bumped into this interesting post about software piracy "Does software piracy exist?" matthewbutterick.com...

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when you are deaf you should no longer be in charge of mixing or mastering music

Cloud Cruisin' feat. @yusefkelliebrew.bsky.social and Stemage! For the Super Catboy OST! One of my favorite pieces that I done did, it definitely wouldn't have been as fire without these cats.

That's right

it all works so well when it spins in game!!! bulma's mom and that one lady in the tournament get the same treatment with their hair

AI boosters and fence-sitters think viscerally negative reactions to AI are "irrational" but mass deployment of LLMs is actively destroying everything I care about (the open internet, the planet, creative industries, art, my ability to buy RAM). Total rejection is the most logical response.

way to the woods

Most film and tv music is not written by the person named as the composer in the credits

I feel like the average brunch mom has probably done more net good in the world on a weekend than I’ve managed my entire life, TBH.

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

(me reading a food label for the first time in my life) "ingredients: durum wheat" ok, yes, agreed "may contain soy" what? you're spaghetti! what do you MEAN may contain soy???

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

tbqh I'm not even sure what people mean when they say "indie will save us". save who. save what. do you just mean "well interesting indie games will continue to come out"? sure. do you mean "indie games can absorb the tens of thousands of workers laid off from AAA studios"? that's insane

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good show and goated soundtrack WHICH WAS RELEASED ON CD (though sadly incomplete)

I always lived Grandia's approach to 3d graphics, using extremely basic 3d shapes with the tile based texturing approach of classic 2d rpgs

bro what r they doing to my department 😭

>be star >be star's disc >x-rays

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after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

way to the woods

Rev Black (the priest ICE shot in the head) also pitched turning these camps into community spaces or multilingual schools and childcare facilities. One day we will not only reverse every hate-filled policy of our country, but we will turn the sites of their evil into monuments to community.

that mercedes jeep thing. idk what its called but that thing is UGLY

Made very few changes to the latest build and was thinking maybe I'll be able to ship this one without incrementing the shame version (last number in a version number) and 2 minutes into testing, it's already getting bumped.

EXTENDED VERSION OF “FUCK ICE” CHANTS IN MINNESOTA #AEWDynamite

the speedrunning community was as toxic and as much of a boys club (if not more) as many others not too long ago, and the transition to it being a more queer-positive and inclusive event wasn't inevitable. GDQ's shift has been really meaningful and it's a lesson for what a lot of other spaces can be

COMPUTER, show people the cool art I drew

people are dressed in dark clothes, with pale makeup. a seemingly important, youngish-looking guy gets murdered atop of a set of stairs that seem to belong to some landmark building. not sure if he was stabbed or shot, but there was a gathering crowd.

ok, this is a movie, or a tv movie. it feels like the start of a movie, but i'm not sure. definitely from before 1980. colors are muted, it might be snowing, or just cold war era "realism" grey. it definitely takes place in a mostly stone built, cold city, and it takes place in the horse cart era

help me identify this movie/tv production. fairly certain it was european-made

New song made with SchismTracker. A couple hundred k of big beat. IT file should be up on modarchive before long.

Reminder that Epic's last mass layoff was to ensure the business was sustainable, so no further layoffs would be necessary. www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

I made a papercraft just for this

I think Vermis 3 is my fave in the trilogy! It feels more disjointed and has odd jump cuts at times (maybe this is more of an open world type of adventure?) But the dungeon crawling concepts are some of Plasti's best work, specially on the 2nd half.

POP

what's funny about my next game is that it takes exactly one screenshot to convey literally the entire experience

kayin.moe/thief It's time for me to gush about Thief and how Looking Glass felt so ahead of their time compared to other US developers. Reply to this post to leave a blog comment! 💬

The game is ten years old and almost certainly still very profitable. It’s just not the infinite cash cow that Sweeney can use to pay for his pet projects any more.

You've seen good examples of placeholder asset, so here's a bad one. This piece of text blended in too well with the surround visual and ended up shipping by mistake (It was a custom pair of shoes I ordered for my wife as a gift 🫠)

I hear almost every job now is asking for "ai experience"... which is for the most part going to be being injected by bullshitpilled middlemen at recruitment companies rather than the actual hirer imo treat it like you would "3 shipped titles": ignore it and apply anyway, and in a pinch just lie

Loropapa art style & slight design experiment 🧫

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time