Something I hope the @hytale.bsky.social devs address: Gamma slider. A friend I play alongside can sail through most caves because he sees things I don't. It's not my eyes, it's my TV. Even in Monitor mode, it has a super-dark low-end. Photos don't work, because phone cams invert the gamma curve.

That @hytale.bsky.social has progression gated by tier upgrades on workbenches, with the upgrades requiring resources that require the specific tier you're about to unlock, to unlock, to encourage exploration, is so genius I'm not convinved Hypixel's designers aren't space aliens from the future.

First customizable worldgen, now rabbits. Lowkey feels like Microsoft are trying to gradually erase the history of my involvement with Minecraft. If they could get rid of mutton, stained glass, wood-specific doors, craftable cracked stone brick, and block models as resource packs, I bet they would.

As a fmr. Minecraft dev - dude who added mutton, stained glass, worldgen customization (RIP), & rabbits (upcoming new anims and models, RIP), the folks behind @hytale.bsky.social have made something really fucking special. I haven't felt like this since 2010, when I discovered Minecraft. Kick. Ass.

Rumor is, Steve Ogg has regrets about being typecast as Trevor, from GTA V. My perspective? You can't make that call. We all have our sins that we'd prefer not to be typecast by. I'm an aspiring VA, every job I've ever hard, my colleagues ask if I've considered a VA role. Yeah. I fucking have.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2o-... Merry shmup-mas. Boogie Wings is the most insane horizontal shmup to ever exist. The entire thing is like a fucking fever dream. A designer at Data East goes "You know what this level needs? A dog that chases the player and barks at them the whole time" OKAY, DO IT

A friend, Sunday: "Getting over pneumonia, dropping your Christmas gift in the mailbox." Wednesday: "Checked your mail?" WHAT THE FUCK THIS DUDE He found someone in Czechia to custom laser-engrave my favorite moogle design for a custom box and whisky tumbler. Just Holy shit 😭

TBH it was seeing the sheer number of people who genuinely do *not* get it when it comes to the rhetoric in Helldivers 2, so I felt like giving the hornet's nest a good ol' poke by turning the character-customization menu gender-agnostic. Somehow this completely failed to piss off most fascists.

Folks're discussing the best furry partners for 2025, but with the ongoing DLC updates to Helldivers 2, Terminid queens deserve an honourable mention. Advantages: - Great mom - Defensive of young - Prolly feeds kids better than most folks nowadays - Oviposition Disadvantages: - Possible evisceration

Can I just say that it is deeply annoying to be so 'in' with old game studios that've sold out that it becomes annoying to interact with folks who actually have a decent about of histoircal panache

Honestly, it seems like most folks aare keen to still wanting to associate @macaulayculkin.bsky.social with some stuff he did in the past, but honestly, dude is excellent when it comes to actingt. The hell? Drryvers was a serious hell of a thing.

What's it going to take for @timsweeneyepic.bsky.social and other Epic folks to go chat with @macaulayculkin.bsky.social about gitting him - adult him - into Fort-something? It's the holidays, dammit. Best possible time for folks to be the chaos that exists within them.

@developer.chrome.com "Wouldn't it be nice if you used Chrome," says your browser, which I should remind you is called Chrome, when I have the temerity to pull up google.com because I want to search for something outside my address bar, you inept fucks

This is your reminder that while Final Fantasy VII Rebirth moogles may look like a muppet fucked a shut-in WoW player's cum-sock, they are NOT off-model, because for there to be an off-model moogle, one would have to be on-model. And moogles have changed appearance with literally every game.

Insert 20-page essay about the late H.R. Giger's designs for the Alien xenomorph and facehugger were rather explicitly intended to be overtly sexual in nature, so this is not even slightly unrealistic when you get right down to it

I'm presently trying to emulate the Nikko digiBLAST media/gaming handheld. It runs Linux on a 180MHz ARM system-on-a-chip, and its controls work via an OHCI USB host, so I need to emulate a USB host. It is proof beyond denial that there is indeed a God, and he is vengeful and angry at our hubris.

