The way modern Trek is constantly poking the audience in the ribs going “hey remember THIS? And THIS?” just kills me. It makes the universe seem small and dumb.

TNG parceled out the character bits SLOWLY and gave the crew genuinely difficult moral quandaries weekly. Spaceships and laser beam fights were infrequent and EARNED. You could absolutely do this in the modern era if you just trusted your audience.

"if you were in charge of star trek, what would you do?" Genuinely, just do another TNG. Pick a time period, introduce a ship with all new characters, minimize connections to the larger franchise, and hire a bunch of young sci-fi writers to come up with vexing moral dilemmas.

Fill ‘er up with live comments tonight during “The Car” on MeTV! Use the hashtag #svengoolie and get rollin’ with James Brolin!

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday! ⚔️ Fight monsters 🗺️ Explore a kingdom 👑 Topple an evil king 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Fall lesbianly in love Wishlist Enigma Heart on #Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #IndieGaming #LGBTQ #Zelda #Zelda2 #EnigmaHeart

Sports betting is ruining baseball because the guy behind me hasn't shut the fuck up about his parlay since the game started.

Mike Vinyl rocking the wheels of steel!

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

Well. Fuck me rotten.

"Why didn't Nintendo ever revisit the design of Zelda II??" Because they were waiting for a cool-af transbian furry to do it for them: store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/... #GameDev #EnigmaHeart #Steam #Zelda #Zelda2

"Who's your favorite DJ on @wxpnfm.bsky.social ?" Me: *struggles, then names all of them*

Hope you’re digging Vinyl Day! Here’s the complete schedule

nothing feels closer to "Humans toying with eldritch and ancient magic" like crt televisions. "yeah you need to face it east or the magnetic pull of the planet will interfere with it. Also if there's no signal it'll pick up on signals left from the birth of the universe."

Seriously worse.

Your attention please! Vinyl Day starts tonight at Midnight. Nothing but 24 hours of analogue. Check out the schedule of our DJs and guest selectors. xpn.org/wxpn-is-spin...

Wishlist Enigma Heart! We've got: - Sword lesbian - Found family - Giant ice woman who may or may not step on you - Cow ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/ #WishlistWednesday #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieDev #EnigmaHeart #PixelArt #Zelda #Zelda2

Can we stuff with the TACO stuff already? This dude is a legitimate threat to the world, and this acronym feels so remarkably unserious

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

We heard #TrailerTuesday is a thing 👀 Enigma Heart is Zelda 2 if Nintendo were brave enough to put lesbians in it! store.steampowered.com/app/2986980 #GameDev #EnigmaHeart

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

A message to #indiedevs STOP DROPPING STEAM DEMOS WITH 0 PLAN To combat the "prologue trick" of ~3 years ago, Steam made some really robust Demo promotional tools. But they only work if you build up a bit of interest in the game first. BEFORE you release the demo. Don't rush it!

hate to do this again but our accountants hit us with a bunch of fees that we can't absorb right now, so i'm forced to do this again 🙃 ko-fi.com/sharkhugseni...

🪻✊ #GameDev #EnigmaHeart

We can officially drop the trailer. Our new game, Too Many F*cking Nazis is a throwback to some of the classics of the boomer shooter genre youtu.be/D0czMYzQ5ho?...

#Steam Next Fest prep for Enigma Heart has begun. I just updated most of the screenshots on the store page to more accurately reflect the current state of the game, and what the game is about. cc @hadrosaurus.net store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/... #GameDev #EnigmaHeart

I feel like this screengrab from #HouseOfSvengoolie is a caption contest in the making.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

15 years on MeTV! Happy anniversary @svengoolieofficial.bsky.social ! www.reddit.com/r/House_of_S...

I mean... www.youtube.com/shorts/3hLPi...

Age verification is not going to protect kids, it is going to expose even more private data to these corporations and endanger everyone to fraud and data breaches. This is bullshit, don't fall for it. There are a ton of things they could do that do not endanger us, but hold the corporations liable

The Romeros have survived numerous setbacks in this industry for decades (Romero Games is John's ninth studio) and continued to survive them all. If they're saying this is the worst it's been in 40 years, I'm listening to them.

It started here. A desk at id Software where Wolfenstein 3D came to life (1992) Credit: Sam Machkovech

It's like people are deliberately refusing to learn how much folks fucking hate AI.

the thing about finishing a game is you have to finish it

I don’t know anything about conversion rates or promotional partnerships or any of that bollocks. I’m just a guy trying to get by, by making stuff he hopes people will like.

I have no good pitch for why you should support me via Patreon and Ko-Fi. I’m terrible at self promotion. But the little money I make this way really does help keep me working on stuff like my game for the C64 Ultimate. So thanks for your support if you choose to give it.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

The pending enshittification of bluesky is going to be very funny, at least, considering that the entire userbase is made up of people who, by definition, will switch social media apps when one gets shitty. (since that's why they're here at all)

this is the average contrapoints video

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

Gross. There is absolutely zero excuses to use AI voices in your game, especially if you're an indie studio. Use your own voice, ask your friends or family, or even use beeps and boops. Literally NO EXCUSE for this crap!

The original poster obviously isn't a Trump fan, but the Blue Wave brigade a.) just assumes anyone who annoys them is pro-Trump, and b.) thinks these shitty memes are a replacement for a personality

The replies to this joke are truly wild. Just an unending string of people replying "reported!"and posting low-res boomer anti-Trump memes (as if the original poster is a Trump supporter?)

lol I kept getting hit up on LinkedIn by this weird racist guy who seems to be aggressively contacting everyone he can find in retrogaming. Very difficult to maintain a public profile as "the cool retro game YouTuber" when your entire other career is "yelling about Muslims and vaccines"