OK so Life Is Strange: Reunion was, in my humble opinion, very very good

i guess they were Hungary for something better :)

Extremely specific pet peeve: whenever someone refers to a leader as like, Mr. Putin. Just call him his name dude. Or “big evil fella” or something

LMAOOOO

What you think of the quality of HP, whether you think it's bad or good or embarrassing or important, doesn't matter. What matters is its author is making money off it to funnel into stripping trans people of their rights. I'd give up literally anything if that was the consequence of loving it.

so you’re telling me this Engine is version 5? Unreal.

There is a massive disconnect between the indie games community and the technoloy industry at large, Paul - the disconnect being that indies try to make games and a large part of the technology sector makes disposable startups to flip as much VC money as possible at the expense of everything.

Wow, they managed to destroy one of the best parts of GDC. That’s sad! Yet another reason to not fly to San Francisco for it

UE is much nicer to work with when someone you work with understands UBT

This project was fun.

I HAVE ALL THE DATA

I am so close to being done running my dissertation project benchmark. Nine hours down, maybe another one to go? This is with 160 cores...

I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

i worked on COD for 9 months and i would've killed to have this to send to people, christina making great points as per usual

guy with female roommate: wow it’s crazy we’ve never had to mop this whole time female roommate: 😑 (it’s me i’m the female roommate)

Harry Potter fan in 2026: yes the author is a Nazi with ties to Jeffrey Epstein but I don't see any of that when I buy my annual wand at the Wizarding World in Florida

in *2018*

got some spare spheres going if anybody wants them, only lightly ray-traced

yep. that's exactly what i wanted no bugs here

Ooh, I’ve got this one - NO.

Met up with an old secondary school friend for spontaneous drinks - he’s an AI bro now 🫩

only one exam left in my degree as of today! super duper weird feeling but hey nearly there

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

good lord

so this is pretty cool!!! so so grateful i got to work on cod: bo7 :) second game credit SECURED. p.s. i'm still looking for work post-graduation starting may 2026 if you any leads hit me up :)

not too bad for a dumbass like me

Drive back a hostile alien fungus with a spray cleaner as you traverse your childhood home with grappling tethers & gravity tools.. but is your first love among the dead? "System shock meets Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com "beautiful, intimate, deeply affecting" - @ign.com Available now!

You left. Now they're dead. Immersive sim narrative first person cleaner AMBROSIA SKY is coming out NEXT WEEK! "beautiful, intimate, and deeply affecting" - @ign.com "equal parts System Shock and Powerwash Simulator" - @pcgamer.com Steam & Epic, November 10, 9am EST. Links below!

mass effect andromeda is still a lot better than people give it credit for

as of right now I am no longer an employee of activision and can finally speak my truth: call of duty? more like uhhhhhh call of doody

crazy few months - first game credit on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 - finished bachelors with a first class honours - starting masters soon maybe it's lame but all the younger versions of me would be so proud :)

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

First commercial game I’ve worked on came out today :)

FYI: New study from Cornell Uni shows that the more you use ChatGPT, the stupider you get - cognitive debt accumulates. "Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Hello! I don't post much but I just rewrote my website (miarolfe.com) and I think it's pretty neat! Check it out if you like :)

Delighted to say that I started this week as a Software Developer Intern at Demonware! The team are incredible and I'm excited by the work :)

big year ahead :)

saw like 10 minutes of Office Space and ohmygod does everything come from this movie??