I still regret that we didn’t get to do the Trump Show we pitched to Adult|Swim back in the day. We wanted to center it around deepfaking trump’s daily unhinged sound bite onto an actor dressed up as an adult baby in a sized-up bedroom. Everyone at A|S loved it, but the lawyers killed it.

This week’s Tech Pod is about some weird stuff you can do with PCs. It’s a fun episode.

Starting soon! @vinnycaravella.bsky.social is joining me for this year's Bike MS stream (read: Star Citizen check-in plus other weird stuff). Streaming at twitch.tv/drewscanlon Donate at BlinkngGuy.com

I played a handful of really good indie games over the last few days, here’s a thread of them. Feel free to chuck stuff you’ve liked in the replies.

Gonna play some indie games, then switch over to Fortnite when the lads get onlne:

It's time for a new Dual Boot Diaries! This week, we talk about Gnome and KDE Plasma, installing Linux on my Desktop, dual-boot shims, and my new best friend, paru.

The paper: the genetic program that enables digit formation in limbs is derived from the system that drives cformation of the cloaca. Me, the headline writer:

Seeing lots of people talking about canceling their Disney+ subscriptions. If you happen to have some extra money around that used to go to Mickey Mouse... small indie media sites like mine could always use some assistance. Especially these days. www.techdirt.com/support/

🚀🚀EXCITING NEWS!!🚀🚀 After four years of development, Little Rocket Lab finally launches on October 7! Build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships Coming to Steam and Xbox / PC Game Pass RTs super appreciated❤️ littlerocketlab.com

I wonder if the celebrity flavored Oreos are like the McRib. They only appear when the celebrity is famous enough and then once their star wanes, they go back into the vault.

I’m playing Zelda II for the first time in almost 40 years and there’s a lot about this game that I absolutely didn’t understand as a kid. I don’t think I understood the upgrade system at all.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Adam is on a flight, so today I'm putting together a new live-stream PC for the @pcworld.com studio with @willislai.bsky.social. You should come hang out!

If you want something else to focus on, we talked to Brendon and Sanjay from @blendogames.bsky.social on this week's TechPod. They made a game about protecting cat space truckers from space pirates using a 20+ year old open source fork of the Doom 3 engine. It's a great game!

When Apple swaps the ultra-wide camera no one uses with a telephoto everyone wants on the base iPhone, you'll know they've given up on AR.

It's co-op Monday over at @nextlander.com, and we're managing super democracy in Helldivers. twitch.tv/nextlander

Watch: PCWorld goes wild building a bunch of tiny PCs www.pcworld.com/article/2901...

Calling all disabled gamers! Win big! The next Adaptive Esports tournament goes down later this month! Learn more about Logi's game nights and tournaments for players with disabilities at aet.gg #ad

What are we going to do with all this compute?

Friday night Fortnite, and I might play some Silksong after!

If you haven't already, I'd love it if you checked out Dual Boot Diaries, a new podcast I started with my pal @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social. It's about us learning to use Linux instead of Windows:

Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.

Let’s go Valkyries!

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

I wish someone had told me that Hollow Knight was really good, y’all.

Friday night Peak with the boyos!

The first full episode of Dual Boot Diaries is up now. We talk about how our installs went, dip a bit into dual booting, and share our first thoughts about our new OSes of choice:

Surprise Peak stream with the kiddo: twitch.tv/notthatwills...

I built a very small PC in the plastic PC case that @teenageengineering.bsky.social gave away for free yesterday. Thanks to @nchan.bsky.social for grabbing the case and donating it to the cause!

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

I can’t believe Windows 95 is 30 years old. For me, it marks the beginning of the modern computer age and the dawn of the real Internet. We talked about it on this week’s Tech Pod!

Here's your weird video game history for the day. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay was cancelled for 2 weeks - but nobody at the studio noticed. Watch our video on the history of MachineGames here youtu.be/SAEdFG7_X_w

Back in 2017 (jfc) I interviewed Team Cherry about how they designed Hollow Knight's map, and got a bunch of sketches and mockups from throughout the game's development to go with it. Bringing it back in anticipation of Silksong!

I've started a new podcast! I'm doing a limited-run series with @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social about switching from Windows to Linux called Dual Boot Diaries. You can find it on Apple Music, Spotify, Pocketcasts, and anywhere podcasts are found, but also on YouTube as a video...

Things are bad when pretty much the entire world says “we’re not sending mail to the US anymore” and it’s a minor story that gets bumped down in less than 24 hours.

I'm so proud of the work @mike-eagle.bsky.social and I are doing at @pastduepodcast.com: Interviews with actors, musicians, writers, YouTubers about the truth of making a living as a creative class. But it's relevant to all of us. The creative economy is the leading edge of all labor trends. /1

I'm about to get my forklift certification on in Abiotic Factor with the @nextlander.com lads over at:

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

Publishers race to counter ‘Google Zero’ threat as AI changes search engines on.ft.com/4mtjSJP

The world needs more podcasts, so Will and I are here to help.

Happy Birthday Windows 95!

I've started a new podcast! I'm doing a limited-run series with @adampatrickmurray.bsky.social about switching from Windows to Linux called Dual Boot Diaries. You can find it on Apple Music, Spotify, Pocketcasts, and anywhere podcasts are found, but also on YouTube as a video...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Sorry, I’m still on my BS here. The AI thing is a red herring. This fabulism exploited a known vulnerability: the digital freelance desks paying pennies, desperate for content, facing cadence pressures that militate against fact checks. Fault lies not with ChatGPT but with the economics of online.

What kind of cool/useful thing could you build if you have really cheap GPU compute available? Asking for a friend!

The studios don't realize this, but the SAG/WGA strikes saved their ass as well.

We're playing Abiotic Factor today with @bradshoemaker.bsky.social and @vinnycaravella.bsky.social over at:

Those are fine lookin pizzas! I’m convinced in the power of @andylunique.bsky.social

I still love a sloppy joe!