After almost ten years at Bungie I was laid off today. I started on Destiny 2 in 2016 and was one of the first handful of people to join the Marathon incubation team at the end of 2019. The loss today, like so many of these days, is immeasurable. We built some really incredible things together.

Not looking great for video game corporation employee

Marathon UESC Steward concept

TIL James Carville is still alive

I have a bomb

god it would be so funny if unlocking the secrets of consciousness and becoming as gods really were a matter of hoarding video game graphic cards

When UE4 was new and competing for market share against Unity and Crytek, the studio was hungry. Best-in-class dev and student outreach. Major investment into UX and research. Huge technical innovations. GDC was the biggest moment of the year, and we'd drop everything to support a new demo.

The art of Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...

Marathon heat grenade concept

a pewpew

epic has seemingly abandoned visual verse, the stupid idea that was gonna replace blueprint. so now they just want to remove blueprint entirely and shoot themselves in the dick by getting rid of the most compelling sell (imo) of unreal

youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

GIMP is objectively unintuitive and also can’t parse text layers of PSDs properly, it’s designed by FOSS people that have never created tools for professionals. Telling someone to use it for their job is like saying you can make a feature on iMovie. Technically true but not serious.

i created this meme like 4 years ago on twitter and it went super viral and i think i got like 20 death threats. that's how you know i was cooking with this one

the scaffolding will continue until morale improves

It's not often that a living man gets such a vivid preview of how he will be mourned.

owned

Trying to run a video game business during these tricky times while the company that owns you is directly contributing to making these tricky times so tricky seems like a dumb way to do this, I don't know.

ever since i was a small boy i knew i wanted to charge the pepper grinder

Here's a quick before-and-after: a stable ecosystem first, and then the same ecosystem a little while after adding a bunch of randomized animals

Imagine getting mad about women in video games when you could just shut the fuck up 🥲

Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Keeping a corner of my internet pleasant by pushing my YouTube algorithm deep into the DIY/woodworking pipeline

painted drift wood

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Join the dev team for a first look at Season 2, coming June 2. Marathon’s Open Play Week is June 2 – June 9 on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. youtu.be/k2UFxzejNNg

Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school

Oh no, this is going to seriously impact my current AI budget of (Checks notes) Absolutely fucking zero www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

exercising my god given right under the constitution to live mas and get baja blasted

mech pilot

New phrase to whisper in a lovers ear as you are making love

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).

BREAKING: NuCaloric announces Vapable Hot Dog after disrupting snack food market with last year's Drinkable Cheeseburger.

blackbird #marathon

William Hawkins (American Artist, born 1962)

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Drank a cold brew to get some work done but unfortunately I ascended to a higher plane too quickly and now I’m just looking down on you bitches

brb framing a pull quote about the claymores on my wall

how many of those 1000 will ever work in the industry again. how much development knowledge did we just lose again