I know I'm a misery guts because I tried that expedition 33 and I'm like, oh - It's a jrpg. And they've attempted to fix the boring spreadsheet combat by adding... Quick time events. Look, I know I'm missing the point or whatever. I'm just a bit allergic to those two things.

If I ever go indie my plan is to never make anything popular enough for someone to want to tattoo it on themselves.

Some days you feel like you're just making everything worse.

Some people are suggesting that console players in Arc Radiers are more aggressive. I'm sure that could be down to a lot of different things. I wonder if aim assist makes people more aggressive? There's this ouija effect tempting you to shoot at folk you just give in to it after enough suggestion?

JB seeing Stephen's Sausage Roll

I used to say "I'm very lucky to be here." Now I say "It's very random that I'm still here."

I slept badly. I did bad code. I worked late to fix said bad code. Negative productivity is real and if you stay up late playing Arc Raiders you, too, can achieve it!

One thing I really like as a side effect of deep play and mastery is getting to know a fictious space intimately. It's been over 20 years and I still feel like I know every polygon of Q2DM1. I can see it down to the precision jumps up to the mega health.

Ah. Sunday. Time to procrastinate for 4 hours to pluck up the courage to do ten minutes of work for myself that will enrich my life, all the time thinking of the work I still have left to do for my job. Sunday bloody sunday!

"Peter, Andrew - Come with me, and I will make you spiders of men." - MCU Jesus of Nazareth.

Everyone talking bout AI this and AI that. Pff. The only AI I'm interested in is Artificial Insemination. 'Cos moo, I'm a cow: moooo! I'm a moo. Cow.

Someone should make a game where progress in the game is dependent on sales of the game. Oh wait that might be every GAAS game, my bad.

Fuck snowflake lane.

Fuck snowflake lane.

You shouldn't kink shame but what if kink shaming is your kink?

Best way to find out if that impostor syndrome is real is to see if they let you join MI6

Great day for files-philes.

I think it's been about 4 weeks of 6 days a week, trying to work on 2 projects at once. This isn't really a long term winning strategy. Had a proper weekend off, but it was very social, so I'm still not really feeling recovered. Brain can't get into gear. Heading to bed early.

In the past, when there's been an article about something I've done, there's been a wave of sites echoing the same article. Just a bunch of copying people's homework which is sort of depressing in of itself. But now it's totally automated. I'm seeing lots of AI think pieces. Who's reading them tho?

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

Is it normal to find the emotion of pride so alien that it's strangely unpleasant?

Ok, ok. Some stuff coming together. Really don't want to be juggling stuff as much as I have been in the last few months, as I'm feeling the burn. But some of the excitement is fueling me. Small break soon. Need a total reset. Then I'll be eagerly back at it.

I remembered how to use soh cah toa today without having to look it up, so I guess I'm not a total piece of shit.

Seattle bus commuting has me waiting on a bus that only comes every half an hour 🫠 Trying to be the change I want to see, but world, you're not meeting me half way. 🙏 @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

Some days therapy is just therapy. Other days it's fucking life support.

The relationship between streamers and developers feels similar to that of an F1 Driver and his Team. Pros want the fastest most competitive car possible, even if that means sacrificing accessibility. The parent company, however, still needs to sell something to carry the weekly shopping in.

Most cinemas around here feel like half way dead malls (with the exception of central cinema, or the luxury one in bellevue). It sometimes feels like we're living in the ruins of someone else's idea of a good time.

Arc Raiders is awakening class consciousness in gamers.

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

I am proud to be a knobhead

When there are no jobs left, um, who, um, is going to pay for the products and services that they make? Sometimes I think they want us all to die politely and discreetly and leave the planet for them to enjoy.

"I'll just go knock out this one task" Task is "how long is the perimeter of the British isles".

We could have had a tech utopia, but greedy short termists always seem to rise to the top, don't they? This country is about to invade Venezuela to steal oil to power AI used to keep the population servile. They're experimenting with actual brain chips on immigrants detained by ICE.

I'm often deeply drained by the breadth of things I have to work on at work. Not being able to focus on one thing at a time makes me feel like I'm a useless pretender letting everyone down, despite evidence to the contrary. Just got over (mild) covid and now in bed with a super sore throat.

This is one of the coolest game design analyses I've seen. Maybe ever. A graph of the possibility space of Stephen's Sausage roll (amazing game btw). This is a great representation of a more discrete game. I always thought of possibility spaces as hyper dimensional fogs. youtu.be/AK8OLuRBFTw?...

Did you know that a lot of cows are A.I. generated? Das right: Artificial Insemination.

I do understand it.

still can't get over what we learned today that the actual story is elon musk just copied enough of wikipedia word-for-word for grokipedia to be useful but rewrote all articles related to him to be more favorable, leaving out facts he doesn't want people to see or talk about

Fucccck, oooooofffff

Spotify won't let you cancel your subscription through their app. Lmfao. How is that legal? Canceling even harder. Annoyed I didn't do it sooner.

No-one is referring to the gang at the end of 28 Years Later as "Jim Bros" and it's driving me crazy.

"This country was on the verge of dying and you alone saved it" has to be an all time something or other.

LLMs aren't a problem because they're asking us to turn off our brains - they're a problem because they're asking us to turn off our hearts.

The breadth of grievances that people at the big queue had was one thing that really struck me. If they were to write a list, it'd be the size of the oversized constitution they were bearing.

Reporting of today's rally numbers feel really low. But I guess it takes a little time for actual counts to come through.

I have a rant in me about what I'd call the "floating number aesthetic" of certain videogames but someone will call me a kill joy and my convictions aren't quite strong enough to bother defending my opinions that hard.

My pedometer went nuts today.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

"AI could end up destroying humanity... But if I don't do it, someone else will." - Every CEO apparently.