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People are enjoying my game Dust Fleet, and you could be one of them! It's currently 💥60%💥 off. If you like Homeworld-alikes with a touch of 4x, then Dust Fleet is made for you. You specifically, Gary. GET IT GARY: store.steampowered.com/app/406160/D... 🎮 #indiegames #strategy #videogames

Wherein I make a holiday post about #gamedev. Happy Thanksgiving all - or just happy Thursday to most of you :) #indiegame

AI cannot stop checking out Tim Allen's awesome rack.

BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.

excuse me, gotta go see a guy about a horse, if you know what i mean *returns an hour later riding a horse*

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

It's impossible to remark on the weather on the internet, because someone very cool will always come along to say "you think that's cold? Try living here! We had 6 feet of snow in the last five minutes! I'm posting this from inside a snow drift! That's normal here!"

"It's like, you're, it's like, it's next level." "And it's just getting better." "It's nuts. It's unhinged." "And the thing about it that's nuts is it keeps getting stronger." "It's pretty unhinged." "No, it's nuts." "Yes. No, it's, it's, yeah." Gripping stuff.

I’m not saying this is what I want to happen, but it does rather make the case that in order to improve British healthcare, we need British politicians to get all the major diseases.

Setting up an unused Space Odyssey shot with the Aries 1B inside the Station V docking area.

Smart features has been there for years. That's why everyone is scratching their heads when they follow this advice and the filter tabs disappear. Another "disable this setting immediately!" AI warning that breaks features for users without any evidence as to why this needs doing. No link, nothing.

oh no. don’t do that. whatever would we do without gen ai

Not sure about the strategy of #Unity pushing their keynote to be live and available to all, and then burying all the info devs are really looking for in a roadmap talk that will be posted "at some point". #gamedev

I don't know what "releasing games in Fortnight" even means. #unity

Still not sure exactly what to do with my sheep herding prototype. #gamedev #sheep

They why are you giving it the highest priority on your search page? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Seeing a lot of "I warned you this would happen" posts from people who think they were the only ones to notice that AWS or Cloudflare outages broke everything.

ChatGPT is down. Freelancers are still loading pretty reliably.

Still not sure exactly what to do with my sheep herding prototype. #gamedev #sheep

This is doing the rounds again, so I must ask again: why? What is the risk it poses? This guy has no idea. This is a privacy setting, and this guy is telling people to opt out of it.

Discord had one job: be easier to use than TeamSpeak. Instead, I have it hassling me CONSTANTLY about pointless garbage that means nothing to me. Buy our new range of ugly profile trinkets! Look orbs! A new quest is available! Enjoy our Halloween sounds! Get Nitro! Share your activity!

So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:

I wonder if any interesting announcements will come out of #Unity Unite this week? Based on what they've been saying over the past year, CoreCLR, ECS integration with gameObjects, the new animation system and unified rendering seem likely.

Asking for help again because life won’t stop happening and things are really bad right now despite mine and others efforts: robsgob.bearblog.dev/help-rob/

Feeling under the weather today, ended up staying up late under a blanket watching Lloyd Bridges in Battlestar Galactica. Miss Marple decided to get in on the blanket action.

"It's important to seed the idea that every game company is now using AI, so that we don't look bad for using it."

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

I'm so hyped for the frame, PLEASE free me from the indignity of using Meta products in order to access VR

"I expect people to each spend more time reading this than I spent writing it" fantastical beliefs of the utterly deranged

If I, with my budget of $0, can manage to pay voice actors, then so can Epic.

I'm here to tell you that voice actors (even very very good ones) are not expensive, more than make up for their cost in the value they bring to your game, and if Baldur's Gate can record real actors for every line of dialogue in the game, so can you for your 100 generic barks or even specific ones.

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If I, with my budget of $0, can manage to pay voice actors, then so can Epic.

I will literally never commit to memory which one is a property vs a field by name.

What a ridiculous situation. This is a great game.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

I, for one, believe him.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Atticus Blue ship renders www.artstation.com/artwork/lGvgxz

it should be illegal to move your cat off-camera during a Zoom meeting

Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

Old shots of the Intrepid in Manhattan

i love that Your Party functionally exists as a vehicle for 8 people with Severe Beefs to take legal action against each other.

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/