Just checked and no, none of the big synthwave/darkwave artists have covered Rebell Yell by Billy Idol, which just kinds feels like ot would have been a slam dunk.

Hey #Education #Academia #EduSky ... If I wanted to share some informal writing on educational topics in a non-academic format, is there a good platform to use? A good blog site or something? Is that what people use substack for?

Okay please let's not call him that

Bjork's hitboxes are wild

The mood

Any #UnrealEngine / @unrealengine.bsky.social #GameDev folks can help me out with this one? I'm trying to get my Gameplay Camera to occlude characters. I've pushed it to OVERDRIVE so it occludes everything but no matter what I do with my collision settings it won't occlude character meshes! :'(

Steam Replay accidentally exposing that barely anyone is playing new games anymore. Just 14% of total playtime was for 2025 games Wonder why new studios are dying so frequently

Adulthood means recognising that Alex Winters was objectively the coolest vampire in Lost Boys

the right attitude

When stranger things first came out america was cringe. Now America is hungry rats eating the eyes out of a dead dog so it doesn’t really hit the same anymore

Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

Trying to watch Predator: Badlands and... Why laser bow? If you have lasers, why make a bow out of them?

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

🎮 5. Stealth Crossword by @computerjames.itch.io Free, short, very silly all make this a must play. Runs in browser too, PC and Mac. computerjames.itch.io/stealth-cw

Every game trailer nowadays will use phrases like "beyond belief" and "like never before" and then show you game footage and you're either hitting things with sticks, shooting them with guns, or selecting an attack from a menu.

Gods of #ADHD watch over me as I try to grind out the last two dozen papers I need to mark by the end of the day. My attention span has taken such an absolute kicking this past year, I really need to renew my efforts to look after myself!

I miss 90s TV. I get that the 00s and 10s brought us deep and meaningful shows, but the 90s was the peak of superficial TV entertainment like Buffy and X-Files. I miss when the best shows didn't require meaningful reflection on worldwide calamities and could just be about werewolves and shit.

I feel like watching any big game reveals show expecting anything other than sequels and genre staples means you're not in-tune with where the medium is. We've explored the possibility space, we've modelled it into standards, and that's where we are now. The mainstream is fully established now.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

Disney: we will sue the shit out of you if you portray our characters in anything but the best and most profitable light. Also Disney: whatever the fuck this is ...

Something I have to reiterate is that you are being straight up lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale, this instance reporting is already being torn to shreds by other people commenting, but the frequency of this kind of reporting is astonishing, it's neverending.

I did some #GameDev experimenting in #UnrealEngine recently, and I found I could use Instanced Static Meshes to get about 500 or so blades of grass on screen before performance tanked horribly - yet if I used Niagara I could get 5,000 without an issue. But I'm not sure exactly WHY?

I disagree with the take, but only in the sense that it implies the world of PC and console gaming is not ALSO a world of predatory monetization and low quality. Admittedly there's a thriving indie scene on PC that isn't about predatory monetization, at least.

So, about that idea to move GDC out of San Fran ...

Trying to be better to my neck and back lately, and dear god are pretty much all office setups just awful for human posture!

Reading the “we didn’t save any time and in fact it took ages to make this piece of total shit” post about that McDonalds advert and just shrugging at how someone could have made something less shit, in less time, at less environmental cost, by just doing it normally.

One of these days we're going to get a Milla Jovovich vs Jason Statham movie that might be the dumbest action movie of all time, and I'll be absolutely here for it.

I legitimately love the irony of workplaces the world over having hours of mandated (and likely necessary) cyber security training, digital tools training, "using AI in the workplace training" but giving zero training time to "The Difference Between Reply and Reply All on Department-Wide Emails"

Netflix is selling Spry Fox back to the studio's founders www.gamesindustry.biz/netflix-is-s...

One of the most annoying things about having the #autism #adhd combo is realising that a meeting or a moment can be *too productive* for you, leaving you over-stimulated and under-productive for the rest of the day. Momentum is for suckers, apparently.

Ladies & Gentleman, may I present to you today's Internet Antagonist:

Once you squeeze all the blood from the stone, there is no more blood in the stone. Sorry your other billionaire buddies got to us before you did.

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

As someone who has been walking right and punching things since around 1985, I feel qualified to say that #MarvelCosmicInvasion is the one of the most enjoyable walking right and punching things in a long history of walking right and punching things

When it comes to the weird eccentricities of living with #ADHD does anyone else walk around the house using your phone flashlights of the time in the winter, because actually turning on/off is more trouble than its worth?

I just find this really sad. Imagine being so certain that you need slop machines to do your work, that you convince yourself that EVERYBODY must need them.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

alanjack.itch.io/castle-game Weird little prototype idea that came into my head a couple days ago, inspired by thinking about the board game "Lazer Chess". Not really sure where it's headed. Just thought I'd make it and see.

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

Lewis Capaldi's new song ... Can someone please go check on him? It still haunts me that Scott from Frightened Rabbit basically wrote a whole album saying goodbye to the world and we all sang along and bopped to it ... I don't think I could take it happening again.

Reality is boring science fiction: authors spent years warning us that if we put AI in everything it will eventually try and eat us, but instead it just monitors our behaviour to show us ads whenever we reach for the milk.

This talk by @cwpat.me really demonstrates how taking a process-oriented logical mind and applying it to an abstract problem can result in incredible, creative and artistic results.

In this lightning talk, Patrick Traynor goes over the programming of Patrick's Parabox: an award-winning recursive sokoban game! @cwpat.me

Re: that rt. the average businessy business suit type would be so much happier if they really WERE the soulless capitalist they like to posture as. The reality is that most do what they do for the same reason creative types do: a crushing need for love, respect and community. They should paint.

Reflecting on media's obsession with remakes & brand cultures, could it not be argued that we're just hitting a point of post-modernism in cinema and games where we've established enough "staples" that anything new will inevitably be derivative of existing brands, so sadly it makes sense to recycle?