"Overlong production cycles and exponential budget increases are worsened every time a studio is forced to reassemble its detonated workflow to account for the institutional knowledge lost whenever a dev is cut loose."

I can't explain why, but Stardew in MTG is where it finally jumps the shark for me

Say hello to Johnny Monky-Tonkyland Admission

People are always talking about the things we have today that our ancestors didn't, but nobody wants to look at the things our ancestors had that we've lost. Like community, and free time, and environmental sustainability, and a collective that cares whether we live or die

Many moons ago, I illustrated a handy guide about drawing tall ships accurately for @globalmarhist.bsky.social, including my biggest pet peeves and how to avoid them. Tempted to do a 2026 redraw after drawing 252 pages of Nautical Graphic Novel.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

had to screencap this for future use

That thing you're sure the devs never thought of and that would make the game 1000 times better? Someone definitely thought about it ... obsessed over it ... it was someone's pet project, but there wasn't enough time, resources, or someone above wasn't sold on it and it never got done.

Spending my morning writing a statement for press inquiries about all this when all I want to do is say "consumers haven't had purchasing power in about ten years now because we gave all of our money to like ten weird guys, what did you all expect"

I feel like we're sort of seeing the conditions for the next indie wave fall into place and it probably is going to largely be a crop of new developers releasing godot-based games on PC because the console market is becoming less and less relevant for anyone besides triple A

@pennyred.bsky.social returning to glorious, tragic, triumphant form lauriepenny.substack.com/p/ai-writes-...

Namesake apparel. I've hit the big time walkerhouseco.com/collections/...

I've gone on about the strawberries from our garden in the US, and their superiority to any we'd ever had from a store. As much as our garden berries were better than the store berries, that's how much better the local jordbær are than our garden berries. Danish strawberries are off the chart 🍓🍓🍓

I still love that so many people on the internet decide to tell on thenselves by deciding to align themselves towards an accusation nobody made that nonetheless they still see enough of themselves in to get mad about

Surprised I'm just now hearing about this, but then I'm not in marketing anymore. Starbucks let AI design a campaign for May 18 in South Korea, and naturally it referenced the most salient material scraped from Internet discussions about May 18 in South Korea. www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-n...

How can you not paint sunny tree canopies when listening to Nick Drake? . 11”x14” Oil on cradled wood panel

Attending model reviews to catch up on all the new processes and today's session was our model builder Hans from LEGO Universe in 2011 and our other model builder Hans from LEGO Knights Kingdom in 2003, just a big LEGO old-timers reunion

this was a fun little process vid to put together.

New 5”x5” miniature paintings. Available on my website.

When I first got back to LEGO Design after 20 years, it was funny that I was still "oh my god you're mike rayhawk" to like 4 people here, and nobody at all to the other 400 But now I'm realizing that everyone here is "oh my god you're you" to like 4 people, and it's always a different 4 people

A dream was always to make a "cloud" tool. Now over the last 1-2 years I tried to build smth on and off. Now I made it work in the browser. WARNING! Depending on the settings it can take a lot of GPU power, so be careful. Only for people who know what they're doing. artbuddy.urlich.ch/cloudbox/

Commodore Hexaquad cuts a pirate's torso in half

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Employment-wise, I don't know if I'm allowed to even be aware of what's going on with Bricks and Minifigs, but this is gold www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAxk...

It's weird, but since leaving the US, I'm able to remember so many years of my life that I couldn't before. Like the chronic toxic stress of the past decade of American politics put long-term memory retrieval offline.

I know a lot of game writers working on branching and reactive stuff may lament at writing a lot of things that most players will never see. As an academic, spending years writing something *no one* will see is my baseline

when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.

The end of autumn (Koto-in 高桐院). Taken on November 27, 2010 Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Photography by Damien Douxchamps on Flickr

Hell yeah now thats what I call simulationism!!!!

Like I always say, you can't spell discombobulated without disco

I'm not even kidding when I tell you it feels extremely vital for anyone in a position of this much power to always have at least one totally unimpressed sibling they are in regular contact with. that's how you keep them from getting high on their own supply

Lost a Brikwars battle last night as my T-Rex was an inch from escaping with the loot. He tanked an enemy hero's last-ditch sniper shot from an extremely jury-rigged artillery piece, only to succumb to emphysema (he'd tried to smoke a tank earlier) Moral of the story, smoking kills 🦖 🚬 ☠️

It's finally happened, they've sent me to prison. Took longer than expected, tbh. Horsens Prison maps cleanly enough to Folsom Prison that I'm spending the day with a head full of Johnny Cash. Could be worse.

Growing up, I had friends who didn't like LEGO because they'd had such a bad experience with a crap knockoff brand that it killed their love completely. Every time AI slops something up, I'm not just repulsed by the knockoff, it makes the legitimate stuff feel less appealing by association.

Started playing Slay the Spire finally. There's a challenge with an interdimensional monster called the Transient where you have to hit it with 999 damage before five turns run out. I just did 997. /fistshake

When I was in art school I always rhymed it with stomachache. I hated gouache

thinking about this a lot today

Me explaining to anyone who will listen how I just really like Keith David and everything he’s ever been in, even the bad stuff, because he just seems to always be having a good time and I’m glad he’s getting a star on the Walk of Fame because good for him.

Who can identify? #books #booksky #reading

I had a plan - after the house was cleaned out for the move, I'd finally have access to the third floor to see what was up there. But in all the hustle and bustle I forgot. Now I'll never know

The best advice I ever got when I started freelancing was, if you have to turn down work, always suggest someone else who could do it. I have been so lucky to benefit from that over the years.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

It is funny that Google spent years effectively mandating a minimum word count for online articles, leading to countless timewasting opening paragraphs, and now its machine is infected with the same illness.

It's funny to hear the groans from around the office as everyone finds out Monday is a Danish holiday and they won't get to come to work Imagine working somewhere everyone enjoys so much they're sad to get days off

ok hear me out… i want video game award shows to have a separate category for UI work. good UI needs to be celebrated more!

While I was painting up the Supernova Squad for LEGO Fortnite, I had to remember one core truth: The heroes rise up against Mask Maker Daigo not because he's evil, but because there's only one Mask Maker and Daigo isn't him

I've always dreamed of designing the game that would earn this kind of review. Gotten close a couple times. Someday!