It was an honor to have @nemo10.bsky.social include me in this special episode! You will never guess what my hot take is. Heck, I forgot what my hot take was because I’ve internalized it so deeply.

Bay Area folks: Do you want to dwell upon life and death? Would you like to come face to face with Charon upon the river? Shall Xolotl guide you and maybe summon an actual hummingbird before your eyes? Go see this. The best immersive theater group around and maybe my favorite of their productions.

Windows Update is Copilot. Recycle Bin is Xbox.

How many teraflipFLOPS do they have?

Nier: Automata is a mom game.

What? Webinar is evolving! Congratulations! Your Webinar involved into Webbstar!

“webinar” is the worst compound tech-things word still in common use. Even E-things like e-commerce and esports are somehow cool by comparison.

Fun AI fact: With minimal editing you can put Brian in all sorts of games and fool Google Lens into thinking it's Quest 64

Tired: not updating Photoshop because new versions add pointless features you hate Wired: not updating Photoshop because you like the loading screen with the birds

Getting ready to travel abroad which means replacing all of my phone’s photos with this copied one thousand times.

Successfully actualizing “dead service game” like an Etsy witch. www.pcgamer.com/games/vr/ano...

Thank you so much!! 🎉🎉 The Crimson Diamond has hit 600 reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive! Making this game was my dream project, seeing people play and enjoy it gives me so much joy. ☺️ And it's still 25% off (until tomorrow) for the #CuriousOdyssey Steam event! store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/...

Why are there so many ghouls on TV nowadays? Shouldn’t they be lurking in crypts and preying on low level adventurers without turn undead instead of on Fox News?

Bézier’s lover watching his belly as he undresses: “I love your control handles.”

Hearing good things about that Marathon game, might pop it in for a spin, idk.

The best sign of our collective desire for shared well-being: this is the first GDC where I have received overwhelmingly positive responses from people I meet when I ask if we can be in touch somewhere besides LinkedIn.

Mark Bittner was a San Francisco legend and we are lucky he was immortalized in film. For my birthday when I was 10(?) years old I asked—and got—to meet him as my present after I had seen stories about him in the paper. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m... #parrots

User Generated Discontent

AI 1D asset generation Degenerative AI Triple B quality games DirectY with single sampling pro-aliasing

First thing I was asked at GDC this year upon walking in: “are you interested in microtransactions?” Me: “sorry I prefer macrotransactions.”

The 3 genders

The only AI free space in GDC left. They still added microtransaction tents.

Am I insane or does Bluesky have no way to send push notifications for a DM? I do not want notifications for anything but DMs. I see notification settings for everything but DMs. 😵‍💫

I hope our mass surveillance state can record the time between a feature going live in an update and me searching “how to turn off <feature>”.

Using the computer for anything.

I will be lurking GDC tomorrow inside and out on the grass handing out Free Stars patches. Come get some threads to support Children of Infinity! I also can tell you fun places to go if you want to get away from the din or we’re not allowed on the grass. My house, for example (don’t go there pls).

Milestone 9 Update just dropped! Check out our finishing touches for our Melee Demo, stories from Kickstarter rewards shipping, and plans for the very near future. www.kickstarter.com/projects/pis...

i will now stop trying to convince anyone that Godot Engine has been battle tested. (that concurrent players number is insane!!) #godotengine

You cannot trust your users to want to use your product. You can no longer just make a thing people use when they want to and stop when they don’t. You cannot let people make choices or think. Spotify? It’s social media now. LinkedIn? Check out the games. Everything must be the everything app.

Welcome to San Francisco, where every bus stop ad is about AI thing that will change your life. We hope you like it. There’s no going back. In two months we will advertise our service which does go back, built by AI. Use AI now to be the first to experience not using AI. Don’t be left behind by AI.

Protect your identity online with SecreTiel. #cockatiel

Caves of Qud mutates onto the Nintendo Switch, February 16th!

LLM generated media is just the inevitable endgame of executive lizard brains continually looking on how to capitalize on the resulting impact (read: money) of creative endeavors. Anyone working in any artistic industry could tell you the same thing.

My effin birds love my design from @effinbirds.com

as a drummer,

Wild parrots in San Francisco. Photo credit ProBonoPhoto.org / John Weekes.

Today. Walk out at 2pm local time. Do it. Join us. Invite a friend. Refuse tyranny and our government being hijacked by weak weirdos. www.freeameri.ca

The regime in Washington continues its campaign of terror. We are building a movement that has the power to stop it. Join us! ⏰ Tuesday, January 20th @4pm 📍 Civic Center, San Francisco

Just Dance 82 now with ChatGPT. I laugh with my friend while playing a song. I hear a prompt: “That is not dancing. Please Just Dance.” I frown. The song stops midway. “Please smile to continue, or make any other face to order new DLC.”

PRIORITY OVERRIDE. NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED. We need a moment from you. This coming Tuesday, Jan 20th, Americans are staging a walk-out, and Pistol Shrimp is participating. www.freeameri.ca It would mean the world if you can attend. 1/🧵

Seriously I’m asking. Are we doing this? From their marketing email today: “Get paired up to (10) curated 15-minute meetings utilizing score-based algorithm” 😵‍💫

Are we still going to GDC Festival of Gaming Copilot Plus MAX this year? (This is a serious question I want to know if I should plan on meeting y’all cool people)

Shiny Thing: Love and Betrayal at 300dpi. #cockatiel

Duran Dujogged