re-uploading this bc last time it was busted for technuical reasons i won't go into and also i just really like it

When you end up getting distracted on your phone but you forgot to hit the button to load up a new location in your game first 🙃

Is there something more tedious than installing curtains? (don't answer this)

Rushing to sit on my couch where a fleeting sliver of “late afternoon” golden glorious sunlight hits right now.

Hiring the former “chief product officer” from Sonos is an interesting choice given the sterling reputation and reliability of their products. (Please don’t make me comment on the rest 🫠)

I’m a lot less jaded by “the industry” than I am of over two decades being exposed by the BS and consequences of bad decisions made by jackals who use politics to serve themselves before they serve the team and the game experience. That part kills me slowly & neither AAA or indie is free from it.

Back home and happy to be back in pjs like a grungy and feral creature ✨

Was invited for a holidays lunch. Uuuuh had to get this.

Aaah I finally settled on a game for the holidays

Sharing this link if you’re looking for a feed filled with really good art by human artists 💖 The list is curated by me and is regularly updated 👌

Welcome to v4 of the Blue Sky Game Dev orientation 🧵! Let's get you started with the basics of Bluesky, finding other devs, and posting about your games! Btw, this is based on the artist orientation thread from @purlane.ink; make sure to check it out if you’re also on the art side of game dev!

Welcome, Twitter escapees/new Bluesky users. Four quick tips: 1. Starter packs are awesome. I made a game dev one here -> go.bsky.app/RxQCsKS 2. Bluesky's block is much more potent. Do not quote, or dunk. There's no pay-to-win so silence does remove nasty people. Blocks and move on copiously.

Sharing this link if you’re looking for a feed filled with really good art by human artists 💖 The list is curated by me and is regularly updated 👌

This year’s xmas morning movie

Glad julafton! Bonne veille de Noël! Happy Christmas eve! Going to celebrate with fruit punch and watching Dune ✨

As I'm wrapping up my (insert random horrific number here)'s viewing of DS9, two things come to mind: 1️⃣ Louise Fletcher is an amazing actress and Kai Winn is one of the best characters in the series as a result. 2️⃣ I really hate Sisko's child of the prophets thing + ending Bonus 3️⃣ Garak 💖

this stupid menu does absolutely fuck all. useless.

Decided to troubleshoot the Sonos app as the Arc's volume keeps dropping to zero whenever I turn the tv off or pause for a few minutes. App: No system connected to your wifi ??? It is!! I use it right now! I had to go through the whole app setup as if I'd never done it. This brand is a joke 👌👎

Wow how is Animal Crossing not in the database of "games I like" on Discord?

Right now would be a great time to have a feature like close friends posting.

Indeed

holy shit

I've made xmas fruit punch this weekend and I think this is what'll get me through the next few days.

If you are an outsource company and you write to me and I don’t reply, and you write again and use the line “silence looks like a sign of consent” with a smiley face just fucking know I will never engage your services because that is super gross

It's always a good day for a dash of Papyrus discourse 👌

Prob fake but still, there is just something deeply value-sick happening here. the idea that the value of an activity is entirely in the product has truly relinquished all of human experience to capital. If you can’t sell the act of coloring, therefore the colored image must be where the value lies

Everything is so grim right now. Makes me want to make GBA games again.

We’re using a term that made actual sense 10-20 years ago, but the entire ecosystem changed since and the word is meaningless now. Make up new semantics that make sense with this decade.

I wish people used alt text instead of assuming everyone knows what the hell we’re looking at, regardless of how our eyeballs work.

Finally got around to connect my sonos soundbar Of course nothing can be plug and play anymore. Plug in Factory reset because the wifi changed Update Sonos app Connect in app Reboot router Connect bar to wifi Update bar firmware Finalize settings in app It works now I think? Jfc

Tomorrow kicks off a two days week. On one end: nobody will be there and it will be a gloriously good time to actually work on important stuff in the backlog. On the other: seriously why the hell am I not taking the PTO days??

We had a sliver of sunlight before sundown again. I hope this is a trend that will keep on happening more and more 🤞

Today I educated a colleague on the reality of ghoap. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

omg people thought overtime in video games was actually _paid_ overtime?? 🫠🫠🫠

ok stupid website take my money so I can play the games I buy today in a year or 10, or "maybe"

today sucked

People embracing hostility as an armour of confidence and self-comfort to be used in their communication and engagement style on here really don't get the point of connection and humanity and just make this place a suffocating pit.

Yeah

Anyone who uses the term ”female” to describe women can burn into the sun.

Nothing quite like being blocked by some rando whose bio reads like this

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Words of wisdom, that!! We tend to gaze inwards far too much, which leads to conformity and creative stagnation. Curiosity, a broad cultural knowledge, and rich/varied sources of references (and from different mediums!) are not celebrated enough - far from it. Embrace it!

always advised ppl to not look at (A)rtsta(I)on too much when looking for inspiration, looking at other mediums and other perspectives historic or cultural or individual origin will produce better designs. Anyway what do I know

not a lot of crunchy stats to share coming out of my Steam Replay given that it's generally not my principal games platform, but I think this one is pretty funny

oh no, I'm discoursing Concept art isn't "painting"

Yea, I thought you meant this :). A lot of people don't appreciate what concept art is because they only see the shiny end result, not all the creative dialogue through sketches, mock-ups, and discussions, which solved design problems.

I figured it was something like this. Kind of shocking some pro's don't get the difference even.. Concept art is like an iceberg, where only the shiny approved rendered out top ends up on Artstation, and millions of sketches that also solved problems stay beneath the waves

not going to tap the sign again but I think, as usual, that people mistake what concept art is, and skip directly to key art and flashy results

Stockholm just won the prize for most accumulated verbal aggressions and passive aggressive physical threats in the category of “ my whole life experience” and frankly I don’t need this bullshit.

someone mentioned Carpenter Brut the other day, and I'll raise you Perturbator