The work linked in this blog post suggests that accidents or coincidences in genAI output may often just be the water rolling downhill in the same direction pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/22/a...

LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

Wait you can get it for free? I thought it looked cool before, but wasn't going to get it just to try it out. But now I will absolutely also be trying this this weekend.

This post has no hashtags. If it reaches you, my indie game is for you.

You cannot operate in America without getting in a car at some point. Getting in a car is now considered justification for deadly force, since a car * could * become a weapon. They can and will kill anybody they want to until they are stopped.

Missing from this imo is how drastically it all changes with the scale of the numbers involved. If you aren't likely to sell big numbers in the first place you're better off pricing out the people who only buy at low prices since they're also the ones who aggressively refund and write shit reviews

Excellent and insightful read! (though I have different experiences re: pricing)

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

"Dev supporting devs" remains one of my favorite things to hear, especially now that many publishers are increasingly risk-averse, coming in late enough in the process for large enough revenue demands to be borderline useless.

Canada isn't much better, either. Those with power to inflict state-sanctioned violence shouldn't be held to a lesser standard. Indeed, it's important that they be held to a HIGHER standard - they're trained and paid to protect us. When they violate that trust, the sanctions must be enormous.

I'll take it one further: stop making games unless you can fund them through development's end. If you can't, don't make games - make *prototypes* that you can get to vertical slice *very quick*, test the waters by pitching (if no response, post loudly about it), then drop them if they're not it.

Made a new companion tool for this! This one resizes font "tilesets" - just in case you make a font and later decide to add accents or wider symbols yal.cc/tools/pixel-...

Add a mousy level editor to your game, can no longer claim your game has full controller support; add multiplayer, kids in certain countries can't play it anymore. All very reasonable, but...it's a weird balancing act. 🙃

The write-up for Ambrosia Sky is so lovely!!!! Also so honoured to be nominated by GLAAD ❤️

I’m happy it’s being reported on, but please, “Grok” is not doing *anything* - men are. Twitter users are. They are using Grok to make unsolicited, unapproved, deepfake porn and graphic imagery without consent. People are doing this, people control the ai bot, and people should be held accountable.

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good. States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it. Here's the legal analysis www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

✨NEW PUBLISHED INTERVIEW ✨ Some insights include 🛠️How I forged my path without traditional mentorship. 🎮 crafting #gamedesign #dynamicmusic #gamemusic systems Tune in til’ the tune end! youtu.be/VpdhhUyoD3A

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears

so glad i was able to contribute to this!

I remember when a writing teacher asked us to raise our hand if we've made more than $5 from our writing. Three of us did. We were told that's enough to put us in the top 1% of most successful writers through history. A little hyperbole, but not far off. I still think about it.

We have lost so much and gone so backwards We need new game foundations that support this kind of community - and fortnite / Roblox platforms designed to addict kids to gambling and microtransactions sure as fuck ain't it

ICYMI, our recent paper explores "flow" in comics by theorizing how it works, and then detailing how it manifests in a corpus of 417 comics from around the world. I summarize our work in this post which links to the journal article www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...

I've found the best way to help with this kind of sadness or existential despair is to stop worrying about it, though. Do something for someone else. Make someone's day. Depression is rage aimed inward; it's better for me to put that rage to work in a way that matters.

oh my god Mike And Rami Are Still Here was in EDGE

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

left myself a tiny treat to work on after the grueling stuff

Inexcusable. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubi...

I have a scene in my project called "isle_zero" which serves as a controlled environment where I fix bugs and work the kinks out of features. And whenever I do, I say "Cleanup on isle zero!" I find it hilarious and it makes boring work a bit more tolerable. #gamedev #indiedev

"Neko is a cat that runs around on the screen, chasing the mouse cursor. It has led many lives through the history of computers." eliotakira.com/neko/

They want you to see this and unionize less. You may be next, etc etc, the fear. But the lesson must be: Unionize MORE. One team, one department, one studio protected? Shut down. *Every* studio protected? They can't shut them all down (without trashing the shareholder value, their only KPI).

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

Video games could never

If you run a long service game or long tail game that players will play for years then be aware that the demographics, motivations, life situation, ability, and time availability of retained players will shift over time as players encounter the natural phenomena known as getting older #gamedev #ux

gonna be a lot of this sort of thing this year Gartner analysts call it the "trough of disillusionment"

I posted this in a thread recently but its becoming more necessary so here's a top post, libre office is free (as in speech) and free (as in beer) FOSS will liberate you, comrades www.libreoffice.org

Added particles, sounds, and dynamic player facial/voice reactions to the manual veggie harvesting mechanic. Here's some VR footage! 🐧🥕 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

We all know how this goes. This isn't good news. It's a sign that it's time to start looking for a replacement.

you are my home insurance?? trying to trick me into staying with you makes it clear exactly how things will go if I ever have to claim

companies should have to tell you when you sign up for things whether you'll have to talk to an AI agent to cancel

Rockstar Toronto is so funny. Like sir that is stolen valor, you are in Oakville.

forever also leads to "do this until it no longer works then continue doing it" when my marriage ended we didn't see it as bad or regret the time. we were thankful we got good years, and thankful to not add bad years to it we're all temporary, so is anything that works, so is anything that doesn't

𝕋𝕠𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝔻𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕋ℍ𝕌ℝ𝕊𝔻𝔸𝕐 DON'T BE CAUGHT WITH YOUR PANTS DOWN! And your shirt pulled up over your belly... And god knows what is happening with your hat! Oh, it's there on the floor and you keep kicking it every time you try to pick it up. January 15th 8:00pm @ See-scape

Long story short: the Hilton is mad that one of their franchises wasn't allowing ICE officers in and is now removing said franchise from their system. Glad all the people in power keep defending the bigots. Yay! 🎉

“Books lead to a richer life. They also lead to a more successful life…,Kids who lived with books in their home – as few as 20 – benefitted significantly over those who didn’t, in areas like academic success, vocabulary development and job attainment. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Old Soviet joke: They rewrite history so much, you never know what's going to happen yesterday (please use alt text, it's a small way we can all be better than the Fash)

You cannot technically explain yourself out of UX issues, please stop trying. So often I see users bring up UX issues, and programmers then tell them how much work it was to create their product. It doesn't matter how much work it was!! What matters is if your target audience uses it or not.

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Generative AI is an engine for churning out contaminated information faster than people can produce safe information, let alone fact check and correct it. And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/

May the ghost of Jim Henson haunt those responsible