& to extend that metaphor further, the actual bosses will often let that two-faced middle manager soak up all the discontent of implementing their stupid ideas, then make him take the fall for the resulting mess just like the right-wing press starmer has fawned over are now done with him

video games require players to buy into an ecosystem before they try “a game”, unlike a film or book — outside mobile —& that means that the perception of what the ecosystem is drives the capacity of games to grow their audiences, & most people only ever hear about AAA which is so narrow in appeal

Oh God, he 100% does this, doesn't he?

I find it absurd how so many think the lesson of the last Parliament is “changing PMs bad” rather than “being shit enough to need a change of PM bad”

GMTK is always worth a watch, but this is one of my favourites in a while. Clear, concise explanations of some complex technology that is, to this day, foundational to open world games.

didn't realise how much the UK needed SNL, feels like the format really plays to the strengths of british comedy, and obviously the team are killing it. hopefully it moves to a freeview channel so it can become more of an institution youtube.com/shorts/8foJm...

What say you, Bottom?

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

Do they still do this? When I was a kid, villains were constantly dangling from buildings and being saved. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/joke-5 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

some cause for optimism is that GRN+LAB+LD is still a majority of the country at 51%, with REF+CON at 43%. if the UK was split into just two parties along similar lines to the US, Democrats would have a solid majority. unfortunately our system just hands it to whoever can get a plurality so uhhh

why is every podcast ad an ad for a different, worse podcast

this claim is obviously stupid but I wonder if the reason for rhetoric like this is because drug advertising is legal in the US, so it is abstractly true that there's more money behind promoting anti-depressants than like, yoga, and you feel that money whenever you see a drug ad, which is often.

Another addition to the large genre of “here’s what they don’t want you to know” and then you read it and it’s entirety derived from widely accepted findings and research

like, you start their presentation assuming this is going to be about a new Star Fox game, and it starts with a clip from the Mario Galaxy movie, and it looks so good! look at all that beautiful colour! you're invited to imagine a Star Fox game that looks like this, which would rip!

average day on bluesky

that Star Fox reveal.. oh boy. original sonic-movie-design-ass art direction. focus M-ass graphics. Nintendo Hired That Man.

there are few universally applicable bits of advice out there, but "pick your battles" is one of em

This is about Piccolo I'm in tears

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

Never let anyone talk you out of a quick 2 day game jam. Those 4 months will be the best 3 years spent releasing a commercial game of your life

frustrated american progressives: dems have the worst messaging me, a dual national:

I don't think this guy understands Schrödinger's cat

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Listen, yes, gross - but if the deal is Anthropic funds Blender -which is a free, open-source commercial-grade toolset available globally- in exchange for what's effectively Python API improvements that benefit everyone, then sure whatever. Let them spend on something useful for once.

Lmao

exactly as unhinged as I've come to expect from Strange Scaffold. great work everyone

pink in the night (2019)

these are some of the most-liked skeets from the last 24 hours: what are we doing here, people? aren't we the evidence-based ones? the rational ones? do better.

Punk looks great. A little bit PixelJunk Shooter, a little bit BBC Micro. I'm into it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOBO...

I can see exactly how a neural net ends up doing this, and this is why you don't just fart out neural net products like the tech industry has been

They're saying the lone gunman was an indie game developer? Have they considered that maybe he wasn't working alone but actually had the help of several contractors who are going unacknowledged for marketing reasons?

I’ve officially touched grass… by updating it in Puddle Pals 🌿🐸 It now has more variety, reacts to weather, bends as Mojo moves through it, and can even be flattened and cut down. #gamedev #indiedev #puddlepals #unity #indiegame

Dreams on a Pillow is the game that the establishment doesn't want you to play. A game made by Palestinians about Palestine. This game needs to exist, and we can make it happen. Please back, share, and talk about this game. We must amplify the voices that they're trying so hard to silence.

as a software dev I find the way AI companies market their products as magic boxes pretty repulsive. software brain would involve actually thinking about how the thing works; their real problem is investor brain. they believe the line must go up, and they'll burn the world down to do it.

The new EA app icon now looks way too much like Discord and I keep clicking on it and completely bamboozling myself

So she's saying she just agrees with doing Reform policies??

I was going to RT this with another brutal quote but basically every paragraph is equally brutal. Well worth a read.

[squints] @legaleagle.tv ???

arthurian fantasy #deadlock #batbook

Booker here is selfishly trying to divide the anti-fascist coalition while claiming to defend it, either as a divide-and-conquer strategy for the upcoming primary, or because he's salty that he was finally forced to change his position on Israel, but likely a bit of both.

Okay, let's talk caveats in the data.

The replies to this are mostly great writers doing “I don’t know how how good writers do it but I, a bad writer, just work until it’s done and then fix it” and that should tell you everything you need to know about writers as a species.

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left? no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

why did anyone keep making music after crush 40 released live and learn