She means this as advice

GEORGE LUCAS: if c-3po were real, he could have made the star wars movies by himself, and they would have been better than the movies i made. [tears in eyes] i wish he had made them. i wish he had. [stops for a moment] not the beeping one though. never the beeping one. he has a deadly poison in him.

i'm good

once columbo is out of cooldown you are all fucked

more games need to take advantage of the Steam server browser. fuckin do it

Huh. My lunch ended up on Forbes.com almost twenty years ago and I did not know until now. www.forbes.com/2007/11/11/b... It’s the beer battered deep fried bacon double quarter pounder.

The usual suspects.

I still get messages from my Christian grandparents telling me they hope I find Jesus and other subtle messages that they don't agree with me being gay. The reason subversion of that particular religion happens more here is we have been oppressed by it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

TIL about Lucy Osler's very useful term "distributed delusions". I was looking for a way to avoid talk of "AI psychosis" (which weaponizes mental health stigma to do victim-blaming while the LLM comes off scot-free), and this seems a useful reframing doi.org/10.1007/s133...

Just had Palantir’s comms person call me an ‘anti Palantir campaigner’ The classic 2026 populist move ‘I don’t like what you’ve said. You must be a campaigner against me’ Anyway read the pieces and judge for yourself….

Forty years ago today, I arrived in Brisbane from Sydney on the Brisbane Limited Express, and embarked on a 3 week tour of Queensland using a Sunshine Rail Pass. Even in 1986, it was a golden ticket to a working railway museum. Each day for the next 3 weeks, I'll post my photos from 40 years ago.

one of the funniest parts about being an australian is never mentioned on those tiktoks about transplants but it’s when you see something fucked up turn to your mate and go “that’s you” Someone looks like a dick? “there’s your mate” A white t shirt on the muddy ground? “that’s your wedding dress”

well damn, truck-kun is supporting me from another world just passed 72k wishlists that's pretty cool store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

Video game fact! Though there are hundreds of video games of many genres and styles, there are only three possible “sizes” a video game can come in. Those sizes are: “Small” (16.00 MB) “Medium” (374.26 MB) “Large” (154.44 GB)

get in losers were canceling alexis ohanian for funding flock

Look, I’m an open source maintainer, and if you want people to use that FOSS software as an alternative to that proprietary software it’s good to understand why people wanted to use that proprietary software in the first place and why they might be hesitant to switch It’s not because users are dumb

Sam, you did your bit, your level best: now it’s up to the rest of us to make sure this diabolical project never goes ahead #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Oh my heart. We've lost Sam Neill. :(

@ironspike.bsky.social FWIW it's better to point people to something like DiscImageCreator than the ancient imgburn. For Xbox, 360 and PS1-3 games there's also redumper. Any archival is better than none but there's a hell of a lot of incomplete copies of things on archive dot org.

Okay guys I think we can crowdfund this one

So @merriam-webster.com has a new game on their shared site with Brittanica - The Loop. Which is a fun concept. But which, instead of using publicly available art, or hiring an artist, runs entirely on AI art. Which feels like such a fucking betrayal. You're the *dictionary*.

Hamilton B. Urglar

We have a fire in the port of Newcastle. Likely the grain terminal ... but the fact that the story is all over social media and nowhere to be seen on our local media channels is so upsetting. The gutting of local media resourcing has become obscene.

last night i had a dream that i met northernlion at the store and he had a full head of hair. dirty blond. curly. to his shoulders. he was faking his baldness for the camera and he told me i couldn't let anyone know his secret.

older games often have a display centric approach to real-time rendering, like, painting lighting into object textures was very common, or straight up using photographs as textures this lets you take very direct control over the look! modern rendering is different (short thread)

Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002) how the did they get the water to look like that, this is incredible I don't mean the reflections, look at the shape of the wave as it moves, the lighting, the glow.. This and the game loop are **amazing** and needs to be studied This is lost technology oh my god

My dudes, if you can understand SYN-ACK, you can understand consent

So after 14 months(?) of work and a lot of frustration barely knowing what i was doing i think i made someting special (!) presenting: a Wine fork for Ableton Live 12 on Linux stable pixel perfect vst support 1st class gnome citizen device hotwire support low latency audio tell ur friends 🥹🥹

I once got asked to pitch on writing stuff for Lord Buckethead, the precursor to Count Binface and I've just gone through my notes for it and I like exactly one policy proposal I wrote: Strengthen our democracy by making the checkbox on the ballots triangular, the strongest shape

My actual favorite thing about Count Binface is that he has a fucking classics degree from Oxford. England is so class-brained that even the joke candidates are posh as hell.

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

Inspired by the great @kenney.nl, if you've been hit with one of the horrendous #gamedev #layoffs, we'd love to give you things. Offer ends when form is closed. 💚 lab.to/YSClaim

does Netflix think I am going to pirate content by taking one screenshot per millisecond and then sell tickets to the silent movie I've created using my digital flip book of four hundred thousand screenshots? I'm just trying to do memes and bits online with my pals. give back screenshotting.

Looking at you, FOSS

Social media companies absolve themselves of responsibility for everything. What if we didn't let them? adsei.org/2026/07/07/r...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Federal IT outsourcing spend triples to $808m as failed training program axed www.canberratimes.com.au/story/924269...

The con’s free, people have to make money somehow, I get it and also DON’T PUT ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES BEHIND A PAYWALL WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU

Subtitles as paid upgrade? On behalf of everyone with disabilities, fuck you very much

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

The HOPE conference is fundraising with tax-deductible donations towards getting its A/V setup working. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

‘Babe, You Shrunk!’ Says Panicked Travis Kelce To Mini Bride On Wedding Cake https://theonion.com/babe-you-shrunk-says-panicked-travis-kelce-to-mini-bride-on-wedding-cake/

Four-year-old just told his toddler sister “it’s time for the hunt” and they both left the room. Not my business

Some Dreamcast love. ♥️

you’re on thick ice, bud you can get away with anything

Seed your torrents.

happy 25th birthday to the greatest software ever coded