ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Failure]

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

Well if it's this close to home I feel almost obligated to attend 😉. I've taken part in the AI and Games Summer School 4 times now and it's always lots of fun.

I somehow haven't fully absorbed the scale of the memory chip shortage until just now, when I looked at @tweakers.net 's price graph of this Kingston 32GB RAM set. Holy shit. I was toying with the idea of upgrading to an AMD AM5 socket system earlier this year… guess I will wait…

Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire". www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the *Yakuza* series of games! #removeTeruyukiKagawa

When the end user doesn't understand your genius, elegant and efficient UI design

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

Japan: the country in which the elevator close door button always actually does something

KIRYU-CHAN! 🔪✨ #yakuza

𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 Daihatsu Midget II D type '98 🎷

What if we kissed on the couch of the power bank rental machine van? 😳 👉👈

I had no idea. This is delightful.

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

Toeslagenaffaire, Groningers kapot, zorg kapot, onderwijs gesloopt, wooncrisis veroorzaakt, mensen de armoede ingewerkt, PVV groot gemaakt, PVV nog groter gemaakt, PVV de grootste gemaakt, in een flutkabinet met nul oplossingen gestapt. En nóg verliest de VVD slechts één zetel. Wat een land.

"StOp tHE cOUnT!"

Ik ben opgelucht maar vooral teleurgesteld

I hope that @zdfde.bsky.social has realised that the decorative floodlights at the Hofvijver won't turn on after sunset due to the ongoing renovation works. The background will be quite dark by the time the 🇳🇱🗳️exit polls results come in.

Grappig om te zien dat zelfs al bij de verkiezingen van 1956 er een “uitslagenavond” was www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGi9...

I worked on the Torment Nexus for five years. Here’s why the project has lost its way. | New York Times (Gift Link)

PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else! 🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st 🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam

Het is tijd voor Wonen zonder winst, het grote woonplan van de SP. Wij willen huurbevriezing en 1 miljoen betaalbare woningen erbij! Stem Supersociaal. Stem SP.

Don't say you're an "aspiring game developer". I've seen this a lot and it's just impostor syndrome. 😶‍🌫️ You've either made/contributed to games, which makes you a game developer. Or you haven't. The only way you'd be an "aspiring game developer" is if you want to make games but haven't yet tried it.

A wonderful alt-movie poster for 1979’s “Alien” by Laszlo Nagy.

Sim City 3000 🧘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBD...

TL;DW: Yes, the Witcher III (and also The Witcher II) is surprisingly very hydrologically realistic. But watch the video anyway. It’s delightful.

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

The other week while I was sick in bed I watched the entirety of @tomlazan.bsky.social ‘s REFFOID (Review Every Final Fantasy Or I Die). It has very cosy early 2010’s YT review vibes (without the snark) and has criminally low view numbers www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

Very happy Stanislav Petrov day - the man who saved every last one of us from becoming thermonuclear barbecue in '83.

@konstantinosd.bsky.social do you know of any city building game that does a good job with mixed-use zoning?

Can the Deus Ex experts tell me what's wrong with these remastered graphics? It looks perfectly okay to me. Granted, what this game needs more than a graphical update is a lot of quality of life updates. But this looks fine?

Nadella made a big mistake authorising the removal of this system www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9tt...

1 in 10 people in Gaza has now been massacred by Israel.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

For those on LinkedIn who aren't aware. By default all profiles have now 'Data for Generative AI Improvement' turned on. You can turn it off via: Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement > Select the OFF option. Do not feed the planet-destroying machine!✊

Congratulations to Dr Hervé! Her work on procedural generation and Minecraft has been really inspirational, and will have a long legacy. You should hire her - she’s an incredible researcher but also a seasoned industry game dev too!

Starter Kit: City Builder has been updated to @godotengine.org 4.5! ✨ I've added zooming, on-screen controls, loading cities from resources, sounds and better instructions too. The project is open-source: github.com/KenneyNL/Sta...

With the Hushcrasher Classification System™ 1.0 (HCS) we can finally have an objective(ish) definition of what "AA" and "AAA" means in games. But we have to agree to stop labeling stuff as "indie" all together and get used to terms "kei" and "midi" instead. hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

This seems like the kind of thing that would be a key part of some advanced speedrunning technique

Trench Face (store.steampowered.com/app/3894170/...) looks like a game that's either made by or made for @alexsteacy.bsky.social