Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.

From: La Peau de Chagrin (1960), dir. Ivo Vrbanić and Vlado Kristl, Zagreb Film

Half-Life 3 looks fucking SICK

Yeah I'm not putting this on any PC I own, ever.

I have been to their HQ I host a website thru them But they do so much other shit I don't think I'm even sure

i don't like to prototype with cubes and capsules

The annoying thing about the "oh we left a placeholder" generative AI slop excuse is that that is EXACTLY NOT how you should be using placeholders. Anything "not obviously terrible with a panicked hurried half-awake glance" is getting shipped.

"After seeing so many disappointing CRT filters in retro-themed games over the years, the accuracy of the signal warping, static, and distortion of an analogue broadcast here is enormously impressive." www.nintendolife.com/reviews/swit...

it's crazy that you can just play my game on steam right now the game so sick the so-called 'algorithm' trembles--no--cowers in fear at its sheer unmarketability...

There is a deep sadness behind each of his line deliveries

The PS4 is the most persnickety console for the worst reasons It wants to be shut off "correctly" every single time, yet it turns on to the slightest nudge. The controllers turn it on, and it's got the stupid capacitive power button instead of a normal switch

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

I have a big concern that the various survey platforms have shaped the investment economy in a bad way that I haven't heard enough about. You know those things where it's like "do surveys to earn gift cards"? They basically encourage people to lie to tell the surveys what they want to hear

Every time I have to use a Mac I die a little inside because I feel like an old person who doesn't know how a computer works. This is like the 5th time in 20 years and I hate it.

I know what my custom faceplate will be for the new Steam Cube already

Genuinely. I saw the video of the dishwasher one and I immediately thought "well they clearly aren't trying. If I had to design something that did that, I would make it have tank treds and just be an arm attached to a pole"

Went thru my collection and replaced the flimsy jewel cases on my loose CD games with nicer soft plastic ones that don't shatter into a billion pieces

As a teacher, I find arbitrary deadlines really dumb If it's turned it "late" but I won't be free to grade it for a while, why bother marking it late? I set the deadline to be when the earliest point that I grade it can be, then let late assignments be a sort of "at your own risk" kind of deal

I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.

fun fact: the irs knew this was gonna happen and put the source on github like a year ago, it doesn't have 100% of the functionality since some of it was irs backend proprietary but it's been forked a bajillion times now

I got annoyed that there was no way to disable the media buttons on my TV remote that I never use but accidentally press all the time Then I realized, I was limiting myself. There's no *SOFTWARE* way to do it >:) So remember: you can just do things to the stuff you own

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

I find there is a weird, inverse sort of paradoxical and probably existential relationship between the power of computers, people that make goods, advertisers, and data collection It's not exactly a new problem, but I've never articulated the thought to myself before

going to great lengths to make my outline shader as hand-drawn as possible

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

It's still insane to me how clamped down the phone ecosystem is Like you really just get android or iOS You can mod them or add skins, but your options for adding a ton of real OS features for stuff that isn't just an app are extremely limited

Pac-Man Can Always Get Worse

My Halloween costume this year: Half Life 2 Resistance member! Came together in the final hours, but I'm glad how it turned out!

Finally, Hawaii Part II

Whoa, Affinity's desktop apps (Photo, Designer, and Publisher) just becaome completely free in the new Affinity Studio - Affinity + Canva is trying to kill Adobe

AI's new business model is charging customers $20k + $500/mo to install a camera in their home so some stranger can take an hour to do a 5-minute task and feed the data to a hypothetical robot AI. Know what can clean your entire home more quickly and for way less than $500/mo (nevermind $26k)?

It is not misconduct to unionize, and I hope that Rockstar and Take-Two face serious legal challenges for what seems to be a very clear-cut case of union-busting.

Working on a last minute Halloween costume that, if it goes well, wont look so last minute lol It depends on if I am okay at sewing

Back in 2021 the first thing I ever posted on social media when I started Garden of Indie was a thread of weird indie games for Halloween..so as usual I'll be doing a lil thread here of some of the coolest creepy crawly indies in case anyone needs some last minute scaries for the weekend! 🦇🥀

Okay I'm normally a "do it yourself" kind of a guy, But if there were a service that I could send all my PS4 controllers to that would just go in, replace the analog sticks with something more reliable, and the chargers with USBC, I would do so in a heartbeat

Finally going ahead and ordering a thing of soft plastic CD cases I love physical media, but I'm sick of replacing broken jewel cases with ones that are just as fragile

Very conflicted about my phone trying to push another UI update on me rn On one hand, it's risky because it usually breaks the vibes immensely, since I have a whole theme going on On the other hand, its a rare update that actually includes features that interest me? Like a side-by-side window mode?

Not commenting is commenting. aftermath.site/microsoft-halo...

Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.

I hate how much a fight I have all the time trying to use the internet. Google has a genuinely great feature where if I search a place name, I can get the phone number and everything instantly But there's one issue that just ruins it mentally for me - the first result is often sponsored and wrong

The one thing I miss about my childhood relationship to gaming was the spontaneity and lack of expectations I wasn't properly in gaming fandom when I got the Orange Box, which I got just to play Portal 1 So It came with a game called "Half Life 2", and I didn't know ANYTHING before playing it

I wrote about why “screen time” is an incoherent concept when you live among a proliferating infinity of screens.

Sad state of the economy to where, in computer software, rather than taking time to fix bugs, it's actually cheaper to just buy brand new bugs

FREE GAMES ► ► ► officialelectric.itch.io WHILE SUPPLIES LAST

Deluxe Poly: Started blocking out a layers / timeline panel. It's not interactive at the moment, missing playback controls, etc. but it's a good start and I'm happy with the direction. I also updated all of the tools to prevent editing hidden or locked layers. #lowpoly #pixelart #wip

Still the greatest endorsement of all time