God help me if I ever hit Sandy's level of big-fish-ing past glories. I just *can't* overblow past work. Yeah, I added rabbits to Minecraft; my texture work sucked and the AI sucked, thank god other folks helped. Meh, I made Helldivers 2's armory gender-agnostic, and did some other UI shit. etc.

Reminder: Once you're done with the turkey hangover later this month, you're legally obligated to bring Freezeezy Peak and Hailfire Peaks up on loop on your local sound system until the holidays have passed. Hey, I don't make the rules.

Does anyone have a link to any particular streamer or YouTuber who opted to play through the Order of Giants DLC for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and actually did so from the initial start-point of the game? Everything I've found just has folks continuing from Vatican.

There's something universally correct when it comes to Charlie voicing the one furry in the whole trailer for that thing. I've been wanting to take a stab at being a VO person for decades, and I now have receipts via Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's DLC, but, damn. Dude earned the W.

The whole situation is fucked, top to bottom, and it's not something that innocuous porn enthusiasts should have to deal with. That said, records exist, and I would highly encourage anyone who was once part of the Patreon patronage for this project to throw a bit extra into the ring, directly.

So far I haven't seen anyone point out, via a Google search even, a deep-cut joke in the Super Mario RPG remake: www.gamespot.com/articles/sup... On SNES, the 6 hint notes were attributed to Magellan, DeGama, and Van Doren (2 each). In the remake, the note authors are different... 🧵

Sometimes I wonder how the current administration in the USA manages to not eat itself. Stephen "Goebbels Junior" Miller probably cry-faps himself to sleep dreaming of ejecting Patel, while RFK Jr. dreams of finding a female brain-worm so that the one at the helm doesn't feel so lonely all the time

Considering using my upcoming 3 months of free time to actually, finally, get my "The Untold History of UltraHLE" video out the door. Wish me the best of luck, it's going to be a doozy.

It's telling that as controversial a figure as Karl Jobst can still refer to rileycs_ by the correct gender, while a cowardly AI-slop-voiced goblin "CallOfShame" insists on misgendering her. Like, guys you're saying the quiet part out loud. Keep doing so so we can keep throwing spitballs at bigots.

I wish racists would just admit to being racist. It's so much quicker than saying "Immigrants don’t work… apart from my GP, my nurse, my teacher, my cabbie, my IT guy, my plumber, and the woman at the corner shop"

Charlie Kirk said firearm violence was an acceptable tradeoff for 2A, and that empathy is for the weak. So if you think about it, I'm reacting precisely how he would have wanted. If you're upset by a game developer with 2 decades of experience saying this, my only advice is to cry harder.

Interesting, as the left has also been profoundly unhelpful this weekend. If you thought a headline like "Nazi-Shooting Game Studio Fires Dev for Comment on Shot Nazi" would be a headline that would gain instant traction, you'd somehow be wrong. Even YouTubers have been notably absent in @-ing me.

By the way, I'm not limited to the loud-voiced folks that I'm specifically pinging. If you have some channel on social media that's LGBTQIA-aligned and want to boost the story of the dude who got fired from the nazi-shooting game studio for expressing tepid relief about a shot nazi, hit me up.

@miamulder.bsky.social Recent posts notiwthstanding, I don't think you're too stupid to pass up this opportunity, with the headlines that are already hitting: Want to chat on an Uppsala-based game studio firing a developer for speaking positively about a nazi's death? Oh yeah - it's me!

@commandersterling.bsky.social @xanderhal.bsky.social Still waiting to hear back. One would think a headline of "Nazi-Shooting Game Studio Drops Dev for Comment on Shot Nazi" would be a pretty gripping headline. Plus it seems ZeniMax learned nothing from Leona. Let's remind them.

