See if you can spot the programmer's keyboard (sorry, it's filthy, and that's after I cleaned it).

Maybe this is burnout, but I am cursed in that I can remember hardly anything about books I have read, but if I decide to reread them, I remember all the plot twists in advance. Cursed, I tell you! Luckily, who has the time to read books...

I regret that, in honour of Trump's latest attack on neurodivergent people, women, medicine and common decency, I cannot like him less or oppose him more, and there is very little I can do about that here. Good luck to everyone closer to the front line.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.

A sadness of ketchup

Looking at what I just ate like I'm the hungry f*cking caterpillar on binge day

When snails mate, they compete to lodge a 'love dart' in the other snail before the other snail can the same to them. Perhaps I simplify slightly. A propos nothing, I'm reminded of seeing game devs networking, where someone brings up a LinkedIn QR code, and the other person then has to scan it.

I remember it was so disappointing to find out what ham radio actually was.

I can't help thinking back to that meta glasses demo with the guy looking at ingredients in his kitchen, wondering what to do with them. My dude, just get high, and a plan will form.

So it turns out that the hardest thing to do after spending years in the Unreal Engine is to write a Dialogue module. Dialog Dialog Dialogue sigh

if you're looking to have a direct impact on marginalized devs, GDoC pays their speakers and is incredibly accommodating. Looking to my fellow devs to share and show up ✨

While fixing up a text adventure puzzle involving a hose (don't ask. Or do, IDK), I received an indication from the universe that perhaps it was time to go to bed. (No spoilers - this isn't a solution to anything; just anticipating player shenanigans.) #gamedev

New SUVs are just Duplo cars. If I see you attempting to drive one on London streets, I WILL judge you hard.

Every little compromise with the ‘legitimate concerns’ is what led us to yesterday’s match. Every bit of ‘I understand the protests’ will be what leads us further into hell.

Sex is good, but have you tried decency in public office?

The 'new' UE5 system where each actor in a level is saved to a different file sure does seem to shit the bed when something gets corrupted. "Warning: I can't find actor AB3523BGBSBDFSBGABGDF!" Well, I guess we're both shit out of luck then. Validation and resaving don't do jack.

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

Saw a dickhead with a MAGA cap on a train in the UK. Was behind him at the taxi rank at the station, and heard him ask to go to the barracks. I was hoping to ask him what it was about disgraced paedophile Donald Trump that he admired so much, but sadly did not get the chance.

Whenever I see a reference to Json in UE code, I am reminded of The Good Place, which is ironic because I am clearly in a bad place.

[very specific UE5 post] In case it helps anyone else... I defined an equality operator in a struct: "bool operator==(const FMyStruct& Other) {...}" but "if (MyStruct1 == MyStruct2)" was failing. Solution: make the operator const, e.g. "bool operator==(const FMyStruct& Other) const" #gamedev

Shout out to Meetup.com for their tremendous enshittification (every single action now causes a go-pro pop up), but extra hat-tip for not saying what your fees are, on the page about the service you charge fees for. Can't stress enough how much I hate all this and resolve never to pay you a cent.

Day 3 of implementing the nitty gritty of a text adventure undo system, and I still just about want to be a game dev.

Something is being completely missed in the Graham Linehan / broader UK ‘free speech’ row – and it’s that much of this is a direct consequence of Elon Musk no longer doing anything like what’s required to moderate X in line with UK and European law. 🧵

every CEO of America's seven biggest companies now:

I don't know why it makes it worse, but this is such an obvious lie.

I am pretty sure Facebook keeps suggesting my ex boss' ex wife (who I never met) as a friend, and Could You Just Not

It's nice that Haven have put in something for the grown ups

Labour’s aping the far right approach will go down in the history books as one of the most self-destructive ever. This is on Starmer.

Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

What console commands do you use in Unreal Engine when working on audio because it helps? au.debug.sounds 1 stat audio #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

If one had to make the argument that Microsoft abuses its dominant market position by forcing users to pay for upgrades they don't want, and in particular to pay for a big feature they don't want (AI) because it is tied to the main product, ... here is Exhibit A

It's the Paddington Death Grip

The silence from Yvette Cooper , Lisa Nandy & Starmer etc about Far Right 'demonstrations ' & attacks on asylum seekers is shameful. Quick to condemn & criminalise those protesting genocide but unable to string a sentence together against mob racism & vandalism .

"There {NumCats}|plural(one=is,other=are) {NumCats} {NumCats}|plural(one=cat,other=cats)" "Argument modifiers" is the name I always forget when I try to look up a cool FText::Format thing that keeps BPs tidy when doing plurals (not doing it right: "There are {NumCats} cats remaining".) #gamedev

Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.

I love that Jean-Michel Jarre made a record with Fuck Buttons, but my goodness do not google that with safe search off.

As much as I do believe AI is a bubble being inflated so hard by vested interests that it can do nothing but pop, I don't believe a critical academic report is going to do much. Curious minds and due diligence can already find ample evidence of broken and untrue claims for what AI can do.

Camden welcomes careful drivers

If you charge crazy prices for slots in a computer game showcase, and people buy the slots, they are in fact just prices (and arguably subsidising some unpaid spots also). As a solo dev, I may not like that business model, but it's not inherently unreasonable.