As I just explained to a former colleague on LinkedIn: The management at MachineGames dramatically underestimated the breadth and the number of contacts I have when it comes to game-related media. And they just handed me a headline on a silver platter. God help them.

Okay, I'm drawing a blank here, who's that awesome, also-Brit, also-wrestling-fan lady who is in Steph Sterling's orbit? I'm doing a stupid here, have somehow failed to subscribe to her on YouTube, and it's eating at me.

Now that the DLC for Indiana Jones and the Great CIrcle is out, I have to admit something that's been haunting me about it for months - - the area called "Cloaca Maxima". I know, Latin and all, but I can't read it and see anything other than "biggest asshole".

"Then they came for the folks on the autism spectrum, and there was no-one left to speak for me, because Hans Asperger was a eugenicist motherfucker, and a whole heap of allistic people kinda suck too"

Reminder: Icer "Sardu" Addis (of Bloodlust/NESticle fame) might've been Near if not for an anonymous game-dev giving him an 'out' via EA Tiburon. Yet folks still went all shocked-Pikachu at Icer's readme.md about SNESticle. "You guys have way too much free time"? What does it all MEAN? /s

One fascinating aspect of @legaleagle.tv's Taylor Swift video regarding master-recording rights that Devin didn't cover: Bulk-licensing. Record labels demand eye-watering sums for individual master-recording licenses, but as a bulk deal, it gets shockingly cheap. Case in point: Music/rhythm games.

The thing about bandwagons vs. doing your own thing is that bandwagons use 2010-era game physics. You can stand on them, and if you're really careful you can hang around for a while, but once they get going fast enough, you'll probably fall off.

Keanu Reeves seems like the Gen-Z Bill Murray. Someone with a deepply masterful ability to wield chaos, while wanting to keep entirely to his own damn self. I suspect there's some lesson to be learned here, but I don't have much faith anyone will learn anything.

This is call to all of you Helldivers with boots on the ground: Go contribute your Super Earth-obligatory wages towards a fellow citizen's push so that she can fight bugs, bots, and Illuminmate alongside the rest of us. Get equipped, and get going. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ chuffed.org/project/1312...

Neither do I, I but I had some involvement with Super Earth. I'm sure even our Super-Democratic benefactors would be happy for Dee to get to where she can slay bugs, bots, and Illuminate for the sake of Super Earth. If you believe in Managed Democracy, go help. And if you don't, go help, too.

I'm unclear on how this differs from literally every VC-funded AI company ever

I'm showing a friend The Matrix for the first time, and 42mins in, something hit me like a brick: The Venn diagram of "incels" and "super AI-keen tech bros" is overlapping circles. The movie very clearly says it was the advent of AI that fucked everything up. The fuck is wrong with these folks?!

Did Judge Reinhold voice Judge Reinhold in Clerks: The Animated Series? I could easily answer this through a simple web search, but I'd rather ask all y'all.

Small reminder - now being 40 - that there's nothing stopping you from having the sort of life that gives people on r/thathappened conniption fits. Go live the sort of life that people'll doubt.

If you don't do your due diliegence when it comes to employment in the game industry, everything is a dice roll. If you do your due diliegence, everything is still a dice roll, but a bit weighted.

Hitting 40 next week I'm pretty sure I'm about as out of touch as Abe Simpson, but I can't help but wonder if there's a reasonable age-line between "People who think of Keanu Reeves as Ted Logan" and "People who think of Keanu Reeves as John Wick and/or Neo".

Hitting 40 soon, but I swear some days I still feel like a teenager trapped in a middle-aged dude's body. Which I guess is better than being a middle-aged dude in a teenager, like some politicians we know about.

Holding out hope that @legaleagle.tv sees the value in the case-law that I e-mailed the team about. I've been an emulator developer for 25y, a game developer for 20y, and it'd be nice if a knowing voice took the time to dismantle the many ignorant emulation-related legal tropes on social media.